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The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London by Lisa Hilton
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
'I've given up everything - my friends, my family, my country, & he simply roared with laughter, and then of course so did I' - Nancy Mitford THE HORROR OF LOVE is a story about two people - Nancy Mitford and the Free French commander Gaston Palewski - who conducted a less than ideal love affair in ...Show more
The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London by Lisa Hilton
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
'Oh, the horror of love!' Nancy Mitford once exclaimed. Elegant and intelligent, Nancy was a reknowned wit and a popular author. Yet this bright, waspish woman, capable of unerring emotional analysis in her work gave her heart to a well-known philanderer who went on to marry another woman. Was Nancy tha ...Show more
The House with Blue Shutters by Lisa Hilton
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
CASTROUX, FRANCE, 1939. In a bare farmhouse on a windswept plain above the village, Oriane, orphaned at thirteen, lives in desperate poverty. When the Germans invade, Oriane finds work in a Nazi barracks while her fiance joins the Resistance. Their simple world is thrown into chaos. Casual brutality is ...Show more
The Scandal of the Century by Lisa Hilton
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The Scandal of the Century Description Playwright, poet, spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals . . . meet Aphra Behn, history's most fascinating female In 1682, a young woman in the throes of a passionate affair flees her parents' home in Surrey to seek a new life in London. A scandal in its o ...Show more
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