Nancy Mitford: A Biography
9 best books like Nancy Mitford: A Biography (Selina Shirley Hastings): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Cat's Eye, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, Madame de Pompadour, The Robber Bride, The Rosemary Tree, My Notorious Life, Nancy Mitford, Quand sort la recluse
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
| Author | Olga Tokarczuk |
| ISBN | 0525541330 |
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385491026 |
Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship,...
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
| Author | Erik Larson |
| ISBN | 0375708278 |
National Bestseller
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere...
When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385491034 |
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic...
| Author | Elizabeth Goudge |
| ISBN | 0515041475 |
Michael Stone was once a famous author. That was before he went to prison. Now, just released, he needs to get his bearings and a new beginning. It was a gray day in early April when Michael stumbled wearily into the tiny English village. Weighed down by failure and despair, the town of Silverbridge seems...
| Author | Kate Manning |
| ISBN | 1451698089 |
A brilliant rendering of a scandalous historical figure, Kate Manning's My Notorious Life is an ambitious, thrilling novel introducing Axie Muldoon, a fiery heroine for the ages. Axie's story begins on the streets of 1860s New York. The impoverished child of Irish immigrants, she grows up to become...
Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class British idiosyncrasies. With the publication of "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate" (advised by Evelyn Waugh), she became a huge bestselling author and has remained a household name...
— Trois morts, c’est exact, dit Danglard. Mais cela regarde les médecins, les épidémiologistes, les zoologues. Nous, en aucun cas. Ce n’est pas de notre compétence.
— Ce qu’il serait bon de vérifier, dit Adamsberg. J’ai donc rendez-vous demain au Muséum d’Histoire naturelle....
