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Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The formidable fox-hunting obsessed Lady Bobbin has put together a Christmas house party at Compton Bobbin, including her rebellious daughter Philadelphia, the girl's pompous suitor, a couple of children obsessed with newspaper death notices, and an aspiring writer whose deadly (in more ways than one) s ...Show more
Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Don't Tell Alfred is the wickedly funny sequel to Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. 'I believe it would have been normal for me to have paid a visit to the outgoing ambassadress. However the said ambassadress had set up such an uninhibited wail when she knew she was to leav ...Show more
Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Don't Tell Alfred" is the wickedly funny sequel to Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate". "I believe it would have been normal for me to have paid a visit to the outgoing ambassadress. However the said ambassadress had set up such an uninhibited wail when she knew she was t ...Show more
Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This title is presented with an Introduction by Kate Williams. Frederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. He loved the flute, and devoted hours of study to the arts and French literature, forming a long-lasting b ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford; Alan Cumming (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars. Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'How lovely - green velvet and silver. I call that a dream, so soft and delicious, too.' She rubbed a fold of the skirt against her cheek. 'Mine's silver lame, it smells like a bird cage when it gets hot but I do love it. Aren't you thankful evening skirts are long again?' Ah, the dresses! But oh, the m ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate & Other Novels by Nancy Mitford
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
In one of the wittiest novels of them all, Nancy Mitford casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English manners between the wars by one of the most ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate: Popular Penguins by Nancy Mitford
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars. Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, i ...Show more
Madame De Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become 'a morsel fit for a King'. Nancy Mitford lovingly tells the story of how the little girl rose, against a backdrop of savag ...Show more
Pursuit Of Love & Love In A Cold Climate Bind-up by MITFORD NANCY
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Blessing by Nancy Mitford
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The Blessing" by Nancy Mitford with an introduction by Alex Kapranos. It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dress ...Show more