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“peter j conradi”

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  • Family Business

    A Memoir

    by Peter J. Conradi ...
    Peter J. Conradi's memoir Family Business includes a cast of characters ranging from his European Jewish forebears who came to Britain in the Victorian era to influential novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch, whose biography Conradi himself wrote. The arc of Conradi's story travels, unusually, from the relative integration of his ancestors to his rebellion against this and his long association ... Read more

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  • Iris Murdoch, A Writer at War

    Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945

    Edited by Peter J. Conradi ...
    These never before published writings comprise Iris Murdoch's passionate wartime correspondence with two early intimates: the poet Frank Thompson, brother of the historian E.P. Thompson, who was killed in 1944, and David Hicks, with whom she had a dramatic affair, engagement, and breakup. It also includes the journal that Murdoch kept as a touring actress during August of 1939. The selection sheds ... Read more

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  • On Grief

    Voices through the ages on how to manage death and loss

    by Peter J. Conradi ...
    How do you 'prepare' for bereavement? Religious faith can help, as can ritualised codes of dress and behaviour that recognise different stages of mourning. But many of us feel singularly unprepared when we lose someone. No one 'theory' can sooth the bereaved, precisely because grief so strips us naked and profoundly wounds us. Nothing pre-cooked helps. No quick fix, no one-shot deal.In this ... Read more

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  • A Very English Hero

    The Making of Frank Thompson

    by Peter J. Conradi ...
    An untold story of love, idealism and courage in the Second World War**'**A very moving account of the all-too-brief life of a warrior-poet' Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad***'***An elegy for a lost generation, and a fascinating social and political history of a peculiar period in our recent past ... it's impossible to put down Conradi's impressive and moving account of Thompson's life without ... Read more

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    by Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley (Diana Mosley) ...
    'Roar with laughter.' Laura Thompson 'The dazzling beauty with a poison pen... wit pervades her writings.' Anne de Courcey, Daily Mail Criti Choice 'When she wielded her elegant stiletto, it was to unmask an ego... brightly and sharply illuminated.' Valerie Grove, The Times Wickedly funny, gossipy, carefree, intimate and revealing, this selection of Diana Mitford's writings publishes for the first ... Read more

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  • The Devil is a Gentleman

    The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley

    by Phil Baker ...
    One of the giants of popular fiction, with total sales of around fifty million books, Dennis Wheatley held twentieth-century Britain spellbound. His Black Magic novels like The Devil Rides Out created an oddly seductive and luxurious vision of Satanism, but in reality he was as interested in politics as occultism. Wheatley was closely involved with the secret intelligence community, and this ... Read more

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  • Elizabeth Jane Howard

    A Dangerous Innocence

    by Artemis Cooper ...
    Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Her first novel, The Beautiful Visit, won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize - she went on to write ... Read more

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  • The Last Lion: Volume 1

    Winston Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932

    by William Manchester ...
    The first volume in William Manchester's masterful, magnum opus account of Winston Churchill's life. The Last Lion: Visions of Glory follows the first fifty-eight years of Churchill's life--the years that mold him into the man who will become one of the most influential politicians of the twentieth century.In this, the first volume, Manchester follows Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he ... Read more

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  • Waiting for the Last Bus

    Reflections on Life and Death

    by Richard Holloway ...
    Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just something that happens to us?Now in his ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying, guiding countless men and women towards peaceful deaths. In The Last Bus, he presents a positive, meditative and profound exploration of the many ... Read more

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  • Churchill and Orwell

    The Fight for Freedom

    by Thomas E. Ricks ...
    **A New York Times bestseller!A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.**Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by ... Read more

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  • Till I End My Song

    A Gathering of Last Poems

    Edited by Harold Bloom ...
    "A colossus among critics. . . . His enthusiasm for literature is a joyous intoxicant." — New York TimesIn this charming anthology, esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom collects the last poems of history's most important and celebrated poets. As with his immensely popular Best Poems of the English Language, Bloom has carefully curated and annotated the final works of one hundred poets in Till I ... Read more

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  • The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill

    by Jon Allen ...
    In this book you will find the best of that wit - ripe plums of humour taken from Churchill's parliamentary replies and ripostes, prepared addresses, asides and off-the-cuff remarks - all revealing a trenchant sharpness of mind, fine appreciation of humour and devastating sense of fun. ... Read more

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