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Jessica Mitford
A memoir of the Mitfords - one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary families.
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Jessica Fellowes
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A mystery with the fascinating Mitford sisters at its heart, Jessica Fellowes's The Mitford Secret is the sixth and final intriguing installment in the Mitford Murders series.
It's 1941, and…
First published in 1974, The American Prison Business studies the lunacies, the delusions, and the bizarre inner workings of the American prison business.
The latest novel in the bestselling Mitford Murders series is inspired by real events and is perfect reading for Agatha Christie fans dying for a new mystery.
The brilliantly entertaining classic memoir of one of the century’s most extraordinary families, The Mitfords
The captivating letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible sisters of one of the most notorious families of the 20th century - ‘Enthralling and gloriously honest’ SUNDAY TIMES
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A biography of the long and adventurous life of Jessica Mitford, the queen of the muckrakers. Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, muckraker, mischief-maker…
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The latest novel in the highly acclaimed Mitford Murders series is inspired by real events and is perfect reading for Agatha Christie fans dying for a new mystery.
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A revised version of an expose of the funeral industry includes new chapters on the practice of prepayment for funerals and other issues.
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Poison Penmanship collects seventeen of Mitford’s finest pieces-about everything from crummy spas to network-TV censorship-and fills them out with the story of how she got the scoop.
In the early 1960s this analysis of America’s funeral practices rocked the industry and shocked the public. This up-dated edition shows that if anything the industry has become more pernicious…
In this wonderfully funny and very poignant (Philip Toynbee) autobiography, Mitford offers a fascinating study of the unusual upbringing of her famous family.
Helen Benedict
Background information on the author’s interviews with Susan Sontag, Joseph Brodsky, Beverly Sills, Paule Marshall, Bernard Malamud, Jessica Mitford, Leonard Michaels, Bertrand Bard, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid…
Originally published in Great Britain by Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, an Hachette UK company –Copyright page.
In the third book in the Mitford Murders series, lady’s maid Louisa Cannon accompanies Diana Mitford into a turbulent late 1920s Europe.
The year is 1928, and after the death…
A timeless murder mystery with the fascinating, glamorous Mitford sisters at its heart, the fourth installment in the Mitford Murders series is inspired by a real-life murder in this story…
A mystery with the fascinating Mitford sisters at its heart, Jessica Fellowes’s The Mitford Secret is the sixth and final intriguing installment in the Mitford Murders series.
It’s 1941, and…
A mystery with the fascinating Mitford sisters at its heart, Jessica Fellowes’s The Mitford Vanishing is the fifth installment in the Mitford Murders series, inspired by a real-life murder in…
In the final, sixth whodunnit in the much-acclaimed The Mitford Murders series, Deborah Devonshire hosts a party at Chatsworth at which a murder is revealed …
It's 1941, and the Mitford household is splintered by the vicissitudes of war. To bring the clan together -- maybe for one last time, Deborah invites them to Chatsworth for…
A Golden Age-style mystery bursting with period detail and set amid the Mitford household, The Mitford Murders is the glittering start to a thrilling and sumptuous new series written by…
The third book in the hit The Mitford Murders series sees maid Louisa Cannon accompany Diana Mitford in turbulent late 1920s Europe, where everything is on the line…
In the final, sixth whodunnit in the much-acclaimed The Mitford Murders series, Deborah hosts a party at Chatsworth at which a murder is revealed . . .
The fourth book in the hit The Mitford Murders series by international bestseller Jessica Fellowes sees trouble follow Unity Mitford into the family’s life
The fourth book in the hit The Mitford Murders series by hit international author Jessica Fellowes sees trouble follow Unity Mitford into the family’s life
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Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, especially her oppressive and dangerous uncle. Her salvation is a position at the Mitford household at Asthall Manor. There…
True and glorious indulgence. A dazzling example of a golden age mystery. –Daisy Goodwin, author of Victoria and The American Heiress. Set amid the legendary Mitford household, the second novel…
Meet the Bright Young Things, the rabble-rousing hedonists of the 1920s whose treasure hunts were a media obsession. One such game takes place at Pamela Mitford’s 18th birthday party, but…
