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Bantam. Bookclub Edition. 0553801279 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches Families can be monstrous and their secrets dangerous, as New Scotland Yard detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers have discovered. The pair are puzzled that the Hampstead police need their help investigating the vehicular murder of a middle-aged divorcee, until they find evidence that one of their own superiors once knew the dead lady very well indeed. But the circumstances of Eugenie Davies's murder appear to center on her children: Gideon, a famous violinist now undergoing psychoanalysis for his sudden inability to play, and the long-dead Sonia, a disabled baby whose drowning death was shrouded in secrecy for her virtuoso brother's sake--at the insistence of their father, Richard--but also trumpeted in the press as the infamous "nanny murder" of its day. The nanny, Katja Wolff, has recently been released from prison, having never spoken of the night Sonia drowned. Lynley, Havers, and their colleague Winston Nkata know that whatever secret Katja Wolff has been hiding must be the cause of Eugenie Davies's death, but before they can find out what it is, another deliberate hit-and-run occurs in their own backyard. The suspects are many: Wolff; Eugenie's most recent suitor; her ne'er-do-well brother; Gideon's longtime mentor, who kept in contact with Eugenie in the years after she abandoned her husband and son; and a gentleman of many monikers who boarded with the family at the time of the drowning. Even Richard Davies, the dead woman's ex-husband, is under suspicion. But it's violinist Gideon Davies's quest into his family's past, undertaken to save his career, that sets the book's events in motion. His own telling of the story runs parallel to the author's own voice but is time-shifted. Along with the details of the police investigation, this paints a disturbing picture of what happens when the truth is obscured and a child's normal instincts sublimated. A Traitor to Memory is massive, and it's hard not to spot a few flaws in a plot so complex. The dual narratives force abnormally slow reading, the motive for one murder and two near-murders is inexplicably glossed over, and many doughty Lynley/Havers fans will still wonder by the end what exactly happened in Sonia's bathroom. Yet Elizabeth George orchestrates the family-secrets theme like a maestro, and at least one of the second-chair players--such as Katja Wolff's beautiful, scarred lover Yasmine Edwards--may be a rising star in the series. George's fans will no doubt find this 11th entry in the series worthy of a standing ovation. --Barrie Trinkle From Publishers Weekly HClassical music, cybersex and vehicular homicide figure prominently in this sprawling epic, the latest in the bestselling Thomas Lynley series that has won George an enviable following on both sides of the Atlantic. This can only add to her growing reputation as doyenne of English mystery novelists. When Eugenie Davies is killed on a London street struck by a car, then viciously mangled as the driver backs over her Detective Inspector Lynley investigates. The suspects include J.W. Pichley, aka TongueMan, a cyber-roue with a penchant for older women; Katja Wolff, convicted murderess of Davies's infant daughter; and Major Ted Wiley, a bookstore proprietor in love with Davies. Inevitably, the trail leads to the dead woman's son, Gideon, a former child prodigy on the violin, now a renowned virtuoso suddenly and inexplicably unable to play a single note. Lynley and his longtime partners, Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata, unravel the mystery in their inimitable fashion, as the narrative turns backward, ever backward, in search of clues. Although some plot developments are initially confusing due to the book's occasionally non-linear style, the author's handling of narrative is consistently inventive. There are some amusing character sketches (including the skewering of an American Valley Girl to whom classical music is as foreign as Sanskrit) and some particularly moving moments. Faithful readers of George's previous mysteries should find this the most ambitious of the lot. (Jul books carefully packed and shipped promptly . Fine. 2001., Bantam, 2001, 4.5, Early days in Pasquotank and Perquimans Counties in North Carolina, are recalled through a mixture of colorful tales and factual data in this new 55-page spiral-bound booklet, comprised of excerpts from several vintage books. These source materials include John Hill Wheeler's Historical Sketches of North Carolina (1851); Sketches of Prominent Living North Carolinians by Jerome Dowd (1888), North Carolina, A Guide to the Old North State (1939), a product of the WPA; A New Geography of North Carolina (1954-65). The tri-color front cover is printed on 80# card stock and has been protected with a vinyl sheet. The text is printed single-sided on 60# opaque paper, with the print enlarged to fit the 8.5" x 11" paper and improve readability. Towns mentioned in the booklet include: Pasquotank County -- Elizabeth City (county seat), Nixonton; Perquimans County -- Hertford (county seat), Belvidere, Durant's Neck, Harvey's Neck, and Winfall. Among the many subjects included are: Geological and Physical features, such as the Pasquotank, Perquimans, Yeopim and Little Rivers and the Dismal Swamp; Early notables -- John L. Bailey, William Biddle Shepard, John Harvey, Gov. J.C.B. Ehringhaus, Jerome Flora, W.O. Saunders, Herbert Peele, George Durant, Gov. John Jenkins, Thomas Eastchurch, Seth Sothel, Thomas Jarvis, Thomas Harvey, Gen. William Skinner, George Whitfield, Jacob Boyce, William Henry Bagley, CSA, Mrs. Sarah DeCrow (first woman postmaster in America), and Capt. Nat Fulford; Members of the General Assembly from Pasquotank and Perquimans County before 1851; Lumbering, fisheries, and other industries; Military Installations; Agriculture and Contract Farming; Schools, including Elizabeth City State Teachers College; the Elizabeth City High School Band; Capt. Joel Van Sant and the Mothboat; a poem about bull-frogs called "Minstrels of the Pasquotank" by Charles Greaves; Algonquin Indians; an address by Ehringhaus on the Albemarle area; the Culpepper Rebellion; J.C. Blanchard's Department Store; Transportation and Bridges; Churches, such as the Quakers of Belvidere; Vintage homes, including Land's End, Sycamore Grove, Newbold-Whie, Cove Grove, Tucker Farm, and Belvidere Plantation; a monster in missionary's clothing, the right to dance, deserts in the swamp, and other curious, sometimes amusing, bits of history and trivia. The Dowd excerpt is limited to a biography of T.G. Skinner of Hertford. The WPA section offers a nostalgic glimpse of the area from a 1939 vantage point, offering many historical notes and sightseeing possibilities. It has a separate section on Elizabeth City with a map and 11 points of interest, such as the Miles Clark House. . Limited Edition Reprint. Spiral/Comb . New/No Jacket. 8.5" x 11". Private Press., 6, London: Macmillan, 2012 9780230754966. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. Fine/Fine. The DW is NOT price-clipped. 666 pages including detailed index. No annotations or inscriptions. Octavo. A near fine tightly bound copy in a near fine pictorial dust wrapper, the text is clean and is unmarked, B&W and colour plates,." A revealing selection of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's letters, edited by her official biographer. William Shawcross's official biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, published in September 2009, was a huge critical and commercial success. One of the great revelations of the book was Queen Elizabeth's insightful, witty private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her letters as wonderful . . . brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness." "Now, in Counting One's Blessings, Shawcross has put together a selection of her letters, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal Archives and at Glamis Castle. Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent from her earliest childhood before World War I to the very end of her long life at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and her letters offer readers vivid insight into the real person behind the public face. ". ., London: Macmillan, 2012 9780230754966, 0, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1963. 292pp, portrait frontis and b/w plates, double-page chart: the Manchu royal family, index, end-papre maps. Papered boards in dust-jacket. The story of the last Emperor of China.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo., George Allen & Unwin, 1963, 3, Philadelphia: Hoag, Wade & Co., 1878. The history of four Newport County towns (townships) are recalled through a mixture of colorful tales and factual data in this spiral-bound booklet, reprinted from two hard-to-find books: History of the State of Rhode Island published in 1878 by Hoag, Wade & Co., Philadelphia, and Rhode Island, a Guide to the Smallest State, a WPA project published in 1937. This new 56 page illustrated booklet measures 11" x 8 1/2" and is printed one-sided on 60# paper. A clear vinyl sheet has been added to protect cover, which is printed in copper, dark blue and black on Natural Skytone Parchtone stock. The four towns include Little Compton (including Little Compton Common and Adamsville), Tiverton (including Tiverton Four Corners), Middletown, in the center portion of Aquidneck Island, and Portsmouth, on the northern end of Aquidneck Island, including Prudence, Patience and other small islands, Lawton's Valley, Glen-anna, Portsmouth (formerly Pocasset), South Portsmouth, and Newtown. The 1878 book excerpts cover the early development of this area, while passages from the WPA book, give a nostalgic glimpse from a later vantage point, including interesting historical notes, especially as they relate to sightseeing possibilities. Among the many and diverse subjects taken from these books are: Physical features, such as Narragansett Bay; Early Settlers and Population Origins; Contracts with Indians, showing their their "marks"; Graveyard inscriptions, including Elizabeth Alden Pebodie, first white woman born in America; Captain Benjamin Church's description of the "non-burial" of the Indian chief known as King Philip; Town organizations; First General Assembly members and other officials; Early council actions; Separation of the Newport Colony; Alarm system; Coal Mining; Hostility of Massachusetts and Plymouth Colonies; Portsmouth in the Revolution, Daring Capture of General Prescott by Americans; Battle of Rhode Island; Capture of a British Galley; Stone Bridge connecting Tiverton with the Island of Rhode Island (also called Aquidneck); Manufactories; View of Portsmouth before and after the Revolutionary War; Newspapers; Schools, Churches, Transportation; Secret Societies, with many names included; Schools and Churches, including the history of the Friends Meeting House; the Bristol Ferry to Portsmouth; an old millstone; and other interesting bits of history and trivia. There's also an early map of the state, a population table covering the 20th Century, and descriptions of notable homes and other points of interest in the area. The booklet contains a very nice full-page sketch of the residence of Elbert Anderson, Redwood Farm, in Portsmouth. Other pictures include St. George's Schook in Middletown, Mount Hope Bridge between Bristol and Portsmouth, and Holy Trinity Church in Tiverton. . Limited Edition Reprint. Spiral/Comb . New/No Jacket. 8.5" x 11". Private Press., Hoag, Wade & Co., 1878, 6, London: HarperPress. Very Good/Very Good. 2011. Hard Cover. 8vo 000718008X Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 416 pages clean and tight. ‘More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Liberty’s Exile’s is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfil’s the historian’s most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience.’ Niall Fergusson On a November day in 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing British rule in the United States to an end. It was the greatest British imperial defeat in generations. None felt the loss more immediately than the hundreds of thousands of Americans who had remained loyal to Britain. What would happen to them in the new United States? Would they and their families be safe? Facing grave doubts, some sixty thousand loyalists decided to leave their homes and become refugees, to rebuild their shattered lives elsewhere in the British Empire. They sailed for Britain, for Canada, for Jamaica and the Bahamas; some ventured as far as Sierra Leone and India. Wherever they went, the voyage out of America was a fresh beginning and it carried them into a dynamic if uncertain new world. ‘Liberty’s Exiles’ tells, for the first time, the story of this extraordinary global diaspora – the most wide-ranging refugee crisis Britain had ever faced. Through painstaking archival research and vivid story-telling, award-winning historian Maya Jasanoff recreates the astonishing journeys of ordinary individuals whose lives were overturned by extraordinary events. She tells of loyalists like Elizabeth Johnston, a young mother from Georgia, who spent nearly thirty years as a migrant, questing for a home in Britain, Jamaica, and Canada. David George, a black preacher born into slavery, found freedom and faith in the British Empire, and eventually led his followers to seek a new Jerusalem in Sierra Leone. Mohawk Indian leader Joseph Brant resettled his people under British protection in Ontario; while adventurer William Augustus Bowles tried to shape a loyal Cree Indian state in Florida. For all these figures and more it was the British Empire –not the United States – that held out the promise of ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’. An exhilirating, personality-filled book, ‘Liberty’s Exiles’ is history at its finest. ., HarperPress, 2011, 3, Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; . . . Hardcover, 1st Ed/1st Printing. Near Fine Book in Fine DJ. Price Intact. Light spine end wear to book. Bantam Books, 1997. . . Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. ., 4.5, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; Hardcover. Bantam, 1997. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Near Fine Book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Light shelf wear to Book and Jacket. Some light book spine end wear. Overall, a clean and tight copy. . Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. ., 4, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; Hardcover. Aside from light spine end wear to book and light scratches on Dust Jacket, overall clean and tight. No previous owners writing or defects, no remainder mark and NOT ex-library or book club. Bantam Books, 1996. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Very Good Book in Very Good Dust jacket. Price Intact. New Dust Jacket cover (Brodart) . Securely packed in a box. Shipped daily with delivery tracking. ., 3, Paperback / softback. New. In 1936, the Duke of York unexpectedly became King George VI, and his ten-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, became heir presumptive. However, she was never heir apparent, because a male sibling would automatically assume her place in the line of succession. So what would have happened upon the late arrival of a baby brother for the grown-up Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret? After King George VI's death in 1952, the United Kingdom's next sovereign would have been a very young boy, and one in need of a regent. James the Third tells that boy's story. How does his reign unfold? He is clever, resourceful and unconventional but can he alter the course of history, given the limited role of a constitutional monarch? Does he find true love, or must he accept second best? And, with the births of his heirs, what does the House of Windsor look like now? Set against rapidly changing times, there is a parallel tale of two working class sisters from the East End of London. As fans of the royal family, they are closer to the crown than they could ever imagine. Seamlessly blending the twists and turns of fiction with historical fact, this book is sure to please anyone who enjoys a glimpse of life behind palace walls., 6, Edinburgh: Edinburgh Impressions 009923, 1985. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Winton takes a peek at a number of murders committed in Edinburgh throughout the centuries, beginning in 1566 with the killing of David Rizzo, and ending with the death of Mrs. Bertha Merrett in 1926. In between, we have the stories of John Kincaid, Lord Forrester, Archbishop James Sharp, Philip Stanfield, Sir George Lockhart, Captain J. Cayley, Robert Irvine, Captain John Porteous, William Begbie, William Howatt, the West Port murders (Burke and Hare, of course), Elizabeth Chantrelle and Jessie King. 128 pages, illustrated. A bit cocked, impressions, small ink notation ("Mon/22/4.00") to page 106 (doesn't interfere with anything, it's just aggravating as hell).., Edinburgh Impressions 009923, 1985, 2.75, Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1963. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Anchor Books, 1963. Paperback in Very Good Condition. Edited and with an Introduction, Notes, and Variants by Richard C. Harrier. The Anchor Seventeenth-Century Series, Volume I. Includes "Everyman In His Humor" by Ben Jonson; "The Malcontent" by John Marston; "The White Devil" by John Webster; "Bussy D'Ambois" by George Chapman; and Variants, Chronology, Note, and Bibliography. Former owner name on inside of front cover. Clean, unmarked gently used book, faint wear to corners, binding tight, solid and square, pages very clean, no markings of any kind, no marginalia. The focus on this volume is on plays that exemplify the close relation between satire and tragedy notable towards the end of Elizabeth's reign and the beginning of the reign of James I. Each play is completely annotated with glosses, commentary and variants.517 pages. 4.25 x 7 inches. 1963, Anchor Books, Garden City, New York., Anchor Books, 1963, 3, London, Toronto, Wellington, Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Browning on the end papers. Foxing on closed page edges. Jacket is price clipped, there are scuffing, tears, creases and dust spotting on it., George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1965, 2.25, London: Canongate, 1987. First Edition, First Impression . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1987 First edition, first impression. Size octavo, 152 pages including index. Black hard cover with gilt titles to the spine, black end-papers, with dust jacket. Book condition fine, a very clean copy. Dust jacket condition near fine, very slight crease to top edge of spine, else fine, not price clipped., Canongate, 1987, 4.5, This book has been read, no wear to covers, minor pencil marking first inner page, no other markings inner pages. Spine intact no creases."""The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator.Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar andafter his murderthree more with his protégé. Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends. Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since.Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatra's supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff 's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life."" Good Reads""""Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize, the Ambassador Award in American Studies, and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Institut Français d'Amérique. All three were New York Times Notable Books; the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, and The Economist also named A Great Improvisation a Best Book of the Year. The biographies have been published in a host of foreign editions.Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Director's Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She was awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Schiff has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. She lives in New York City."" Good Reads", Back Bay Books, 2011-09, 0, UK: George G Harrap & Co Ltd, 1953. lib stamps and stickers to endpapers. lib stamp to pgs 49 & 143. eleven plates in half-tone. pages lightly browned. lib marks to bottom spine end. spine ends bumped. unclipped d.j. in protective sleeve. foxing to back of jacket. spine ends and corners of jacket rubbed and frayed. lib sticker to bottom spine end of jacket with area of peeling beneath. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good +. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall., George G Harrap & Co Ltd, 1953, 0, Vancouver, B. C.: Talonbooks. Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Trade paperback. Trade Paperback, tightly bound with an unmarked interior. The covers have heavy rubbing with edgewear, no library pocket but a library sticker to the spine end. Elizabeth Fry stamp and previous owner's stamp on the front free end paper . "A lyric documentary about a young Indian girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row. Cast of 5 women and 15 men. "Scenes of shattering impact...and passages of a purity and intensity that catch you off guard and keep you there. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 90 pages ., Talonbooks, 1972, 2.5, Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2014. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 410 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2014. Second Printing. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Sheila wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, bedded a future king, was feted by London and New York society for forty years and when she died was a Russian princess. Vivacious, confident and striking, Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, a first lieutenant and son of the 5th Earl of Rosslyn, when she went to Egypt during the Great War to nurse her brother. Arriving in London as a young married woman, the world was at her feet - and she enjoyed it immensely. Edward, Prince of Wales, called her 'a divine woman' and his brother, Bertie, the future George VI of England (Queen Elizabeth's father), was especially close to her. She subsequently became Lady Milbanke and ended her days as Princess Dimitri of Russia. Sheila had torrid love affairs with Rudolph Valentino and Prince Obolensky of Russia and among her friends were Evelyn Waugh, Lord Beaverbrook and Wallis Simpson. An extraordinary woman unknown to most Australians, Sheila is a spellbinding story of a unique time and a place and an utterly fascinating life. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781743311318. 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[EAN: 9781743311318], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Allen & Unwin, Sydney], BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY BZDB3 AUTOBIOGRAPHY; SIGNED BY AUTHOR UNBRANDED EAN: 9781743311318 ROBERT WAINWRIGHT SHEILA : THE AUSTRALIAN BEAUTY WHO BEWITCHED BRITISH SOCIETY, Signed by Author. Sheila wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, bedded a future king, was feted by London and New York society for forty years and when she died was a Russian princess. Vivacious, confident and striking, Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, a first lieutenant and son of the 5th Earl of Rosslyn, when she went to Egypt during the Great War to nurse her brother. Arriving in London as a young married woman, the world was at her feet - and she enjoyed it immensely. Edward, Prince of Wales, called her 'a divine woman' and his brother, Bertie, the future George VI of England (Queen Elizabeth's father), was especially close to her. She subsequently became Lady Milbanke and ended her days as Princess Dimitri of Russia. Sheila had torrid love affairs with Rudolph Valentino and Prince Obolensky of Russia and among her friends were Evelyn Waugh, Lord Beaverbrook and Wallis Simpson. An extraordinary woman unknown to most Australians, Sheila is a spellbinding story of a unique time and a place and an utterly fascinating life. All pictures shown are of the actual product offered for sale Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 410 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear, as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Signed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9781743311318. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 20495., Books<

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Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2014. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Signed by Author. Sheila wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, bedded a future king, was feted by London and New York society for forty years and when she died was a Russian princess. Vivacious, confident and striking, Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, a first lieutenant and son of the 5th Earl of Rosslyn, when she went to Egypt during the Great War to nurse her brother. Arriving in London as a young married woman, the world was at her feet - and she enjoyed it immensely. Edward, Prince of Wales, called her 'a divine woman' and his brother, Bertie, the future George VI of England (Queen Elizabeth's father), was especially close to her. She subsequently became Lady Milbanke and ended her days as Princess Dimitri of Russia. Sheila had torrid love affairs with Rudolph Valentino and Prince Obolensky of Russia and among her friends were Evelyn Waugh, Lord Beaverbrook and Wallis Simpson. An extraordinary woman unknown to most Australians, Sheila is a spellbinding story of a unique time and a place and an utterly fascinating life. All pictures shown are of the actual product offered for sale Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 410 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear, as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Signed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9781743311318. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 20495. . 9781743311318, Allen & Unwin, 2014, 2.5<

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Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2014. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 410 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2014. Second Printing. *** CONDITION: Very Good ... Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Sheila wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, bedded a future king, was feted by London and New York society for forty years and when she died was a Russian princess. Vivacious, confident and striking, Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, a first lieutenant and son of the 5th Earl of Rosslyn, when she went to Egypt during the Great War to nurse her brother. Arriving in London as a young married woman, the world was at her feet - and she enjoyed it immensely. Edward, Prince of Wales, called her 'a divine woman' and his brother, Bertie, the future George VI of England (Queen Elizabeth's father), was especially close to her. She subsequently became Lady Milbanke and ended her days as Princess Dimitri of Russia. Sheila had torrid love affairs with Rudolph Valentino and Prince Obolensky of Russia and among her friends were Evelyn Waugh, Lord Beaverbrook and Wallis Simpson. An extraordinary woman unknown to most Australians, Sheila is a spellbinding story of a unique time and a place and an utterly fascinating life. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781743311318. Inventory No: 20100042.. 9781743311318, Allen & Unwin, 2014, 3<