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1939: The Last Season by Anne de Courcy
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War. The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and Queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult ...Show more
Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte D'Azur, 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship - The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age by Anne de Courcy
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was also highly intelligent, reading widely and writing poetry. Of Nancy's many affairs the five included in this book are the ones with the American poet Ezra Pound, the novelists Aldous Huxley an ...Show more
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