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Nov 8, 2024 |
hatchards.co.uk | Veneeta Singha |Agatha Christie |Arthur Conan Doyle |Jan Morris
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Nov 7, 2024 |
hatchards.co.uk | Andrew Roberts |Agatha Christie |Arthur Doyle |Jan Morris
A signed and numbered limited edition of Andrew Roberts's acclaimed biography, to mark the 150th anniversary of Churchill's birth'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesWinston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill.
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Sep 18, 2024 |
brnw.ch | Sonia Purnell |Agatha Christie |Arthur Doyle |Jan Morris
From Bill Clinton to Gloria Steinem, Harriman met and influenced the trajectories of many important figures in the 20th century. But as the wife of Randolph Churchill Jr and the daughter-in-law of Winston Churchill, Harriman was often overshadowed. This biography restores her to her rightful place in history. A standard edition is available here. Browse our Signed & Luxury Editions page.
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Sep 16, 2024 |
hatchards.co.uk | Agatha Christie |Arthur Doyle |Jan Morris |Beatrix Potter
We are delighted to welcome Harriet Constable here to Hatchards for an evening in celebration of The Instrumentalist, her glorious new novel set in early 18th-century Venice. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away. At the Ospedale della Pietà, abandoned orphan girls are posted every through a tiny gap in the wall every day.
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Sep 10, 2024 |
brnw.ch | Agatha Christie |Arthur Doyle |Jan Morris |Beatrix Potter
We are delighted to welcome bestselling author Sonia Purnell to Hatchards to discuss Kingmaker, her fascinating new biography of Pamela Churchill Harriman. When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were scathing - and often downright sexist. Written off as a social climber, her glamorous social life and infamous erotic adventures overshadowed her true legacy.
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Jun 26, 2024 |
hatchards.co.uk | Agatha Christie |Arthur Doyle |Jan Morris |Beatrix Potter
Richard Flanagan on Question 7: HG Wells, Hiroshima and How to LiveOn this episode, we were joined by Booker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan to discuss his fascinating new memoir, Question 7, a meditation on the decisions that we make and the reverberating effects that these choices can have on the course of history. Richard spoke to us about why he feels that books must exist outside the moral grammar, and why good readers are as important as good writers.
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Jun 14, 2024 |
hatchards.co.uk | Agatha Christie |Arthur Doyle |Jan Morris |Beatrix Potter
We are thrilled to welcome author and historian Andy Williamson to discuss his definitive history of London’s oldest luxury hotel, located on Albemarle Street in Mayfair. Brown’s Hotel: A Family Affair has many wonderful stories to tell. Founded by former valet James Brown in 1832, it has hosted many distinguished names and continues to welcome guests ‘in-the-know’.
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Jun 7, 2024 |
hatchards.co.uk | Jan Morris
We are thrilled to welcome Julia Hobsbawm, award-winning author of The Nowhere Office and The Simplicity Principle here at Hatchards this evening to discuss her new book *Working Assumptions: What We thought We Knew Before Covid and Generative AI – And What We Know Now which explores the speed and scale of the impact of Covid-19 and the eruption of Chat GPT on the workplace, working attitudes and norms, to take a clear-eyed view of what Julia identifies as ‘The Amazing Age’ – a new era...
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May 30, 2024 |
hatchards.co.uk | Agatha Christie |Arthur Doyle |Jan Morris
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan comes this virtuoso encomium to his native Tasmania and his family, taking in atomic physics and Hiroshima, all rendered in exquisite, masterly prose. Hatchards Non-Fiction Book of the Month 2024SynopsisWho loves longer? Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G.
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May 23, 2024 |
hatchards.co.uk | Jan Morris
We are thrilled to welcome Ariane Bankes here to Hatchards this evening to discuss her brilliant new biography of the Paget twins, The Quality of Love. When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives of the Paget sisters and their friends and lovers, including Arthur Koestler, Albert Camus, Sartre and de Beauvoir, and George Orwell.