Nancy Mitford

Ondanks de oorlogsdreiging draait het leven in de Engelse high society toch gewoon om de jurken en de soirées. En o, wat is de verveling soms groot! Z

Verlangend naar liefde, geobsedeerd door huwelijk en seks, fantaseren Linda, haar zussen en nichtje Fanny over de perfecte partner. Maar het blijkt ni

Une transexuelle Colombienne travaille au Bois de Boulogne dans le quartier dit Latinas. Ce livre fait le tableau de l'une de ses journées de travail,

Jean-Luc Nancy is een van de meest vernieuwende filosofen uit Frankrijk, wiens naam thans overal ter wereld klinkt. Een hoogst persoonlijke ervaring g

The autobiography Nancy Mitford intended to write herself

When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from tha

During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and dep

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and langu

'He was the great love of her life you know.''Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly, 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.'Longing for love, obses

Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a co

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSFrederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of histo

Provides a glimpse of the bright young things of the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties in the city and in the shires; firmly ensconced at home or

Fanny is married to absent-minded Oxford don Alfred and content with her role as a plain, tweedy housewife. But overnight her life changes when Alfred

Nancy's sisters Unity and Diana were furious with her for making fun of Diana's husband, Oswald Moseley, and his politics, and the book caused a rift

It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charl

The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Émilie du Châtelet, was

Groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, fearsome Lady Montdore, Polly instead scandalises society by declaring her love for her uncle 'Boy' Do

Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introd