The publication of the diaries of the youngest Mitford sister still does not reveal the mystery of her relationship with the ...
In classic Dunning-Kruger style, in which "the less you know, the more you think you know", the players vastly overrate their ...
Through the highs and lows of life, books have been my refuge, guide and faithful friends. Here are some titles to soothe ...
While Nancy Mitford’s Love in a Cold Climate is one of my favourite novels, I have long believed all forms of human endeavour are best conducted in equable conditions.
In the Nancy Mitford novels there is a character called the Bolter. She is the narrator’s mother who lives in Kenya and parks her daughter on an unmarried aunt. She is always falling for unsuitable ...
Graham Greene’s ‘The Lost Childhood’ and Nancy Mitford on U and non-U; less familiar, perhaps, are Christopher Isherwood on the lugubrious German playwright Ernst Toiler, Joan Didion on falling out of ...