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“fiona joseph”

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  • BEATRICE The Cadbury Heiress Who Gave Away Her Fortune

    by Fiona Joseph ...
    LONGLISTED IN THE INTERNATIONAL RUBERY BOOK AWARD 2012"...meticulously researched and written in a lively fashion...really engages us with the subject and [Beatrice's] wider family and times." Liz Broomfield, Libro Blog book“Not only sheds new light on a fascinating history but is a very good read as well.” Daniela Hooghiemstra, Biographer of Kees Boeke“Its clear literary style and dramatic ... Read more

    $12.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Comforts For The Troops

    A novel inspired by women workers at Cadbury in World War One

    by Fiona Joseph ...
    From the author of BEATRICE The Cadbury Heiress Who Gave Away Her Fortune comes a compelling story inspired by women at Cadbury during The Great War.One war. Three women. 1000 knitted vests.After marrying Bill, housewife Jessie Paignton thought she’d left the Cadbury chocolate factory at Bournville for good. But money problems force her to return to work to make ends meet. Before long, however, ... Read more

    $9.20 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Daughter of Empire

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    A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's HousePamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his glamorous wife Edwina Ashley, she was brought up by nannies and governesses as she was often parted from her parents as they dutifully carried out their public roles. A solitary child, she learned to occupy ... Read more

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  • The Hiltons

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  • The Secret Rooms

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  • The Viceroy's Daughters

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    The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful.Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed.After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon's determination to ... Read more

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  • The Glitter and the Gold

    The intimate, revealing Golden Age memoir from the 9th Duchess of Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt

    by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan ...
    A life of love and glamour as a 19th Century British Duchess: the perfect read for fans of BRIDGERTON and DOWNTON ABBEY'Wonderfully evocative [...] now reissued in an elegant new edition' ― Country LifeConsuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ... Read more

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  • To Marry an English Lord

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