Often flanked by a ‘pack of blondes’, he shared his father’s belief in aiming intelligent books at ‘people without university educations’
Often flanked by a ‘pack of blondes’, he shared his father’s belief in aiming intelligent books at ‘people without university educations’
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His debut book resurrected the reputation of Sir James Saumarez, placing him in the first rank of naval commanders in the era of…
Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken…
A connoisseur of the offbeat, he interviewed the last human cannonball and wrote a superb biography of the eccentric poet RS…
One art dealer recalled a Rolls-Royce pulling up to his gallery, Charles in tennis shorts, Doris a ‘beautiful blonde girl in a…
Inspired by the engineering genius of Paxton and Brunel, his pursuit of ‘high tech’ style led to a split from his partner Terry…
Judith Mackrell wonderfully conjures the siblings’ radical lives and the changing world they inhabited
