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‘Extraordinary, terrific’ – Blenheim Litfest verdict on ‘Darling Winston’ talk
FROM THE RIDICULOUS TO THE SUBLIME… SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 15.23PM David Lough – 40 Years of Letters between Churchill and his Mother And wasn’t it just…? To walk straight out of Parsons and Brandreth’s comedic juggernaut into David Lough’s talk on ‘Forty Year’s of Letters Between Churchill and his Mother’ might to some have appeared […]
READ MORENovelist William Boyd hails Darling Winston
Novelist William Boyd praises Darling Winston in New Statesman review ‘This collection of letters is fascinating … they shine a piercing light on the man. And there is no better guide than David Lough who provides linking commentaries and context … so that the whole volume reads as a kind of hybrid biography/autobiography of the […]
READ MOREDaily Telegraph awards Darling Winston 5* review
‘Fascinating correspondence’ The Daily Telegraph, Britain’s largest selling broadsheet newspaper gave Darling Winston a 5* rating above a review written by historian Ann de Courcy. For the full text of the review open this link or see Reviews.
READ MOREJennie Churchill reads her great great grandmother’s Darling Winston letters
Darling Winston launch at the London Library Jennie Churchill reads letter: ‘I am quite disheartened about you’ Darling Winston, the book of letters between Winston Churchill and his mother Jennie awarded a 5* review by The Daily Telegraph, was launched in front of a large crowd at the London Library on 20 September. Among those […]
READ MOREDarling Winston letters book to be launched at Churchill’s London Library
Darling Winston, a collection of the letters between Winston Churchill and his American mother Jennie Jerome, wil be launched next Thursday 20 September at the London Library, a private members’ library in St James’s Square, London. Churchill was a member of the library during his ‘wilderness years’ of the 1930s while he was writing and […]
READ MOREDarling Winston letters appear in Daily Mail
Britain’s leading newspaper carries Darling Winston extracts Extracts from early letters between Winston Churchill and his American mother Jennie Jerome have been serialised in Britain’s leading Daily Mail newspaper. Two double-page spreads appeared on Saturday 8 and Monday 10 September, highlighting letters from Churchill’s school days and early experiences in battle as a young army officer. […]
READ MOREAuthoritative Kirkus Reviews in US praises ‘excellent’ My Darling Winston
The trusted US book reviewer Kirkus has issued the first US review of My Darling Winston (Pegasus Books, 2 October 2018). It concludes: ‘With excellent explanations of the events involved, the author gives readers first-rate insight into the personalities of mother and son. … A great resource for gaining an understanding of these two outsized […]
READ MORESunday Telegraph previews Darling Winston letters
Britain’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper carried a news article in August 2018 highlighting the forthcoming publication of Winston Churchill’s letters with his mother in Darling Winston (Head of Zeus, 20 September 2018). Editor David Lough has retrieved approximately 800 of the 1,000 plus letters that he estimates mother and son exchanged. Darling Winston includes almost 500 of […]
READ MOREDavid Lough at Guildford, Blenheim book festivals in October
David Lough will talk and read from the newly published Darling Winston at the Guildford and Blenheim Palace book festivals in October. Darling Winston provides the first proper glimpse of the intense relationship between Winston Churchill and his unusual American mother – seen through the prism of the intimate letters that they wrote to each other over […]
READ MOREDarling Winston book launch 20 September at The London Library
Intense relationship Publishers Head of Zeus and author David Lough will mark the publication of Darling Winston: Forty years of letters between Winston Churchill and his mother at a launch party in the London Library on the evening of Thursday 20 September. This is the first time that the letters between Lady Randolph Churchill – born […]
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