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Daily 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 […]
READ MOREDavid Lough reviews Six Minutes in May – Daily Telegraph
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare David Lough reviewed Nicholas Shakespeare’s new book about the Norwegian campaign of April 1940 and Neville Chamberlain’s subsequent replacement as prime minister by Winston Churchill in The Daily Telegraph on 14 October 2017. Read the review here.
READ MOREGrants Interest Rate Observer on Churchill’s ‘reverse Midas touch’
‘Wonderful, engrossing, nightmarish’ Winston Churchill’s ‘reverse Midas touch’ Each attendee at the fall conference of Grant’s Interest Rates Observer in at the Plaza Hotel in New York on Tuesday 10 October will receive a presentation copy of David Lough’s No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money. Reviewing No More Champagne in May this year, the iconic Wall Street […]
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