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A future ‘classic’? Tim Congdon on ‘No More Champagne’ in The New Criterion magazine
The well-known economist and writer Tim Congdon forecasts that No More Champagne ‘may become a classic’. Writing in March’s issue of the US magazine The New Criterion, Congdon applauds ‘the first integrated account of this aspect of Churchill’s life’. Suggesting that ‘the book reads as effortlessly as a novel’, he judges that ‘it will transform the […]
READ MORECharles Moore hails ‘brilliant’ No More Champagne’ in The Daily Telegraph
Charles Moore, author of the official biography of Margaret Thatcher, quoted at length from David Lough’s ‘brilliant new book’ No More Champagne in a recent centre-page editorial article for The Daily Telegraph. The well-known columnist, who edited the newspaper earlier in his career, wrote that Boris Johnson’s opinions deserved no less respect simply because he was a man […]
READ MOREDavid Lough to speak at Althorp and Rye festivals in 2016
David Lough will speak about his book No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money at two more of Britain’s literary festivals in 2016. They are the Althorp Literary festival, held at the beginning of July at Earl Spencer’s Northamptonshire home, and the Rye Arts Festival, held in Rye, east Sussex, an old Cinque Port. Both […]
READ MORERevived Galle Literary Festival, Sri Lanka, draws record crowds
Sri Lanka’s southern city of Galle, where the old Dutch fortress is classed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, revived its annual literary festival in January 2016 and drew record crowds. “Galle’s special appeal as a literary festival”, said David Lough, one of the festival’s authors, ‘is that both festival-goers and authors are gathered […]
READ MOREDavid Lough at the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
David Lough speaks as part of a panel about Churchill – the private man at the Oxford Literary Festival on Sunday 10 April at 10.00 a.m. The festival is sponsored by The FT Weekend.
READ MOREDaily Mail now selects No More Champagne as a Best History Book of 2015
The Daily Mail has joined The Times, The Guardian and Wall Street Journal in choosing No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money by David Lough as one of its Best History Books of 2015. Read the full article: Daily Mail Best History Books of 2015
READ MOREChurchill blog carries interview with David Lough
A Blog on Winston Churchill, written by Professor Bradley Tolpannen of Eastern Illinois University, today features an interview with David Lough, author of No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money. In his introduction, Tolpannen calls the book ‘excellent … throughly researched… a ground-braking study of Churchill’s money problems’.
READ MORENo More Champagne encounters Ford Maddox Brown’s ‘Page 99 test’
“Open the book to page ninety-nine and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you,” wrote Ford Maddox Brown. David Lough put his book No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money through this test for the book blog kept by Marshall for the Campaign for the American Reader. Read the result here: No More Champagne and […]
READ MOREMP on Iain Dale blog: No More Champagne “essential reading for any politician”
Iain Dale’s political blog recommends David Lough’s No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money as ‘essential reading for any politician’ in its Christmas books list. For the full text of Keith Simpson’s selections, read http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2015/12/01/keith-simpson-mp-s-christmas-reading-list. Despite shortages pin leading bookshops as they await a reprint, you can still order signed copies for Chrsitmas from the […]
READ MORENo More Champagne short-listed for Longman-History Today 2016 Book Prize
http://www.historytoday.com/paul-lay/longman-history-today-book-prize-2016-shortlist History Today announced today that No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money by David Lough is one of seven books short-isted for the annual Longan-History Today Book Prize of 2016. The prize is awarded for ‘a first or second book’ which ‘will display innovative research and interpretation in its field and will have contributed significantly […]
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