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A Voyage Around the Queen
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Wydawca: HarperCollins Publishers
Data wydania: 28.08.2025
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
EAN: 9780008557539
Opis
Opis
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
?THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 … 'GENIUS'
A BOOK OF THE YEAR for theSPECTATOR, MAIL ON SUNDAY, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, INDEPENDENT, TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY EXPRESSand THE TABLET.
From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth II in an unforgettable and fascinating biography.
'A crown jewel among royal biographies' - OBSERVER
'Extraordinarily original, enlightening and fresh’ SPECTATOR
'Absolutely fascinating' - Ruth Langsford, LOOSE WOMEN
'A very unusual masterpiece' - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'Brilliantly funny and well-researched' - FINANCIAL TIMES
Virginia Woolf compared her to a caterpillar; Anne Frank kept pictures of her on the wall of her annex; Jimi Hendrix played her tune; Haile Selassie gave her a gold tiara; Dirk Bogarde watched Death in Venice with her; Andy Warhol envied her fame; Donald Trump offended her; E.M. Forster confessed he would have married her, if only she had been a boy.
Queen Elizabeth II was famous for longer than anyone who has ever lived. When people spoke of her, they spoke of themselves; when they dreamed of her, they dreamed of themselves. She mirrored their hopes and anxieties. To the optimist, she seemed an optimist; to the pessimist, a pessimist; to the awestruck, charismatic; and to the cynical, humdrum. Though by nature reserved and unassuming, her presence could fill presidents and rock gods with terror. For close to a century, she inhabited the psyche of a nation.
Combining biography, essays, cultural history, dream diaries, travelogue and satire, the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of this most public yet private of sovereigns.
'An unconventional tribute that offers a snapshot of almost a century of social history with a mix of royal insanity, and superior anecdotes, from farts and corgis to Paul McCartney and poets laureate' - THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024
'An enthralling reverie on memory, identity, coincidence and meaning – testing, teasing, charming, moving and deceptively wise' - RORY STEWART
'An entertaining and revealing digest … fascinating … Craig Brown has captured something essential about Britain’s curious relationship with royalty’TLS
'Completely and utterly brilliant and exquisitely funny and fascinating. This book is, dare I say, majestic. Craig Brown has no peers – I would curtsey to him if I met him' - MARINA HYDE
'Wonderfully readable … At once sympathetic but clear-eyed, kind but sharp' - NEW STATESMAN
'Brown is as sharp and dryly funny as his subject' - EVENING STANDARD
'You wouldn’t think the world needed another book about Queen Elizabeth – but how wrong you’d be. Craig Brown’s wholly original and enthralling biography is absolute heaven from start to finish’ - INDIA KNIGHT
'Craig Brown continues to reinvent the art of biography… utterly fascinating' - JASON COWLEY
Craig Brown's book One Two Three Four won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2020.
Producent/osoba odpowiedzialna za bezpieczeństwo produktu
HarperCollins Publishers
Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 C9W8
D01 C9W8 Dublin
enquiries@harpercollins.ie
?THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 … 'GENIUS'
A BOOK OF THE YEAR for theSPECTATOR, MAIL ON SUNDAY, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, INDEPENDENT, TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY EXPRESSand THE TABLET.
From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth II in an unforgettable and fascinating biography.
'A crown jewel among royal biographies' - OBSERVER
'Extraordinarily original, enlightening and fresh’ SPECTATOR
'Absolutely fascinating' - Ruth Langsford, LOOSE WOMEN
'A very unusual masterpiece' - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'Brilliantly funny and well-researched' - FINANCIAL TIMES
Virginia Woolf compared her to a caterpillar; Anne Frank kept pictures of her on the wall of her annex; Jimi Hendrix played her tune; Haile Selassie gave her a gold tiara; Dirk Bogarde watched Death in Venice with her; Andy Warhol envied her fame; Donald Trump offended her; E.M. Forster confessed he would have married her, if only she had been a boy.
Queen Elizabeth II was famous for longer than anyone who has ever lived. When people spoke of her, they spoke of themselves; when they dreamed of her, they dreamed of themselves. She mirrored their hopes and anxieties. To the optimist, she seemed an optimist; to the pessimist, a pessimist; to the awestruck, charismatic; and to the cynical, humdrum. Though by nature reserved and unassuming, her presence could fill presidents and rock gods with terror. For close to a century, she inhabited the psyche of a nation.
Combining biography, essays, cultural history, dream diaries, travelogue and satire, the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of this most public yet private of sovereigns.
'An unconventional tribute that offers a snapshot of almost a century of social history with a mix of royal insanity, and superior anecdotes, from farts and corgis to Paul McCartney and poets laureate' - THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024
'An enthralling reverie on memory, identity, coincidence and meaning – testing, teasing, charming, moving and deceptively wise' - RORY STEWART
'An entertaining and revealing digest … fascinating … Craig Brown has captured something essential about Britain’s curious relationship with royalty’TLS
'Completely and utterly brilliant and exquisitely funny and fascinating. This book is, dare I say, majestic. Craig Brown has no peers – I would curtsey to him if I met him' - MARINA HYDE
'Wonderfully readable … At once sympathetic but clear-eyed, kind but sharp' - NEW STATESMAN
'Brown is as sharp and dryly funny as his subject' - EVENING STANDARD
'You wouldn’t think the world needed another book about Queen Elizabeth – but how wrong you’d be. Craig Brown’s wholly original and enthralling biography is absolute heaven from start to finish’ - INDIA KNIGHT
'Craig Brown continues to reinvent the art of biography… utterly fascinating' - JASON COWLEY
Craig Brown's book One Two Three Four won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2020.
Producent/osoba odpowiedzialna za bezpieczeństwo produktu
HarperCollins Publishers
Macken House, 39/40 Mayor Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 C9W8
D01 C9W8 Dublin
enquiries@harpercollins.ie
Szczegóły
Szczegóły
Data wydania: 28.08.2025
Liczba stron: 672
Wymiary: 13.0x19.8
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: HarperCollins Publishers
Autor:
Tytuł:A Voyage Around the Queen
EAN: 9780008557539
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