Books by Sarah Bradford and Complete Book Reviews
Sarah Bradford, Author . Viking $27.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-03353-9
Lucrezia Borgia is legendary as the archetypal villainess who carried out the poisoning plotted by her scheming father—Pope Alexander VI, aka Rodrigo Borgia—and by her ruthlessly ambitious brother Cesare. The facts of Lucrezia's case
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Sarah Bradford, Author . Viking $25.95 (443p) ISBN 978-0-670-03807-7
This biography of the doomed Princess of Wales by Bradford, an experienced British celebrity biographer, was published with far less fanfare, though also embargoed, than the concurrent one by Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, it still...
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Sarah Bradford, Author St. Martin's Press $25 (506p) ISBN 978-0-312-04337-7
King George VI's ``great wartime partnership'' with Churchill, who ironically was very much his second choice for prime minister, helped sustain England through its darkest hour. An insecure man who approached his kingship with dread, he was forced...
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Sarah Bradford, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $35 (486p) ISBN 978-0-374-26789-6
English poet Sacheverell Sitwell (1897-1988) who also wrote art criticism, travel books and memoirs, was a member of an aristocratic family and the younger brother of fellow writers Edith and Osbert. In this heavily footnoted scholarly study, which...
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Sarah Bradford, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-14749-5
Extracts from this biography caused a furor in the British press last month, with headlines screaming of the Duke of Edinburgh's alleged infidelities and Princess Margaret's suicide threats. Following at least three major biographies of England's...
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Sarah Bradford, Author, Gibson, Author, Pearson, Author National Portrait Gallery $49.5 (239p) ISBN 978-1-85514-140-7
This lavishly illustrated catalogue of an exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery showcases paintings, photographs and drawings that evoke London's literary and artistic circles during the 1920s and '30s, focusing on the eccentric Sitwells.
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