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Lilla's Feast: A Story of Love, War and a Passion for Food by Frances Osborne
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As a child, Frances Osborne fell under the spell of her great-grandmother, whose life spanned a century and several continents. But it was only after Lilla Eckfordâs death that Frances learned of her struggles - and of how a love of cookery had helped her to survive years in a Japanese prison camp. Th ...Show more
Lilla's Feast : A true story of love, war and a passion for food by Frances Osborne
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Lilla Eckford was born in 1882 into a British colonial family in the small Chinese trading port of Chefoo. Her mother, Alice, was a lively woman with a love of cooking she passed on to her identical twin daughters. Lilla vied constantly with her sister, and seeing her fall in love with a naval captain ...Show more
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know.Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Afri ...Show more
The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress by Frances Osborne
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Afr ...Show more
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