Tom Quinn interviewed the sixth Duke on a number of occasions as well as people who knew the duke socially or had at various times worked with or for him.

Daily Mail‘...a fascinating portrait of the drudgery and servility of a domestic's life.' From the dawn of rail travel, when speeds of 15mph were considered dangerous to health and people mistook engines for fire-breathing demons, through the Victorian heyday of royal trains and seaside specials to today’s more prosaic leaves on the line, this whistlestop tour through railways’ long and storied history is the perfect gift for armchair travellers, history fans and trainspotters. More extraordinary but true stories from London’s history. 94 When Gerald Grosvenor, sixth Duke of Westminster, died in August 2016 he was one of the world’s richest men, his fortune estimated at just under £10 billion. His debut feature, The New Year Parade, won the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance, screened at SXSW, and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award.

10 Revised, redesigned and updated for a new generation of London-lovers, this book is a brilliant alternative guide to the city, whether you’re a visitor, a daily commuter or one of its 8 million inhabitants. But despite long hours, amorous butlers and mad employers, Kathleen always kept her sense of humour and knew how to have fun. Drawing on a range of sources, including salacious first-hand eyewitness accounts, bestselling author Tom Quinn paints an extraordinary picture of the Edwardian aristocracy, and traces the lives of royal mistresses down to Alice's great-granddaughter, the current Duchess of Cornwall.

Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her earliest memories were of the smell of horses and the shrill whistle of steam trains. At the same time, he could be ruthless in running the business while often feeling he was only a mascot. The book looks at the long and often eccentric history of the Grosvenor family and its wealth and the complex means by which that wealth has been shielded from the taxman, as well as the bizarre life of a man who was that strangest of things: The Reluctant Billionaire. A diverse selection of publishers' overstocks and backlist and frontlist titles at exceptional discounts of up to 75% off published prices.

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Shropshire, SY4 1JA They insisted their wives and daughters were too delicate for work, yet their twelve-year-old maids worked eighty and more hours each week. For a girl from the slums there was only really one option once school was over - a life in service. Praise for Lives of the Servants:‘Reading this fascinating book is likely to unleash almost anyone’s Inner Bolshevik…!' View and download Quiller catalogues and stocklists. From humble beginnings as a shopkeeper’s son in Coventry to ‘Page of the Backstairs’ at Clarence House, William Tallon, or ‘Backstairs Billy’ as he came to be known, entered royal service at the age of fifteen. The Spencers were just the first in a line of eccentric families for whom she worked during a career that lasted more than thirty earrs and took her from a London palace to remote medieval estates. Theatre. And faith is not something you can prove; faith is personal opinion. Freelance journalist and author Tom Quinn has written for a number of national magazines and newspapers including the Times, Telegraph and Daily Mail. Cocoa at Midnight: The real life story of my time as a housekeeper (Lives of Servants), ( ). Gerald Grosvenor came into the line of succession by mere chance – or ‘rotten bad luck’ as he put it. For much of his life he was driven by two demons: a powerful sex drive and an intense, almost pathological love for the Queen Mother…”. Over the next fifty years, he became one of the most notorious and flamboyant characters ever to have graced the royal household - the one servant the Queen Mother just could not do without. Portico's Strangest series. Something went wrong. © Quiller Publishing 2020. And did you know that the entrance to Buckingham Palace you see from the Mall is actually the back door and not the front? Kensington Palace has been the scene of countless bizarre events – here, for example, the young Queen Victoria was held a virtual prisoner for eighteen years; and it was from Kensington Palace that Queen Caroline ran the country while her husband George II moved his pictures around. The fascinating life story of the man who spent more than half a century working for one of the world’s most elusive institutions, Backstairs Billy provides a rare glimpse of what the royals really get up to behind closed doors…. Whereas, when you're dealing with faith, you can, “The English upper classes were regular churchgoers but they allowed children to work for sixteen hours a day in mines and factories. Acquista Libri Inglesi Quinn Tom su Libreria Universitaria, oltre 8 milioni di libri a catalogo.
The palace has been described as a royal menagerie, a hive of industrious freeloaders, an ant heap and even a lunatic asylum.Tom Quinn takes the reader behind the official version of palace history to discover intriguing, sometimes wild, often scandalous, but frequently heart-warming stories. 205

Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village. 26 "William Tallon was a creature of extremes: though intensely loyal, he was also a dangerous risk-taker; though charming, he could also be vicious; though considerate and amusing, he could be ruthless and predatory. Hardcover Normalmente disponibile in 8/9 giorni lavorativi, libreriauniversitaria.it ®2000-2020 | Webster Srl - P.IVA IT03556440281 - All rights Reserved. Fishing's Strangest Tales (Strangest series), ( All of them have it.

The Age‘...captures the subtleties of the English class system to an extraordinary degree.' 86 Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909. London’s Strangest Tales takes a walk on London’s weirder side with an absorbing collection of curious tales from one of the world’s greatest cities. The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs, ( Prime members enjoy fast & free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Video and many more exclusive benefits. Explore books by Tom Quinn with our selection at Waterstones.com. 289 Backstairs Billy book. 28 Quinn has recently completed his third novel, a modern-day political-action thriller entitled, The Machiavelli Letter. Railways' Strangest Tales (Strangest series), ( He lives in London. Her father was a ploughman, her mother a former servant who struggled to make ends meet in a cottage so small that access to the single upstairs room was via a ladder. Today, the palace is home to the future King William and his wife Catherine, and until recently home to the newly married Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan. © Postscript Books Ltd 2001-2020. Most of the stories date from the age of steam and include Victorian schoolchildren fare-dodging beneath the skirts of their chaperone and the GWR broad-gauge journey of 1871 that ripped up the rails as it went. See all books authored by Tom Quinn, including The Working Retrievers: The Classic Book for the Training, Care, and Handling of Retrievers for Hunting and Field Trials, and Backstairs Billy: The Life of William Tallon, the Queen Mother's Most Devoted Servant, and more on ThriftBooks.com.

Born in 1910, Rose Plummer grew up in an East End slum, where she and fought an unending battle with hunger and squalor. Nancy continued to work as a cook until the 1950s, sustained by her determination to escape and find a life of her own. Tom Quinn First published in 1999, this collection of travellers' tales highlights the most unusual events to have occurred on railways since the earliest pioneer runs in the 1820s. Yet he hated his wealth and spent long periods suffering from severe depression, much of it brought on by a feeling that his whole life had been a failure and that his money had destroyed any chance of happiness. In this fascinating book, revised and updated with a new selection of tales, railway buff Tom Quinn explores the more bizarre side of train travel, featuring weird weather conditions, audacious robberies, hair-raising accidents, vanishing passengers, an infestation of maggots and a mysterious missing mummy. Questo sito utilizza i cookie di profilazione, anche di terze parti, per garantire una migliore esperienza di navigazione. First published in 1999, this collection of travellers' tales highlights the most unusual events to have occurred on railways since the earliest pioneer runs in the 1820s.

He was a man who longed to return to his idyllic rural childhood yet was only really happy as an adult in the company of call girls. Registered in England No. He collected hundreds of clocks and mechanical toys, thousands of early Bibles and dozens of songbirds that were allowed to fly freely through the royal apartments. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. “There is no great religion without a great schism. About Tom Quinn This author has not yet filled in any details.

At the age of fifteen, Rose started work as a live-in maid, and despite the poverty of her childhood, nothing could have prepared her for the long hours, the backbreaking work and the harshness of a world in which servants were treated as if they were less than human.

She started work on 1925 as a lowly kitchen maid in the London home of Lady Diana Spencer's family. Tom Quinn is the author of Backstairs Billy: The Life of William Tallon, the Queen Mother’s Most Devoted Servant, Mrs Keppel: Mistress to the King and The Reluctant Billionaire: The Tragic Life of Gerald Grosvenor, Sixth Duke of Westminster (all Biteback Publishing). Proseguendo accetti l'utilizzo dei cookie. tel: +44 (0) 1939 261616. George III’s sixth son, Augustus, Duke of Sussex, became a virtual recluse at the palace. ), Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle (Biteback Publishing), ( In more recent times, Kensington Palace was famously the scene of Charles and Diana’s nightmare marriage and Charles’s serial adulteries. Very little escapes the notice of servants at Kensington Palace, writes TOM QUINN, the author of Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle. Right from the very start, when George Stephenson’s famous Rocket knocked over and killed a government minister at the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester line in 1830, the world’s railways have given rise to plenty of intriguing stories. And that's because you're dealing with something called faith. 20 Quinn has worked on the West End stage, first appearing on the London stage of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap at St Martin's Theatre as the understudy Christopher Wren..