Imperial Vanities by Brian Thompson

Imperial Vanities by Brian Thompson

A Victorian drama of three intertwined lives set against a backcloth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. By degrees heroic, poignant, whimsical and tragic, Brian Thompsons wonderful book is precisely what that much-misused cliche rattling good yarn might have been coined to describe. RICHARD HOLMES

On Brian Thompson’s previous book:

'Georgina Weldon's life is a story so richly worth telling as to make the common run of biographies seem sadly dullElegant in style, at once sensational and substantial in content, this book is a surprise and delight.'’ Lucy Hughes Hallet, Sunday Times

‘One of the funniest books of the year. It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at Mrs Weldon's disastrous career.' Miranda Seymour, TLS

'Georgina Weldon is the kind of subject biographers dream about…But what makes Thompson's extraordinarily accomplished book so marvellous is his ability to get inside her preposterous skin.' Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Telegraph

Brian Thompson is a novelist and playwright. His first work of non-fiction, A Monkey Amongst Crocodiles: The Disastrous Life of Mrs Georgina Weldon was published to universal acclaim by HarperCollins in May 2000.

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ISBN 13	9780006532217
ISBN 10	0006532217
Title	Imperial Vanities
Author	Brian Thompson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2003-01-20
Number of pages	320
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