Bøker av Anne Sebba

How Parisian women loved, lived and died in the 1940s - under Occupation and then after Liberation.

The first book on the Auschwitz women's orchestra by the bestselling historian of twentieth-century women's lives

The first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson to be written by a woman, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the Twentieth Century, a character who played prominently in the blockbuster film The King's Speech.This is the story of the American divorcee notorious for allegedly seducing a British king off his throne. "That woman," so called by Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, was born Bessie Wallis Warfield in 1896 in Baltimore. Neither beautiful nor brilliant, she endured an impoverished childhood, which fostered in her a burning desire to rise above her circumstances.Acclaimed biographer Anne Sebba offers an eye-opening account of one of the most talked about women of her generation. It explores the obsessive nature of Simpson's relationship with Prince Edward, the suggestion that she may have had a Disorder of Sexual Development, and new evidence showing she may never have wanted to marry Edward at all. Since her death, Simpson has become a symbol of female empowerment as well as a style icon. But her psychology remains an enigma. Drawing from interviews and newly discovered letters, That Woman shines a light on this captivating and complex woman, an object of fascination that has only grown with the years.

The classic biography of Winston Churchill's American Mother

A biography that reveals a passionate woman who was painfully aware of the difficulties of living as a writer and as a wife and mother. It brings to life one of the active and gifted women of her generation and best known as the author of "National Velvet" and "The Chalk Garden", Enid Bagnold.

Bestselling biography of the enduringly fascinating Wallis Simpson

Ranging from Miss Wreford in Italy at the time of the Risorgimento and Lady Florence Dixie in South Africa during the Boer War to mould-breakers such as Clare Hollingworth, Virginia Cowles and Martha Gellhorn in the 1930s to Kate Adie in Yugoslavia and Tienanmen Square in the 1990s, the author recounts the development of the woman reporter.