The third and final volume of the remarkable Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Sir Henry Chips ChannonAn utterly addictive glimpse of London high society and politics in the 40s and 50s. Robert HarrisAn instant classic . . . quite simply the greatest social and political diaries of the 20th century. Daily TelegraphRich, exuberant, copious and shatteringly honest. SpectatorA scurrilous read. Fascinating. Gripping! Alan TitchmarshChips writes with such vividness that one feels one is living each day in his exalted company. The OldieThis final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry Chips Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies favour. It ends with Chips descending into poor health but still able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and the good with whom he mingles.Throughout these final fourteen years Chips assiduously describes events in and around Westminster, gossiping about individual MPs ambitions and indiscretions, but also rising powerfully to the occasion to capture the mood of the House on VE Day or the ceremony of George VIs funeral. His energies, though, are increasingly absorbed by a private life that at times reaches Byzantine levels of complexity. We encounter the London of the theatre and the cinema, peopled by such figures as John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh and Douglas Fairbanks Jr, as well as a seemingly endless grand parties at which Chips might well rub...

Binding: Paperback;896 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BGHA; Weight: 1066 g; Dimensions: 190 x 120 x 45

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