Hilary Spurling
Hilary Spurling, CBE, FRSL , is a British writer, known for her work as a journalist and biographer.
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Hilary Spurling, CBE, FRSL , is a British writer, known for her work as a journalist and biographer.
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Birth date: 1940-12-25
Hilary Spurling's Books
bookshelves: published-2005, under-500-ratings, radio-4x, summer-2014, biography, art-forms, nonfiction Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from June 13 to 20, 2014 R4x http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076r2v Description: “If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to ...
One of my favourite little books when it comes to culinary history, and some really great recipes, as well as lore about the Fettiplace family.
Did you notice that bit in the Goodreads blurb box alluding to the 'unearthing' of the life of Pearl Buck. I wonder if that was on purpose.In "Burying The Bones", distinguished biographer Hilary Spurling takes as her subject Pearl Buck, the highly influential American author whose astonishing life p...
Why would I, a charter member of the “Eradicate Ivy Compton-Burnett” Society, have and read this book? It all started as a joke.I saw this elephantine tome in the liberry and was inspired. The Divine Miss, the only person on planet Earth who hates the labored simplistic flatness of Icky Crumpet-Burn...
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