Countess

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-06-25
• Mått: 163 x 245 x 33 mm
• Vikt: 582 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 320
• Förlag: Bonnier Books Ltd
• ISBN: 9781804183717

• Europas historia

Jehanne Wake (Author) Jehanne Wake is a biographer and historian. She grew up in the Middle East and holds an MA from the University of Oxford. She worked on Wall Street as an investment banker before returning to the UK to become a writer. Her published works include Princess Louise, Queen Victoria's Unconventional Daughter (Harper Collins) and Kleinwort Benson, The History of Two Families in Banking (OUP). She is most recently the author of Sisters of Fortune (Chatto & Windus, PRH) which won widespread critical praise from The New York Times to The Sunday Times. Over the years she has been a contributor to BBC radio and television programmes and C-Span's Book TV, as well as the Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography, and the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.Katie Wake (Author) Katie Wake is a partner and board director at Flint Global, a leading political advisory firm, based in London. She started out in journalism, writing and editing for the New Statesman, Sunday Times and Literary Review. In 2009 she joined the civil service fast stream and spent nearly a decade in Whitehall as an adviser to five Cabinet Ministers from across the political spectrum. She holds a BA in History from the University of Bristol and an MPhil in History of the USA from the University of Oxford. This is her first book.

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