Lynn Barber

Back to the fabulous Fifties

The follow-up to MI5 and Me takes us back to the author’s youth in 1950s Britain Coronet Among the Weeds, Upstairs Downstairs, John Bingham, Terence Brady

  • Spies and Stars

    Charlotte Bingham

    Bloomsbury, pp. 258

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