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The Times chooses No More Champagne among its Books of the year
The Times has joined The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal in recommending David Lough’s No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money as one its Books of the year. The selection in the newspaper’s Biography list was made by Robbie Millen who wrote: “This is the first book that focuses on his (mainly losing) battle […]
READ MORE‘Was Churchill honest?” David Lough at Alderney Literary Festival 2016
David Lough, author of No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money (recommended by The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2015) will speak at the opening event of Alderney’s literary festival on Friday 18 March 2015. His title will be: “Was Churchill honest? A perspective through his money”. https://alderneyliterarytrust.com
READ MORENo More Champagne chosen as one of ‘best reads of 2015’ – The Guardian
No More Champagne has now featured as a ‘best read of 2015’ in The Guardian in addition to The Wall Street Journal, thus covering both ends of the political spectrum! Author William Boyd nominated the book as one of his three picks in The Guardian’s ‘best reads of 2015’ feature of Saturday 28 November. He […]
READ MORENo More Champagne tours Sweden
Autor David Lough is touring Sweden to introduce his book No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money to Swedish readers in a tour organised by the leading Swedish bank Handelsbanken. After speaking in Stockholm, Sparreholm and Linköping, Lough declared himself astonished by the level of interest in the subject shown by those attending: “The second […]
READ MORENo More Champagne heads Wall Street Journal’s Best Biographies 0f 2015
No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money, researched and written by former private banker David Lough, heads The Wall Street Journal‘s ‘Best Biographies of 2015’ category in its feature ‘Books to Give’. The book gives the first full account of Winston Churchill’s struggles with his personal finances throughout his life, even while he was Britain’s […]
READ MOREDavid Lough to speak on Churchill’s finances at Galle Literary Festival, Sri Lanka
David Lough is to appear at the Galle literary Festival in Sri Lanka which funds between 13-17 January 2016. His book, No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money, features at the top of The Wall Street Journal‘s list of ‘Best Biographies of 2015’ and ‘recasts Churchill’s biography’ according to the same newspaper’s full review. British reviewers […]
READ MOREAuthors to compare Churchill and Blair finances at York Literature Festival
David Lough, author of the recently released book No More Champagne – Churchill and His Money and Francis Becket, lead author of Blair Inc. have each written revelatory books on the finances of two of Britain’s best known prime ministers. They will appear together at the 2016 York Literature Festival to compare and contrast Churchill and […]
READ MORETIME Inc. agrees use of private management papers on Churchill series
TIME has agreed to author David Lough using excerpts the private memos and cables exchanged by its most senior staff, including chairman Henry Luce, while they dealt with Winston Churchill. TIME’s LIFE magazine led the world-record publishing deal to buy Churchill’s memoirs of the Second World War. It then had to cajole the material […]
READ MOREDavid Lough to speak on Brendan Bracken
David Lough will reveal the full extent of Brendan Bracken’s services to Winston Churchill as his ‘honorary man of business’ during a talk at the Brendan Bracken Library on Friday 16 October. Bracken negotiated many deals for Churchill and organised two important financial rescues when his debts and tax bills threatened to engulf his political […]
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