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John Keble today is best remembered for the Oxford college founded in his memory; his role in the seminal Oxford Movement, and for the hymns that he wrote and which are still sung today. Both John Keble and his brother Tom were educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and followed their father into the church. John Keble was curate of the Cotswold villages of Eastleach, Southrop and Coln St Aldwyn, with his younger brother Tom. John left Fairford and the Cotswolds to become vicar of Hursley in Hampshire where he stayed until his death. His brother Tom became vicar of Bisley, near Stroud.

The author lives in the Cotswolds and his interest in the Keble family lies in the villages of Eastleach and Southrop near his home. He has written a fascinating, informative and highly researched account of a great and distinguished family, whose legacy continues today.

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The author published privately The History of Eastleach, Gloucestershire as part of his degree course at Bristol University. Some of his research has been published, including his life of John Keble. He is the author of A Spencer Love Affair, eighteenth-century theatricals at Blenheim Palace and beyond, published by Alan Sutton

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The author is well-known in the Cotswold and has excellent contacts with magazines in Gloucestershire and Oxford. Reviews are expected for a significant contribution to John Keble and his family.

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This is the fascinating story of Lydia Lova; one of the most decorated women in France for her
war-time resistance work; later a nude dancer at the Folies Bergėre.
The author, then a journalist working in Paris, heard about Lydia dancing nude at the Folies
and became fascinated by her story. He traces the life story of Lydia, born in Poland to a
Count, who as a young girl in 1939 joined the French resistance network run by her father. For
eighteen months she danced for the German officers in Pigalle by day, and by night she
spied on them. Then came betrayal and she and her father were arrested by the Gestapo.
She was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Somehow this young girl organized her
own resistance movement inside the camp and avoided the gas chamber. For her services
she was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d’Honneur.
The Naked Heroine is an exciting and moving story about one woman’s fight and love for her
country.

AUTHOR:
John Izbicki is the author of his autobiography, Life Between the Lines, published to great
critical acclaim. He worked as a journalist for the Telegraph for many years, including two
stints in Paris, where he met Lydia Lova and had many scoops, including the first interview with
Paul Getty.

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John Izbicki has numerous press and journalistic contacts and achieved much publicity for his
first book. This is certain to be replicated for The Naked Heroine.

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Churchill’s Rebels is a heart-breaking story of two young people madly in love and in open rebellion against their up-bringing and a way of life.
Esmond Romilly was the nephew of Winston Churchill, a rebel against his family and public school who left England to fight for the rebels in the Spanish Civil War. Jessica Mitford, was one of the notorious Mitford girls – always known as Decca – and grew up in a life of Downton Abbey aristocratic privilege. Her sister Unity went to Germany and became very close to Hitler, while Diana married Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists.

In 1937, when Esmond was 18 and Jessica 19 they met and fell madly in love and, scandalously, ran away together to the Communist Front in Spain. After three months of family opposition, they were finally married. With war ever approaching, Esmond trained to fly and was killed in active service with Bomber Command. They had only had four brief, tempestuous and loving years together.
Meredith Whitford’s ground-breaking book uses previous unpublished documents and family sources and is essential reading. A distinguished author, she tells the story of a remarkable era..

AUTHOR:
Meredith Whitford is the successful author of two historical novels, Treason and Shakespeare’s Will. She has a BA in History, English and Classics from the University of Adelaide, where she lives. She has been reading about the Mitford and Romilly families since, aged nineteen, she found the books Hons and Rebels and Hostages at Colditz in her local library. She now owns every book written by and about these families.

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The connection with the Churchill and the Mitford families guarantees comprehensive reviews and serial and feature interest.

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