Lauren Thompson, Author, Laura Thompson, Author, Jim Burke, Illustrator , illus. by Jim Burke. Scholastic $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-590-30725-3
Thompson (Mouse's First Christmas) beautifully retools "The Gift of the Magi," recasting O. Henry's husband and wife as a Depression-era widow and daughter. Grace sells her beloved doll in order to buy the mate to her mother's...
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Laura Thompson. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-250-09953-2
English writer Thompson (A Different Class of Murder) reveals how the six “posh-feral” Mitford sisters (the oldest of whom was born in 1904) became British cultural touchstones through their unabashed devotion to their respective causes—including...
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Laura Thompson. Pegasus, $35 (544p) ISBN 978-1-68177-653-8
Though Christie once declared, “I think people should be interested in books and not their authors,” she might have changed her mind after reading this sympathetic and insightful biography. Thompson (The Six) skillfully creates a portrait of the...
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Laura Thompson. Pegasus Crime, $28.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-68177-871-6
Thompson (Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life) provides the definitive look at a British cause célèbre in this riveting and multifaceted study of the notorious Thompson-Bywaters murder, the first such study to make use of all the Home Office files on
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Laura Thompson. Pegasus, $29.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-64313-303-4
Literary biographer Thompson (The Last Landlady) evocatively depicts English writer Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) in this stylish account. The oldest of six famously glamorous sisters, Mitford was aristocratic, though not “so secure and rooted as one...
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Laura Thompson. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-20273-4
Biographer Thompson (Six Girls) unearths secrets and scandals in this entertaining group portrait of women, mainly British and American and from the 19th and 20th centuries, who inherited vast wealth. Claiming that “it really is different for girls,”
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