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MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks
de Bingham, Charlotte
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Near fine, as new (v slight forward lean)
- ISBN 10
- 1408888149
- ISBN 13
- 9781408888148
- Librería
-
Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Bloomsbury, 2018. 1st. h/b. Near fine, as new (v slight forward lean). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carr world' (Libby Purves, TLS); a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carr's George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5. Much to her surprise, eighteen-year-old Lottie has just found out that her aloof, rather unexciting father is a spy. And now he's decreed that she must make herself useful and get a Proper Job - so she's packed off to MI5 herself, trussed up in a dreary suit. Luckily her delightful colleague Arabella is on hand to enliven the torments of typing and decode the enigmas of office life. But as Lottie's home fills with actors doubling as spies, and Arabella's mother is besieged with mysterious telephone calls, the girls start to feel well and truly spooked. A hilarious true story, and a unique window into 1950s Britain - where Russian agents infiltrate the highest echelons, where debutantes are typists and where Englishness is both a nationality and a code of behaviour - MI5 and Me is a sparkling comic memoir.
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- Librería
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- IYC133066
- Título
- MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks
- Autor
- Bingham, Charlotte
- Formato/Encuadernación
- H/b
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1408888149
- ISBN 13
- 9781408888148
- Editorial
- Bloomsbury
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2018
- Páginas
- 240
- Tamaño
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6"")
- Palabras clave
- 1st, memoir, espionage, comedy, Bingham, le Carr
- Catálogos del vendedor
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.38 g
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