1939: The Last Season

Scotland on Sunday
'The book is a skilful weaving of the last flutter of Thirties "Society" with the political events leading to war. As Hitler reaches deeper into his neighbours' territories, balls and cricket matches, house parties and horse races, gallons of champagne and dozens of plovers' eggs mark the passage of another season...there is more here than a vivid counterpointing of events. What unfolds is a pattern of power and influence'.

Sunday Telegraph
'Anne de Courcy vividly paints the events, social and political, of those times. This is a well-written, amusing and well-researched book.'

Sunday Times
'de Courcy neatly interweaves diplomacy and dancing, house parties and the House of Commons, Anglo-German negotiations and Ascot, as the music and the tinkling of glasses rise to a hectic crescendo along with the roar of advancing German tanks'.

The Viceroy's Daughters

Sunday Times
'Imagine Stella Tillyard's bestselling history Aristocrats transposed to the first half of the twentieth century, and you get Anne de Courcy's The Viceroy's Daughters. For this absorbing and well-written biography of the Curzon sisters has the same attractions as the Tillyard Lennox saga: high-born, intimately related women freighting tons of jewellery from party to party, who not only operate at the highest political levels during times of emergency, but whose frankly messy domestic morality is as fascinating as their inevitable cut-throat sibling competition.'

Literary Review
'A vignette of English social history, skimming the glittering surface of aristocratic life in the 1920's and 1930's reliving the past through the diaries and letters of its protagonists; Anne de Courcy's use of new original sources brings to life a whole vanished cast of characters in a highly readable way'.

The Times
'The Viceroy's Daughters is a ripping yarn which overturns many preconceptions about these girls' apparently gilded lives'.

Mail on Sunday
'Compulsively readable and immaculately researched, The Viceroy's Daughters is popular social history at its very best.

Diana Mosley

Literary Review

Anne de Courcy has a riveting tale to tell and she does it with an ergomatic deftness that is enviable, not as a ‘once-upon-a-time' story but as a parable, a sober warning against the hideous lures of unbridled charm…..compelling book.

Red magazine

Diana Mosley has to have been one of the 20th century's most controversial figures……this gripping biography tells her unique story.

The Independent

de Courcy's claim that Diana Mosley's life ‘dazzled, outraged, charmed, shocked, beguiled and appalled' does not overstate the case.

Daily Telegraph

de Courcy's book gives an illuminating account of British politics between the wars and provides a measured, compelling account of an extraordinary life.

The Good Book Guide

A tour de force from start to finish.

Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

Daily Telegraph

Edith Londonderry is usually remembered as the foremost social and political hostess of her day. This admirable biography exposes another, just as remarkable, side to her nature - the strength and frailty of her almost obsessional passion for her husband.

The Observer

‘What lovely fun!' she used to cry – just like this biography.

Sunday Times

Anne de Courcy has written an enthralling biography of a remarkable woman who influenced the history of her times.

Debs at War
Mail on Sunday

The images that have come down to us of women at war tend to be of the plucky proletarian variety: sad-but-brave grannies in the bombed-out East End or sparky factory hands in headscarves getting up at dawn to make aircraft wings. But in this fascinating book, Anne de Courcy reminds us that posh girls, too, were patriots.

For five bleak but exhilarating years, young women with titles, country houses and pearls chose to climb into uniform and do difficult, dangerous jobs alongside the kind of people who, in peacetime, might have been employed to make their ballgowns or muck out the stables….

Debs at War is a wonderful slice of social history, and Anne de Courcy is a skilled interviewer with a sure eye for the telling quotation or the stand-out detail. Reading Debs at War means plunging into a world so rich and strange that it comes as a shock to remember it is a mere generation away from our own.

Spectator

Debs at War is happy, sad, intermittently very funny and consistently engaging.

Literary Review

She captures within one book a vivid impression of those years, a short history of the women's
services, a closely focused view of an exotic corner of social history, and a lot of human interest.
It all makes riveting reading.

Snowdon : The Biography

This is the first biography of Lord Snowdon to be written with his full consent and co-operation; and unfettered access to his archives.

Friends, colleagues, courtiers, servants and girlfriends have all contributed frank and revealing memories of the life of this remarkable man who married the Queen's sister. It will be published in June, after serialisation in the Daily Mail.