What She Ate
£14.99‘If you find the subject of food to be both vexing and transfixing, you’ll love What She Ate‘ Elle
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‘If you find the subject of food to be both vexing and transfixing, you’ll love What She Ate‘ Elle

A sparkling social history of the ‘Dollar Princesses’, the young American heiresses who married into the English aristocracy.

Meet the most talented and famous women in history, from politics, science, business, and the arts, from exciting entrepreneurs to clever creatives. Discover landmark moments in the lives of amazing historical women from Joan of Arc to Marie Curie, up to and including modern game-changers such as Maya Angelou, Angela Merkel, Serena Williams, and Malala Yousafzai.

The contrasting lives of the Mitford sisters – stylish, scandalous and tragic by turns – hold up a mirror to upper-class life before and after the Second World War.


Three sisters – beautiful, cultured and aristocratic, born into immense wealth during the reign of Queen Victoria. Their dramatic lives are here unfolded in a rich historical biography certain to appeal to fans of Downton Abbey, ‘Georgiana’ and Stella Tillyard’s ‘Aristocrats’.

From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, ‘Lunch with the FT’ is a selection of classic interviews conducted in the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table. The list of people who have had lunch with the FT since 1994 read like an international who’s who of our times. Meet the rich and famous, the weird and the brilliant, the brave and the virtuous, brought to you by the Financial Times’ global network of columnists and correspondents.
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