MOVING CHURCHILL #6: What Do You Think?
We turn to you now for some guidance. A few very different potential properties are in our sights for our move. As yet, no clear favorite. Each location presents its own advantages and disadvantages.
We’d like to know what you think.
>If we move to the Westside of Manhattan, would you follow us west? We are definitely now looking in that direction, as rents in Midtown East are stubbornly high.
>If we move to the second floor of a townhouse, would you follow us up a long flight of steps? Inviting locations are presenting themselves, upstairs.
>How about two flights of stairs?
Please let us know.
Meanwhile, our impending move Sale continues.
More engrossing books at relocation prices.
THE GREATEST OF FRIENDS:
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT and WINSTON CHURCHILL 1939-1945
By Keith Alldritt
Price: $35 / Sale: $15
WINSTON CHURCHILL:
THE GREATEST BRITON
By Dominique Enright
Price: $25 / Sale: $15
CHURCHILL: THE END OF GLORY
A Political Biography
By John Charmley
Price: $50 / Sale: $20
CHURCHILL’S GRAND ALLIANCE
A Provocative Reassessment of the “Special Relationship”
Between England and the U.S. from 1940-1957
By John Charmley
Price: $50 / Sale: $20
WINSTON CHURCHILL
(“BIOGRAPHY” ON A&E)
By James Humes
Price: $23 / Sale: $15
WINSTON CHURCHILL: Personal Accounts of the Great Leader at War
By Michael Paterson
Price: $45 / Sale: $20
MOVING CHURCHILL
We will continue to share updates about our impending move as we have them.
Plus many more special sale books, weekly.
(Winston Churchill moved some 20 times in his adult life. We are also sharing each of these.
One-by-one. Just for the record.)
Move #6
HOE FARM
In the summer of 1915, Winston Churchill rented for his family a secluded Tudor farmhouse in Surrey called “Hoe Farm,” where he retreated for long weekends romping with his and brother Jack’s young children. It was here that he first took up a paintbrush, inspired by Jack’s wife, Gwendolyn (“Goonie”). “How I wish you could be there,” he wrote to Jack, who was then serving at Gallipoli. “It really is a delightful valley and the garden gleams with summer jewelry. We live very simply — but with all the essentials of life well understood and provided for — hot baths, cold champagne, new peas & old brandy.”
More to come.
With our thanks and best wishes,
Chartwell Booksellers