Client details
Lesley Blanch (Estate)
Writer
Agent
| Carol MacArthur | +44 (0) 20 3214 0880 |
About
| Lesley Blanch (1904-2007), a Londoner by birth, spent the greater part of her life travelling about those remote areas her books record so vividly. In the early 1930s she was among the few who adventured across the USSR. From 1937-1944 she was features editor of Vogue. In 1945 she married Russian-born diplomat Romain Gary. Life in the FFrench diplomatic service took them from the Balkans to North Africa and the USA. They divorced in 1962. Lesley Blanch continued to travel, now East, now West, returning to the Sahara, which had inspired her first celebrated book, The Wilder Shores of Love. Her website is at www.lesleyblanch.com |
Non-Fiction
| Publication Details | Notes |
|---|---|
| ROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DISHES 1992 Robin Clark | For armchair travellers and enthusiastic eaters. |
| UNDER A LILAC-BLEEDING STAR 1963 John Murray | Travels and travellers. |
| PAVILIONS OF THE HEART 1974 wEIDENFELD | The four walls of love. |
| JOURNEY INTO THE MIND'S EYE 2001 Sickle Moon | Part travel book, part love story. |
| PIERRE LOTI 2004 I.B. Tauris | Travels with the legendary romantic. |
| THE WILDER SHORES OF LOVE 2010 Phoenix/Simon & Schuster U.S. | Four women, all of whom belonged to the West, dared to turn to the East for adventure and love. |
| THE SABRES OF PARADISE 2004 I.B. Tauris | This is the result of four years of research and local travel, a uniquely original and fresh introduction to a forgotten world and in particular to that of the most important colonia war in the 19th century. |
