British Author Challenge May 2025: Nancy Mitford & Paul Scott

When I was going over the list of authors from previous years I was slightly surprised to find that we hadn't yet featured Nancy Mitford. I fear she may be becoming one of those authors people have heard of but don't actually read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Mitford

Selected Works
Christmas Pudding
Wigs on the Green
The Pursuit of Love
Love in a Cold Climate
Voltaire in Love
The Sun King: Louis XIV at Versailles

Not gonna lie: I'm featuring Paul Scott because I'm hoping to finally read the rest of The Raj Quartet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Scott_(novelist)

Selected Works
The Raj Quartet
The Birds of Paradise
The Chinese Love Pavilion
The Alien Sky
On Writing and the Novel
Six Days in Marapore

>2 amanda4242: No luck for me here with Nancy Mitford but since I read The Raj Quartet last year, I am going to read Paul Scott's Staying On for the challenge in May.

I have Nancy Mitford's Pursuit of Love to read. I have already read Staying On, perhaps a reread? Or The Jewel in the Crown?

>1 amanda4242: ive read pursuit of love, love in small climate and Fredrick the Great, thought they were all well written and in the case of the latter , well researched

>3 alcottacre: There are a few Mitford books available on Open Library.

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL288327A/Nancy_Mitford?mode=ebooks

>4 Kristelh: I'm not sure which Mitford book I'll be reading, but I am going to re-read The Jewel in the Crown.

>5 cindydavid4: I've read most of her novels but none of her nonfiction, although I've always heard good things about it.

I've finished my re-read of The Jewel in the Crown; just three more to go!

I liked but didn't love The Pursuit of Love. The part of the book set just before and during World War II was the most interesting to me.

>10 cbl_tn: It's been ages since I've read it, but I remember liking Love in a Cold Climate more.

I liked Love in a Cold Climate but appreciated the autobiographical components of The Pursuit of Love. These were interesting sisters.

The June thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/371236

I've finished The Raj Quartet! They're definitely not books I can breeze through, but I found them so engrossing that I would sit down to read for just a few minutes and end up reading for several hours.

The ebook of Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford is on sale for $4.99.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/228243/christmas-pudding-and-pigeon-pie...