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Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother's Ruin Became the Spirit of London by Olivia Williams
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
Gin Glorious Gin is a vibrant cultural history of London seen through the prism of its most iconic drink. Leading the reader through the underbelly of the Georgian city via the Gin Craze, detouring through the Empire (with a G&T in hand), to the emergence of cocktail bars in the West End, the story ...Show more
The Secret Life of the Savoy - And the d'Oyly Carte Family by Olivia Williams
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
"For The Gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was served on a silk-lined floating gondola, real swans were swimming in the water, and as a final flourish, a baby elephant borrowed from London Zoo pulled a five-foot hig ...Show more
The Secret Life of the Savoy & the D'Oyly Carte Family by Olivia Williams
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
The story of the Savoy's founders, through three generations and a hundred years of luxury In 1889, Victorian impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte opened The Savoy, Britain's first luxury hotel. Allowing the rich to live like royalty, it attracted glamour, scandal and a cast of eccentric characters, with the ...Show more
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