Sir Oswald Mosley - aristocrat, socialist, social lion - became after 1932 when he founded the British Union of Fascists, one of the most hated men in England. This personal story by the eldest son of Sir Oswald (Tom) and his first wife Cimmie sheds light on the nature of an extraordinary man and an unconventional marriage. In sharing his efforts to understand his parents, Nicholas Mosley provides insights on how personalities are shaped, and how a society which can propagate a public figure such as Mosley can also make his memory taboo. --- from book's back cover

Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933

Nicholas Mosley

Fontana

"Accident," Nicholas Mosley's brilliantly conceived and efficiently structured novel about Oxford University and environs, is a prose poem about marriage and infidelity, as well as the relationship between writing and existence, imagination and action. It is a study of the games academics play both with their students and with themselves, on campus and off, in bed or on the cricket fields or baronial halls of the landed gentry. By probing the mind of one philosopher-don, Stephen, who has second thoughts about what constitutes an "accident," Mosley gives us an unforgettable view of life at the top or tip of the academic heights, in addition to a moving story of love and betrayal.

Accident

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Impossible Object

Penguin??Books

Natalie Natalia

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Assassination of Trotsky (Abacus Books)

SPHERE

Children Darkness & Light

Contemporary

Secker Warburg

Inventing God

Secker and Warburg

Life Drawing

John Napper

Arts & Photography

Studio Publications

"Once known as the most hated man in England, Sir Oswald Mosley (1896-1980) is an intriguing and infamous figure in British politics.  Rich and aristocratic, Mosley began his political career within the fold of the smart international set: married to Cynthia Curzon, "Tom and Cimmie" counted among their friends Ramsay MacDonald, Winston Churchill, the Sitwells, and the Belgian royal family.  Moving from within the fold to beyond the pale, Mosley switched from the Conservative party to Labour in protest against governmental brutality in Ireland, and then, in contempt of Labour's broken campaign promises, founded the British Union of Fascists. Although still moving in aristocratic circles, Mosley's fascist activities finally led to his imprisonment in 1940.Throughout his stormy career Mosley preserved his taste for the elegant pursuits of a country gentleman: his warm correspondence with his son shows his interest in philosophy and literature.  It was perhaps because he managed to embrace so many opposites at once that he appeared in old age so serene, and that he continues to fascinate us.Finally, this is also the autobiography of his son, distinguished novelist Nicholas Mosley, and his movement from worshipful adulation, to estrangement, to reconciliation and understanding of his remarkable father."  ~ from the hard cover version's inner jacket blurb

Rules Of The Game/Beyond The Pale

Biographies & Memoirs

Pimlico

Hopeful Monsters

Minerva

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