Anne Sebba

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Anne Sebba’s compulsively fascinating book!

Sally Singer, New York Times Style Editor
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Anne Sebba brings meticulous research and a brilliant writer's eye to one of the darkest questions of World War II.

Anthony Horowitz
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Absolutely gripping in so many ways; beautifully written and superbly researched, a brilliant and a fresh take on a famous case.

Simon Sebag Montefiore
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An important retelling of Les Années Noires in Paris which puts women's stories, and the complications of their lives under Occupation, centre stage…

Kate Mosse, Author of Labyrinth
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A fascinating book I couldn’t stop reading. Anne Sebba knows everything about Paris during the War. She understands everything about the chic, loathsome collaborators and the Holocaust victims…

Edmund White
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    Anne is the author of eleven non fiction books mostly biographies of iconic women with a strong historical context.

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    Anne loves interviewing extraordinary people – and ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances – especially at the end of their lives.

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A bull elephant, a hungry leopard, hippos and a pr A bull elephant, a hungry leopard, hippos and a pride of lions all in a day’s viewing of life in the wild. Hard to imagine a greater antidote than this to my normal urban living. Predators and bullies still hold sway here. But overwhelming beauty too. 

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The Sebba/Dullage family on holiday! @chitwachitwa The Sebba/Dullage family on holiday!
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If you admired Russell Crowe in the film of Nuremb If you admired Russell Crowe in the film of Nuremberg, please come and listen to me interview the wondrous Natalie Livingstone about her new book, The Women of Nuremberg for the true story of the post war trial.
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Lovely talk @oxfordliteraryfestival with thanks to Lovely talk @oxfordliteraryfestival with thanks to brilliant @louisatreger interviewing me about #womensorchestraofauschwitz . Signed copy to be donated to @bodleianlibraries with one of the most elegant green rooms ever in #exetercollege. All Oxford looking stunning in cold crisp sunshine.
Glorious day to be giving a talk in shadow of Wind Glorious day to be giving a talk in shadow of Windsor Castle about Wallis Simpson, who did not have a close connection with the place but the abdication speech was delivered here 90 years ago. The town was looking spectacular in order to welcome the Nigerian State visit.
Very special performance today of Schumann’s Traum Very special performance today of Schumann’s Traumerei at a concert to remember The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz and its only cellist, the then teenage Anita Lasker still alive at 100.
Totally thrilled to meet Laura Khan, granddaughter Totally thrilled to meet Laura Khan, granddaughter of one of the french musicians, Clare Monis, in the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Laura never knew her grandmother, who survived Auschwitz but died in a postwar car accident. She looks uncannily like her. Meeting her in California gave me a strangely warm tingling sensation and added an additional dimension to the afternoon concert in which four musicians played pieces that the orchestra had been compelled to play in Auschwitz.

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Just rehearsing for this concert amid the lemon gr Just rehearsing for this concert amid the lemon groves of California Thanks @holocaustmusiclostfound
The place where you never can check out! Lucky i’m The place where you never can check out! Lucky i’m not staying here …
Great session today discussing @thomas___harding Great session today discussing @thomas___harding  latest book The Einstein Vendetta and the myth of The Good Italians and the Evil Germans in #WorldWar 2. Like every thing else it’s a lot more complicated. #jewishbookweek
Lunchtime talk today @nationalarchivesuk about Wal Lunchtime talk today @nationalarchivesuk about Wallis Simpson to tie into their #LoveLetters exhibition. Only the love letters in Wallis Simpson story were rather one sided!
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