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Hannah Rothschild
High Time: High stakes and high jinx in the wor...

Hannah Rothschild
High Time: High stakes and high jinx in the world of art and finance

2024 | Nakladatelství Folio, spol.s r.o.

'One of the wittiest writers around' Good Housekeeping'The perfect summer read: mischievous and delicious. I devoured it in one go.' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper PalaceWHEN THE STAKES ARE HIGH, HOW LOW WILL YOU GO?Ayesha Scott has a perfect life. Home is an art-filled Cornish castle with her stratospheric…ally wealthy, titled husband and their beloved daughter. But behind every realised dream lurks an unexploded nightmare and in the course of one day Ayesha discovers that she will be penniless, homeless and powerless unless she can outwit the international mafia, infiltrate the world of high finance and make backstreet deals with the shadiest members of the art world.Hurt and betrayed, she's determined to fight for herself and her daughter - but can she do it without enlisting the help of her beloved, deeply eccentric but estranged family?Sharp escapist fiction, High Time is a novel about high stakes and high jinx set in the world of high art and high finance.'Reads like a thrilling fairground ride version of Downton Abbey' Independent'An entertaining and arch caper' Grazia 'Something Nancy Mitford and Jilly Cooper might have cooked up' The Times 'One of the wittiest writers around' Good Housekeeping'The perfect summer read: mischievous and delicious. I devoured it in one go.' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper PalaceWHEN THE STAKES AR…E HIGH, HOW LOW WILL YOU GO?Ayesha Scott has a perfect life. Home is an art-filled Cornish castle with her stratospherically wealthy, titled husband and their beloved daughter. But behind every realised dream lurks an unexploded nightmare and in the course of one day Ayesha discovers that she will be penniless, homeless and powerless unless she can outwit the international mafia, infiltrate the world of high finance and make backstreet deals with the shadiest members of the art world.Hurt and betrayed, she's determined to fight for herself and her daughter - but can she do it without enlisting the help of her beloved, deeply eccentric but estranged family?Sharp escapist fiction, High Time is a novel about high stakes and high jinx set in the world of high art and high finance.'Reads like a thrilling fairground ride version of Downton Abbey' Independent'An entertaining and arch caper' Grazia 'Something Nancy Mitford and Jilly Cooper might have cooked up' The Times

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Odešleme nejpozději 11. 5. 2026

O knize

Stav:	Nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	314
Jazyk:	česky , anglicky
ISBN10:	1526656833
ISBN:	9781526656834
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	12. 7. 2025 12:35
Číslo položky:	1300738

O autorovi

Hannah Rothschild

Hannah Rothschild je britská spisovatelka, podnikatelka, filantropka a tvůrkyně dokumentárních filmů, též zasedá v radách různých organizací. Je dcerou Jacoba Rothschilda, 4. barona Rothschilda, a jeho ženy Sereny Dunn Rothschildové. Skrze otce je členkou bankovní rodiny Rotchildů. V roce 2015 se stala první ženou v křesle předsedy Dozorčí rady Národní Galerie v Londýně, poté, co byla 11 let její členkou. Její biografie \"The Baroness\" byla publikována ve Velké Británii, USA a dalších sedmi územích. Její první román \"Nepravděpodobnost lásky\" vyšel v květnu 2015 v Bloomsbury av listopadu roku 2015 v Knopf v USA. Její funkce a rozhovory se objevují ve W, Vanity Fair, The Telegraph, The Times, The New York Times, The Spectator, Britská a Americká Vogue. Její dokumenty byly prezentovány na BBC, HBO a na filmových festivalech včetně Telluride, London Film Festival a Sheffield. Pracovní název a Ridley Scott si vybrali své původní scénáře. V srpnu 2015 se Hannah stala předsedou správců Národní galerie v Londýně.

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