Most Popular Books by James Fox

A funny, sensitive, moving and gripping story of a family grappling with the real world vs the online one, covering relatable issues of parents splitting up, elderly grandparents and bullying.

"Charles James Fox PC (24 January 1749? 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was particularly noted for being the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. His father was a leading Whig and Fox rose to prominence in the House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful private life, though his opinions were rather conservative and conventional. However, with the coming of the American War of Independence and the influence of the Whig Edmund Burke, Fox''s opinions evolved into some of the most radical ever to be aired in the Parliament of his era."--Wikipedia.

Tooke lost the 1790 election for Westminster to Fox; his petition to H of C regarding the election was found to be "frivolous & vexatious," making him, according to a new law, responsible for the costs incurred, for which Fox brought this action against him; heard before Lord Kenyon, Westminster-Hall, April 30, 1792; determined for the plaintiff

The author of the bestseller White Mischief tells the story of the beautiful Langhorne sisters, who lived at the Pinnacle of high and powerful society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Making their way across two continents, they left in their wakes rich husbands, fame, adoration, and scandal. Lizzie, Irene, Nancy, Phyllis, and Nora were born in Virginia to a family impoverished by the Civil War. Their father remade his fortune by collaborating with the Yankees and building rail-roads; the sisters became southern belles and northern debutantes. James Fox draws on unpublished correspondence between the sisters and their husbands, lovers, children, and the powerful and glamorous of their day to construct a plural topography with the scope of a grand novel and the pace of a historical thriller. At its center is the most famous sister, Nancy, who married Waldorf Astor, one of the richest men in the world. Heroic, hilarious, magnetically charming, and a bully, Lady Astor became Britain''s first female MP, championing women''s rights and the poor. The beautiful Irene married Charles Dana Gibson and was the model for the Gibson Girl. The author''s grandmother, Phyllis, married a famous economist, one of the architects of modern Europe. Fox has written an absorbing and spirited, intimate and sweeping account of extraordinary women at the highest reaches of society, their adventures set against the background of a tumultuous century.