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Index
Cover
Welcome Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Notes to the Reader
Prelude
Chapter 1: 'Very little money on either side': The Churchills and Jeromes
Chapter 2: 'How I long for you to be back with sacks of gold': Spendthrift Parents, 1875-94
Chapter 3: 'We are damned poor': Distant Army Duty, 1895-9
Chapter 4: 'Fine sentiments and empty stomachs do not accord': The World's Highest-Paid War Correspondent, 1899-1900
Chapter 5: 'Needlessly extravagant': Bachelor, Author, MP, 1900-5
Chapter 6: No 'rich heiress': Junior Minister and Marriage, 1906-8
Chapter 7: 'The Pug is décassé': The HMS Enchantress Years, 1909-14
Chapter 8: 'The clouds are blacker and blacker': The Legacy of War, 1914-18
Chapter 9: 'It is like floating in a bath of cream': A Timely Train Crash, 1918-21
Chapter 10: 'Our castle in the air': A Country Seat at Last, 1921-2
Chapter 11: 'What about the 50,000 quid Cassel gave you?': Out of Office, 1923-4
Chapter 12: 'No more champagne is to be bought': Chancellor under Pressure, 1925-8
Chapter 13: 'Friends and former millionaires': Making - and Losing - a New World Fortune, 1928-9
Chapter 14: 'He is writing all over the place': A Strategy for Survival, 1930-1
Chapter 15: 'Poor Marlborough has been shunted': Trading Futures, 1932-3
Chapter 16: 'The work piles up ahead': Summoning More Ghosts, 1934-5
Chapter 17: 'We can carry on for a year or two more': Films, Columns and Debts, 1935-7
Chapter 18: 'I shall never forget': Bracken and Partner to the Rescue, 1937-8
Chapter 19: 'The future opens its jaws upon us': Struggling with History, 1938-9
Chapter 20: 'All my arrangements depend on this payment': Early Burdens of War, 1939-41
Chapter 21: 'Taxed to the utmost': Film Turns the Tide, 1942-5
Chapter 22: 'A most profitable purdah': Minting the Memoirs, 1945-6
Chapter 23: 'Agreeably impressed': Selling the Memoirs, 1946-8
Chapter 24: 'The unfolding of time, life and fortune': Racing to the Finish, 1948-50
Chapter 25: 'An insatiable need for money': Post-war Prime Minister, 1951-5
Chapter 26: 'I shall lay an egg a year': A Third and Final Retirement, 1955-7
Chapter 27: 'Good business': Sunset, 1958-65
Epilogue
Picture Section
Picture credits
Endpapers
Acknowledgements
Sources and Bibliography
Biographical Notes
Reference Notes
Index
About No More Champagne
Reviews
About David Lough
An Invitation from the Publisher
Copyright
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