British writer, journalist and biographer, 2005 Whitbread Book Awards winner, 1967 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize winner

Peake in China : memoirs of Ernest Cromwell Peake / Ernest Cromwell Peake ; introduction by Hilary Spurling.

Elinor Fettiplace's receipt book : Elizabethan country house cooking / Hilary Spurling.

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Hilary Spurling

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Peake in China : memoirs of Ernest Cromwell Peake / Ernest Cromwell Peake ; introduction by Hilary Spurling.

Elinor Fettiplace's receipt book : Elizabethan country house cooking / Hilary Spurling.