,
Sonia Purnell

Sonia Purnell’s Followers (490)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Sonia Purnell


Website

Twitter

Genre


Sonia Purnell is a biographer and journalist who has worked at The Economist, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times. Her book Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill (published as First Lady in the UK) was chosen as a book of the year by The Telegraph and The Independent, and was a finalist for the Plutarch Award. Her first book, Just Boris, was longlisted for the Orwell prize.

Average rating: 4.12 · 67,687 ratings · 8,457 reviews · 13 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Woman of No Importance: T...

4.15 avg rating — 56,043 ratings — published 2019 — 44 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Clementine: The Life of Mrs...

3.93 avg rating — 8,096 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman'...

4.22 avg rating — 2,626 ratings7 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Agent Most Wanted: The Neve...

3.80 avg rating — 514 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Just Boris: A Tale of Blond...

3.81 avg rating — 328 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Clementine Churchill: A Lif...

by
4.24 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Pedal Power: How Boris John...

3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012
Rate this book
Clear rating
Kingmaker

by
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
SUMMARY OF A WOMAN OF NO IM...

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Ambassador

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Sonia Purnell…
Quotes by Sonia Purnell  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“Valor rarely reaps the dividends it should.”
Sonia Purnell, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls. —Robert F. Kennedy”
Sonia Purnell, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

“She gambled again and again with her own life, not out of a fervent nationalism for her own country, but out of love and respect for the freedoms of another.”
Sonia Purnell, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Polls

315279
Here is your chance to pick our next month’s BOTMs!

The 2 books that gets the most votes will be our May BOTMs.

The results of this poll have been hidden until Apr 27, 2025 11:59PM PDT.


More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
Around the Year i...: Lisa's 2016 list 21 71 Nov 11, 2015 02:52PM  
Book Nook Cafe: Favorite Quotes - ~ 2016 77 55 Dec 27, 2016 12:40PM  
Goodreads Librari...: Add book cover 38 310 May 27, 2017 09:49PM  
Book Nook Cafe: The Book Salon ~~ May 2019 151 48 May 31, 2019 02:24AM  


Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Sonia to Goodreads.