Malice in Wonderland

''The diaries offer a brilliantly gossipy unofficial portrait of Cecil Beaton and his circle'' DAILY MAIL

''A fascinating document, a window on to a lost world of glamour, grandeur and snobbery . . . an elegy, sad and comical, to a passing era'' Craig Brown, MAIL ON SUNDAY

''I got as caught up in these distant but strangely evocative events as Vickers did . . . delicious in its way, recreating a los...