No more champagne: Churchill and his money

"Very little money on either side": the Churchills and Jeromes

"How I long for you to be back with sacks of gold": spendthrift parents, 1875-94

"We are damned poor": distant Army duty, 1895-9

"Fine sentiments and empty stomachs do not accord": the world's highest-paid war correspondent, 1899-1900

"Needlessly extravagant": bachelor, author, MP, 1900-5

No "rich heiress": junior minister and marriage, 1906-8

"The Pug is décassé": the HMS Enchantress years

"The clouds are blacker and blacker": the legacy of war, 1914-18

"It is like floating in a bath of cream": a timely train crash, 1918-21

"Our castle in the air": a country seat at last, 1921-2

"What about the 50,000 quid Cassel gave you?": out of office, 1923-4

"No more champagne is to be bought": chancellor under pressure, 1925-8

"Friends and former millionaires": making, and losing, a New World fortune, 1928-9

"He is writing all over the place": a strategy for survival, 1930-1

"Poor Marlborough has been shunted": trading futures, 1932-3

"The work piles up ahead": summoning more ghosts, 1934-5

"We can carry on for a year or two more": films, columns and debts, 1935-7

"I shall never forget": Bracken and partner to the rescue, 1937-8

"The future opens its jaws upon us": struggling with History, 1938-9

"All my arrangements depend on this payment": early burdens of war, 1939-41

"Taxed to the utmost": film turns the tide, 1942-5

"A most profitable purdah": minting the memoirs, 1945-6

"Agreeably impressed": selling the memoirs, 1946-8

"The unfolding of time. lie and fortune": racing to the finish, 1948-50

"An insatiable need for money": post-war Prime Minister, 1951-5

"I shall lay an egg a year": a third and final retirement, 1955-7

"Good business": sunset, 1958-65

Epilogue.