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DAVID ERDAL Isobel Dixonwww.daviderdal.net Twitter: @daviderdal David Erdal lives in Scotland. As chairman of paper manufacturing company Tullis Russell he led their employee buyout and is non-exec director and former MD of Baxi Partnership, a fund aimed at structuring and financing all-employee buyouts. Author of LOCAL HEROES: The Liberation of Loch Fyne Oysters. He advises on employee ownership internationally. BEYOND THE CORPORATION: HUMANITY WORKING Business/Current Affairs ‘One of the most influential business books of the year.’ The Scotsman The inspiring story of ordinary people who share the ownership of the businesses where they work. With case studies from China, the UK, US, Spain, Germany, and Italy, among others, David Erdal is also able to update with further detail for various markets if rights are bought.
ROXY FREEMAN Juliet Pickering Twitter: @Roxerella Roxy Freeman is a freelance journalist and lifestyle writer based in Brighton. Her articles have appeared in the Guardian, Daily Mail and YOU Magazine among other publications. LITTLE GYPSY Memoir Roxy Freeman grew up travelling around Ireland and England in a traditional horse-drawn wagon with her mother and father and six siblings. Life was harsh but it was a childhood of freedom spent in harmony with nature. Early life was idyllic but when her father brought the family to England, they faced prejudice and hostility. Despite all of the difficulties she faced, she developed a passion for flamenco and traditional music and developed a career as a dancer, which took her around the world. 288 pp. (ed: Kerri Sharp)
LYNDALL GORDON Isobel Dixonwww.lyndallgordon.net Lyndall Gordon lives in Oxford. An acclaimed biographer, she has been winner of the Cheltenham Prize and the James Tait Black prize, and long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and most recently has been shortlisted for the Comisso Prize in Italy for Fazi’s edition of LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS. Also author of A PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY JAMES; T.S. ELIOT: An Imperfect Life, CHARLOTTE BRONTE: A Passionate Life; VIRGINIA WOOLF: A Writer’s Life and VINDICATION: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, 2005) as well as a memoir of female friendship and growing up in the fifties, SHARED LIVES. ‘Literary bloodhound and superbly eloquent chronicler.’ Booklist DIVIDED LIVES: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter Memoir An award-winning biographer turns her insightful writer’s eye to her own life and her relationship to her mother – an extraordinary and intensely realised tale of loyalty and division; breakdown and recovery; migration and home. Lyndall Gordon was born in 1941 in Cape Town, to a mother whose mysterious illness confined her for years to life indoors. Lyndall was her carer, her “secret sharer”, a child who grew to know life through books, story-telling and her mother's own writings. Written with this renowned biographer’s subtlety and acuity, DIVIDED LIVES is a wonderfully layered memoir about the expectations of love and duty between mother and daughter. Moving and beautiful, DIVIDED LIVES is a poetic memoir about the pain and joy of being a daughter, that is also an intriguing social history and feminist text, rich in literary reference. Ms available, 110,000 words. The Hudson Review will publish an extract in April 2014. Virago publish in June 2014.
LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds Literary BiographyShortlisted for The Duff Cooper Prize 2010 and the Comisso Prize, Italy in 2013 (winner TBA) A Telegraph Book of the Year 2010; Listed in the Independent’s Pick of 2010. Picked as one of 4 Biography and Memoir Best Books of 2010 by The Economist
‘Explodes all previous theories in an electrifying family portrait…a Shakespearean tale of a house divided. A jolting and utterly intriguing watershed achievement.’ Starred review, Booklist ‘Unforcedly and powerfully original.’ ‘Book of the Week’, Sunday Telegraph ‘As rich as a novel by Henry James.’ Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Telegraph Ground-breaking biography of Emily Dickinson, following the fierce feud between the Dickinson family and Emily’s brother’s mistress after the enigmatic American poet’s death. 491pp.
PETER HARRIS Isobel DixonPeter Harris practised law for many years before playing a role in transitional government structures in South Africa in the early 1990s. He now heads a large management consultancy. A JUST DEFIANCE: The Bombmakers, the Insurgents and a Legendary Treason Trial (South African title: IN A DIFFERENT TIME) Politics / Narrative Non-fictionWinner of the SA Sunday Times Literary Alan Paton Non-Fiction Prize 2009. Shortlisted for Booksellers’ Choice 2009 and the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize 2008/9. Jenny & Co’s Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and Best Book of the Year 2008.
‘Reads like a John Grisham novel…a compelling read.’ The Telegraph In the final years of apartheid, four ANC operatives steal across the border into South Africa. They left as students after the 1976 Soweto riots; they return as soldiers, a specialist unit, to carry out acts of war. On the other side, a police hit squad operates in deepest secrecy, and a dark conspiracy unfolds. When the four are captured, they face the death penalty. Narrated by their lawyer, this compelling true story is an insider’s account of one of the most dramatic political court cases ever. It is a poignant, devastating account of men driven to extremes for an ideal, of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. Rights sold on behalf of Umuzi. 320pp.
SARAH HARTLEY Juliet Pickering Previously an editor on The Times, The Daily Mail and deputy editor of Review for The Mail on Sunday. Sarah now works as a communication consultant and, as S L Hartley, she is working on her first novel – JUNIPER - a thriller set in London. MRS P’S JOURNEY Memoir Born Phyllis Isobella Gross, her lifelong nickname was PIG. After an unsatisfactory marriage, Phyllis, a thirty-year-old divorcee, had to support herself and so became a portrait painter. It is doing this job and trying to find her patron's houses that Phyllis became increasingly frustrated at the lack of proper maps of London. Instead of just cursing the fact as many fellow Londoners probably did, Phyllis decided to do something about it. Without hesitation she covered London's 23,000 streets on foot during the course of one year. 352 pp.
KATE HODGES Juliet Pickering Twitter: @theeKateHodges Kate Hodges graduated from the University of Westminster with a BA in Print Journalism. She has over 20 years writing experience on magazines, having been a staffer on publications including The Face, Bizarre, Just Seventeen, Smash Hits and Sky. She has also worked for Rapido TV, makers of cult show Eurotrash, and P For Production films. Since June 2012, she’s edited, researched and written the weekly Hopscotch newsletter, a guide for families to the best cheap, fun things happening in London. LITTLE LONDON is her first book. LITTLE LONDON Travel/Gift A guide to all the incredible and inspiring activities you can do with children in London. Written to appeal to parents on a budget, the book will be packed with ideas for free and fun places to go, and things to do. Beautifully illustrated and arranged seasonally, there’s something here for everyone. Published April 2014 (ed: Elen Jones)
KATHLEEN JONES Isobel Dixon www.kathleenjones.co.uk Twitter: @kathyferber www.katherinemansfield.net ‘A skilled and subtle biographer.’ Pamela Norris, Literary Biography Author of A GLORIOUS FAME: The Life Of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle (Bloomsbury); LEARNING NOT TO BE FIRST: The Life Of Christina Rossetti (OUP; St Martins Press); A PASSIONATE SISTERHOOD: The Lives Of The Sisters, Wives And Daughters Of The 'Lake Poets' (Constable; St Martins Press; Virago); MARGARET FORSTER: AN INTRODUCTION (Northern Lights); and the bestselling CATHERINE COOKSON (Constable). A sequel, SEEKING CATHERINE COOKSON'S ‘DA' was published in 2004 A Royal Literary Fund Fellow, she Teaches Creative Writing for the Open University. THE STORY-TELLER Biography ‘By far the best Mansfield biography yet.’ Jacqueline Wilson ‘Kathleen Jones conveys the living presence of Katherine Mansfield in the present tense, so that one feels her continued presence…A marvellous, innovative biography.’ Lyndall Gordon Striking biography of Katherine Mansfield, the first in 20 years, a compelling probing of her art and troubled life, with new unpublished information. At nineteen, Katherine Mansfield came to misogynistic Edwardian England from New Zealand, determined to be a writer. Turbulent years lay ahead: an illegitimate baby, two unhappy marriages, a series of affairs with both men and women, and friendships with Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and other leading literary figures, formed the background of her writing life. THE STORY-TELLER tells of her turbulent relationships with Ida Baker, the woman she called her ‘wife’, and John Middleton Murry, the man she shared her life with. It also tells the story of what happened to her unpublished manuscripts after her death and how Murry’s obsession with Katherine ensured that her reputation was nurtured, even though it ruined his three subsequent marriages and his children’s lives. 524pp.
KONDITOR AND COOK Juliet Pickering www.konditorandcook.com Twitter: @konditorandcook Konditor and Cook is an award-winning bakery with several stores throughout London. Founded in 1993 by Gerhard Jenne, it is legendary for its amazing cakes and delicious bakes. German-born Gerhard brought his training as a konditor to traditional English baking, and Konditor and Cook sells classic food with an idiosyncratic twist and great sense of humour. THE KONDITOR AND COOK BOOK Cookery THE KONDITOR AND COOK BOOK will focus on the wonderful spirit of their food and include all their best-known recipes. As a bakery that is known for its quirky humour, we’re pleased to share Konditor and Cook’s famously witty ideas and elegant cakes. Published May 2014 (ed: Sarah Lavelle)
HUGH LEWIN Isobel DixonJournalist and anti-apartheid activist who served a full prison sentence for sabotage and left South Africa on a ‘permanent exit permit’ in 1971. He won the 2003 Olive Schreiner Prize for his prison memoir BANDIET OUT OF JAIL. Ten years in exile in London were followed by ten years in Zimbabwe. He returned to South Africa in 1992 and became director of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg. He works as a freelance media trainer. STONES AGAINST THE MIRROR: A Story of Friendship & Betrayal Politics / Memoir Winner of Sunday Times Alan Paton Award 2012 ‘A powerful tale, showing a master craftsman at work…a deeply moving memoir.’ The Witness
RICHARD LITTLER Juliet Pickering http://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/ Twitter: @richard_littler Born in Manchester and has lived in America, Russia, Germany and Ireland. A screenwriter with a decade of experience, Richard has sold several screenplays and treatments; a new feature project is currently in development in China; he has acted as script and story consultant for many clients, and also published poetry in Gargoyle magazine. DISCOVERING SCARFOLK Humour In DISCOVERING SCARFOLK, Dr. Ben Motte introduces an archive of material compiled by Daniel Bush, a man looking for his young, blond twin sons, who disappeared in Scarfolk in 1970. As Daniel embarks on his mission to find his purported offspring, he discovers reams of Scarfolk council notices, pamphlets and publications, revealing more and more about the town. As he uncovers this material, so he grows to become increasingly suspicious of the Mayor and his constituents. Has something gone awry in the already very wonky town of Scarfolk? Scarfolk (the blog: http://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/) received half a million visitors in the first six months, and has an avid following around the world. DISCOVERING SCARFOLK will be a book full of Richard’s incredible illustrations, with an intriguingly Twin Peaks-ish narrative. Published Autumn 2014; delivery March 2014. (ed: Sarah Lavelle)
CLAYTON LITTLEWOOD Juliet Pickering www.claytonlittlewood.com Twitter: @claylittlewood Former columnist for The London Paper, Clayton is a regular contributor to BBC radio. DIRTY WHITE BOY Biography From his window on one of the busiest street corners in the world, Clayton watches the daily parade of fashion queens, prostitutes, gangsters and celebrities that make up the population of this strangest of villages. His Soho diary is a snapshot of modern London, caught between the ghosts of the past and the uncertainties of the future. And amidst all this madness occurs one of the strangest and most touching love stories you will ever read. 350 pp.
GOODBYE TO SOHO Biography Business in London's Soho is not going well and the designer menswear shop that Clayton Littlewood runs with his partner, Jorge Betancourt, is under threat. Will they survive? Littlewood is back, watching the hookers, the gangsters, the rent boys and following the same strange characters who make up this strangest of villages. Will eccentric artist Raqib Shaw continue on his path to artistic immortality? Can Sue and Maggie, the Soho madams, keep the law at bay? A snapshot of London life. 272 pp.
HANNAH LOWE Isobel Dixon Born in Ilford, Essex, to an English mother and Jamaican-Chinese father, Hannah studied American Literature at the University of Sussex, has a Masters degree in Refugee Studies and is now completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. She is a widely published, award-winning poet, and an excellent performer. The Rialto published her pamphlet HITCHER (2011) and her first collection, CHICK, is published by Bloodaxe (2013) and shortlisted for the Forward First Collection Prize and the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize (2103). LONG TIME NO SEE Memoir Hannah Lowe’s father ‘Chick’, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family – except Chick wasn’t an ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he would vanish into the shadows of London’s East End to win at cards or dice, returning during daylight to greet the daughter who didn’t understand his life, but whose love and respect he courted. In this poignant memoir, Lowe calls forth the unstable world of card sharps, confidence men and small time criminals that eventually took its toll on Chick. She evokes her father’s Jamaica, where he learned his formidable skills, and her own coming of age in a changing Britain. It speaks eloquently of love and its absence, regret and compassion, and the struggle to know yourself. Ms available, 88,200 wds. LUCY MANGAN (co-represented/Louise Lamont at Luigi Bonomi) Juliet Pickering www.guardian.co.uk/lucymangan Twitter: @lucymangan Columnist for Guardian Weekend magazine and Stylist, and author of MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS, THE RELUCTANT BRIDE and HOPSCOTCH AND HANDBAGS. Now writing BOOKWORM for publication in 2015 FIFTY YEARS OF CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Illustrated non-fiction Lucy will be writing a warm celebration of everything that Roald Dahl’s CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY has been to its readers and fans over the last fifty years, including two films and a musical. The book will be illustrated with book covers, posters, screenshots and archive material from Roald Dahl’s letters and drafts. Manuscript available December 2013. (ed: Alex Antscherl)
BOOKWORM Memoir/Literature BOOKWORM is a love letter to the joys of childhood reading; it will offer a witty, impassioned history of the childhood stories we loved and the extraordinary people who created them; it will also explore the thousand subtle ways these books shape our own lives – the bonds we form, the rites of passage we undergo, the understanding we gain. It will begin as we all do, with picture books such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar, leading us through secret gardens, along railway lines and across prairies, right up to a shared coming of age with Judy Blume, Patrick Ness and Philip Pullman. Beloved by all who read her Guardian and Stylist columns, Lucy Mangan has long been an advocate for children’s books. Proposal avlbl. (ed: Rowan Yapp)
DUNCAN MCLAREN Isobel Dixon http://www.saga.co.uk/visiting-mabel Author of LOOKING FOR ENID: The Mysterious and Inventive Life of Enid Blyton (World: Portobello, 2007). Now writing ZIMMERSONG, a memoir about his parents, based on his moving Saga blog ‘Visiting Mabel’ about visiting his mother in her care home. His blog was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Blogs 2011. EVELYN!: Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love Narrative NF/Literary Biography Duncan McLaren and his partner Kate follow in the footsteps of Evelyn Waugh, from Oxford to Dorset to the high life of 1920s Mayfair, and beyond, tracing the events that fed into classics like Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies and A Handful of Dust. The second Evelyn in the title is Evelyn Gardner, one of Evelyn Waugh’s lovers, and Duncan traces life, love, landscape and literature in a sparkling intertwining narrative. Ms available, 100,000 words. EMER O’TOOLE Juliet Pickering www.guardian.co.uk/emer-o-toole Twitter: @Emer_OToole A theatre scholar and writer, Emer contributes to the Guardian, blogs for the popular feminist site Vagenda, recites short stories for audio magazine 4'33'' and composes comedy sketches for the fledgling comedy troupe Wet Lettuce. GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS Feminism/memoir After the success of Caitlin Moran’s HOW TO BE A WOMAN, there was nowhere immediately accessible for burgeoning young feminists to turn next. What to do when you’ve decided to embrace body politics but have only Cosmopolitan and HOW TO BE A WOMAN to draw on? Emer decided to get stuck in; to write a book that would encourage these young women to explore the issues surrounding their gender, and to face them with confidence. GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS is this book. Funny and easy to read, but with a deeply serious point driving the narrative, we want this to be THE book for the successors of Caitlin Moran and Natasha Walter. As a 28 year-old herself, no one is better placed than Emer to persuade her fellow activists-to-be to think about taking control of their bodies and their brains. Delivery November 2013 (ed: Jane Sturrock)
TONY PARK with various authors Isobel Dixon www.tonypark.net www.tonyparkblog.blogspot.com Bestselling Australian thriller writer who divides his time between Australia and South Africa. He has written PART OF THE PRIDE, the life story of ‘the Lion Whisperer’ Kevin Richardson, as well as many bestselling action-packed adventure thrillers for Macmillan Australia. He aims to write a non-fiction title and a thriller a year (details under fiction). BUSH VET Non-fiction On the borders of Chobe National Park, Clay Wilson is an embattled wildlife veterinarian. Not only does he experience great adventure and heart-rending episodes tending to the wild animals that fall victim ro accidents and disease, but increasingly he finds himself up against the ravages of poaching and the forces behind this. In the great stand-off between the need for a developing country to expand its agriculture and to preserve its unparalleled wilderness, Wilson sides with the animals and makes powerful enemies in the process. 224pp.
JUDAH PASSOW Juliet Pickeringhttp://www.judahpassow.com Judah's work has been published extensively by all of the leading British newspapers and their associated magazines, including the Guardian, The Times,The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent. Abroad, he has contributed regularly to Time, Newsweek and New York Times, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Elsevier magazine and De Volkskraant, Das magazine, and L'Express. A winner of four World Press Photo awards for his coverage of conflict in the Middle East, his photographs have been exhibited around the world.
His book SHATTERED DREAMS, looking back at twenty five years of his coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, was published in 2008 and accompanied by major exhibitions in London, Hamburg and Jerusalem. It was nominated for that year's Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. NO PLACE LIKE HOME Photography Though antisemitism is a continuing presence, it is not the connective issue that binds the British Jewish community together. This collection explores the shared values which shape the cultural and political identity of the Jewish community in modern Britain. There are many forms of Jewish life, including religious life, in these islands, and Judah Passow's photographs document this plurality and variety in its many forms, with an extraordinary level of artistry and human perception. (ed: Robin Baird-Smith) World Bloomsbury Continuum 2013 BOOKEY PEEK Carole BlakeBookey runs a game ranch in Zimbabwe, living with her family among the wildlife, and the political wilderness that is Zimbabwe today. Her husband Rich is a much-published wildlife photographer. BEYOND THE WILD WOOD Wildlife memoir Taking up the tale of Badge who first appeared in WILD HONEY, this is a tearjerking tale of the almost domesticated honey badger and Bookey’s life on the wildlife reserve in the uncertainties of today’s Zimbabwe. 343 pp (UK editor: Max Little).
WILD HONEY Wildlife memoir ‘This isn’t just an enchanting story, it is a celebration of what makes Africa such a unique continent.’ Jonathan Scott A touching mixture of humour and pathos: the story of Poombi, the warthog who featured so strongly in ALL THE WAY HOME, and Badge, the utterly charming honey badger who took over her home and family. An insight into the compromises, heartbreaks and drama that are the ingredients of living in Zimbabwe today. 286pp.
LAURIE PENNY Juliet Pickering www.penny-red.com Twitter: @pennyred Associate Editor and columnist at News Statesman, shortlisted for Orwell Prize for her blog Penny Red. Currently writing a book of essays on desire and sexuality for Bloomsbury, UNSPEAKABLE THINGS (ed: Bill Swainson). UNSPEAKABLE THINGS: Sex, Lies and Revolution Essays Essays on desire and sexuality, and includes CYBERSEXISM. MS due February 2014.
CYBERSEXISM: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet Short Essay Over the past two generations, the political map of human relations has been redrawn by feminism and by changes in technology. Together they pose questions about the nature and organisation of society that are deeply challenging to those in power, and in both cases, the backlash is on. In this brave new world, old-style sexism is making itself felt in new and frightening ways. Laurie Penny asks why threats of rape and violence are being used to try to silence female voices, analyses the structure of online misogyny, and makes a case for real freedom of speech – for everyone. 42 pp.
DISCORDIA Politics A story of courage and collapse in a country and a culture struggling to map out its future. A short ebook combining a 24,000-word essay with 36 detailed drawings, DISCORDIA is a feminist-art-gonzo-journalism project conceived at Occupy Wall Street and created in the summer of debt and doubt after the euphoric street protests of 2011-2012. 100 pp (ed: Dan Franklin).
PENNY RED: Notes from the New Age of Dissent Essays Shortlisted for Bread and Roses Award Winner of Comment Award A collection of writings on youth politics, resistance, feminism and culture. Laurie’s journalism is a unique blend of persuasive analysis, captivating interviews and first-hand accounts of political direct action. She was involved in all the key protests of 2010/2011, including the anti-fees demos in 2010 and the anti-cuts protests of spring 2011, often tweeting live from the scene of kettles and baton charges. An introduction and extensive footnotes allow Penny to connect all the strands of her work, showing the links between political activism and wider social and cultural issues. 224 pp.
ROSALIND POWELL Juliet Pickering Has written for a wide selection of newspapers including The Observer, The Independent, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Mirror as well as magazines such as Red, Grazia, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Hello!, on a broad range of subjects from the serious – adoption and domestic violence, IVF, maternal health and addiction – to the frivolous – pet cloning, striptease, tango and the Oscars. HOW I MET MY SON Memoir/adoption A story about the journey to adoption: from the moment the idea is born to when a child comes ‘home’. The story is that of Rosalind’s eight-year quest to find a family and how, four years ago, she came to adopt a son. The book will cover the shock of infertility, the rigours of IVF, the minefield of social services, the intensity of the assessment process, the difficulties of choosing a child (and being chosen) the joy and shock of finally bringing a child home, and what it means to be a parent of a child that isn’t, biologically, your own. It is a book about being a parent with a difference. Experts tell us that no amount of nurturing can make up for the formative experience of a child having been taken away from its birth mother. This book explores these beliefs, as well as other myths and realities, through personal experiences interspersed with comments and observations from experts and fellow adoptive parents. Ms due Jan 2014 MONIQUE ROFFEY Isobel Dixon www.moniqueroffey.co.uk Spent her childhood in Trinidad, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Author of SUN DOG and of the Orange Prize shortlisted novel THE WHITE WOMAN ON THE GREEN BICYCLE. She lives in London. 'Monique Roffey is a writer of verve, vibrancy and compassion.’ Sarah Hall WITH THE KISSES OF HIS MOUTH Memoir ‘A fresh look at love, lust and longing in the 21st century. And it's funny too.’ Daisy Goodwin ‘Explicit, intrepid, a thrill, a blast of a book.’ Rebecca Loncraine, The Independent ‘Astoundingly brave…It has magic at its heart.’ Julie Myerson, The Observer Provocative and candid, this memoir breaks new ground. It is the story of an extraordinary love affair, a devastating break-up, and what happened next: a sexual odyssey... 470pp.
JEREMY SCOTT Julian Friedmann After a career in advertising, Scott had several non-fiction books published, including his memoir FAST AND LOUCHE, serialised by The Sunday Times, and four thrillers. His last book, DANCING ON ICE, was published by Old Street in 2008 and serialised in the Sunday Express. COKE: THE BIOGRAPHY A history of the drug since its first appearance and tells the story of cocaine via some of its most famous and frequent users. Tallulah Bankhead (‘Cocaine’s not addictive, darling. I should know, I’ve been taking it for years.’), John Belushi, Stevie Knicks, Richard Pryor and Belinda Carlisle are all profiled. Informative, fast-paced and an absolutely fascinating read. The authors take no moral high ground – the anecdotes speak for themselves. Although often amusing they are frequently tragic, in particular the story of Hans and Eva Rausing, which the authors have expertly book-ended this absorbing and entertaining read. THE IRRESISTIBLE MR. WRONG Biography The serial biography of five women who were all married to the same man, Porfirio Rubirosa. Documenting their relationship with the wholly unsuitable lover of their choice the book covers 1932-65 and is set in the Café Society, pre-war Berlin, World War II occupied Paris, and the post-war haunts of the international rich who became the Jet-Set, who became the fashionable elite of the Sixties. It is the story of six women who inhabited that glossy milieu. Together, these women compose a soap opera of excess, wilfulness, greed and rare redemption. All six episodes are threaded on the same string, linked by the same 'Mr Wrong'.
SHOW ME A HERO: the race to fly to the North Pole History/Travel The Roaring Twenties, the birth of a brave new world of jazz, flapper girls, motor cars, prohibition, bootleg liquor and the airplane. A race takes place to be the first to fly over the North Pole, which is won by Richard Byrd Jnr, who becomes an all-American hero and celebrity. Losers in the race are Amundsen and Nobile (who was supported by Mussolini) and their teams. But Byrd had lied and his exposure came long after others had died as a result of his deception. A gripping true adventure story about ambition, greed and courage.
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