Publication date: 2002-08-12
Dewey code: 942.05092
RRP: £20.00
Price: £14.99
Review Elizabeth Woodville / The History Press Ltd:
Creator: Jeff Middleton
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2007-03-30
Dewey code: 973.9310207
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.85
Review Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life / Three Rivers Press:
Authors
- Beyonce Knowles
- James Patrick Herman
- Kelly Rowland
- Michelle Williams
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.00
Review Soul Survivors: The Official Autobiography of "Destiny's Child" (Destinys Child) / Boxtree Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-09-03
Dewey code: 746.92092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.66
Review Dior by Dior / V & A Publications:
Publication date: 1980-04
Dewey code: 818.5203
RRP: £10.95
Price: £6.22
Review The Diary of Anais Nin 1944-1947 / Harcourt Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Paul Duncan
Publication date: 2007-01-05
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.05
Review Audrey Hepburn: Amazing Grace (Icons Series) / Taschen GmbH:
Publication date: 2008-07-08
Dewey code: 942.054092
RRP: £18.79
Price: £10.26
Review The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary" / St. Martin's Press:
Creator: Nat Finklestein
Publication date: 2007-07-30
Dewey code: 791.43028092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £9.95
Review Edie Factory Girl / Powerhouse Cultural Entertainment Books:
Publication date: 2007-03-01
Dewey code: 306.70820942
Price: £9.99
Review Diary of A Sex Fiend: Girl with A One Track Mind / Skyhorse Publishing:
Edition: Re-issue
Publication date: 2001-07-05
Price: £8.99
Review The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters (Women in History) / Phoenix:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-01-19
Dewey code: 910.4092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.05
Review Lady Hester Stanhope: The Unconventional Life of the Queen of the Desert / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: 1st American Ed
Publication date: 2007-11-13
Dewey code: 941.081092
RRP: £19.10
Price: £10.32
Review American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Edition: 1st UK hardback edition
Publication date: 2007-11-30
Dewey code: 635.092
RRP: £35.00
Price: £21.29
Review A Gardener's Life / Frances Lincoln Publishers:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-11-01
Dewey code: 921
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.40
Review The Vixen Diaries / Grand Central Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-03-06
Dewey code: 133
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.16
Review Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives / Flamingo:As the daughter of a diplomat, Katie Hickman is well-situated to write about the lives of the women who, from the 17th century onward, have traversed the globe as partners of Britain's ambassadors. These women are more than simply bored socialites, they are indispensable companions, intrepid travellers and, in many cases, exemplary ambassadors for their country. Hickman details the lives of the female ambassadors, from flamboyant characters such as Vita Sackville-West, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the "bolter" Emma Hamilton, to lesser-known contemporary stoics like Jane-Ewart-Biggs, whose husband, the British Ambassador to Eire, was killed by an IRA car bomb in 1976, and Veronica Atkinson and family, who cowered in the basement of the British Embassy in Bucharest during the 1989 uprising that overthrew the Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceaucescu. What frequently unites Hickman's wildly different subjects is their loneliness-drawing on letters, diaries and memoirs, she portrays women who had to discipline themselves to adapt (often ingeniously) to unfamiliar cultures, far away from friends and family-many, in particular, were separated from their children, who would be sequestered at boarding school back in Britain-while maintaining an unimpeachable public image. "I shall be obliged to travel three or four days between Buda and Essek without finding any house at all, through desert plains covered with snow, where the cold is so violent many have been killed by it", wrote Lady Mary Wortley Montagu of her treacherous journey to Constantinople in 1716. Almost 300 years later, in 1996, Stephanie Hopkinson wryly itemised the "bizarre qualifications" necessary for daily diplomatic life in a Sarajevo under siege: "Ability to. apply make-up in the dark; aptitude for bathing in a cold teacup and keeping one's hair/self/clothes clean and uncrumpled as long as possible. [+]vivid imagination which converts tinned frankfurters, bread and rice into smoked salmon/steak and chips. ". Resourcefulness is a common link between the Daughters of Britannia; Katie Hickman has written a fascinating book. -Catherine Taylor.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2008-07-04
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.50
Review Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-01-23
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.83
Review Sleeping with Cats / Piatkus Books:
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 979.4900491550092
RRP: £9.12
Price: £4.44
Review Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America / Random House Trade:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-09-18
Dewey code: 303.484092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.52
Review Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded Rawa, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afganistan / Saint Martin's Press Inc.:
Publication date: 2003-03-31
Dewey code: 609
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.00
Review A Real Person: Life on the Outside / Souvenir Press Ltd:
| Models & Brands:
Elizabeth Woodville, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Soul Survivors: The Official Autobiography of "Destiny's Child" (Destinys Child), Dior by Dior, The Diary of Anais Nin 1944-1947, Audrey Hepburn: Amazing Grace (Icons Series), The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary", Edie Factory Girl, Diary of A Sex Fiend: Girl with A One Track Mind, The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters (Women in History), Lady Hester Stanhope: The Unconventional Life of the Queen of the Desert, American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, A Gardener's Life, The Vixen Diaries, Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives, Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History, Sleeping with Cats, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded Rawa, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afganistan, A Real Person: Life on the Outside |
