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Watermarks: Life, Death and Swimming
Lenka Janiurek
Lenka Janiurek first encounters tragedy with the death of her mother when she is just nine. Involving a chaotic family, early success as a playwright, disastrous relationships, motherhood, and brushes with both extreme wealth and poverty, Janiurek’s rich and remarkable memoir is...
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Freya Stark
Caroline Moorehead
Born in Paris 1893, a precocious and tough Freya Stark spent her childhood wondering across Europe, speaking three languages by the time she was five. She became one of the twentieth-century’s most remarkable and inspirational women. Renowned for her flamboyant and unorthodox b...
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Fair Girls and Grey Horses
Christine Pullein-Thompson, Diana Pullein-Thompson, Josephine Pullein-Thompson
‘Are your twins normal?' Mrs Pullein-Thompson was asked. ‘Good God, I hope not,’ she retorted.
The twins were Diana and Christine who, with their elder sister, Josephine, wrote more than 150 books, which have sold in their millions around the world. Fifty years after the...
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Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D'Orcia
Caroline Moorehead
Iris Origo was one of the twentieth century’s most attractive and intriguing women, a brilliantly perceptive historian and biographer whose works remains widely admired. Iris grew up in Italy with her Irish mother after the death of her wealthy American father. They settled in the Vi...
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Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain
Max Wallace, Ian Halperin
Friday, 8th April 1994. Kurt Cobain’s body was discovered in a room above a garage in Seattle. For the attending authorities, it was an open-and-shut case of suicide. What no one knew was Cobain had been murdered.
That April, Cobain went missing for several days, or so it seemed: in...
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