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Starting Over, One Cake at the Time
Gesine Bullock-Prado
Gesine Bullock-Prado, was the head of her sister's (Sandra Bullock) production company. She had a closet full of designer clothes and the ear of all the influential studio heads, but she was miserable. The only solace she found was in her secret hobby: baking.
With every sugary, butter...
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Son & Lover: The Young DH Lawrence
Phillip Callow
Few writers have been so conspicuously torn as D.H. Lawrence in his search for emancipation from his mother and in the forging of his sexual identity. In this biography, Philip Callow examines the influences that shaped Lawrence: his mother, whose hold over him was enormous; his first love...
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The True History Of The Elephant Man
Michael Howell, Peter Ford
Joseph Carey Merrick, born in Leicester on 5th August 1862, is better known as The Elephant Man.
Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, he spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until even nineteenth-century sensibilities could take...
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Bushwhacked
Molly Ivins
If there was ever a book to make you glad that you don't live in the US, this is it! Bushwacked is the story of George W. Bush's America - and it's a powerful, furious indictment of his right-wing 'Christian' values and the damage they are doing to an entire nation.
Ivins and Dubose write...
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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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