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For the Lady Adventurer: 'How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt'

For the Lady Adventurer: ‘How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt’

By Oneworld Publications on December 28, 2011

Oneworld’s new offering, How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt: A Handbook for the Lady Adventurer, follows the forgotten women adventurers who led no less exciting lives than their male counterparts, and promises to interest those with a wandering foot and those who wander no farther than the armchair.

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Win a copy of The History of History [closed]

Win a copy of The History of History [closed]

By Faber on January 28, 2011

2002. A young American woman stumbles one morning from the forest outside Berlin – hands dirty, clothes torn. She can remember nothing of the night. Shortly after, the city of Berlin transforms. Nazi ghosts manifest as preening falcons; buildings turn to flesh…

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Don’t look back in anger: the decade in review

Don’t look back in anger: the decade in review

By The Bookdiva on January 3, 2011

In our first post of 2011, we honour the significance of the passing of the millenium’s first 10 years. Here’s a collection of titles that look back in analysis, and perhaps provide us with a foundation to strive for continued reform and compassion in our next decade.

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Read the prologue to The Temptress

Read the prologue to The Temptress

By Simon & Schuster UK on May 28, 2010

In Kenya’s ‘Happy Valley’ in the years spanning the 1920s to the 1940s no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn and indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his Buick in the early hours of 24 January 1941.

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The Lieutenant: author’s note

By Canongate on February 5, 2010

Kate Grenville penned an author’s note at the end of The Lieutenant, published in Feburary 2009.

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The Panorama of Human Experience, by Juliet Gardiner

By Faber on December 16, 2009

Historian Juliet Gardiner explains the huge importance of the eclectic works of Mass Observation to her research and writing.

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Napoleon’s Novella: Clisson & Eugénie

By Gallic Books on October 5, 2009

Few people realise that the legendary French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte found time during his youth to write a novella. Gallic Books are publishing a new edition of this work, translated by Peter Hicks, to include a fascinating psychological insight by award-winning author Armand Cabassaon.

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