The contents of a shoebox in America led the author to discover her grandmmother's family, from Picasso in Paris, Dior and Chagall to a farmhouse in the Auvergne, Auschwitz and Long Island. ... read more
A joyous and detailed biography of this extraordinary man, whose house in Cambridge is still a sanctuary for the artistically-inclined. His circle included Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Henry... read more
Frost is a prominent designer/decorator who set up the Aids Ark charity with his partner Jeremy Norman, the man who set up the Embassy Club and Heaven. They met in the 1980s, when AIDS began... read more
A biography of Thomas Kendrick (1881-1972), the British spy who created intelligence networks across Europe, facilitated the escape of Austrian Jews and set up a listening operation known as... read more
An account by a London financier of her family in Japan over the last 150 years. The huge changes they have navigated are described with sympathy and careful research.
Not Sonia but his first wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy, who was with him during the Spanish Civil War and WW2. A wonderful portrayal of this remarkable literary marriage by the author of Stasila... read more
As the ultra-conservative director of the FBI for nearly 50 years, Hoover is arguably more responsible for the emergence of the US far right than anyone else. Who was he? What happened?
She was B-J's muse for the last 25 years of his life, but, unlike most of the other Pre-Raphaelite women, she survived into a self-determining life and was friendly with Wilde, Einstein, Asq... read more
'The lion of Panjshir' was the Afghan politician and military commander who fought brilliantly against the Russians during their occupation, and led the Northern Alliance that resisted the T... read more