Caroline Maclean, gives us a spellbinding portrait of the Hampstead Modernists, explaining the lives, loves, rivalries and ambitions of a group of artists at the hear of an international avant-garage. In 1930s London, Caroline Maclean’s riveting group of the biography of artists, architects, and writers, flourishing to prove a pivotal moment of British modernism. Sculptors…
In 1529, two English envoys Sir Nicholas Carew and Richard Sampson filed a report after travelling to Bologna for Charles V’s coronation as Holy Roman Emperor, saying in towns and villages, they saw children crying about the streets for bread, and yea dying for hunger, Pope Clement VII told them that “war, famine and pestilence”…
A vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere interaction, at time how people have conducted themselves in the absence of company over the last three centuries. For intellectuals in the romantic age, solitude gave respite to citizens living in ever more complex modern societies. People are getting a plethora to the…
Even after forty years of feminism women still do the majority of the housework. Human sexual reproduction affects everyone in insightful ways that go far beyond hormonal driven sex. Families and joint families build around the “pair bonds” of parents, grandparents and great grandparents, are core of all the societies, including our own. Over sixty…
Greg Jenner, writes about a vibrant cast of ovr 125 actors, singers, dancers, sportspeople, freaks, ruffians in search of celebrity’s historic roots. Dead Famous is funny and fascinating exploration of both a bygone age and how we came to inhabit our modern, fame obsessed society. The scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans…
Our food culture is fragmented, a mix of mass “ultra Processed” foods ( high in salt, sugar and fat) the effect of Europeanisation as pizza is children’s favourite food and wee also eat the world’s cuisines, as UK got wealthier, allowing aspirations and tastes to flower. Industrial and post-industrial societies have moved away from…
A pandemic on the scale of the 1918 flu that killed over a hundred million people would be deadlier today, despite a century of medical advances, as every new development from exploding human and animal populations to trade and travel intensifies our susceptibility to a devastating epidemic. Leading epidemiologist and professor at the University…
O’Farrell’s novel begins in 1598, with Hamnet discovering his twin sister Judith has taken sick and searching for someone to help her, not realising his own illness was beyond cure, An emotionally devastating account of bard’s only son. Hamnet is inspired by the son of famous playwright and the story of the bond between the…
Kishore Mahbubani, a former president of the UN Security Council (Jan 2001, May 2002), a scholar and diplomat with unrivaled access to policymakers in Beijing and Washington, has given us a definitive guide to the deep fault lines in the relationship and assessing the risk of any confrontation, and an honest appraisal of the…
Lamorna Ash’s evocative, lyrical and profound memoir of a Cornish fishing village community in Newlyn, the largest working fishing port in Britain and highlights the meditation on the soul of a place in the face of globalisation. #Twenty-Two-year-old Londoner Ash, found gutting fish is a messy business as she was onboard 79ft beam trawler dipping…