<p>"A feeling that we could do whatever we liked swept through us in the 60s..."\nThe sexual revolution liberated a generation. But men most of all.\nWe tend to think of the 60s as a decade sprinkled with stardust: a time of space travel and utopian dreams, but above all of sexual abandonment. When the pill was introduced on the NHS in 1961 it seemed, for the first time, that women - like men - could try without buying.\n"It was paradise for men... all these willing girls..."\nBut this book - by 'one of the great social historians of our time' - describes a turbulent power struggle.\nHere are the voices from the battleground. Meet dollybird Mavis, debutante Kristina, Beryl who sang with the Beatles, bunny girl Patsy, Christian student Anthea, industrial campaigner Mary and countercultural Caroline. From Carnaby Street to Merseyside, from mods to rockers, from white gloves to Black is Beautiful, their stories throw an unsparing spotlight on morals, four-letter words, faith, drugs, race, bomb culture and sex.\nThis is a moving, shocking book about tearing up the world and starting again. It's about peace, love, psychedelia and strange pleasures, but it is also about misogyny, violation and discrimination - half a century before feminism rebranded. For out of the swamp of gropers and groupies, a movement was emerging, and discovering a new cause: equality.\nThe 1960s: this was where it all began. Women would never be the same again.\n'One of the great social historians of our time. No one else makes makes history this fun' Amanda Foreman\n'Intimate, immersive, often moving, How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary decade' David Kynaston\n'An absorbing study of an extraordinary age. Beautifully written and intensively researched' Selina Hastings\n'Every baby boomer should read this great and wonderfully revelatory book if only to shout, "Ah yes, that's exactly what it was like for me!"' Anne Sebba\n'Virginia Nicholson is the outstanding recorder of British lives in the twentieth century... and this account of the 1960s is the most vivid and moving of all her works' Carmen Callil\n'Essential reading' Marina Lewycka\n'A dazzling kaleidoscope of facts, feelings and observations' Juliet Nicolson\n'A hugely ambitious, kaleidoscope of a book' Richard Vinen\n'Makes it feel like the Sixties have never been away' Hunter Davies\n'I was there, and she's right' Valerie Grove</p>

How Was It For You?

History

Nicholson, Virginia

Europe

London: Viking

Beningfield's English Landscape

Arts & Photography

BENINGFIELD, Gordon

History & Criticism

This is the story of the Sultan of Brunei, the ultimate example of personal wealth since he is literally the richest man in the world. The book is also about how his wealth affects other people, especially those who try to take a share of it.

The Richest Man in the World

Bartholomew, James (1950-?)

Literature & Fiction

Shoot to Kill

Michael Asher's experiences in Africa form the basis of his first three books. "Shoot to Kill" documents his time as a recruit in the parachute regiment, Border Patrol in Ulster and his involvement with the SAS having become disillusioned with the Army and a student at Leeds University.

Asher, Michael (1953-)

The view of the Arab as a hospitable, honest, wild yet noble camel herder living the simple unfettered life in his black tent has been nurtured so strongly in our own culture that the myth has continued to outshine the reality. Michael Asher first encountered the reality of the Bedu during his work as a teacher in Saudi Arabia - they bore little resemblance to the myth of the noble camel herder of popular Western legend. This book is his search for the Bedu of the past and his description of the Bedu of the present throughout the whole of the Arab world.

Last of the Bedu

Asher. Michael

World

<p>1st Viking 1st print 1991 edition hardcover fine condition in fine condition dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse</p>

Nichols II: The Last Of The Tsars

Ferro, Marc

The Greeks

Pettifer, James (1949-)

This is a broadly based anthology on opera including accounts of famous first nights and performances, material culled from the numerous biographies and autobiographies and from some of the famous correspondents, for example Strauss and von Hoffman, or diaries like Cosima Wagner. Many novelists - like Tolstoy and Proust - have written about opera and opera houses have sprung up in the most unlikely places like Santa Fe, and the Amazon jungle.

Opera

Ntholo Penguin

Music

Longman Dictionary of the English Language (Dictionary)

Reference

Viking (pub.)

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Physical description; xvi, 303 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects; Apartheid - South Africa. South Africa - Politics and government - 1989-1994.

Anatomy of a Miracle

Waldmeir, Patti

Africa

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