Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Literature & Fiction

Vreeland, Susan

Contemporary

Review/Headline

Not Dark Yet

nick-maes

<p>Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war on the Home Front. The book has been commended for its inclusion of many under-described aspects of the Home Front, and alongside familiar stories of food shortages, evacuation and the arrival of the GIs, are stories of Conscientious Objectors, persecuted Italians living in Britain and Lumber Jills working in the New Forest. Drawing on a multitude of sources, many previously unpublished, she tells the story of those six gruelling years in voices from the Orkney Islands to Cornwall, from the Houses of Parliament to the Nottinghamshire mines.</p>

Wartime: Britain 1939-1945. Juliet Gardiner

History

Juliet Gardiner

Europe

<p>Madame Sadayakko was the ultimate geisha, so exquisite that the prime minister of the day paid a fortune to deflower her. But she was a rebel who wanted to carve her own path in life.  In 1899 she married a subversive avant garde actor and, with a troupe of other actors, they set out on the first ever tour of the West by a Japanese theatre company. Sadayakko took to the stage and became an instant star.  She danced for the American President and for the Prince of Wales in London, Picasso painted her, Gide swooned over her and Rodin admired her. But back in Japan, she suffered the stigma of being an ex-geisha and an actor and was forced, in the end, to make a terrible choice - between respectability and love.</p>

Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Seduced the West

Biographies & Memoirs

DOWNER, Lesley

Arts & Literature

Eternal City

Domenica De Rosa

Summer in the City

Pauline McLynn

Wife Living Dangerously

Kent, Debra

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Review/Headline publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Review/Headline