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Music Night at the Apollo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Music Night at the Apollo

A haunting and desperate story of a lost and damaged family, the dark underbelly of Southall and a woman's descent into the arms of addiction

The Blue Hour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

The Blue Hour

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-05-03
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Jean Rhys was an artist of brilliance and fury best known for her late literary masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea. But she was also a woman in constant psychological turmoil, whose blazing talent rescued her time and time again from the abyss. Lilian Pizzichini follows Rhys from her girlhood in Dominica, through three failed marriages and five misunderstood books, up to her death in 1979. This is an unforgettable portrait of a woman whose writing was both her life and her lifeline.

The Novotny Papers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

The Novotny Papers

‘I have always been a bird. A bit vulture, a bit eagle. I have looked the sun in its face. Born several times - dead several times so that I could be reborn from my ashes.'

Dead Men's Wages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Dead Men's Wages

The author's grandfather was a conman who worked with some of London's most notorious gangsters. This title re-creates the world of criminals and corrupt policemen that he dominated until his death in 1978.

Dead Men's Wages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Dead Men's Wages

Scratch the surface of any family and you will find stories of intrigue, abuse and illegitimacy. It is just that, because of the nature of my grandfather's business, our secrets are more sinister Lilian Pizzichini's grandfather was a conman who worked with some of London's most notorious gangsters. Within the pages of this haunting and revealing account of his life, she re-creates, in vivid detail and with remarkable detachment, the world of criminals and corrupt policemen that he dominated until his death in 1978. This is a book to set the mind reeling with thoughts of cunning and intrigue, corruption, hardship and secrecy. Above all, it conveys beautifully the glamour and seduction of a London shrouded in mystery and this charismatic criminal who rose from its war-torn ashes.

Eros & Thanatos
  • Language: en

Eros & Thanatos

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

No artist of his time, and very few of any period, could capture faces and bodies at the point of orgasm like Bottger. Sex is lovingly and graphically depicted. Glowing from these dark sheets come images with a high-art treatment of a hardcore subject matter - men and women locked in the throes of the most ecstatic copulation. Coupled with two passion short stories by two prize-winning authors.

I, Dreyfus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

I, Dreyfus

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-03-11
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Sir Alfred Dreyfus is in jail, innocent of the charges against him, guilty of a lifetime of denial. Headmaster of one of Britain's most prestigious schools, knighted for his services to education, he has built a distinguished career whilst carefully concealing his Jewish roots. When he is falsely imprisoned for a horrific crime, he realises it is not just his enemies who have difficulty with his identity.

Underworld London
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Underworld London

Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, through to the Gordon Riots and Highway robbery of the 18thcentury and the rise of prisons, the police and the Victorian era of incarceration. As well as the crimes, Arnold also looks at the grotesque punishments meted out to those who transgressed the law throughout London's history - from the hangings, drawings and quarterings at Tyburn over 500 years to being boiled in oil at Smithfield. This popular historian also investigates the influence of London's criminal classes on the literature of the 19thand 20thcenturies, and ends up with our old favourites, the Krays and Soho gangs of the 50s and 60s. London's crimes have changed over the centuries, both in method and execution. Underworld London traces these developments, from the highway robberies of the eighteenth century, made possible by the constant traffic of wealthy merchants in and out of the city, to the beatings, slashings and poisonings of the Victorian era.

Smile Please
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Smile Please

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-11-03
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

Jean Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age, now the celebrated author of Wide Sargasso Sea but still haunted by memories of her troubled past: her precarious jobs on chorus lines and relationships with unsuitable men, her enduring sense of isolation and her decision at last to become a writer. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time in England, living in bedsits on gin and little else, to Paris with her first husband, this is a lasting memorial to a unique artist.

Take A Girl Like Me
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Take A Girl Like Me

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-02-29
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  • Publisher: Random House

Once there was a girl, pretty and smart and sexy. By her mid-twenties, she'd acquired two husbands and two children, and life wasn't going to plan... Then she met a man. Outrageous, brilliant, impossible, charismatic and kind, he was irresistible. Sex, drugs and jazz were a heady combination for the girl from Essex. Suddenly it was the swinging sixties and she was juggling babies with one hand and popping pills with the other. When George Melly wasn't in jazz clubs, he was fishing - and not just for fish. Brutally honest, hilariously candid, Diana Melly tells the extraordinary story of a turbulent marriage, of the uncharted trajectory of a woman's life from the fifties to the new century - by way of a glitteringly seductive crowd that includes Bruce Chatwin, Jean Rhys, Sonia Orwell, Kenneth Tynan, Jonathan Miller and a host of other luminaries. Written with a unique and clear-eyed self-effacement, here is an addictive, exceptional memoir, glowing with life and love, that breaks your heart, but makes you glad to be alive.