A Different World by Judith Lennox was published on 16/1/25 Post author By Maggie Hanbury Post date 8 January 2025 Categories In News In the summer of 1939, nineteen-year-old Olivia Goodland arrives in London. Working for a society dressmaker, she meets wealthy, beautiful Grace Ruthwell. Beguiled by the glamour of Grace’s world, it’s only slowly and too late that she becomes aware of the darkness that lies beneath the glittering exterior. When the Second World War erupts, Olivia […]
Around the World in 80 Fights by Steve Bunce was published on 12/9/24 Post author By Maggie Hanbury Post date 12 September 2024 Categories In News In Around the World in 80 Fights, let ‘the Voice of Boxing’ take you on the ultimate sporting odyssey: to the rings of New York, to the makeshift rings of Bukom in Ghana, to the riches of Las Vegas, and to Riyadh, Atlantic City, Bethnal Green, Mexico City, Rome and Berlin. To the basement rooms […]
Perfection by Margarette Lincoln was published on 10/9/24 Post author By Maggie Hanbury Post date 10 September 2024 Categories In News Victorian women ate arsenic to achieve an ideal, pale complexion, while in the 1790s balloon corsets were all the rage, designed to make the wearer appear pregnant. Women of the eighteenth century applied blood from a black cat’s tail to problem skin, while doctors in the 1880s promoted woollen underwear to keep colds at bay. […]