Bloomsbury

Barbara Wootton was one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth century. She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventional wisdoms and the first woman to sit on the Woolsack in the House of Lords. Ann Oakley has written a fascinating and highly readable account of the...

Monterey pop festival, 1967. BernieKrause and Paul Beaver demonstrated a Moog synthesizer to the assembled rockaristocracy, plugging into a surge of interest that would see synthesizers andelectronic sound become commonplace in rock and pop early the following decade.And yet in 1967 electronic music hadalready seeped into mainstream culture. For...

Minerva Clark is a typical thirteen-year-old girl: she hates her hair, she hates her legs (which somehow manage to look both too fat and too skinny at the same time), and don't get her started on her gigantor bootie. On top of all this puberty, she's being raised by three older brothers, none of whom really get her. But when a fateful encounter...

Vinous VeritasOne of America's best novelists Jay McInerney is also well-known for being a wine connoisseur. Since beginning to drink wine, in emulation of his literary and cultural heroes - which he admits were not only Hemingway and Fitzgerald but also the characters that they gave birth to - the writer's understanding of and...

Priestly ministry in the Church of England needs a radical rethink...George Herbert died in 1633. His legacy continues. His poems are read and sung, and his parish ministry remains the model for the Church of Englands understanding of how and where and why its priests should minister. But there is a problem. The memory of Herbert celebrated by the...

An incisive analysis of a woman caught up in evil, this viscerally realistic novel about a Nazi test pilot is loosely based on the life of Third Reich heroine Hanna Reitsch (1912-1979).Obsessed with flying since childhood, blonde, blue-eyed Frederika Kurtz defies her disapproving physician father and becomes a glider pilot, rising to chief test...