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Edith Cavell
Quercus 2010; US$ 18.03On 20 August 1914 Edith Cavell watched as fifty thousand German soldiers marched into Brussels. Overnight her life changed from archetypal hospital matron to the concealment and subversion of a resistance worker. Nothing in her Victorian upbringing as the vicar?s daughter in a small Norfolk village prepared her for the brutality of her final years.... more...
Selkirk's Island
Quercus Publishing 2012; US$ 12.99When Alexander Selkirk was abandoned by his shipmates on the remote island of Juan Fernandez in 1704 he could not have know that he wouldn't see another human soul for four long years, could not have anticipated the lonely and fierce existence to which he had been condemned, nor could he have ever guessed that his plight - recreated in the form... more...
Selkirk's Island
Quercus 2012; US$ 15.18Alexander Selkirk was marooned on the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez in 1704 after a row with the captain of his ship. He had been on a treasure seeking adventure to the South Seas. His abandonment meant he was alone for four years and four months, dependent for survival on what the island offered. When rescued he was clad in goat skins and had... more...
Edith Cavell
Quercus Publishing 2011; US$ 12.99Edith Cavell was born in 1865, daughter of a Norfolk vicar, and shot in Brussels on 12 October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British and French soldiers and helping them escape over the Belgian border. Following a traditional village childhood in 19th century England, Edith worked as a governess in the UK and abroad, before training as a nurse... more...
Natalie & Romaine: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
Quercus 2013; US$ 21.83Natalie Barney, 'the wild girl of Cincinnati', and Romaine Brooks were both rich, American and grandly lesbian. They met in Paris in 1915 and their tempestuous affair lasted more than fifty years. By the end of their lives together, Natalie and Romaine had entertained, slept with, fallen in love with, tutored or tortured a range of figures including... more...
Coconut Chaos
Quercus 2013; US$ 21.83At dawn on 27 April 1789 Fletcher Christian, master's mate on HMS Bounty, took a coconut to quench his thirst from the supply on the quarterdeck. This seemingly insignificant act resulted in mutiny, chaos and a chain of events that leads right up to the present day. With a story driven by hazardous and extraordinary sea voyages and a cast that includes... more...
The Trials of Radclyffe Hall
Quercus 2013; US$ 21.83Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth in a house inappropriately named Sunny Lawn . Her mother drank gin in an attempt to terminate the pregnancy, and her father fled the family home. At the mercy of a violent mother and sexually abusive stepfather, her life changed when at the age of eighteen she inherited her father's estate of £100,000.... more...
Coconut Chaos
Quercus Publishing 2012; US$ 18.99At dawn on 27 April 1789 Fletcher Christian, master's mate on HMS Bounty, took a coconut to quench his thirst from the supply on the quarterdeck. This seemingly insignificant act resulted in mutiny, chaos and a chain of events that leads right up to the present day. With a story driven by hazardous and extraordinary sea voyages and a... more...
Natalie & Romaine
Quercus Publishing 2012; US$ 18.99Natalie Barney,'the wild girl of Cincinnati', and Romaine Brooks were both rich, American and grandly lesbian. They met in Paris in 1915 and their tempestuous affair lasted more than fifty years. By the end of their lives together, Natalie and Romaine had entertained, slept with, fallen in love with, tutored or tortured a range of... more...
The Trials of Radclyffe Hall
Quercus Publishing 2012; US$ 18.99Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth in a house inappropriately named 'Sunny Lawn'. Her mother drank gin in an attempt to terminate the pregnancy, and her father fled the family home. At the mercy of a violent mother and sexually abusive stepfather, her life changed when at the age of eighteen she inherited her father's... more...









