Moshenka has previously published an excellent biography of Sir Kenelm Digby (A Stain in the Blood). His earlier academic work - Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England ... read more
An affecting memoir of the author's sister and half-sister, one of who whom was consumed by addiction, leaving the others to wrestle with grief and guilt.
Born in Victorian Sydney, she was presented at Court to Queen Victoria and then married a Prussian count. The marriage was unhappy, and her subsequent marriage to Bertrand Russell's brother ... read more
In 'How To Be A Woman' Moran thought she had life, work and feminism licked. This new book tells how the picture has changed for her, and how tricky it is to be a super-duper middle-aged wo... read more
CM has become the supreme chronicler of Italy under Mussolini. Indefatigable and brilliant, she turns her attention now to Mussolini's favourite and influential daughter, who married Count C... read more