Maiden Voyages: women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travelBefore convenient air travel, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners and never more so than in the glory days of the interwar years. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women. Some travelled for leisure, some for work; others to find a new life, marriage, to reinvent themselves or find new opportunities. Their stories have remained largely untold until now. This book is a fascinating portrait of these women, and

Barry Lopez gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date

a Six Nations Grand Slam

Recently rediscovered after 70 years

In just three devastating years Emily loses not only her sister but both her parents as well

Born into the Lindeman wine dynasty

polite and devoted woman who sings to their children

A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair and a new world of secret meetings

Created by adventurer Anna McNuff

geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date

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conveyed in a minute-by-minute account from the first of the flares to the flames reaching almost a mile high - the wind so searingly hot that the lungs of those in its path were instantly scorched - through the eerie period of reconstruction

1 Sunday Times and international bestseller: 10th Anniversary Edition