<div><B>Diana Souhami&rsquo;s critically acclaimed biography of lesbian painter Hannah Gluckstein&mdash;the woman, the artist, the legend</B><BR /><BR /> To her family, Hannah Gluckstein was known as Hig. To Edith Shackleton Heald, the journalist with whom she lived for almost forty years, she was Dearest Grub. And to the art world, she was simply Gluck.<BR />  <BR /> She was born in 1895 into a life of privilege. Her family had founded J. Lyons &amp; Co., a vast catering empire. From the beginning Gluck was a rebel. At a time when only men wore trousers, she scandalized society with her masculine clothing&mdash;though she always dressed with style and turned androgyny into high fashion. Her affairs with high-profile women shocked her conservative family, even while she achieved fame as an artist.<BR />  <BR /> During the 1920s and thirties, Gluck&rsquo;s paintings&mdash;portraits, flowers, and landscapes, presented in frames designed and patented by her&mdash;were the toast of the town. At the height of her success, when wounded in love, her own obsessions caused her to fade for decades from the public eye, but then, at nearly eighty, her return to the spotlight ensured her immortality.<BR /></div>

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Gluck

<div><B>Diana Souhami&rsquo;s Lambda Award&ndash;winning biography is a fascinating look at one of the twentieth century&rsquo;s most intriguing lesbian literary figures.</B><BR /><BR /> Born in 1880, Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall was a young unwanted child when her parents put an end to their tempestuous marriage by filing for divorce. She had already made tentative forays into lesbian love when her father died, leaving her an heiress at eighteen. Her income assured, Hall moved out of her mother&rsquo;s house, renamed herself John in honor of her great-great-grandfather, and divided her time among hunting, traveling, and pursuing women. She began to write&mdash;songs, poetry, prose, and short stories&mdash;and achieved success as a novelist, but it was with the publication of <I>The Well of Loneliness</I> in 1928 that Radclyffe Hall became an internationally known figure. Dubbed the &ldquo;bible of lesbianism,&rdquo; the book caused a scandal on both sides of the Atlantic. Though moralistic in tone, because of its subject matter it was tried as obscene in America and in the United Kingdom, where it was censored under the Obscene Publications Act.<BR />  <BR /><I>The Trials of Radclyffe Hall</I> is a fascinating, no-holds-barred account of the life of this controversial woman, including her torrid relationship with the married artist Una Troubridge, who was Hall&rsquo;s devoted partner for twenty-eight years.<BR />  </div>

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall

<div><B>A unique travelogue in which the author journeys to Pitcairn Island&mdash;of <I>Mutiny on the Bounty</I> fame&mdash;with detours to eighteenth-century Tahiti and beyond. </B><BR />  <BR /> It started with a coconut . . .<BR />  <BR /> In the early hours of April 27, 1789, Fletcher Christian, master&rsquo;s mate on the HMS <I>Bounty</I>, took a coconut from a pile on the quarterdeck. This random, seemingly inconsequential act set in motion a snowballing series of events that culminated in a revolt.<BR />  <BR /> In this strikingly original book, equal parts travelogue, memoir, and time-travel adventure, Diana Souhami moves across time and place, from eighteenth-century Tahiti to modern-day Pitcairn Island, from Knightsbridge to Tauranga, Mangareva to Tubuai. Along with Fletcher Christian, the sprawling cast of characters includes the unforgettable Captain William Bligh, who is cast adrift in an open boat on ferocious seas with eighteen men and no maps or supplies. Along the way, Souhami also introduces us to Pitcairn Island sex offenders, the Native American crew of a seventeen-thousand-ton ship called the <I>Tundra Princess</I>, her own elderly mother, and a mysterious lesbian aristocrat known as Lady Myre.<BR />  <BR /> Weaving together history, destiny, and chaos theory, this captivating adventure is for anyone who has ever yearned to travel to an exotic, faraway place.<BR />  </div>

Coconut Chaos

<div><B>Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award: The true story of the shipwrecked Scottish buccaneer who inspired Daniel Defoe&rsquo;s novel.</B><BR /><BR /> This action-filled biography follows Alexander Selkirk, an eighteenth-century Scottish buccaneer who sailed the South Seas plundering for gold. But an ill-fated expedition in 1703 led to shipwreck on remote Juan Fern&aacute;ndez Island off the coast of Chile. Selkirk, the ship&rsquo;s master, was accused of inciting mutiny and abandoned on the uninhabited island with nothing but his clothing, his pistol, a knife, and a Bible. Each day he searched the sea for a ship that would rescue him and prayed for help that seemed never to come.<BR />  <BR /> In solitude and silence Selkirk gradually learned to adapt. He killed seals and goats for food and used their skin for clothing. He learned how to build a house, forage for food, create stores, plant seeds, light a fire, and tame cats. Then one day, a ship with wooden sails appeared on the horizon. The crew was greeted by a bearded savage, incoherent and fierce. Selkirk had been marooned for four years and four months. Now he was about to return to the world of men.<BR />  <BR /> The story of a verdant, mysterious archipelago and its famous castaway is both a parable about nature and a remarkable account of the survival of a man cut off from civilization.</div>

Selkirk's Island

<div>Alice Keppel, the married lover of Queen Victoria's eldest son and great-grandmother to Camilla Parker-Bowles, was a key figure in Edwardian society. Hers was the acceptable face of adultery. Discretion was her hallmark. It was her art to be the king's mistress and yet to laud the Royal Family and the institution of marriage. Formidable and manipulative, her attentions to the king brought her wealth, power, and status. Her daughter Violet Trefusis had a long tempestuous affair with the author and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West, during which Vita left her husband and two sons to travel abroad with Violet. It was a liaison that threatened the fabric of Violet's social world, and her passion and recalcitrance in pursuit of it pitted her against her mother and society. From memoirs, diaries, and letters, Diana Souhami portrays this fascinating and intense mother/daughter relationship in <I>Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter</I>. Her story of these women, their lovers, and their lovers' mothers, highlights Edwardian - and contemporary - duplicity and double standards and goes to the heart of questions about sexual freedoms.</div>

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Books By Diana Souhami (5 Books)

Gluck

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall

Coconut Chaos

Selkirk's Island

Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter

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Books By Diana Souhami (5 Books)

Gluck

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall

Coconut Chaos

Selkirk's Island

Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter

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