The turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter, Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace. This is a masterful portrait of two remarkable women and how even long after Byron's death he still continued to shape the lives and reputations...

Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris...

An account of a fascinating twentieth-century life: Helene Delangle, also known as Helle Nice, dancer, lover -- and record-breaking racing driver. von Seymour, Miranda

'Brilliantly written, compulsively readable and insightful' Pat Barker 'A first-class life and a rollicking read ... Close to a masterpiece' Sunday Times An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed...

"Eine kleine Geschichte der Kräuter und Gewürze" von Miranda Seymour bietet einen faszinierenden Einblick in die Welt der Kräuter und Gewürze, die seit Jahrtausenden in verschiedenen Kulturen verwendet werden. Das Buch erkundet die...