Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine

Jennifer Scanlon

"Scanlon's shrewed biography reveals a woman of contraditions...a strategically racy cultural pioneer. - "The Oprah Magazine" As the author of the revolutionary "Sex and the Single Girl" and the longtime editor-in-chief of "Cosmopolitan" magazine, Helen Gurley Brown changed how women thought about sex, ...

Estuary: Out from London to the sea

Rachel Lichtenstein

The Thames Estuary is both a waterway and an edgeland of civilisation. Over centuries it has been swept back and forth by tides of history, commerce, tradition, piracy, war, art and, of course, the weather and currents which make it a danger to the innocent and experienced alike. Inspired by its eerie b...