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Librarians, bestselling authors and our wartime generation sharing their love of books, reading and some extraordinary stories . #Hidden History #Forgotten wome...
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- Author Gill Paul uncovers a ruthless rivalry, scandal and the great clash of the beauty titans!Gill Paul is an international bestselling historical fiction writer, specialising in the twentieth century and often focussing on the lives of real women. Her novels have topped bestseller lists in the US and Canada as well as the UK and have been translated into twenty languages. Her latest novel, A Beautiful Rival, reveals the infamous rivalry of cosmetic titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein...The world is at war, but on the gilded streets of Fifth Avenue, New York, a battle of a different kind is brewing…New York, 1915.Elizabeth Arden has been New York’s golden girl since her beauty salon opened its famous red door five years prior. Against all odds, she’s built an empire.Enter Helena Rubinstein: ruthless, revolutionary – and the rival Elizabeth didn’t bargain for.With both women determined to succeed – no matter the personal cost – a battle of beauty is born. And as the stakes increase, so do the methods: poaching employees, planting spies, copying products, hiring ex-husbands.But as each woman climbs higher, so too does what she stands to lose.Because the greater the height, the harder the fall…In her stunning new novel, internationally bestselling author Gill Paul reveals the unknown history of cosmetic titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein and their infamous rivalry that spanned not only decades, but also broken marriages, personal tragedies, and a world that was changing dramatically for women – perfect for fans of Fiona Davis, Dinah Jefferies and Karen Swan.22/09/202346:14
- 100-year-old Bletchley Park Codebreaker, Charlotte 'Betty' WebbBletchley Park, Britain’s secret centre of code breaking housed the finest minds of a generation, and has always been perceived as a predominately male institution.Countless books, films and documentaries have paid tribute to the genius of eccentric code-breakers like Alan Turing, widely regarded to have brought the war to a premature end by cracking the infamous Nazi Enigma encryptions, but little has been said of the quietly formidable women of Bletchley Park.By 1944, Bletchley had over 8,000 personnel – 75 per cent of them women. These women, who outnumbered the men three to one, formed the backbone of the entire operation. Women like Charlotte ‘Betty’ Webb, a former Bletchley park codebreaker. I went to visit Betty at her home in Worcestershire and was charmed by this lively, whip-smart 100-year-old. Betty is full of surprising stories about her time at Bletchley, or as she described it ‘Britain’s Wartime University’. Rather than jitterbugging with a GI at London’s teeming dancehalls, on her leave weekends, Betty would head instead to an Indian restaurant for a curry. "Unusual, but so much nicer than boiled beef and beetroot’,’ she told me. This episode is full of fascinating tales of her time at Bletchley and after VE Day, her experiences of working in the Pentagon in Washington.17/09/20231:03:47
- International bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather MorrisHeather is the author of international bestselling novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which has sold over eight million copies, been published in 49 countries and spawned a new genre of Holocaust books. A major TV multi-part drama series based on the Tattooist is also in production. Heather has gone from being, in her words, ‘a regular granny’ to a multi-million selling author.In this searing and fascinatingly frank interview, Heather explains how the art of active listening helped her unlock a decades old secret and shares the story behind her new novel Sisters Under the Rising Sun.17/09/202356:29
- Bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy LefteriChristy Lefteri is the award-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, which has sold over a million copies worldwide and has been published in 40 countries. The Book of Fire is her spellbinding third novel. In this conversation we talk about how dry statistics are humans with the tears dried off, but storytelling has the power to grab our hearts…The Book of Fire...This morning, I met the man who started the fire. He did something terrible, but then, so have I. I left him. I left him and now he may be dead. Once upon a time there was a beautiful village that held a million stories of love and loss and peace and war, and it was swallowed up by a fire that blazed up to the sky. The fire ran all the way down to the sea where it met with its reflection.A family from two nations, England and Greece, live a simple life in a tiny Greek village: Irini, Tasso and their daughter, lovely, sweet Chara, whose name means joy. Their life goes up in flames in a single day when one man starts a fire out of greed and indifference. Many are killed, homes are destroyed, and the region's natural beauty wiped out.In the wake of the fire, Chara bears deep scars across her back and arms. Tasso is frozen in trauma, devastated that he wasn't there when his family most needed him. And Irini is crippled by guilt at her part in the fate of the man who started the fire.But this family has survived, and slowly green shoots of hope and renewal will grow from the smouldering ruins of devastation.Once again, Christy Lefteri has crafted a novel which is intimate and epic, sweeping and delicate. The Book of Fire explores not only the damage wrought by human folly, and the costs of survival in our changing world, but also - and ultimately - our powers of redemption and renewal.26/08/202355:28
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Librarians, bestselling authors and our wartime generation sharing their love of books, reading and some extraordinary stories . #Hidden History #Forgotten women #Bibliotherapy #LibrariesINTRODUCTIONWelcome to From the Library With Love. A podcast for anyone whose life has been changed by reading. I’m Kate Thompson. Wonderful, transformative things happen when you set foot in a library. In 2019 I uncovered the true story of a forgotten Underground library, built along the tracks of a Tube tunnel during the Blitz. As stories go, it was irresistible and the result was, The Little Wartime Library, my seventh novel.Bethnal Green Public Library, where the novel is set was 100 years old in October 2022, and to celebrate the centenary of this grand old lady, funded by library philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, I set myself the challenge of interviewing 100 library workers. Speaking with one library worker for every year this library has been serving its community seemed a good way to mark this auspicious occasion. Because who better to explain the worth of a hundred-year-old library, than librarians themselves!I wanted to explore the enduring value of libraries and reading. I quickly realised that librarians have the best stories. My research led me to librarians with over fifty years of experience and MBEs, to the impressive women who manage libraries in prisons and schools, to those in remote Scottish islands. From poetry libraries overlooking the wide sweep of the Thames, to the 16th century Shakespeare’s Library in Stratford, via the small but mighty Leadhills Miners’ Library. This podcast was born out of those eye-opening conversations, because as Denise from Tower Hamlets Library told me: 'If you want to see the world, don't join the Army, become a librarian!'I’ll also be talking to international bestselling authors and some remarkable wartime women about their favourite libraries, stories, the craft of writing and the book that helped them to view the world differently. Come and join me as I delve into the secrets behind the stacks.Podcasts edited by Ben Veasey at media-crews.co.uk Image by Julie Price
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