Bee Wilson

Bee Wilson’s Consider the Fork is on the LRB Bookshop’s recommended list.

In the LRB Archive:

• Musical Chairs with Ribbentrop: Nancy Astor · 20 December 2012

  • Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor by Adrian Fort

• ‘You have a nice country, I would like to be your son’: Prince Bertie · 27 September 2012

  • Bertie: A Life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley

• Spending Hitler’s Money: The D-Day Spies · 19 July 2012

  • Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre

• I and My Wife: Eva Braun · 5 January 2012

  • Eva Braun: Life with Hitler by Heike Görtemaker, translated by Damion Searls

• Look beyond the lips: Hedy Lamarr · 28 July 2011

  • Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film by Ruth Barton

• They Supped with the King: Mistresses · 6 January 2011

  • Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman by Elizabeth Abbott

• Stuck with Your Own Face: The Beauty Industry · 8 July 2010

  • Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry by Geoffrey Jones

• Why are you so fat?: Coco Chanel · 7 January 2010

  • Perfumes: The A-Z Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez
  • Chanel: Her Life, Her World, The Woman behind the Legend by Edmonde Charles-Roux, translated by Nancy Amphoux
  • The Allure of Chanel by Paul Morand, translated by Euan Cameron
  • Coco before Chanel directed by Anne Fontaine

• Cloche Hats and Perms: Bonnie and Clyde · 10 September 2009

  • Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn

• They didn’t have my fire: the New Food Memoirists · 25 June 2009

  • The Settler’s Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

• No Strings: Pinocchio · 1 January 2009

  • Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, translated by Geoffrey Brock

• The butler didn’t do it: The First Detectives · 19 June 2008

  • The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale

• How Do You Pay?: Falling for Michael Moore · 1 November 2007

  • Citizen Moore: An American Maverick by Roger Rapoport
  • Manufacturing Dissent directed by Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk
  • Sicko directed by Michael Moore

• Boudoir Politics: Lola Montez · 7 June 2007

  • Lola Montez: Her Life and Conquests by James Morton

• Pink and Bare: Nicole Kidman · 8 February 2007

  • Nicole Kidman by David Thomson

• The Eerie One: Peter Lorre · 23 March 2006

  • The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen Youngkin

• Drop a tiger into a court-bouillon: Mesopotamian cookery · 6 October 2005

  • The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia by Jean Bottéro, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan

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