Ysenda Maxtone Graham’s Screams: Shrieks of Horror and Yelps of Pleasure from Modern Life was published last month. Jobs for the Girls is out in paperback.
Never trust a man who can’t settle, I thought to myself, as I was reading Hallie Rubenhold’s book. That was Hawley Harvey Crippen. No sooner had he found his feet in a new job than he was on the move again, whether out of eagerness, boredom, impatience or disillusionment, it’s impossible to know. Even reading about these moves is tiring. It must have been exhausting for...
For some, there were real, actual holidays. Most of them to somewhere else in Britain. Some of them only for a day: a hot rush on a train, mothers and children flocking down to the beach, fathers to the...
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