Tag: Women
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The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning: a Polar Journey, by Wendy Trusler and Carol Devine
Hardback £25, HarperCollins, out now Wendy Trusler and Carol Devine have created a beautiful visual and written record of a 1995-96 volunteer expedition to clean up rubbish on the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica. The book is illustrated with photographs both from the trip and from previous historic outings by Scott and Shackleton, among others.…
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The Neapolitan Novels, by Elena Ferrante
Out now, £11.99 each A woman in her sixties, at home in Naples, receives a call from the middle-aged son of her best friend. His mother is missing. She has disappeared, cutting her image out of photos and removing all her belongings. Her lifelong friend is not surprised, noting it has been thirty years since…