A Curious Career

10 best books like A Curious Career (Lynn Barber): The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography, The Witches: Salem, 1692, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society, The Missing Sister, An Act of Villainy, Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s, Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain, Landmarks, Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Author

Deborah Levy

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.

To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind...

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Author	Stacy Schiff
ISBN	0316200603

Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials.

The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar. It spread quickly,...

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

Author	Hannah Fry
ISBN	0393357368

When it comes to artificial intelligence, we either hear of a paradise on earth or of our imminent extinction. It’s time we stand face-to-digital-face with the true powers and limitations of the algorithms that already automate important decisions in healthcare, transportation, crime, and commerce....

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

Author	Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN	0802829961

One of the first women to graduate from Oxford, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to be "feminine." Sayers kept in mind that she was first of all a human being and aimed to be true not so much to her gender as to her humanity. The role of both men and...

The Missing Sister

Author	Dinah Jefferies
ISBN	0241985439

A stolen sister. A daughter determined to uncover the truth.

Belle Hatton has embarked upon an exciting new life far from home: a glamorous job as a nightclub singer in 1930s Burma, with a host of sophisticated new friends and admirers. But Belle is haunted by a mystery from the past - a 25 year...

An Act of Villainy

Author

Ashley Weaver

Edgar Award-shortlisted author Ashley Weaver returns with the fifth installment in the Amory Ames mystery series.

An Act of Villainy is a gem, filled with style, banter, and twists that traditional mystery fans will positively relish.

"So you've gotten yourself involved with...

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s

Author	Virginia Nicholson
ISBN	0670921319

In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm.
Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles,...

Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain

Author	Deborah Cohen
ISBN	0199977801

We live today in a culture of full disclosure, where tell-all memoirs top the best-seller lists, transparency is lauded, and privacy seems imperiled. But how did we get here?
Exploring scores of previously sealed records, Family Secrets offers a sweeping account of how shame--and the relationship...

Landmarks

Author

Robert Macfarlane

Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two.

Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature...

Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Author

Craig Brown

She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor.
Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. Dudley Moore propositioned her....

Murder In The Afternoon

Author	Frances Brody
ISBN	0749954825

Dead one minute ...

Young Harriet and her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stonemason father works. So when they find him dead on the cold ground, they scarper quick smart and look for some help.

Alive the next ...

When help arrives, the quarry...