John Murray
Contemporary Review, March, 2004
Three new releases from JOHN MURRAY might make the casual observer think it had become a feminist publishing house. In the event the three women whose lives are described here all led fascinating lives that would attract any biographer. Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d'Orcia, by Caroline Moorehead ([pounds sterling]8.99), tells of an Irishwoman who married into an Italian noble family and stood up to the Fascists.
Sally Cline's Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise ([pounds sterling]9.99) recounts the roller-coaster life of F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife whilst Flora Fraser's Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton ([pounds sterling]9.99) describes the ultimately tragic life of Nelson's mistress. To correct this impression of rampant feminism, Murray has also brought out a paperback edition of Robert Harvey's Comrades: The Rise and Fall of World Communism ([pounds sterling]9.99), praised in Contemporary Review as a 'fast moving and well written survey' of the evil empire and Roger Took's Running with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland ([pounds sterling]8.99), a unique insight into one area of the former Soviet Union little understood in the West.
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