Hot books: Top Ten Terrific Tomes #togetyouthroughwinter #spoilyourmum

You can never have too many books.
Or shoes.
Or books about shoes.
Voila my picks of the top ten best reads to get you through winter.
(Or for your mum on Mother’s Day *)

*next Sunday week 11th May

The Shoe Book.
The Shoe Book explores the history and technologies that have shaped the designs and styles that continue to evolve. Contributions by Manolo Blahnik, Bruno Frisoni and Christian Louboutin.. BUY IT 

The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age …by Myra MacPherson (Author)
A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world… BUY IT

Delicious Days in Paris …by Jane Paech
Oh la la ! Walking tours to explore the city’s food and culture. Mais oui! BUY IT

Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty ...by Diane Keaton.
From actess Diane Keaton, a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, that old frenemy the mirror, and how in the end you just have to do it your own way.. BUY IT

Astonish Me.…by Maggie Shipstead.
Joan Joyce is a professional ballet dancer who has always believed that she is destined for a life in the shadows. When her love affair with Russian supremo Arslan Rusakov ended, she ran back into the arms of childhood sweetheart, Jacob Bintz. Now pregnant, Joan is fated to leave New York, the corps and the cries of “Astonish Me”  ..BUY IT

The Snow Queen..by Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham’s luminous, compassionate new novel begins with a vision. It’s November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is suddenly and inexplicably inspired to look up at the sky, where he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Although Barrett doesn’t believe in visions – or in god, for that matter – he can’t deny what he’s seen. BUY IT

Sheila: The Australian ingenue who bewitched British society Hardcover by by Robert Wainwright.
Vivacious, confident and striking, Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, a first lieutenant and son of the 5th Earl of Rosslyn, when she went to Egypt during the Great War to nurse her brother. Edward, Prince of Wales, called her ‘a divine woman’ and his brother, Bertie, the future George VI of England, was especially close to her. She subsequently became Lady Milbanke and ended her days as Princess Dimitri of Russia. BUY IT

Burial Rites ..by Hannah Kent (Author)
A fabulous read ! A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829. You won’t be able to put in down… BUY IT

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl celebrates food in her dazzling fiction debut-a novel of sisters, family ties, and a young woman who must find the courage to let go of the past in order to embrace her own true gifts.. BUY IT

Downtrodden Abbey….The Interminable Saga of an Insufferable Family ( an hilarious read !)
Welcome to Downtrodden Abbey, where a battle for the deed to the property is waged between legitimate aristocrats and literal pretenders to the throne. The Crawfish family – Marry, Supple, Enid, Lady Flora, and Lord Roderick – are content wiling their days away with naughty charades and twenty-two course dinners until the sinking of the Gigantic takes down the next in line to inherit Downtrodden… BUY IT