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GENERAL NON-FICTION
DID SHE KILL HIM? by Kate Colquhoun
True crime | 352pp | Little, Brown | March 2014 | Korea: -- | Japan: TMA
Alienation, adultery, arsenic and the trials of Florence Maybrick
In 1881, eighteen-year-old Florence Chandler, an American heiress and Southern Belle, and forty-two-year-old
Englishman James Maybrick were married in Piccadilly, England. Within four years they had two children and
enjoyed a comfortable life in their grand suburban mansion, Battlecrease House. Behind the scenes however,
all was not well. The twenty year age gap between them, coupled with James‟ affair and financial difficulties
began to take its toll. By 1889 Florence had also embarked on her own affair with a cotton trader called Alfred
Brierley. When James, a self-medicating hypochondriac, became unwell Florence was concerned with his
reliance on arsenic and begged their doctor to intervene. However, despite the attendance of two local
doctors, James deteriorated rapidly and, in May 1889 he died aged 49 years old. Florence was swiftly arrested
for the wilful murder of her husband by the administration of arsenic and a show trial followed where much was
made of her affair – Victorian society expected women to uphold the dictates of propriety and were judged
more harshly than men. Was Florence Maybrick a grieving widow, pining mother, terrified girl or premeditated
murderess? Kate Colquhoun is the author of MR BRIGGS‟ HAT (Little, Brown 2011) which was short listed for the
Crime Writers‟ Association Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction.
OUR CHEATING HEARTS: Love and Loyalty. Lust and Lies by Kate Figes
Popular Psychology | 288pp | Virago | June 2013 | Korea: KCC | Japan: EAJ
We no longer know what to do about infidelity. Gone are the days when, in the upper classes at least, once an
heir and a spare were produced, behind the solid front of marriage, much went on, quietly. And the middle
and lower classes behaved not so differently. But now we are devoted to an ideal of fidelity – perhaps an
impossible one. But is infidelity the worst thing that can happen to a relationship? And is splitting up the only
answer? Is fidelity a reasonable goal for most people? Our lifestyles and social mores seem to be out of synch.
The personal and the political and the private and the public are at odds. Kate Figes is the author of COUPLES
(Virago 2010) and LIFE AFTER BIRTH (Virago 2008).
HOW TO MANAGE YOUR MAMMOTH by Wendy Jago
Business & Development | 208pp |Piatkus | September 2012| Korea: Duran Kim |Japan: Uni
The accessible guide to getting any job done, no matter how big and daunting. You can manage that
mammoth!
HOW TO MANAGE YOUR MAMMOTH draws on a single coaching technique, bite sizing, to
help you manage issues and tasks that you find difficult, overwhelming or impossible. You
can use bite sizing to break down a difficult task or build up to a goal. Experienced
psychotherapist and coach Wendy Jago draws on her work with business professionals
worldwide in the banking and commercial sectors, to provide a user-friendly guide packed
with short, snappy exercises to help even the worst procrastinators. HOW TO MANAGE YOUR
MAMMOTH covers, how you naturally approach problems. Do you hone in on the
details/specifics straight away or do you think of a problem in its entirety rather than its parts?
How much energy and stamina do you have to draw on. What is your natural attention
span? The book will show you how to work with your natural energy and attention levels and
not against them. How we unintentionally create mammoths and how we can avoid doing
so. Wendy Jago is the author of THE NLP BRAIN BUILDER (Piatkus 2010) which has sold to Russia
(Eksmo), Spain (Urano), Italy (Il Punto d‟Incontro) and Vietnam (Nhan Tri Viet).
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