{"title":"Kathy Watson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"crossing-book-kathy-watson-9780747223412","title":"The Crossing","description":"The extraordinary story of the first man to swim the English Channel.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49512142045457,"sku":"GOR002493510","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49612062359825,"sku":"GOR001873771","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50363019723025,"sku":"CIN0747223416G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0747223416.jpg?v=1750978833"},{"product_id":"crossing-book-kathy-watson-9780747262138","title":"The Crossing","description":"On the night of 24 August 1875 Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old British Navy captain, launched himself into the English Channel at Dover.  Twenty-one hours and 45 minutes later he became the first man to swim the English Channel. In this acclaimed biography, Kathy Watson shows how Captain Webb was instrumental in bringing the sport of swimming into the modern era.  It is also a study of the Victorian drive to push back the boundaries of endurance.  In THE CROSSING, Watson uses this great British eccentric's extraordinary life as a springboard to explore themes of obsession and failure and the emerging force of the media, and swimming's place in our psyche.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49530526040337,"sku":"GOR001732852","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49644734546193,"sku":"GOR001800226","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50110627414289,"sku":"CIN0747262136G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52739734077713,"sku":"GOR005507721","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0747262136.jpg?v=1751168683"},{"product_id":"crossing-book-kathy-watson-9781585421091","title":"The Crossing","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49597047865617,"sku":"GOR004359899","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50392970887441,"sku":"CIN158542109XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50773439742225,"sku":"CIN158542109XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/158542109X.jpg?v=1751435762"},{"product_id":"devil-kissed-her-book-kathy-watson-9780747571131","title":"The Devil Kissed Her","description":"_______________  ‘Kathy Watson has achieved the rare combination of sensitive, meticulous research with readability' - Virginia Rounding, Sunday Times  ‘Careful, intelligent, absorbing ... Watson tells Mary's story in a sensible, matter-of-fact way, which makes it all the more moving, and the Lambs' achievements all the more remarkable' - Allan Massie, Scotsman  ‘Riveting ... Her story of this extraordinary relationship is surely one of the most bizarre and heart-rending imaginable, and offers an indelible portrait of two of literature's most intriguing figures' - Val Hennessy, Daily Mail _______________  A stunning biography of Mary Lamb, who murdered her mother with a knife before going on to write Tales From Shakespeare with her brother Charles  On 22 September 1796 Mary Lamb murdered her mother with a carving knife. However, she was neither imprisoned nor punished, but instead released into the care of her younger brother Charles.   They went on to share their home, friends and work for nearly forty years. They wrote the children's classic Tales from Shakespeare together, ran a literary agency, and had a salon frequented by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Hazlitt and Godwin. However, the Lambs' popularity existed in the shadow of Mary's recurring bouts of mania and depression and she was incarcerated in a mental institution for several months of each year.   This memorable portrait of one of literature's most romantic figures examines this extraordinary brother-sister relationship and, amidst the many contradictions and chaotic episodes of her life, uncovers the real Mary Lamb.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49604252958993,"sku":"GOR003111070","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50938418921745,"sku":"GOR004099956","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53649745772817,"sku":"GOR003861408","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0747571139.jpg?v=1751361066"},{"product_id":"devil-kissed-her-book-kathy-watson-9781585423569","title":"The Devil Kissed Her","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49797580882193,"sku":"CIN1585423564G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1585423564.jpg?v=1750798635"},{"product_id":"meet-harry-and-herman-book-kathy-watson-9781632324009","title":"Meet Harry and Herman","description":"The core value of doing what you are told, is brought home in this Rrrribbiting tale of two small frogs who find themselves stuck in the muck of disobedience. Young children and parents alike will merrily follow the inquisitive antics of Harry and Herman as they leap from the safety of home into the dangerous pail of the unknown. Just when they think all hope is lost, they are rescued by a friendly unseen hand","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51040380256529,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51040383140113,"sku":"NIN9781632324009","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1632324008.jpg?v=1750720483"},{"product_id":"orphans-of-the-living-book-kathy-watson-9781647429782","title":"Orphans of the Living","description":"In the shadow of the Great Depression and Jim Crow south of the 1930s, an impoverished white family escapes - with the help of Black sharecroppers - from a vengeful Mississippi plantation overseer intent on lynching them. Arriving in California to start a new life, Barney and Lula Stovall are haunted by the past, the children they've left behind, and the daughter they cannot love or protect. Orphans of the Living follows the peripatetic life of the Stovall family, woven from four parallel stories: Barney and Lula Stovall, and two of their nine children, Glen and Nora Mae. Their California sojourn - from their hardscrabble dairy farm, to the brig at the San Francisco Presidio, to the building of the Golden Gate Bridge - lead them on paths toward each other and forgiveness. But redemption doesn't come to them all.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51629901742353,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51629902037265,"sku":"NGR9781647429782","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52503243391249,"sku":"NIN9781647429782","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52615340523793,"sku":"NLS9781647429782","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53380717478161,"sku":"CIN1647429781VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1647429781.jpg?v=1761213149"},{"product_id":"meet-harry-and-herman-book-kathy-watson-9789493105027","title":"Meet Harry and Herman","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52763782742289,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52763783168273,"sku":"NIN9789493105027","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789493105027.jpg?v=1763607419"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-kathy-watson.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}