{"title":"Mary Russell","description":"\u003cp\u003eDive into the captivating world of Mary Russell and her unlikely partnership with Sherlock Holmes. Explore mysteries woven with rich historical detail and sharp wit, perfect for fans of intelligent suspense.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"blessings-of-a-good-thick-skirt-book-mary-russell-9780002179812","title":"The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt","description":"Some of the most remarkable journeys ever made have been made by women.  This book explains what it is that makes women abandon the comfort of home for the risks and dangers of the unknown.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49504820986129,"sku":"GOR007079266","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49658484490513,"sku":"GOR006732741","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0002179814.jpg?v=1750971736"},{"product_id":"blessings-of-a-good-thick-skirt-book-mary-russell-9780006547488","title":"The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt","description":"What drew Annie Taylor and Alexandra David-Neal to Tibet, when it was still cut off from the world and so hostile to foreigners, and particularly female ones, that they had to wear male Tibetan dress for protection? What did Hester Stanhope and Gertrude Bell, two such different women, find so compelling about the desert life of the East? What possessed Mary, Duchess of Bedford, to take up flying at the age of 60 - or Naomi James to sail around the world, or Arlene Blum to climb Annapurna? These, and other, accounts of women travellers experiences around the world are included in this book.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49531058848017,"sku":"GOR003159000","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49653870330129,"sku":"GOR002788017","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49960275116305,"sku":"CIN0006547486A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49961845260561,"sku":"CIN0006547486G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50399279546641,"sku":"CIN0006547486VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51567317483793,"sku":"GOR003315107","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51882309681425,"sku":"GOR011680019","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52538681983249,"sku":"NLS9780006547488","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0006547486.jpg?v=1751194417"},{"product_id":"please-don-t-call-it-soviet-georgia-book-mary-russell-9781852422165","title":"Please Don't Call it Soviet Georgia","description":"Essential reading for understanding the collapse of the Soviet state. Russell was one of the few western writers permitted into Soviet Georgia during the recent upheaval, and she provides a vivid account of a people forced to suddenly confront their history and their hopes for a new state. ?A gem of a travel book, full of wry observation and earthy humour.??Oxford Times (UK)","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49543751237905,"sku":"GOR001321284","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50401042628881,"sku":"CIN1852422165G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852422165.jpg?v=1750725547"},{"product_id":"journeys-of-a-lifetime-book-mary-russell-9781903650080","title":"Journeys of a Lifetime","description":"Mary Russell has been everywhere: from Lesotho to Sudan, the West Bank to the Sahara, Donegal to Russia, the Caribbean to South Africa, from Bosnia to the Arctic to Syria and home. In her inspiring travelogue, home is wherever her toothbrush is. With an outsider's eye for new peoples and cultures, she reflects on the need for new horizons that lies at the restless heart of every traveller.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49558880452881,"sku":"GOR004261450","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50338522530065,"sku":"CIN1903650089VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50874721141009,"sku":"GOR002121477","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1903650089.jpg?v=1751186722"},{"product_id":"blessings-of-a-good-thick-skirt-book-mary-russell-9780002174145","title":"The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt","description":"Some of the most remarkable journeys ever made have been made by women.  This book explains what it is that makes women abandon the comfort of home for the risks and dangers of the unknown.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49610130489617,"sku":"GOR004209173","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49634383724817,"sku":"GOR004334031","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52214150856977,"sku":"GOR011189060","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0002174146.jpg?v=1751387828"},{"product_id":"my-home-is-your-home-book-mary-russell-9780957084001","title":"My Home is Your Home","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49615163064593,"sku":"GOR003741500","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49651340738833,"sku":"GOR009906380","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50794689495313,"sku":"GOR006424325","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0957084005.jpg?v=1750820166"},{"product_id":"confronting-abusive-beliefs-book-mary-russell-9780803958081","title":"Confronting Abusive Beliefs","description":"A practical book for both those who work with abusive men and those who work with battered women, Confronting Abusive Beliefs presents a unique model for exploring and changing attitudes that influence abusiveness. Use this proactive program to encourage men to challenge and alter entrenched beliefs about the roles of men and women in male-female relationships. Through interactional sessions, this book cultivates an awareness that helps men change abusive behaviors and attitudes. Accessible session-by-session outlines and handouts bolstered by a sound theoretical basis create a comprehensive package for group leaders, new and established practitioners, and advanced students. Sessions address issues such as expressed emotions, recurring thoughts, communication patterns, and conflict resolution and the belief systems that sustain them.  An important contribution to the literature on abuse intervention and prevention, Confronting Abusive Beliefs provides a model for developing respectful relationships that plays an integral role in the therapeutic processes of abusive men.  \"Mary Nomme Russell presents a solid framework for looking at batterers′ treatment with a conceptually sound and interesting premise.\"  --Alyce D. LaViolette, Alternatives Counseling Associates,  Long Beach, California  \"What with the courts requiring treatment as a condition of parole for abusive men this becomes an important text.\"  --Ron MacIssac, review in What′s Happening?, Victoria, B.C.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49631079137553,"sku":"GOR006470264","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50924691947793,"sku":"CIN0803958080VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51848643379473,"sku":"CIN0803958080G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52136987492625,"sku":"NLS9780803958081","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0803958080.jpg?v=1750946704"},{"product_id":"entre-nous-bohemian-chic-in-the-1960s-and-1970s-book-mary-russell-9782080204110","title":"Entre Nous: Bohemian Chic in the 1960s and 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlamorous fashion editor Mary Russell's personal photographs capture the effervescence of the 1960s and 1970s from within the international fashion and art scenes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As Paris fashion correspondent for prestigious publications such as Glamour, Vogue, Women's Wear Daily, and the New York Times, and as photo stylist for Helmut Newton, David Bailey, Lord Snowdon, Francesco Scavullo, and Henry Clarke, the American journalist and photographer Mary Russell not only captured the mood of the international clique of elite bohemians who ruled the Parisian art and fashion world in the 1960s and 1970s, but quickly became a central part of it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The passionate young American in Paris participated in fashion history as it happened and plunged head first into the international Jet Set. Russell developed intimate friendships with her entourage, traveling from fashion events in Paris and London to glamorous holidays in Saint Moritz, Saint-Tropez, and the Venetian Lido with the people who invented cool modernity, and, most importantly, capturing them on her Nikon as a friend would have, mining the mood of the period and exploding the boundaries between reportage and fashion.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Published here for the first time, the charmed lives of the Beautiful People of the 1960s and 1970s are brought to life in this collection of intimate portraits of the creative high society and the cultural underground: Andy Warhol's visit to Paris with the Factory, the circle of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé-Loulou de la Falaise, Betty and François Catroux, Karl Lagerfeld-Françoise Sagan, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Adjani, Jane Birkin, Peter Beard, Gunter Sachs and various playboys, and many others. The photographs are accompanied by Russell's personal memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49736389263633,"sku":"NGR9782080204110","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49849457508625,"sku":"CIN2080204114G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49849694191889,"sku":"GOR010853927","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2080204114.jpg?v=1766140638"},{"product_id":"women-of-the-copper-country-book-mary-doria-russell-9781982109585","title":"The Women of the Copper Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sparrow\u003c\/i\u003e comes an inspiring historical novel about America's Joan of Arc Annie Clements--the courageous woman who started a rebellion by leading a strike against the largest copper mining company in the world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren't coming home. When Annie decides to stand up for herself, and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Annie's hands lie the miners' fortunes and their health, her husband's wrath over her growing independence, and her own reputation as she faces the threat of prison and discovers a forbidden love. On her fierce quest for justice, Annie will discover just how much she is willing to sacrifice for her own independence and the families of Calumet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From one of the most versatile writers in contemporary fiction, this novel is an authentic and moving historical portrait of the lives of the men and women of the early 20th century labor movement, and of a turbulent, violent political landscape that may feel startlingly relevant to today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50175957008657,"sku":"CIN1982109580VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50962235621649,"sku":"GOR012694449","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51414051619089,"sku":"CIN1982109580A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52107729043729,"sku":"CIN1982109580G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52725849653521,"sku":"GOR014600439","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1982109580.jpg?v=1751426510"},{"product_id":"thread-of-grace-book-mary-doria-russell-9780375501845","title":"A Thread of Grace","description":"Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War I, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God. \u003cbr\u003eIt is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive. \u003cbr\u003eMary Doria Russell sets her first historical novel against this dramatic background, tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters. Through them, she tells the little-known but true story of the network of Italian citizens who saved the lives of forty-three thousand Jews during the war's final phase. The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel of ideas, history, and marvelous characters that will please Russell's many fans and earn her even more. \u003cp\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50200409866513,"sku":"CIN0375501843VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50522757628177,"sku":"CIN0375501843A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51117814808849,"sku":"GOR002892134","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103762116881,"sku":"CIN0375501843G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375501843.jpg?v=1751445549"},{"product_id":"murder-of-mary-russell-book-laurie-r-king-9781410486042","title":"The Murder Of Mary Russell","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50326291185937,"sku":"CIN1410486044VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51693959348497,"sku":"CIN1410486044G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1410486044.jpg?v=1750922281"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-mary-russell.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}