Louisa Treger Knihy

Keď sa talentovaná francúzska fotografka, maliarka a poetka Dora Maar stretne s Pablom Picassom, jeho prenikavý pohlaď ju okamžite uchváti. Priťahovaná maliarovou výbušnou energiou sa čoskoro ocitá vo vášnivom vzťahu, ktorý je rovnako fascinujúci ako nebezpečný. Pablovo zúfalstvo z občianskej vojny v Španielsku sa premieta do jeho tvorby, ale aj do bezcitnej povahy. Vzťah, z ktorého sa Dora nedokáže vymaniť, čoraz viac pohlcuje temnota prehĺbená nacistickou okupáciou.

"In 1887, young Nellie Bly sets out for New York and a career in journalism, determined to make her way as a serious reporter, whatever that may take. But life in the city is tougher than she imagined. Down to her last dime and desperate to prove her worth, she comes up with a dangerous plan: to fake insanity and have herself committed to the asylum on Blackwell's Island. There, she will work undercover to expose the asylum's wretched conditions. But when the asylum door swings shut behind her, she finds herself in a place of horrors, governed by a cruelty she could never have imagined. Cold, isolated and starving, her days of terror reawaken the traumatic events of her childhood. She entered the asylum of her own free will - but will she ever get out?"--Amazon.com

In a period of civil unrest before the War of Liberation, a wealthy and influential couple leave Britain to make a new life in 1950s Rhodesia. From the glamorous Italian Riviera in the roaring twenties to the Art Deco glory of Eltham Palace in the thirties, from the secluded Scottish Highlands to sultry, segregated Rhodesia in the fifties, The Dragon Lady tells the story of the extraordinary life of Lady Virginia Courtauld, so-called for the exotic tattoo snaking up her leg. Ostracized by society for being a foreign divorcée at the time of Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson, Ginie and her second husband Stephen Courtauld leave the confines of post-war Britain to forge a new life in Rhodesia, only to find that being progressive liberals during segregation proves mortally dangerous. Subtly blending fact and fiction, deeply evocative of time and place in an era of great social change and threaded throughout with intrigue, the novel keeps the reader guessing from the outset who shot the Dragon Lady and why.