Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty

Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for BeautyA colourful account of women's health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today's viral trends. Victorian women ate arsenic to achieve an ideal, pale complexion, while in the 1790s balloon corsets were all the rage, designed to make the wearer appear pregnant. Women of the eighteenth century applied blood from a black cat's tail to problem skin, while doctors in the 1880s promoted woollen underwear to keep colds at bay.

uncovers Rafah

with the film presented in multiple versions and aspect ratios

It's the pinnacle of modal jazz -- tonality and solos build from chords

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017

With destinations ranging from the neighbourhood city pool to remote outback waterfalls

is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time

Nero himself

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in mingled splendour and squalor

ABA Booksellers Choice Non Fiction Book of the Year 2021

Once home Karol begins to rebuild his life

Audio interview with Jarmusch from 2002