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An Excellent Choice by Emma Brockes
Category: Parenting
I mumble 'I need to order some sperm'. The receptionist puts me through to a technician to see if what I want is available. 'Number?' says the man. I give him the reference for my sperm donor. There is a clacking of keys, followed by a short pause. Then with the smoothness of a sommelier fielding a wine ...Show more
Panic and Joy - My Solo Path to Motherhood by Emma Brockes
Category: Pregnancy
Emma Brockes is thirty-seven, lives alone, and wants children. She is in a relationship (good!) but they aren't doing the parenting together (weird!). Emma needs sperm, a doctor, and not to bankrupt herself. And that's just the beginning - there are a million choices to make when taking the untraditiona ...Show more
Rebel Chef - In Search of What Matters by Dominique Crenn; Emma Brockes
Category: Food and Drink
The inspiring and deeply personal memoir from highly acclaimed chef Dominique Crenn When Dominique Crenn was awarded three Michelin Stars in 2018 for her influential San Francisco restaurant Atelier Crenn, she became the first female chef in the United States to receive this highly coveted honor. As ...Show more
Rebel Chef - In Search of What Matters by Dominique Crenn; Emma Brockes
Category: Biography
The inspiring and deeply personal memoir from highly acclaimed chef Dominique Crenn When Dominique Crenn was awarded three Michelin Stars in 2018 for her influential San Francisco restaurant Atelier Crenn, she became the first female chef in the United States to receive this highly coveted honor. As th ...Show more
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes
Category: Biography
When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said 'One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed.' Growing up in a tranquil English village, Emma knew very little of her mother's life before her. She knew Paula had grown up in South Africa and had seven siblings. She had been to ...Show more
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes
Category: Biography
"One of those memoirs that remind you why you liked memoirs in the first place... It has the density of a very good novel... As you do with the best writers, you feel lucky to be in Ms. Brockes's company." --Dwight Garner, "The New York Times" A chilling work of psychological suspense and forensic memoi ...Show more
She Left Me the Gun : My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes
Category: Biography
When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said 'One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed.' Growing up in a tranquil English village, Emma knew very little of her mother's life before her. She knew Paula had grown up in South Africa and had seven siblings. She had been to ...Show more
What Would Barbra Do? by Emma Brockes
Category: Biography
Film musicals: you either love them or they make you want to kill yourself slowly with plastic cutlery. Nothing has the power to lift your heart or turn your stomach like Howard Keel in fake sideburns singing 'Bless Your Beautiful Hide' or Julie Andrews singing...well, just about anything. There are few ...Show more
What Would Barbra Do? by Emma Brockes
Category: Fiction
Film musicals: you either love them or they make you want to kill yourself slowly with plastic cutlery. Nothing has the power to lift your heart or turn your stomach like Howard Keel in fake sideburns singing "Bless Your Beautiful Hide" or Julie Andrews singing...well, just about anything. There are few ...Show more
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