For decades Grace Coddington's personal touch has steered wildly imaginative fashion spreads in Vogue" magazine. Then came " The September Issue" the behind-the-scenes documentary that turned the spotlight on a woman with a no-nonsense attitude & an unerring visual instinct. Overnight the flame-haired Grace became a heroine for fashion insiders & the general public alike. Witty & forthright & illustrated throughout with vintage photographs & exclusive line-drawings " Grace: A Memoir" shares the excitement & vision that go into producing so many unforgettable fashion images. Here are the designers models photographers hairstylists make-up artists & celebrities with whom Grace has created her 'stories in pictures'
- whether it be Jerry Hall conquering the USSR or Tom Ford falling down a rabbit hole in Annie Leibovitz's version of " Alice in Wonderland". Grace's own life has been as dreamlike as one of her madcap fashion spreads. Brought up in windswept wartime Anglesey she arrived in London aged eighteen & quickly became a face of the Sixties. The muse behind Vidal Sassoon's Five Point Cut she posed for Bailey Donovan Duffy & Norman Parkinson in Swinging London & jumped into a pool in Saint-Tropez for Helmut Newton. Surviving a serious car-crash she later became a fashion editor at British " Vogue" & during the Seventies & the Eighties started to create the fantasy travelogues that would become her trademark. Friendships bloomed
- with Bruce Weber & Calvin Klein whose offer of a job took Grace to New York. While two early marriages to restaurateur Michael Chow & photographer Willie Christie were brief her romance with the hairstylist Didier Malige has endured. & her professional partnership with Anna Wintour
- with whom she has collaborated for over twenty years
- continues to have an astonishing influence on modern style."



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It is nearly fifty years since the horrific assassination in Dallas & during that time the appeal of John & Jackie Kennedy a uniquely glamorous presidential couple frozen in eternal youth by the terrible & sudden truncation of their reign has if anything only deepened. Until now however no single book has gone beyond the gossip & the conspiracy theories to tell the whole story of the Kennedy White House
- soberly comprehensively & compellingly. In a major work of history Sally Bedell Smith now does just that. Grace & Power is a compassionate & poignant chronicle of pivotal historical events seen from the inside out behind the headlines & the carefully staged television appearances. When John Kennedy entered the White House he was only 43; his stunning wife Jackie astonishingly was just 31. Amidst all the superficial opulence & lavish partying we see political crises like the Bay of Pigs & the burgeoning clamour for civil rights from the perspective of a president often barely well enough to appear in public & a lonely young woman wounded by her husbands insouciant philandering & trying to build a new identity for herself. We see how John Kennedy constructed his circle of advisers lieutenants & officials with equal measures of altruism & expediency & the claustrophobic dynamics of the Camelot court. With immense pathos Sally Bedells narrative shows how at the very moment when the President & First Lady had come through the first difficult years of his term & could begin to contemplate a campaign for re-election a snipers bullets ended everything & forced Jackie Kennedy to assume the biggest role of her life. Above all Grace & Power enables us to see the Kennedys & their inner circle beset by the sudden turns of history while at the same time their style & politics were shaping the history of America & indeed the world. For those too young to remember the era of the Kennedys as much as for those who will never forget it Grace & Power is the classic account of a historical moment that left an indelible mark on the last four decades.
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To Grace family has always meant her Ma her Nana & her cat Paw-Paw so when Papa invites her to visit him in the Gambia she dreams of finding the kind of family that is idealised in stories. But as Grace soon finds out families are what you make them. A warm & delightful follow-up to the international best-seller Amazing Grace. ...

John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea & mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her memory he prompts her with songs photographs & questions about the 1940s when she was a young woman & he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But he finds that most of all it is her own mother she longs for
- Grace the mother she barely knew. John sets out to recreate their buried family history delving into the secrets & silences of Mary's fractured childhood as he imagines the life of her spirited mother. Reaching from the late 19th century to the present this becomes a deeply moving reflective elegy on three generations linked by a chain of love loss & courage.
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John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea & mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her memory he prompts her with songs photographs & questions about the 1940s when she was a young woman & he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But he finds that most of all it is her own mother she longs for
- Grace the mother she barely knew. John sets out to recreate their buried family history delving into the secrets & silences of Mary's fractured childhood as he imagines the life of her spirited mother. Reaching from the late 19th century to the present this becomes a deeply moving reflective elegy on three generations linked by a chain of love loss & courage.
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A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906--1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor & finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry is almost brought down by personal problems but survives them & ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of computing a heroine to thousands hailed as the inventor of computer programming. Throughout Hoppers later years the popular media told this simplified version of her life story. In Grace Hopper & the Invention of the Information Age Kurt Beyer reveals a more authentic Hopper a vibrant & complex woman whose career paralleled the meteoric trajectory of the postwar computer industry. Both rebellious & collaborative Hopper was influential in male-dominated military & business organizations at a time when women were encouraged to devote themselves to housework & childbearing. Hoppers greatest technical achievement was to create the tools that would allow humans to communicate with computers in terms other than ones & zeroes. This advance influenced all future programming & software design & laid the foundation for the development of user-friendly personal computers. ...

An illustrated celebration of Grace Kelly one of Hollywoods brightest stars is already long overdue. This book will also coincide with two significant anniversaries: 2006 sees 50 years since she married Prince Rainier & 2007 is the 25th anniversary of her death. The book will include a detailed biography & over 160 pictures & contact sheets many of which are reproduced for the first time. H&-written documents & famous"es on & from Grace Kelly complement impressive iconographic research (family pictures national archives private collections press agencies newspapers). Also included are images & contact sheets from prestigious photographers all of which give us a highly individual portrait of a cinematic legend. ...

Synonymous with cool elegance & impeccable good taste Grace Kelly remains a style icon of the twentieth century. This book is the first to explore exclusively Grace Kelly's personal style & how she carefully cultivated her public image through dress. The three sections looking at Grace Kelly as an actress bride & princess introduce her unrivalled wardrobe from spectacular film costumes meticulously tailored suits & American casual wear to glamorous ballgowns designed by couturiers such as Givenchy Balenciaga & Dior. A fascinating range of illustrations including film stills dress details & formal portraits accompany H. Kristina Haugland's engaging text as it charts Grace Kelly's unique influence on twentieth century fashion. ...

It's Queen Titania's & King Oberon's 1000th jubilee & the seven Party Fairies are in charge of making the celebratory party extra-special! However naughty Jack Frost has decided to sabotage the celebrations by hosting his own party & in order to make his bigger & better than the kings & queen's he has sent his naughty goblins to steal each of the seven Party Fairies' magical party bags...if he succeeds the Fairyland celebrations will be ruined! Can Kirsty & Rachel help Grace the Glitter Fairy to rescue her party bag so that the king & queen's party can be full of magical sparkles & glitter? ...

When Sophie Walkers daughter Grace was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome her world unravelled. Her high-powered job was in disarray she couldnt sleep often woke in tears & felt hopeless & useless in her role as a mother. One day she realised she hadnt done any exercise for months
- neglecting her physical health as well as her mental wellbeing. Previously a keen runner she set herself the challenge of running the London Marathon to raise awareness of Asperger Syndrome & make herself physically strong enough to support her daughter. Invigorated by the physical challenge she had set herself Sophie began a blog
- Grace Under Pressure
- writing about both day-to-day life raising Grace alongside training for the marathon. The combination caught the imagination of readers & the blog took off garnering praise from a wide range of sources. Now transformed into a book Grace Under Pressure is a moving story that charts the highs & lows of raising a child with Asperger Syndrome & the physical challenge of training for a long-distance running event.


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