Search Results: Authors starting with P from Ivy Court Books

'A witty, argumentative and affectionate book bursting with good things'.
Daily Telegraph

Happily married with one-year-old twins, Ruth Picardie was only 32 when she was diagnosed as having breast cancer. With almost unbearable intensity she described the progress of her illness in a series of articles in the Observer. When Ruth died in September 1997, she was mourned by thousands who had never even met her.

'A first-rate selection of investigative articles from some of the world's best reporters'.
The Guardian

'An exuberant, off-beat talent... This strange writer indulges us to the extent of being wildly funny, but the comedy is as black and turbulent as storm clouds'.
Norman Shrapnel, Guardian