Judith Mackrell

On the front lines of the Second World War, a remarkable group of female journalists waged their own battle in the war zone. In Going with the Boys by Judith Mackrell, we follow the extraordinary stories of six pioneering women who defied societal norms and bureaucratic restrictions to bring the realities of war to the world. These women—Martha Gellhorn, Lee...

Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the project was abandoned with only one storey complete. Empty and decaying, il palazzo non finito was an eyesore for over a century until it came to be inhabited by the very different women whose stories are told...

Judith Mackrell has done an incredible job in bringing to life the stories of these two great artists - Anthony D'Offay This is a must read . . . a deeply moving account of a family bursting with talent - Anne Sebba In Artists, Siblings, Visionaries, acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell turns her attention to British brother and sister artists Gwen...

Abandoned unfinished and left to rot on Venice's Grand Canal, il palazzo non finito was once an unloved guest among the aristocrats of Venetian architecture. Yet in the 20th century, it played host to three passionate and unconventional women who would take the city by storm. The staggeringly wealthy Marchesa Luisa Casati made her new home a belle époque aesthete's...

Outstanding - The Guardian "Judith Mackrell has done an incredible job in bringing to life the stories of these two great artists" - Anthony d'Offay "This is a must-read . . . A deeply moving account of a family bursting with talent" - Anne Sebba In many ways, they were polar opposites... Augustus was the larger of the two; vivid,...