On the bookshelf

Suffering and suffragette
Later this month, Hutchinson are releasing Helen Rappaport’s Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd 1917, in which she conveys a view of the Russian Revolution through the eyes of foreign witnesses, including Emmeline Pankhurst from Britain.

Spirit of invention
Yale management fellow David J Gerber has written the biography of his father, The Inventor’s Dilemma: The Remarkable Life of H. Joseph Gerber (Yale UP), a “Hitler Émigré” from Austria who revolutionised American industry.

Berlin by top drawer
Self Made Hero’s marvellous graphic tales are always of interest, and in Irmina, Munich-based writer and artist Barbara Yelin verbally and visually tells a dramatic story based on the life of her grandmother, who was forced to remain in Nazi Berlin.

New Yorker’s narratives
Wendy Brandmark is a New York born, London based author whose short-story collection, He Runs the Moon (Holland Park Press), is sub-titled Tales From the Cities. The cities, in which individual lives are sensitively depicted, are all in the US: Denver, New York and Boston.