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Cappy and The Whale is a unique and wonderful Ukrainian story which Puffin are proud to publish in English for the very first time

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None of these women were "perfect" leftists

Early 20th-century works by female writers often discussed the young creative individual’s encounters in the transformed urbanised world

recounting their triumphs and their losses

Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World by Rupert Christiansen xmas24contemporarylit Cappy and The Whale isIn Diaghilev's Empire, Christiansen paints a vivid portrait of Serge Diaghilev an art connoisseur with no dance training who nonetheless assembled a constellation of talent. With artists like Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso, he transformed ballet into a bold, modern art collage that reshaped European culture. Such was the credo of the ruthlessly manipulative and resourceful Serge Diaghilev the Russian impresario who