{"id":257,"date":"2015-05-14T22:48:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T22:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=257"},"modified":"2015-06-23T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T21:16:35","slug":"for-grown-ups-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"For grown-ups, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Graham \u2013 whose book &#8216;Avoid being Sir Isaac Newton!&#8217; Book House) was shortlisted for last year&#8217;s ALCS children&#8217;s non-fiction prize\u00a0\u2013\u00a0has been writing for adults, too.\u00a0He tells us:\u00a0&#8216;My latest book for grown-ups is out\u00a0\u2013 Scarlet Women \u2013\u00a0430 pages, 100,000 hand-picked words about the scandalous lives of courtesans, concubines and royal mistresses from the ancient world to the present.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Scarlet-Women-scandalous-courtesans-concubines\/dp\/1910670316\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=&amp;qid=%20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-274\" src=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Unknown-195x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Unknown\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Unknown-195x300.jpeg 195w, http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Unknown.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&#8216;Scarlet\u00a0Women:\u00a0The Scandalous Lives of\u00a0\u00a0Courtesans, Concubines and Royal Mistresses&#8217; (just out \u2013 Thistle Publishing) follows Ian&#8217;s &#8216;The Ultimate Book of Impostors: Over 100 True Stories of the Greatest Phonies and Frauds&#8217; (2013, also Thistle).<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Scarlet-Women-scandalous-courtesans-concubines\/dp\/1910670316\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=&amp;qid=\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Scarlet-Women-scandalous-courtesans-concubines\/dp\/1910670316\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=&amp;qid=<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0(This is the British edition. The US edition will be out at the beginning of 2016 and various foreign editions will follow.)<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Graham \u2013 whose book &#8216;Avoid being Sir Isaac Newton!&#8217; Book House) was shortlisted for last year&#8217;s ALCS children&#8217;s non-fiction prize\u00a0\u2013\u00a0has been writing for adults, too.\u00a0He tells us:\u00a0&#8216;My latest book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}