Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writings on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill, and My Mother

Simon Schama

Bodley Head, 2010 - Art - 427 pages

Cookery is not necessarily a subject one immediately associates with Simon Schama - one of Britain's most distinguished historians and commentators. But this selection of his occasional writings is a treasure trove of surprises.

About the author

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings, The American Future, The Face of Britain and The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492). His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the Guardian and the Financial Times where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented forty films for BBC2 on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics and John Donne.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writings on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill, and My Mother
• Author: Simon Schama
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Bodley Head, 2010
• ISBN: 1847921310, 9781847921314
• Length: 427 pages
• Subjects: Art / General; Art / History / General; Cooking / General; History / General; Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Collections / LGBTQ; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Political Science / General; Travel / General