Well-known for her columns in the Guardian's women's page and as an anti-nuclear campaigner, Judith Cook was also a prolific biographer and investigative journalist. Born in Manchester, Judith Cook lived for many years in Cornwall, where she died in 2004.
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In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O'Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of plundering, k... SEE MORE