Shirley Anne Field, who has died aged 87, was once talked of as Britain’s answer to Marilyn Monroe; a noted beauty, she appeared in some of the most popular films of the 1960s, among them The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Alfie.
Heather Augustyn, a Chesterton native and one of the world’s foremost historians on all styles of Jamaican music, examines the dynamics between the sexes in “Rude Girls,” a love letter to the women in ska. Released on International Women’s Day March 8, “Rude Girls” is her eighth book on Jamaican music and the first book ever on women in the ska movement.