{"product_id":"black-coffee-and-red-lipstick-9781846017780","title":"Black Coffee and Red Lipstick : Notes on living","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack Coffee and Red Lipstick is a collection of essays that weave ideas about our domestic and daily life - hence the black coffee - with thoughts on style and the way we present ourselves - hence the red lipstick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt combines anecdotes and observations from Alexandra Shulman's 25 years spent editing British Vogue and her current life as a freelance writer and commentator. She draws on her experiences as a magazine editor but also a mother, daughter, sibling, girlfriend, housekeeper and lover of shopping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexandra left her job at Vogue in 2017 to embark on a different way of life and while this is in no way a book of self-discovery it does touch on the question of things or patterns of behaviour that make us who we are?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays will be a mixture of ideas from her quest for the perfect eyeliner, to why picnics are so delightful. How it is that men and women see different things in the home - is there male pattern blindness? - to why our hair matters so much to us. Friendship, siblings, gardening and grey hair will also be explored with Alexandra's characteristic wit and incisiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Alexandra Shulman\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemoirs, Literary essays\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 1 Oct 2026 by Octopus Publishing Group.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alexandra Shulman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320582644090,"sku":"9781846017780","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781846017780.jpg?v=1790658287","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/black-coffee-and-red-lipstick-9781846017780","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}