Something Beautiful for God Something Beautiful for God Something Beautiful for God is a 1971 book by Malcolm Muggeridge on Mother Teresa. The book was based on a 1969 documentary on Mother Teresa (also entitled "Something Beautiful for God") that Muggeridge had undertaken. In his book Muggeridge, a former left-wing radical who became a stridently religious anti-communist, described in glowing terms the work of Mother Teresa's order of nuns in Calcutta's House of the Dying. The book was first published by Harper Collins (). In his book "" and also in a 1994 documentary entitled "Hell's Angel" the journalist Christopher Hitchens derided Muggeridge as
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz the winners of a 1992 Somerset Maugham Award. "But Beautiful" is also the name of a jazz composition by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen and was recorded by two of the book's subjects (Ben Webster and Art Pepper), as well as such notables as Nancy Wilson, Bill Evans, Frank Sinatra and Freddie Hubbard. But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz But Beautiful is a book about jazz and jazz musicians by Geoff Dyer. First published in 1991, it is the first of Dyer's so-called "genre-defying" works. Like Michael Ondaatje's "Coming Through Slaughter", "But Beautiful" takes a fictionalised look at jazz.