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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean Cunningham1788360702|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never WasAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=4.5

|summary= For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince Arthur was 's opinions, beliefs and aims against the eldest son background of Henry VIIthe scientific evidence. Had he lived longer, there might There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have been no Henry VIII, thus paving scientific support has done considerable damage to the way for reputation of a very large counterfactual 'what if' in British history. The name Arthur, that man who is proud of the mythical King several centuries earlier, had great expectations attachedhis refusal to apply evidence-based, never logical reasoning to be fulfilledhis ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647664</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenifer Roberts1739805100|title=The Beauty of Her AgeLoving the Enemy: A Tale Building bridges in a time of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian Englandwar|author=Andrew March

|summary= The name of Yolande Stephens (nee Duvernay) is not that well-known in ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the annals quite extraordinary story of Victorian Englandauthor Andrew March's grandparents, but behind it lies an enthralling rags-who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to-riches saga. How did a young girl born into poverty teach in Paris become one the early days of the most celebrated ballerinas of her time Nazi regime in Englandthe 1930s. Fred, a sensitive and after that one thoughtful man, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the richest women growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the country, with time. Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for a fortune on her death which rivalled that of Queen Victoria?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445653206</amazonuk>lifetime.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter RexWill Brooker|title=William the Conqueror: The Bastard of NormandyTruth About Lisa Jewell|rating=4.5|genre=History Biography|summary= The basic facts Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of William the most successful British authors I's life are inevitably ve never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as clouded as those surrounding well, and shows how 2021 drew the Norman conquesttwo closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the events words of her latest book she was reciting, and politics which led her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to itattend), but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, and down the aftermathrabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse output. As Peter Rex makes clear Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in his introductionthe published author's life, any surviving sources are inevitably very incomplete. Moreover, 'the writing working to make a success of the history of latest title, and struggling with the eleventh century requires next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the historian to attempt to provide motives and explanations for events that are only sketchily described at best'result.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445660172</amazonuk>1529136024

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Teresa ColeMartha Leigh|title= Henry VInvisible Ink: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of AgincourtA Family Memoir|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Henry V is remembered as one of England's greatest warrior kings, not least as a result of his immortalisation in the play by Shakespeare (as well as by two film versions of the drama). Ironically he was one of several great-grandchildren of Edward III, and as he was considered relatively unimportant at the time of his birth, exactly when he arrived in the world was not recorded and two different dates have been given. It was the deposition of his father's childless cousin Richard II in 1399 which placed him directly in the line of succession.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655411</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Peter Ackroyd|title= Alfred Hitchcock|rating= 4

|summary= Peter Ackroyd has established Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a reputation for himself childhood spent in recent years a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the master complete correspondence of the pithy biographyphilosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, particularly but not exclusively of those with his life's work. Her mother is a strong London connectionconcert pianist who practises for hours every day. JNeither parent is hugely interested in the practicalities of life.M.W. Turner, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and Charlie Chaplin are among those who have come under his scrutiny, and now he looks at There is love in the noted film director and producer, the 'Master of Suspense'house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099287668</amazonuk>1800460384

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom BowerPolly Barton|title=Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of Power|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=In May 1997 we went to vote gleefully, sure that there was going to be a change from the tired, sleaze-ridden Conservative government we'd been suffering. The Blairs' entry into Downing Street the following day - through crowds of well-wishers - was like a breath of fresh air and (perhaps fortunately) it would be years before I discovered that the 'well wishers' had been bussed in for the event. Looking back now it seems that our hopes for what the 'New Labour' government could achieve were unreasonably high and there's a special place in hell reserved for those who disappoint us in this way. I've often wondered quite how history will see Blair: Afghanistan and Iraq as well as his failure to deal with Gordon Brown would always sour his premiership for me, but to what extent could his achievements such as the Good Friday Agreement, the minimum wage and higher welfare payments be balanced against his failures?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314201</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter Popham |title=The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for FreedomFifty Sounds

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=On 13 November 2010Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest after spending 15 of with the previous 21 years as question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a prisoner of Burmawhile and if the world hadn's military juntat gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. Political reforms soon followedI may get there later this year, culminating with Suu (as she prefers to be known) being elected to parliamentbut I am not hopeful. The West rejoiced; leadersAnd like Barton, business men, and tourists poured I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in; and Suu entered the pantheon of modern-day political heroes. Burma was a burgeoning democracyfirst essay, and Suu was a saint. In reality, as Peter Popham argues in which is on the sound ''giro' 'The Lady and the Generals'– which she describes as being, among other things, the situation was far more complexsound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846043719</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John AubreyFrederic Gros|title= Brief LivesA Philosophy of Walking|rating= 45|genre= BiographyPolitics and Society|summary= John Aubrey was a modest man, an antiquarian and I confess I picked this one up from the inventor library in my pre-lockdown forage of modern biographyrandom stuff. His lives of Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the prominent figures of his generation include Shakespeare, Milton, pages I have marked and Sir Walter Raleighreturn to its varying wisdom when I need to. Some books draw you in slowly. Funny This one had me in the first two pages, illuminating and full of historical details, they have been plundered by historians for centuries. Here Aubreywherein Gros explains why ''s biographical writings are collected, painting walking is not a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day – all more alive and kicking than in a conventional history booksport''. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784870331</amazonuk>1781688370

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ruth ScurrSharon Blackie|title= John Aubrey: My Own LifeIf Women Rose Rooted|rating= 4.5

|summary=John Aubrey, the seventeenth-century antiquary, writer and archaeologist, occupies I normally say that you can tell how much a peculiar, even unique place in English literaturebook means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. When he died, the work for which he Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is most famous, setting out to buy my own copy before I'Brief Livesve finished reading the one I', was a disorganised collection of manuscripts which remained unpublished for over a centuryve borrowed. Only in I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the last hundred years or so has be become more widely recognised as an interesting character first two and perceptive commentator on society, scholarship only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason and on his contemporaries during the post-restoration eraI'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099490633</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Amy Licence0241446732|title= Edward IV & Elizabeth WoodvilleOur House is on Fire: A True Romance|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Given the current resurgence in popularity Scenes of biographies dealing with the Yorkists, the time is right for an account of the marriage of King Edward IV a Family and Elizabeth Woodville, a union that proved so divisive Planet in the era of York vs Lancaster. With several of the great nobility declaring allegiance to one side and then another in turn during the Wars of the Roses, it was a divisive era to start with. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCrisis|author= Alison Weir|title= The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary=Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was one of the more shadowy, lesser known personalities among the Tudor royal family. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII's sister Margaret, by her second marriage to Archibald DouglasMalena Ernman, Earl of AngusGreta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and like so many others who were closely related to King Henry VIII and his children, she led what was at times quite a precarious life in that she was on occasion suspected of treasonable activities, and also experienced no little personal tragedy|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546469</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peggy Caravantes|title=Marooned in the ArcticSvante Thunberg

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Misogynists are manmadeThe Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. And if anyone Malena Ernman was in a position to hate men an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the lot they put on parenting of their shoulderstwo daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, it then nine years old, struggled with what was Ava Blackjackhappening. Her surname spoke of an abusive man she had a son byIn such circumstances, but it was her time with four other men that made for one of the last century's more remarkable stories. An Inuit nativenatural to seek a solution close to home, but one brought up in a city and with English lessonseventually, she was invited it became clear to the family that they were ''burned-out people on an excursion alongside many other a burned-out planet'Eskimo' and four intrepid Westerners, to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, perched off the northern Siberian coast. They If they were there just to stick find a flag in it and call it British, even if they were pretty much fully American and Canadian, and the chap whose ideas these all were bore an Icelandic name; she was along way to live happily again their solution would need to provide native expertise, especially waterproof fur clothing. And that was it – none of her kin joined her, leaving her in one tent and four men in another, in one of the world's most remote and inhospitable placesbe radical. And that was just the start of her worries…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Douglas-Fairhurst0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Think of iconic novels, and "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" will be near the top of your list. From the rabbit hole to the Mad Hatter's tea party and the Queen's cricket ground, Lewis Carroll's imagination has established itself firmly in Western cultural heritage: with a parade of characters ranging from the weird to the wonderful and a constant play with logic and language, Carroll's masterpiece has earned its place among classics.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959403X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewInternational Suffragist|author=Jonny Steinberg|title=Man of Good HopeJohn Holliday|rating=54

|summary=''A Man The path of Good HopeClara Dorothy Bewick'' is s life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the remarkable biography of Asad AbdullahiUSA. It tells At the story of a Somalian boy abandoned at eight time she was just three-years -old but because of age some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and his journey to adulthoodthree brothers. It is also Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a testament to good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in the human spirit household and its capacity to surviveher childhood was glorious. Epic By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in its scope it covers a journey that stretches the length mid-west of the continent of AfricaUnited States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. In Clara would only know her mother for a time when the mass migration of people has never beenfew months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, more seven surviving children and died in focus it tells childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the story of what it really means to be eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a refugee by someone who has experienced it all his liferude awakening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563770</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johnny Rogan1789017977|title= Ray Davies: A Complicated Life|rating= 5|genre= Entertainment|summary= Most of Britain's most popular Ronnie and successful songwriters of the last 150 years, from Gilbert and Sullivan and Lennon and McCartney, to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, have been partnerships. The only solo writer in the same league is Ray Davies, front man of The Kinks from their formation in 1963 to their final performance in 1994. While this mighty tome is partly an account of the groupHilda's tortuous thirty-year history, it is also first and foremost, as the title says, Romance: Towards a biography of Davies himself. Through interviews with the Davies brothers, Ray and his younger brother Dave, the group's guitarist and only other constant member of the line-up, other group members, managers, friends and associates, Rogan has given us as complete a book of the man as we are ever likely to get.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554089</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kate Grenville|title= One New Life: My Mother's Story|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= This memoir could so easily have become a sentimental tribute to Grenville's mother. But somehow, the author has managed to make it so much more than that. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782116877</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewafter World War II|author=Robert Crawford|title= Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= Did T.S. Eliot like ice-cream? I should really be asking, of course, whether ''Tom'' liked ice-cream, since Robert Crawford in his marvellous biography insists on bringing us into intimate and personal contact with this so closed and impersonal of poets. For many of us, to wonder what this literary giant's favourite flavour of ice-cream was seems a somehow unsuitable curiosity – irreverent or frivolous even – as if to think about his taste for such ordinary pleasures would distract from the appreciation for his very momentous achievements in poetry. It is, however, Crawford's aim to make these kinds of commonplace aspects of T.S. Eliot's life and personality much more familiar to us, as he draws our attention to the poet's childhood years and youth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955495X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David P Colley|title=Seeing the War: The Stories Behind the Famous Photographs from World War IIWendy Williams

|summary=As anybody could tell, a still photograph is only part Ronnie Williams was the son of the truth, if thatThomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There is a beforehand we don't sees some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and an after we can only fantasise about unless we know otherwisehe might well have shaved a few years off his age. Take For a while, the famous image of wartime grunts pushing the flag pole upright – an icon of the War family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the Pacific for the US soldiers, 1929 Depression and the films made about Iwo Jima sincefive-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. But other images of the war have been just as longOne thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-lasting, out and the people in the photos don't always have movies made of their full story arcthis would stay with him throughout his life. This book is a collection of He joined the images, and a corrective to that narrative lack, giving much more of a full biography with which to pay tributearmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611687268</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)Patti Smith|title=HieronymusYear of the Monkey

|summary=Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in 1769On the coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the younger brother lunar year of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but who is perhaps better remembered as a philosopher and linguist. The family was wellthe monkey -to-do and both brothers benefitted from an excellent educationone packed with mischief, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed mothersorrow, but it was and unexpected moments. In a legacy from her which would fund Alexanderstranger's first explorations. His first travels would be in Europe where he met and was influenced by people such as Joseph Bankswords, President of the Royal Society''Anything is possible: after all, who had travelled with Thomas Cook. But it was his travels in Latin America which would lay the foundations for his life's work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Parker|title= Bertolt Brecht - A Literary Life|rating= 3.5|genre= Biography|summary= Drawing on letters, diaries, and unpublished material, Stephen Parker offers a rich and detailed account of Brecht's life and work, and paints a new picture of one the year of the twentieth centurymonkey's most controversial cultural icons – a man whose plays are performed more in Germany than Shakespeare's. Examining Brecht's beginnings in Bavaria, through As Smith wanders the First World War and onto the beginnings coast of a career. ThenSanta Cruz in solitude, Brecht's journey through Weimar Germany where he became she reflects on a political artist, struggling with the fascists who would eventually drive him to exile year that brings huge shifts in Denmark, and onto her life in the US – suspected of being a Soviet agent, before the eventual return to Germany, - loss and a later life plagued with illness. This is a fascinating book about the manageing are faced head-on, his work, and as it the climates shifting political waters in which he wrote and influenced his work, as well as providing insights into the thought processes, health, and women who filled the world of BrechtAmerica.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474240003</amazonuk>1526614758

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dominic Pearce1912242052|title= Henrietta MariaO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating= 4.53|genre= HistoryArt|summary=The phrase 'tragic Queen' is an often overused one, but Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the French princess who became first person to walk the second Stuart Queen Consort of Britain surely has mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as strong a claim as any miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to the titlefor pleasure and adventure. In British history she was unique in that she not only lived to see her husband defeated in civil warHis rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, but also sentenced to death and in effect judicially murderedits literary consequences, changed our view of the world''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445645475</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip WeinsteinGraff_Find|title=Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of RageFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff

|summary=Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy Diary of RageAnn Frank'' makes frequent mention of Franzenbut then realised that her own family's attendance at Swathmore College in Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1977 and where the author, Philip Weinstein was, until last year Professor of Englishstories were equally fascinating. An earlier graduate, the novelist James A. Michner left his entire estate of some 10 million dollars to the college hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the proceeds from his works, including city during the one on which ''South Pacific'' was founded. It was at Swarthmore that Franzen met his wifewar years, where she had been but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a gifted classmatecountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Weinstein, Most people believed that the author occupation could never happen: even those who teaches therethought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, has personally known Franzen for over two decades and that the latter has given him a personal interview and been otherwise Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in contact with him for some considerable time. If this all seems just a little blurred in its boundariesthe way that it did, not to say incestuous, then that might not matterbut initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. However, Franzen It's work closely concern itself with shame, guilt, incest, rage and humiliationan atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307177</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Adam Sisman1786893452|title= John le Carre: The BiographyUngrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary=Some twenty years ago David CornwellHere in the West, better known as novelist John le Carréwe see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, told a couple some scaremongering about them. But all of would-be writers about him those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the world and the situations that he did not believe refugees find themselves in . It'authorised' biographies or critiques. Adam Sismans rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity to do that, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who has since then been granted exclusive access to was born in the man and his private archivemiddle of a revolution in Iran, can therefore consider himself fleeing to America as a lucky manten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827921</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Catherine Hewitt0857058320|title= The Mistress of ParisLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary= Born into poverty, no-one could have guessed that ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the girl who would one day be known as Valtesse de la Bigne would have achieved greatnessauthor's lost ancestor's life and death. This Cercas is searching for the tale of her rise to wealth and power – starting meaning behind his great uncle's death in a dress shop as a thirteen year oldthe Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, but fast becoming a courtesan is the figure who would be fought looms large over by some of the greatest men of her timebook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. A woman who kept an air The question at the centre of mystery about many details of her life, Catherine Hewitt nevertheless paints an incredible story around the gaps, and this proves book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be both a full and intriguing biography, and a fascinating portrait of hero whilst having fought for the time periodwrong side. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848319266</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Despina Stratigakos1788037812|title=Hitler at HomeThe Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|genre=HistoryBiography|summary=''Please do not make Hitler look good.'' Words to live by that the author of this volume received from her motherOriginally passed in 1885, a Kefalonian who knew Nazi abuse when she saw it. Rest assured that the book does not do law that, but it certainly provides had made homosexual relations a much freshercrime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, more eloquent restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and interesting look at certain aspects 1908, three books on the nature of his life, homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and introduces us to someone else from the Nazi times – Gerdy TroostJohn Addington Symonds, who might as well be summarised as Hitler's interior designerthe heterosexual Havelock Ellis. In picking apart Exploring the entire life margins of Troostsociety and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the nature scientific understanding of her work homosexuality, and how beginning the buildings struggle for recognition and décor she surrounded Hitler equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Buckland_Zoo|title=The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history|author=Richard Girling|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=As a conservationist in became Victorian England before the term existed, Frank Buckland was very much a part man ahead of his propagandatime. Surgeon, naturalist, veterinarian and eccentric sums him up perfectly, we get and any biographer is immediately presented with a refreshingly new yet authoritative bookcolourful tale to tell.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Williams_Captain|title=Captain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, that for those with an interest Cambalong: His Military Life and Times|author=Ivor George Williams|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the 17th Regiment of Foot. He was in this side command of our recent history will easily be considered one the troops and convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, Australia: his wife and young son accompanied him. He was not destined to live a long life, dying suddenly at the age of34 at Bangalore, if leaving his widow to raise their two young sons. Edwards' death left his widow in a difficult position: not theonly did she have their farm to manage, best book of but she was also responsible for the year. The person convicts who does come out with worked the laurels worn highest is our authorland. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>030018381X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elizabeth NortonPeacock_mountain|title= Into The Temptation Of Elizabeth TudorMountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd|author=Charlotte Peacock|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Life, or rather survival, in Tudor England was a precarious business. Being close Mostly we choose what books to read because there is so little time and so many books… I can understand the crown was anything approach, but a guarantee of safetyI also think we sell ourselves short by it, and we sell the myriad lesser-known authors short as well. So while, like most other people I have my favourite genres, and favoured authors, and while, like most other people I read the fate of two of King Henry VIII's Queen's amply demonstrated. His second daughter Elizabeth led a charmed life reviews and went follow up on what appeals, I also have a third-string to reign as Queen for over forty years, but she too had some narrow escapes when her liberty if not her very existence was under threatmy reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081728</amazonuk>