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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Ashdown-Hill1788360702|title= Charles, The Private Life of Edward IVAlternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Edward IV is currently a popular subject for biographersFor over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. All credit is therefore due to Dr Ashdown-Hill ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, one beliefs and aims against the background of the foremost scientific evidence. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of current Yorkist-era historians, for looking at treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the King from reputation of a fresh angle – that man who is proud of his romantic involvementsrefusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445652455</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anja Reich-Osang and Imogen Taylor (translator)1739805100|title=The Scholl CaseLoving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew March|rating=4.5

|summary=I think I'd like Ludwigsfelde. I wouldn't have liked it when it was an industrial village, with one or two huge mechanical plants and nothing else to its name. But now, even with Loving the constant hum of Enemy'' tells the autobahn (one quite extraordinary story of Hitlerauthor Andrew March's) keeping it companygrandparents, it must have an appeal. It has been rebuilt, refashioned and remodelled since who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to teach in the end early days of East Germany, under the most prosperous and forward-looking mayor Nazi regime in the state1930s. Fred, a sensitive and thoughtful man, if not had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the country. He it was who put growing hostilities between nations unfolding in a mostly-nude swimming spaEurope at the time. It has dispensers for doggy poo bags, so thereFred's nothing as uncouth as taking your own. The mayor, bless him, even expanded the motorway attempts to three lanes in each direction. It is within touch of Berlin, separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and in tune with so many business wants, yet is surrounded by woodlandconnections that lasted for a lifetime. Woodland where, between Christmas and New Year a few years back, the mayor's own wife and dog were found, both having been strangled…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240932</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S D TuckerWill Brooker|title=Great British EccentricsThe Truth About Lisa Jewell|rating=4.5

|summary= Some very strange people Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have stalked our green read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and pleasant landcloser together. In his introduction The meeting was some unspecified combination, Tucker asks us why. Is it our status as an island people which has made so many seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of our countrymen turn her latest book she was reciting, and her being in on ourselves? Has our long libertarian tradition a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse output. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in the idea published author's life, working to make a success of individual freedomthe latest title, and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, as long as we do nobody else any harmdue diligence appropriately done, permitted weirdness to flourish among us?agrees. And this is the result.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445660326</amazonuk>1529136024

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen JenningsMartha Leigh|title= Travels With My FatherInvisible Ink: A Family Memoir|rating= 45|genre= General Fiction Biography|summary= Despite the coda, this does not feel like ''an autobiographical novel''. I am not sure why Jennings felt the need to couch it Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in those terms unless there is much in the structure that is fictiona slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. I'm hoping there isn't. I am hoping that the fiction Her father is purely that conceit that this pretends to be a novel. If that was necessary to get it publishedCambridge don, then I'll applaud forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence of the subterfugephilosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, because this is writing that needs to be readhis life's work. It Her mother is – if as true as I want it to be – a delicate reminiscence: a daughter's ''in memoriam'' to a father she loved, worshipped, idealised, cared-concert pianist who practises for, lived with, and yes (hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in true daughterly fashion) at times, hatedthe practicalities of life. A father who was, therefore, There is love in the house but also darker undercurrents that a good dadchild does not fully understand but knows is there. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907320695</amazonuk>1800460384

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Van der KistePolly Barton|title=Pop Pickers and Music Vendors: David Jacobs, Alan Freeman, John Peel, Tommy Vance and Roger ScottFifty Sounds

|genre=EntertainmentPolitics and Society|summary=You know those questions you get in celebrity interviews - Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''which extinct being would you most like to see brought back to lifeWhy Japan?' Well' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I'd am not hopeful. And like to see Jimmy Savile brought backBarton, so that he could get his comeuppance. ItI don's not just t know the damage he did answer to children and young people, dreadful as that was - itthe question ''why Japan?'s the shadow he cast over the entertainment industry. We know that he wasn't alone She explains her feelings in what he did, but somehow there's a whole era respect of entertainment which has been tarred by the same brush. John Van der Kiste has turned question in the spotlight away from Savile and first essay, which is on to five of the great DJs sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of the music industry''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781555443</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Tales of Loving and LeavingFrederic Gros|authortitle=Gaby WeinerA Philosophy of Walking|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=In I confess I picked this one up from the library in my pre-lockdown forage of random stuff. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have marked and return to its varying wisdom when I need to. Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''Tales of Loving and Leavingwalking is not a sport'', author Gaby Weiner tells the story of three of her family members: her grandmother, Amalia Moszkowicz Dinger; her mother, Steffi Dinger; and her father, Uszer Frocht.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524635081</amazonuk>1781688370

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew LewisSharon Blackie|title=Henry III: The Son of Magna CartaIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary= For I normally say that you can tell how much a monarch whose reign over England book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an even greater measure of fiftyimpact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the one I've borrowed. I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-six years was unequalled until changing' – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the nineteenth century, Henry III remains curiously little-known. Nobody could claim that he was a particularly outstanding or successful ruler, third – but the fact that he held his throne clichés exist for so long in an unstable age was no mean achievement in itselfa reason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445653575</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Licence0241446732|title=Catherine of AragonOur House is on Fire: An Intimate Life Scenes of Henry VIII's True Wifea Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg

|summary= Catherine The path of Aragon, Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the first time she was just three-years-old but because of Henry VIIIsome childhood ailment, she wasn's six wives t allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and Queenssaw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was arguably the most unhappy figure during only child in the Tudor era who did not meet household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her end on family had become pioneer farmers in the scaffold or at mid-west of the stakeUnited States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. The cliché 'tragic love story' must be Clara would only know her mother for a fitting one few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in her casechildbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656701</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Burgauer1789017977|title=The Road To Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World WarII|author=Wendy Williams|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: Duty & Drillhe claimed to have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. For a while, Courage & Capturethe family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patti Smith|title=Year of the Monkey

|summary=After World War II Bill Frodsham led an everyday lifeOn the coast of Santa Cruz, raising a family in an ordinary US suburb. He, his wife and children became friends Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the monkey - one packed with the Burgauer familymischief, little Steven Burgauer knowing him as Mr F. Time rolls on and little Steven grows upsorrow, and then eventually retires from the American financial sector to write science fiction and lecture from time to timeunexpected moments. HeIn a stranger's therefore surprised whenwords, out of the blue''Anything is possible: after all, Mr Fit's daughter tracks him down and presents him with a pile the year of handwritten notes asking Steven to make them into a book. These are Mr Fthe monkey''s self-authored memoirs, stretching from his youth onwards and showing that this seemingly good, kind but unremarkable man was anything but unremarkable. During As Smith wanders the war Mr F trained for the impossible and then lived it as he led men across Omaha Beach coast of Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on D Day. He was then captured and spent the rest of the war as a POW year that brings huge shifts in inhumane conditions. Steven accepted the request her life - loss and ''The Road to War'' is ageing are faced head-on, as it the result: the life and war of Captain William C Frodsham Jrshifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1450218806</amazonuk>1526614758

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sofka Zinovieff1912242052|title= The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and MeO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating= 4.53|genre= BiographyArt|summary= Faringdon House in Oxfordshire was the home of Lord Berners; composer, writer, painter, friend of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein, and a man renowned ''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for both his eccentricity and his homosexuality. Turning Faringdon into an aesthetebeing 's paradise, exquisite food was served to many of the great minds and beauties of the day. Since the early 1930's, his companion there was Robert Heber-Percy, twenty-eight years his junior, wildly physical and unscholarly, a hothead who rode naked through the grounds and was known first person to all as walk the Mad Boy. If those two sounded an odd couplemountains alone, especially at a time when homosexuality was illegal, the addition of Jennifer Fry not because he had to the household in 1942for work, as a pregnant high society girl who became Robert's wifeminer, quarryman, was really rather astounding. After the child was bornshepherd or pack-horse driver, the marriage soon founderedbut because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. Berners died in 1950 His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and Robert was left in charge its literary consequences, changed our view of Faringdon, ably assisted by a ferocious Austrian housekeeper. This mad the world was the one first encountered by author Sofka Zinovieff, Robert's granddaughter'. A typical child of the sixties, it was much to her astonishment that Robert decided to leave the house to her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>009957196X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor GreiveGraff_Find|title=Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a FamilyFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=3.5|genre=Biography Autobiography|summary=Cameron and When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of handwritten notes from his wifejournal, Sam, had been leading a very active, adventurous lifehe didn't take much notice of it. Even after At the birth age of their three sons they wanted to continue their adventures24, so they decided to travel to Thailand for a family holiday. They were having a brilliant time until, suddenly, Sam was involved in a dreadful, almost fatal, accident. The accident left her paralysed and, because Graff didn't realise the gravity of the sudden and extremely severe impact on her life she slid quickly into a very deep and dark depression. Cameron feared for his family's future, and his wife's life, until one day a small abandoned magpie chick came along, and managed to change everythingpages he was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782119795</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Callow1789016304|title=Orson Welles, Volume 3War and Love: One-Man Band|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary= Orson Welles, the noted actor, director and producer, was one A family's testament of those larger than life characters whose impact on the world of stage and screen during his lifetime was inestimable. Simon Callow has found the task of condensing his story into a single volume is impossibleanguish, endurance and this is the third of three solid instalments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099502836</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewdevotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Graeme Thomson|title= George Harrison: Behind the Locked DoorMelanie Martin

|summary= George Harrison was the youngest of the four wartime-born youngsters who came together Melanie Martin read about what happened to form The Beatles. He Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was also the only one who came from a relatively stable family background, his early years not scarred entranced by the loss of one parent through divorce or early bereavement. With two elder brothers and a sisterwhat she discovered, he was the baby of the Harrison clan. A poor scholar but a promising trainee electrician particularly in his teens, a musical ear and the advent ''The Diary of rockAnn Frank'n'roll soon led him along an alternative career pathbut then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. This is a finely balanced warts-A hundred and-all portrait of seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the manwar years, his life, character, songwriting but only five thousand survived and other interests, an often baffling figure, Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a strange mix of good and badcountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Thomson has dug deeply and spoken to several Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who knew him well and worked with him, and as a life of thought that the Germans might reach the 'Dark Horse', I doubt it could city were convinced that they would soon be bettered. Scrupulously researchedpushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it is easily the most comprehensive Harrison life I have come acrossdid, and but initial protests melted away as the most objectiveorganisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468310658</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Larman1786893452|title= Byron's WomenThe Ungrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri

|summary= George Gordon, who became the 6th Lord Byron at the age of ten Here in 1798 on the death of his grandfatherWest, is remembered not only as one of the great poets of the Romantic erawe see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, but also as somebody whose severe lack of moral compass was guaranteed to attract scandal wherever he laid his hatsome scaremongering about them. This new book, as the title suggests, is not a biography But all of himthose stories are written by journalists – almost always western, rather an account of his life and those of nine of almost always, no matter how deep the women who were unfortunate enough investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to become involved with him. They include his mother, his abused wife, his half-sister with whom he slept as well, plus lovers the world and mistresses and his two daughtersthe situations that refugees find themselves in. Larman admits It's rare that there could have been several more we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – actressesand this is a rare opportunity to do that, servant womenin this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the middle of a revolution in fact almost anyone. For ByronicIran, maybe we should read 'insatiable'fleeing to America as a ten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082023</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Higginbotham0857058320|title= Margaret Pole: The Countess in Lord Of All the TowerDead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary= The fate of Margaret Pole, who as ''Lord Of All the cover says has Dead'' is a good claim journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the title of meaning behind his great uncle's death in the last PlantagenetSpanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas'great uncle, was a sorry one. As a close relation of is the Yorkists and figure who looms large over the Tudors book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at a time of upheaval, her life was overshadowed by the executions centre of several of her family – and ultimately leading this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to her own, largely it seems, be a hero whilst having fought for the 'crime' of being who she waswrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445635941</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Barbara Fox1788037812|title= When the War is Over|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary=Gwenda and Douglas Brady were a brother and sister from Newcastle who were evacuated to the Lake District during the Second World War. ''When the War is Over'' tells Gwenda's story of evacuee life in the idyllic village The Fraternity of Bampton, where they spent several years living with a kindly schoolmaster and his wife. As they settled into village life, Gwenda and Douglas found it harder and harder to come to terms with the idea that they would have to return home to their parents at some point.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Howlett|title= James DeanEstranged: Rebel Life|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary= James Dean was The Fight for Homosexual Rights in a sense to the 1950s what Sid Vicious was to the 1970s – the ultimate 'live fast, die young' characterEngland, although as the star of three classic movies of the era he achieved rather more in his short life than the hapless punk icon ever did in his.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655342</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1891-1908|author=Sean Cunningham|title=Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never WasBrian Anderson|rating=4.5

|summary= Prince Arthur was Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the eldest son nature of Henry VIIhomosexuality appeared. Had he lived longerThey were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, there might have been no Henry VIIIas well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, thus paving but barely talked about in the way for a very large counterfactual 'what if' in British history. The name ArthurUK, that so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the mythical King several centuries earlierscientific understanding of homosexuality, had great expectations attachedand beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, never leading to be fulfilledthe milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647664</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenifer RobertsBuckland_Zoo|title=The Beauty of Her AgeMan Who Ate the Zoo: A Tale Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian Englandnatural history|author=Richard Girling

|summary= The name of Yolande Stephens (nee Duvernay) is not that well-known As a conservationist in the annals of Victorian Englandbefore the term existed, but behind it lies an enthralling rags-to-riches saga. How did Frank Buckland was very much a young girl born into poverty in Paris become one of the most celebrated ballerinas man ahead of her his time in England. Surgeon, naturalist, veterinarian and after that one of the richest women in the countryeccentric sums him up perfectly, and any biographer is immediately presented with a fortune on her death which rivalled that of Queen Victoria?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445653206</amazonuk>colourful tale to tell.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter RexWilliams_Captain|title=William the Conqueror: The Bastard Captain Ronald Campbell of Normandy|rating=4.5|genre=History |summary= The basic facts of William I's life are inevitably as clouded as those surrounding the Norman conquestBombala Station, the events and politics which led up to it, and the aftermath. As Peter Rex makes clear in his introduction, any surviving sources are inevitably very incomplete. Moreover, 'the writing of the history of the eleventh century requires the historian to attempt to provide motives and explanations for events that are only sketchily described at best'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660172</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Teresa Cole|title= Henry VCambalong: The His Military Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of Agincourt|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|genre= Biography|summary= Peter Ackroyd has established a reputation for himself in recent years as the master of the pithy biography, particularly but not exclusively of those with a strong London connection. J.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 the noted film director and producer, the 'Master of Suspense'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099287668</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTimes|author=Tom Bower|title=Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of PowerIvor George Williams

|summary=In May 1997 we went March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the 17th Regiment of Foot. He was in command of the troops and convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to vote gleefullySydney, sure that there Australia: his wife and young son accompanied him. He was going not destined to be live a change from long life, dying suddenly at the tiredage of 34 at Bangalore, sleaze-ridden Conservative government we'd been sufferingleaving his widow to raise their two young sons. The BlairsEdwards' 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 death left his widow 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 Blairdifficult position: Afghanistan and Iraq as well as his failure not only did she have their farm to deal with Gordon Brown would always sour his premiership for memanage, but to what extent could his achievements such as she was also responsible for the Good Friday Agreement, convicts who worked the minimum wage and higher welfare payments be balanced against his failures?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314201</amazonuk>land. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Popham Peacock_mountain|title=Into The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for FreedomMountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd|author=Charlotte Peacock

|summary=On 13 November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest after spending 15 of Mostly we choose what books to read because there is so little time and so many books… I can understand the previous 21 years as a prisoner of Burma's military junta. Political reforms soon followedapproach, culminating with Suu (as she prefers to be known) being elected to parliament. The West rejoiced; leadersbut I also think we sell ourselves short by it, business men, and tourists poured in; and Suu entered we sell the pantheon of modernmyriad lesser-day political heroes. Burma was a burgeoning democracy, and Suu was a saint. In reality, known authors short as Peter Popham argues in 'The Lady and the Generals', the situation was far more complexwell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043719</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Aubrey|title= Brief Lives|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary= John Aubrey was a modest manSo while, an antiquarian and the inventor of modern biography. His lives of the prominent figures of his generation include Shakespeare, Milton, and Sir Walter Raleigh. Funny, illuminating and full of historical details, they like most other people I have been plundered by historians for centuries. Here Aubrey's biographical writings are collectedmy favourite genres, painting a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day – all more alive and kicking than in a conventional history book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870331</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ruth Scurr|title= John Aubrey: My Own Life|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary=John Aubreyfavoured authors, the seventeenth-century antiquary, writer and archaeologistwhile, occupies a peculiar, even unique place in English literature. When he died, the work for which he is like most famous, 'Brief Lives', was a disorganised collection of manuscripts which remained unpublished for over a century. Only in other people I read the last hundred years or so has be become more widely recognised as an interesting character reviews and perceptive commentator follow up on societywhat appeals, scholarship and on his contemporaries during the postI also have a third-restoration era.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099490633</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amy Licence|title= Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodvillestring to my reading bow: A True Romance|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Given the current resurgence in popularity of biographies dealing with the Yorkists, the time is right for an account of the marriage of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, a union that proved so divisive 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 withrandomness. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>