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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]==Biography==__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Billy Hopkins1788360702|title=Tommy's WorldCharles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst
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|summary=I came to this biography having read three For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of Hardyalternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's novels, two quite recentlyopinions, beliefs and some aims against the background of his poetry, but knowing very little about him as a personthe scientific evidence. Claire Tomalin There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has brought him admirably done considerable damage to the reputation of a man who is proud of his refusal to life in these pagesapply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141017414</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenifer Roberts1739805100|title=The Madness of Queen MariaLoving the Enemy: The Remarkable Life Building bridges in a time of Maria I of Portugalwar|author=Andrew March
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|summary=Born in 1734 in Lisbon, at that time ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the richest and most opulent city in Europequite extraordinary story of author Andrew March's grandparents, Maria was destined who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to become Dresden to teach in the early days of the first female monarch Nazi regime in Portuguese historythe 1930s. Married to her uncle Infante PedroFred, seventeen years her seniora sensitive and thoughtful man, she had six children (outliving all but one some vague ideas of them), and became Queen in 1777. A conscientious woman, she had "building bridges" which may guard against the misfortune to be born growing hostilities between nations unfolding in during Europe at the time. Fred'age of reasons attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren', when church t universally successful but he did make friendships and state were vying connections that lasted for supremacy. Instinctively a supporter of the old religion, with a humanitarian approach to state affairs, she was no Queen Elizabeth, no Catherine the Great, and wore her crown rather reluctantlylifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095455891X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham McCannWill Brooker|title=Bounder!: The Biography of Terry-ThomasTruth About Lisa Jewell|rating=4.5
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|summary=When Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors I was in my early teens've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, it sometimes seemed as if Terry-Thomas was one of the stars thousands of almost every less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other five-star British comedy film around, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. He The meeting was certainly one some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the most recognizable characters words of all with his gap-toothed grinher latest book she was reciting, cigarette holder and inimitable her being in a 'Hel'black lace mini-lo!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'Hard cheese!d like nothing more than to follow her through a year in the published author's life, and best working to make a success of allthe latest title, and struggling with the angrynext in line. Jewell, 'You're an absolute shower!'due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the result.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845134419</amazonuk>1529136024
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stella Tillyard Martha Leigh|title=Invisible Ink: A Royal Affair: George III and His Troublesome SiblingsFamily Memoir|rating=45|genre=Biography|summary=King George III was not the luckiest of Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English sovereignsfamily. AmericaHer father is a Cambridge don, and then forever clacking away on his sonstypewriter as he edits the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his life's work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in that order, gave him no end of grief, and the last few years practicalities of his life were clouded by madness. It There is thus often overlooked love in the house but also darker undercurrents that, before these troubles arose to haunt this most conscientious monarch, he also had a thankless task in trying to control his siblingschild does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099428563</amazonuk>1800460384
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tracy Borman Polly Barton|title=Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin QueenFifty Sounds
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|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=So many biographies have Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been written about on my radar for a while and if the life and times of Englandworld hadn's longestt gone into melt-lived and longest reigning sovereign that one might wonder whether down I would have visited by now. I may get there is anything new left later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to say about the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her. However Tracy Borman has found an interesting new angle feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – by telling which she describes as being, among other things, the story sound of her life through the women closest ''every party where you have to herintroduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224082264</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James LeverFrederic Gros|title=Me CheetaA Philosophy of Walking|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Straight out of I confess I picked this one up from the golden age library in my pre-lockdown forage of Hollywood comes the bitchiest, most revealing memoir from one of its starsrandom stuff. There are scores Now I have to be settled, stars go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have marked and return to be insulted, secrets its varying wisdom when I need to be hinted at none too subtley, and lost opportunities to be longed for. Oh, and Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the star telling all? Wellfirst two pages, for those of you who canwherein Gros explains why 't tell from the title (or even the picture on the front cover) it's Cheeta - chimpanzee star of the Tarzan films.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007280165</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philippe Auclair |title=Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be King|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=Even though I'm walking is not a Manchester United fan, Eric Cantona is one of my all time favourite players and I was really excited to get the opportunity to read a book which was billed as revealing his innermost thoughts, and being the definitive account of his careersport''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230706347</amazonuk>1781688370
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alistair Duncan Sharon Blackie|title=Close to Holmes: A Look at the Connections Between Historical London, Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIf Women Rose Rooted
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|genre=Biography|summary=Even today, London is I normally say that you can tell how much a remarkable compromise of the old and the newbook means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. As Alistair Duncan shows in this volume, Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the city of Conan Doyle and Holmes has changed – yet not changedone I've borrowed. There have been a handful of books in the past on I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring'Holmes's Londonlife-changing', but this – although it is definitely the first of its kind to place equal emphasis on places associated with two and only time will tell about the detective third – but clichés exist for a reason and his creatorI'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1904312500</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul R Spiring (Editor) 0241446732|title=Bobbles & PlumOur House is on Fire: Four Satirical Playlets by Bertram Fletcher Robinson Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and PG WodehouseSvante Thunberg
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|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=PThe Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal.G Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the parenting of their two daughters. Wodehouse needs little if any introduction, but Bertram Fletcher Robinson's life Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and career were cut short talking and he is little known outside his connections her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with Sir Arthur Conan Doylewhat was happening. This set of satirical playlets on which they collaboratedIn such circumstances, it's natural to seek a solution close to home, published in journals between 1904 and 1907 and virtually forgotten sincebut eventually, are presented in book form for it became clear to the first timefamily that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''. As such If they show how the careers of both men were evolving, particularly while Wodehouse was finding his feet and experimenting with the different facets of journalism before finding his niche in comic fictionto find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312586</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Wynter Bee and Lucy Clapham 0648684806|title=People of the Day 4Clara Colby: The Rich and Famous Caricatured|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Have you ever been asked to buy a book in aid of a charity and wished that you'd given a donation and not taken the book? Well, if you have I'm hoping to persuade you that there are exceptions to every rule and this book in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust is definitely worth the cover price.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954811038</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewInternational Suffragist|author=Jeremy Nicholas |title=Idle Thoughts on Jerome K Jerome: A 150th Anniversary CelebrationJohn Holliday|rating=4.5
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|summary=Although he The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was a prolific novelistjust three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, short story writershe remained with her grandparents, dramatist who doted on her and journalistsaw that she received a good education, Jerome Klapka Jerome will always be remembered first both in and foremost as out of school. She was the author of ''Three Men only child in a Boat''the household and her childhood was glorious. This fascinating anthologyBy contrast, published on her family had become pioneer farmers in the 150th anniversary mid-west of his birththe United States and life was hard, reminds us that there as Clara was far more to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the man than that one admittedly enduring bookeldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956221203</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard D Ryder1789017977|title=Nelson, Hitler Ronnie and DianaHilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams
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|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=Was Horatio Nelson, a navy officer Ronnie Williams was the son of great renownThomas 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: he claimed to have been born in 1863, forever thrusting himself into the limelight, doing it because his mother passed away when but he was nine? already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. Was Hitler overly affected by his father dying in For a time of paternal disapprovalwhile, and a kind of Oedipal reaction the family was quite well-to being the man -do but disaster struck in the house making him suffer when she herself died? And can Diana, Princess of Wales' parents' divorce lead 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a claim she very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was a sufferer of borderline personality disorder?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845401662</amazonuk>his need to be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Trevor Hamilton Patti Smith|title=Immortal Longings: F.W.H. Myers and Year of the Victorian Search for Life After DeathMonkey
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|genre=Biography |summary=Born in 1843On the coast of Santa Cruz, Frederic Myers began his career as a classical lecturer at Cambridge University, but disliked teaching and soon gave it up in favour Patti Smith enters the lunar year of writing poetry and essays in literature. Although his social circle included men such as Gladstonethe monkey - one packed with mischief, Ruskinsorrow, Tennyson, Browning and Prince Leopold, the most intellectual of Queen Victoriaunexpected moments. In a stranger's sonswords, his books (which are not so well remembered today) might have been his sole claim to fame''Anything is possible: after all, had it not been for his passionate curiosity about 's the meaning year of human lifethe monkey''. If it had As Smith wanders the coast of Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a purpose, he was convincedyear that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and ageing are faced head-on, as it could only be discovered through the study of human experiencesshifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845401239</amazonuk>1526614758
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul R Spiring (Editor) 1912242052|title=The World of Vanity Fair - Bertram Fletcher RobinsonO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=53|genre=Biography Art|summary=Every now and then, you comes across a really sumptuous book, where just turning and looking at the pages takes you into another world. Such is the case with this one. ''Vanity FairOh Joy for me!'' was a gentler Victorian forerunner of gives Coleridge credit for being ''Private Eye''. Subtitledthe first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, ''A Weekly'' ''Show of Politicalas a miner, Socialquarryman, and Literary Wares''shepherd or pack-horse driver, it appeared between 1868 but because he wanted to for pleasure and 1914adventure. Like the more successfulHis rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, longer-lasting ''Punch'', it began with radical aspirationsand its literary consequences, intending ''to expose what'' [the editor] ''perceived to be the'' ''vanities changed our view of the elite social classesworld''. However its satire was gently humorous rather than malicious, and almost everybody who was portrayed in its pages was flattered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312535</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Piers DudgeonGraff_Find|title=Captivated: J.M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers and the Dark Side of NeverlandFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff
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|summary=Emma Charles was on the edge When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of thinking that she and her family were doing quite well. They were an ordinary family – mumhandwritten notes from his journal, dad, two daughters, three dogs, a rabbit and a couple he didn't take much notice of guinea pigsit. Sprinkle in an Open University course for Mum, private schooling for At the girlsage of 24, a nice car in Graff didn't realise the drive gravity of the nice house, good clothes and fun holidays – and you can understand why she might be rather pleased with the way that life pages he was going. Then her fifteen year old daughter, Tamsin, gave her a note, couched in graphic terms, saying that her father had been sexually abusing her for the past five years.In moments the family's life fell apart. Gone were all the certainties, the hopes and the expectations. In came the police, Social Services and Child Protection Officersholding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090005</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jacqueline Walker1789016304|title=Pilgrim StateWar and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin
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|summary=ItMelanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's a story which has been told by many authors during the last centurystories were equally fascinating. The Victorian age, or at any rate A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the woman who gave her name to city during the erawar years, came about largely if but only five thousand survived and Martin could not wholly because of understand how this could be allowed to happen in a crisis of sorts among King George III's familycountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. By Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the time his seven surviving sons reached middle age, city were convinced that they had managed to produce one legitimate child between them, namely Princess Charlotte. Her unexpected deathwould soon be pushed back, and the need for at least some if not all of that the others Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to do their dynastic duty and produce an heir or two, resulted escalate in an undignified mass scramble to the altar. Edwardway that it did, Duke of Kent won but initial protests melted away as the lotteryorganisers became more circumspect. It was he and his wife, 's an atrocity on a widow with two small children by her first marriage, whose daughter Victoria became the saviour vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of the royal successionindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099451824</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martyn Downer1786893452|title=The Queen's KnightUngrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri
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|summary=The title sounds more indicative of a novel by [[:Category:Dorothy Dunnett|Dorothy Dunnett]] or Jean Plaidy than a biography. Then a brief prologue starts the story at Here in the very endWest, when Queen Victoria receives the unexpected we see news of the death of Sir Howard Elphinstonereports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. An equally short first chapter gives us a glimpse But all of those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the man some thirty years earlier in investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the thick of battle at world and the Crimea. Only after situations that do we 'reach' his birth refugees find themselves in 1829. Sometimes rules are meant to be broken, and itIt's rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and this is a good way of introducing rare opportunity to do that, in this very interesting life. As intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the husband middle of his subject's greata revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a ten-greatyear-granddaughter, the author is well qualified to write itold.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055215508X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Coxe and Peter Danckwerts (Editor)0857058320|title=Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel and John Christopher Smith|rating=3|genre=Biography|summary=Written by Lord Of All the stepson of John Christopher Smith (a friend of Handel and composer in his own right), ''Anecdotes'' is an overview of two men who in their own ways were remarkable. Handel, of course, was a musical genius while Smith was a man of great kindness — a good friend of Coxe's father, he married his widow to ensure she and her children would be cared for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904799396</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDead|author=Barney Hoskyns|title=Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Born and raised in Los Angeles, Tom Waits probably enjoys a status comparable to the UK's Richard Thompson. He has never sold out to a mass pop audience, preferring instead to sustain an engagingly low-key career for over 30 years, feted by critics, fellow artists Javier Cercas and a cult following while only achieving modest record sales. While his 80s albums 'Swordfishtrombones' and 'Rain Dogs' are regarded as among the finest of the decade, most of his royalties have come through cover versions of his songs. Two, 'Downtown Train' and 'Tom Traubert's Blues', have been Top 10 hits for Rod Stewart, who once said that they paid for the swimming pool in Tom's garden, while in his early days the Eagles gave him a boost by recording 'Ol' 55' on their third album.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571235522</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Victor Schoelcher Anne McLean (Authortranslator), Anton de Moresco (Editor), James Lowe (Translator) |title=The Life of Handel
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|summary=Although he ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is probably best remembered searching for the meaning behind his active role great uncle's death in the abolition of slavery in Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the French colonies, and as a campaigner book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for womenFrancisco Franco's rights, Victor Schoelcher was also a noted musicologistforces. His biography of the composer Handel, first published in 1857, was one of the first scholarly works Cercas ruminates on the subject, and why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the time centre of this book is whether it was generally regarded as one of is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the finest portraits of a musician or composer ever writtenwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904799388</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain McCalman1788037812|title=Darwin's ArmadaThe Fraternity of the Estranged: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans and Their Battle The Fight for the Theory of Evolution|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=A look at Darwin's journey on The BeagleHomosexual Rights in England, as well as journeys by Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallace. Darwin's Armada provides a broad overview that strikes a different tone to other books in a crowded market. Casual readers who usually steer clear of non1891-fiction will enjoy it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737266X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1908|author=Frances Osborne|title=The BolterBrian Anderson|rating=45
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|summary=Life Originally passed in London just after 1885, the Great War must have been jollylaw that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, even frightfully good funrestrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, what – for three books on the right (or nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the wrong?) peopleheterosexual Havelock Ellis. The early 1920s were Exploring the years margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the bright young thingsEuropean Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men who had been lucky enough were hugely significant – contributing to return from the fighting still in one piece, determined to make up for years scientific understanding of tedium in the trenches by whooping it up with the equally pleasure-loving gals barely out of their teenshomosexuality, just as willing to throw morals and discretion to beginning the winds struggle for recognition and party round equality, leading to the clock. This was the age when women thought nothing milestone legalisation of receiving invited company while in the bath and slowly getting dressed same-sex relationships in front of them. One hostess even greeted her guests walking down the staircase of her Belgrave Square mansion wearing a string of the family pearls – and nothing else1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844084809</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Doris Kearns GoodwinBuckland_Zoo|title=Team The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of Rivalsnatural history|author=Richard Girling
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|summary=This hefty tome, As a conservationist in Victorian England before the cover tells usterm existed, is 'the book that inspired Barack Obama'Frank Buckland was very much a man ahead of his time. For what it's worthSurgeon, naturalist, Obama's name appears no less than nine times on the cover veterinarian and spine, while Lincoln's appears only sixeccentric sums him up perfectly, and that of the author any biographer is immediately presented with a mere twocolourful tale to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043725</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Gribbin and Michael WhiteWilliams_Captain|title=Darwin: A Life in Science|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=This straightforward and likeable biography of Charles Darwin charts the evolution Captain Ronald Campbell of his theories of evolutionBombala Station, while providing solid insights into the man in the context of his upbringing, education and family life. Importantly, it makes you want to read ''On the Origin of the Species'', acting as a primer for the ideas introduced in that famous volume. ''DarwinCambalong: A His Military Life in Science'' is pitched beautifully for the reader of popular science, yet gives plenty of signposts enabling future study. It also gives a very believable picture of Darwin, based on convincing evidence and without falling into florid psychological speculation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391494</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTimes|author=Michael D Lemonick|title=The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the CosmosIvor George Williams
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|summary=No-one can ever look at In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the night skies above our heads as Galileo did17th Regiment of Foot. The light pollution covering so much He was in command of our planet makes it impossible the troops and convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to see nearly as much as he mightSydney, Australia: his wife and young son accompanied him. ConverselyHe was not destined to live a long life, he would have adored living dying suddenly at the age of 34 at Bangalore, leaving his widow to raise their two young sons. Edwards' death left his widow in a time such as ours – with the technology difficult position: not only did she have their farm to show him so much he couldn't seemanage, so much he daren't dream ofbut she was also responsible for the convicts who worked the land. Sitting happily between those two extremes was William HerschelTwo years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039306574X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David GrannPeacock_mountain|title=Into The Lost City of Z: Mountain, A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=For Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Fawcett there was more to the Amazonian jungle than El Dorado. His target was a treasure of a different nature – a lost city to be discovered because it was a city, not for any spurious material wealth it might hold. Could an entire civilisation have been founded in the inhospitable tracks of rain forest, and left remains he might find fame in locating? As this brilliant biography shows, Fawcett was the best man around to find it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847374360</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter Wynter Bee and Lucy Clapham|title=People Life of the Day 3: The Rich and Famous Caricatured|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=I often find myself paying money for books where the profits go to charity and I'm usually left with the feeling that I'd much rather someone had simply asked me for a donation and not wasted the paper. Every once in a while a book comes along which proves me wrong and there's only one way to describe the ''People of the Day'' series. The books are a delight and it's all in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095481102X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNan Shepherd|author=John Matteson|title=Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father Charlotte Peacock
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|summary=Louisa May Alcott Mostly we choose what books to read because there is so little time and her fatherso many books… I can understand the approach, Amos Bronsonbut I also think we sell ourselves short by it, shared and we sell the same birthday, she being born on 29 November 1832, his thirtymyriad lesser-thirdknown authors short as well. Throughout their livesSo while, like most other people I have my favourite genres, father and daughter remained extraordinarily closefavoured authors, and even almost died together. When he finally succumbed after a stroke while, like most other people I read the reviews and long-drawn out illness follow up on 4 March 1888what appeals, she was too ill I also have a third-string to be told and followed him two days later. Between them, they saw life as 'a persistent but failed quest for perfection', regarding themselves in their vain pursuit of paradise on earth as Eden's outcasts, hence the title of this dual biographymy reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393333590</amazonuk>
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