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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]==Biography==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Sue Shephard|title=The Surprising Life of Constance Spry|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=The very mention of the name Constance Spry conjures up thoughts of flower arranging and books of recipes from a bygone era. Perhaps it was her misfortune that she died just before television could have made a celebrity of her, as it did of the likes of Fanny Cradock and Nigella Lawson, to name but two. Even so, she enjoyed a remarkably successful career, and the woman behind the public face was no ordinary career woman, but quite an unconventional personality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230741819</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rob Chapman|title=Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head |rating=5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Roger Barrett, who later acquired the moniker 'Syd' (let's make him Syd from now on) was born in Cambridge in 1946. The fourth of five children, he was the only one to inherit any lasting artistic talent, which came from his father Max. The latter was a senior pathologist, member of the local Philharmonic Society, gifted singer, pianist and watercolour painter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571238548</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Frances Stonor Saunders|title=The Woman Who Shot Mussolini|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=Most British titled families of the 19th and 20th centuries have produced their fair share of rebels. Yet few came as close to changing the course of European history as the Honourable Violet Gibson, one of eight children of Baron Ashbourne, a Protestant Anglo!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--Irish peer and MP in Disraeli's government during the 1870s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571239773</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Josephine Wilkinson1788360702|title=The Early Loves of Anne Boleyn|rating=3.5|genre=History|summary=Before her marriage to King Henry VIIICharles, Anne Boleyn had already been courted by three suitors, any of whom might have become her husband - and possibly saved her from her eventual end on the scaffold. The first was her Irish cousin James Butler, later Earl of Ormond, whom she was at one time intended to marry in order to settle a family dispute over the title and estates of the Earldom of Ormond. After their marriage negotiations came to an end in the face of legal obstacles, she became betrothed to Henry Percy, heir to the Duke of Northumberland. With a little help from the scheming Cardinal Wolsey, the Duke, who had little time for his son, insisted that any idea of marriage between them should be dismissed forthwith. Soon after this the poet Thomas Wyatt became enamoured of her, but by this time there was fierce competition from his sovereign, and her destiny was sealed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848684304</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAlternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Michele Monro|title=Matt Monro: The Singer's SingerEdzard Ernst|rating=4.5
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|summary=In terms of British chart statistics and record salesFor over forty years, Matt Monro never quite fulfilled his full potential. When measured against the achievements Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of contemporary ballad singers like Tom Jones alternative medicine and Engelbert Humperdinck, he fell some way shortcomplementary therapies. Yet the former Terry Parsons was a regular fixture on the light entertainment circuit''Charles, and overseas, particularly in Latin America and The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Philippines, he was undoubtedly one of BritainPrince's most successful exports everopinions, beliefs and at one point he was the biggest selling artist in Spain. His idol Frank Sinatra, to whom he was often compared, often said that Matt was the only British singer he ever really listened to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566182</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caroline Moorehead |title=Dancing to aims against the Precipice : Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French Revolution|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Two hundred years ago, with the fall background of the monarchy and the Napoleonic wars, France underwent one cataclysmic change after anotherscientific evidence. There were many who witnessed are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and experienced his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the volatile age at first hand, but few left reputation of a more detailed record than the subject man who is proud of this biography, Luciehis refusal to apply evidence-Henriette Dillon, Marquise Marchioness de La Tour du Pin.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099490528</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=A.Roger Ekirch |title=Birthright: The True Story That Inspired Kidnapped|rating=4|genre=History|summary=They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, and it is not unusual for novels to be based partly on fact. So it was in the case of Robert Louis Stevenson's ''Kidnapped'', Sir Walter Scott's ''Guy Mannering'', and at least three others, all of which can point logical reasoning to the saga of James Annesley for inspirationhis ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393066150</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Van der Kiste1739805100|title=William and MaryLoving the Enemy: Heroes Building bridges in a time of the Glorious Revolutionwar|author=Andrew March
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|summary=At school I remember spending a lot of time on the Tudors and the early Stuarts – obviously great favourites of the history teacher and then galloping unceremoniously through the intervening years until we reached another ''meaningfulLoving the Enemy'' period – tells the Victorian era. The importance quite extraordinary story of William and Mary was completely overlooked author Andrew March's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to teach in favour of a quick mention the early days of the fact that William wasn't Nazi regime in direct line of succession to the throne 1930s. Fred, a sensitive and Mary thoughtful man, had never wanted to marry him some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the first placetime. Their successor, Queen Anne I remember simply as Fred'tabless attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for a lifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075094577X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah BakewellWill Brooker|title=How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer The Truth About Lisa Jewell
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|summary='Chance … really Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the way things happen,most successful British authors I' wrote Howard Beckve never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the Chicago School sociologistthousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. I visit Bookbag Towers This book starts with few preconceived ideas about the next book for reviewtwo meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. I'll allow myself to fall for a quirky title or appealing coverThe meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, despite only a smattering of interest in her anecdote about cup cakes, the subject matter. Just occasionally this waywords of her latest book she was reciting, I stumble on and her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a golden nugget so fascinating and wellget-written that up never commonly worn at the author events I realise how lucky I am get to be attend), but pulled Brooker, a reviewerprofessor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse output. IBrooker decides he'm so pleased d like nothing more than to have chanced upon this inviting biography of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701178922</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|follow her through a year in the published author=David Baldwin|title=The Kingmaker's Sisters: Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the Roses|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Due to the small amount of surviving personal sourceslife, any book which purports working to be make a biography success of a 15-century subject is almost inevitably going to be more a 'life the latest title, and times' than a lifestruggling with the next in line. In the case of women who were sisters but not sovereigns or consorts themselvesJewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the lack of data will be even more acuteresult.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0750950765</amazonuk>1529136024
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue RoeMartha Leigh|title=The Private Lives of the ImpressionistsInvisible Ink: A Family Memoir|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=In the early 1860s Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a group of young Parisian artists were keen to exhibit their workslightly eccentric, despite opposition from the official art worldimmediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Their protests at being spurned by the SalonHer father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the French equivalent complete correspondence of the Royal Academy, resulted in their paintings being shown at the rather disparaginglyphilosopher Jean-named Salon des RefusésJacques Rousseau, where crowds and critics came to view - and jeerhis life's work. When they held the first of their own exhibitions Her mother is a few years later, one reviewer said that they 'seem to have declared war on beauty', while another assured his readers that concert pianist who practises for hours every canvas must have been day. Neither parent is hugely interested in the work practicalities of some practical joker who had dipped his brushes life. There is love in paint, smeared it onto yards of canvas, and signed the result with several different nameshouse but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099458349</amazonuk>1800460384
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will BirchPolly Barton|title=Ian Dury: The Definitive BiographyFifty Sounds
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|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Ian Dury was always one of Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the most individual, even contrary characters in question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the musical worldhadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. In a branch of showbiz where people often relied on good looks as a short cut to stardomI may get there later this year, he was no oil paintingbut I am not hopeful. During the pub rock era, he and his groupAnd like Barton, I don't know the Blockheads, ploughed a lonely furrow which owed more answer to jazz-funk than rockthe question ''why Japan?'n'roll, and his songs extolled the virtues She explains her feelings in respect of characters from Billericay or Plaistow rather than those from Memphis or California. Alongside the young punk rock upstarts with whom he competed for inches question in the rock pressfirst essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, he was comparatively middle-aged. As if that was not enoughamong other things, in his own words childhood illness had left him a permanent the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself'raspberry ripple'.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0283071036</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark SimpsonFrederic Gros|title=Alastair Sim: The Star A Philosophy of Scrooge and the Belles of St Trinian'sWalking|rating=45|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=The mere mention of Alastair Sim conjures I confess I picked this one up visions of pictures made during from the 1950s when a more gentle humour was the order library in my pre-lockdown forage of the dayrandom stuff. Yet Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the man hated pages I have marked and did his best return to avoid publicity, claiming that the person the public saw on screen revealed all that anybody needed its varying wisdom when I need to know about him. Some books draw you in slowly. How he would have fared twenty years later This one had me in the age of first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a more intrusive press, one cannot but wondersport''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0752453726</amazonuk>1781688370
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert CrawfordSharon Blackie|title=The Bard: Robert Burns - a biographyIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=If Shakespeare I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is Englandsetting out to buy my own copy before I's own Bard, ve finished reading the comparatively shortlived Robert Burns – who lived and worked nearly two centuries later – fulfils the equivalent role in Scottish iconography more than adequatelyone I've borrowed. Yet as this very thorough biography demonstrates, there is much more I want to the man than the wordsmith of avoid clichés like 'powerful'Auld Lang Syne' and inspiring'Wee, sleekit, cowrin', timlife-changing'rous beastie– although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844139301</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Porter0241446732|title=Katherine the QueenOur House is on Fire: The Remarkable Life Scenes of Katherine Parra Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Katherine Parr The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was the last an opera singer and arguably Svante Thunberg took on most of the most fortunate parenting of King Henry VIII's six wivestheir two daughters. Apart from Anne of ClevesThen eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, the speedily divorced 'Flanders mare'then nine years old, she struggled with what was the only one to survive himhappening. And while all six of the queens consort remain rather shadowy figuresIn such circumstances, it's natural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, this biography gives it became clear to the impression family that she was probably the most intelligent and wellthey were ''burned-out people on a burned-rounded personality of them allout planet''. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230710395</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Clayton0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The Richard Beckinsale StoryInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday
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|summary=A generation The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably knows Richard Beckinsale only from repeats on determined when her family emigrated to the UK Gold TV channels, and from occasional mentions in the context of 'how great he would have been if only…' USA. In 1978 The Sunday Times Magazine tipped At the 30time she was just three-yearyears-old sitcom favourite as a rising major star but because of the 80s who would blossom into one of the great all-round stage actorssome childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. One year laterInstead, he was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752454404</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Van der Kiste|title=Sonsshe remained with her grandparents, Servants who doted on her and Statesmen: The Men saw that she received a good education, both in Queen Victoria's Life|rating=4and out of school.5|genre=Biography|summary=Like She was the first Elizabeth more books than are strictly necessary have been written about Queen Victoriaonly child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, but John Van der Kiste has taken her family had become pioneer farmers in the unusual step mid-west of using the men in United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her life grandparents eventually went to illuminate some dark corners which might other wise have remained unexploredjoin the family. Of course the most famous man in Clara would only know her lifemother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, husband seven surviving children and Prince Consort Albert isn't 'son, servant or statesman' as promised by the title of the book, but he established a trenddied in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. VictoriaAs the eldest girl, often regarded as a difficult woman to please, heavy burden would always have a man in her life who would, to fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a greater or lesser extent, dominate herrude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750937882</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Emerson1789017977|title=Escape to Provence|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=In the 1920s two women, one American, one British, settled in the south of France, both for different reasons. Elisabeth Starr had left her home in Philadelphia after an unhappy childhood Ronnie and the death, possibly suicide, of her fiancé, Hilda's Romance: Towards a nephew of the American President. Drawn to Paris, 'the chosen European city for the sophisticated and well-heeled of the New Life after World', she worked as a nurse during the Great War, then moved to Provence where she made her home in an ancient stone house, the Castello, and took French citizenship. Winifred (Peggy) Fortescue was the wife of the Royal Librarian at Windsor, who retired in 1926 with a knighthood and became a renowned (though hardly successful in financial terms) military historian. After the fall of the pound, it was hard for them to make ends meet in England, and they were drawn to find a property in Provence partly by the lifestyle, partly by a favourable exchange rate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955832101</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewII|author=Sushila Anand |title=Daisy: The Lives and Loves of the Countess of WarwickWendy Williams
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|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=Born Daisy Maynard in 1861, Ronnie Williams was the Countess son of Warwick lived a colourful life by any standardsThomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. She was notoriously promiscuous, a spendthrift who did There's some doubt as to whether or not hesitate they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to try have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and provoke he might well have shaved a royal scandal to shore up her parlous finances, and although she relished her lifestyle to the full, she spent several few years fighting wholeheartedly for the pioneer socialists in Britainoff his age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909773</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Lewis|title=The Blind Side|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=I think my husband was For a little taken aback to see me curled up on while, the sofa engrossed in a book about American Football. I suppose I should admit that I didn't actually know it family was going quite well-to be about American Football. Well, I knew it was about a boy who ''played'' American Football, -do but I'd thought that was just going to be the background story, you know, like disaster struck in ''Jerry Maguire''. So the first chapter seemed 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to go on and on forever, and I thought my head might pop from reading about quarterbacks and blind sides and plays and offence and defence and running statistics...but then somehow I stumbled adjust to the real heart of the story; the story of Michael Oher, a young African-American very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from the slums of Memphis whose his father was never around, and whose mother was a drug addict his need to be well-turned-out and lost this would stay with him to social services throughout his life. He joined the army at a young ageeighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039333838X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Billy HopkinsPatti Smith|title=Tommy's WorldYear of the Monkey
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|summary=I came to this biography having read three On the coast of HardySanta Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, and unexpected moments. In a stranger's novelswords, two quite recently''Anything is possible: after all, and some it's the year of the monkey''. As Smith wanders the coast of his poetrySanta Cruz in solitude, but knowing very little about him as she reflects on a person. Claire Tomalin has brought him admirably to year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and ageing are faced head-on, as it the shifting political waters in these pagesAmerica.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141017414</amazonuk>1526614758
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenifer Roberts1912242052|title=The Madness of Queen Maria: The Remarkable Life of Maria I of PortugalO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=4.53|genre=BiographyArt|summary=Born in 1734 in Lisbon, at that time ''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the richest and most opulent city in Europe, Maria was destined first person to become walk the first female monarch in Portuguese history. Married mountains alone, not because he had to her uncle Infante Pedrofor work, seventeen years her senioras a miner, she had six children (outliving all but one of them)quarryman, and became Queen in 1777. A conscientious womanshepherd or pack-horse driver, she had the misfortune but because he wanted to be born in during the 'age of reason', when church for pleasure and state were vying for supremacyadventure. Instinctively a supporter of the old religion, His rapturous encounters with a humanitarian approach to state affairstheir natural beauty, she was no Queen Elizabethand its literary consequences, no Catherine changed our view of the Great, and wore her crown rather reluctantlyworld''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095455891X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham McCannGraff_Find|title=Bounder!: The Biography of Terry-ThomasFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=43.5|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=When I was in my early teensBen Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of handwritten notes from his journal, he didn't take much notice of it sometimes seemed as if Terry-Thomas was one of the stars of almost every other five-star British comedy film around. He was certainly one of At the most recognizable characters age of all with his gap-toothed grin24, cigarette holder and inimitable Graff didn'Hel-lo!', 'Hard cheese!', and best t realise the gravity of all, the angry, 'You're an absolute shower!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845134419</amazonuk>pages he was holding.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella Tillyard 1789016304|title=War and Love: A Royal Affair: George III family's testament of anguish, endurance and His Troublesome Siblingsdevotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=45
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|summary=King George III Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was not the luckiest entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of English sovereigns. America, and Ann Frank'' but then his sons, in realised that order, gave him no end of grief, her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the last few city during the war years of his life , but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were clouded by madnessresistant to German occupation. It is thus often overlooked Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced thatthey would soon be pushed back, before these troubles arose that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to haunt this most conscientious monarchescalate in the way that it did, he also had but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a thankless task in trying to control his siblingsvast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099428563</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Borman 1786893452|title=Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin QueenUngrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri
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|summary=So many biographies have been Here in the West, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. But all of those stories are written about by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the life world and times of Englandthe situations that refugees find themselves in. It's longest-lived rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and longest reigning sovereign that one might wonder whether there this is anything new left a rare opportunity to say about her. However Tracy Borman has found an interesting new angle – do that, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by telling Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the story middle of her life through the women closest a revolution in Iran, fleeing to herAmerica as a ten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224082264</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Lever0857058320|title=Me CheetaLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)
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|summary=Even today, London ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a remarkable compromise of journey to uncover the old author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the newSpanish Civil War. As Alistair Duncan shows in this volumeManuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the city of Conan Doyle and Holmes has changed – yet not changedbook. There have been a handful of books in the past on 'HolmesHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's London', but forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this is dictator. The question at the first centre of its kind this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to place equal emphasis on places associated with be a hero whilst having fought for the detective and his creatorwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312500</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul R Spiring (Editor) 1788037812|title=Bobbles & PlumThe Fraternity of the Estranged: Four Satirical Playlets by Bertram Fletcher Robinson and PG WodehouseThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson
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|summary=POriginally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years.GBut during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Wodehouse needs little if any introductionBetween 1891 and 1908, but Bertram Fletcher Robinson's life and career three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were cut short written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and he is little known outside his connections with Sir Arthur Conan DoyleJohn Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. This set Exploring the margins of satirical playlets society and studying homosexuality was common on which they collaboratedthe European Continent, published but barely talked about in journals between 1904 and 1907 and virtually forgotten sincethe UK, are presented in book form for so the first time. As such they show how the careers publications of both these men were evolvinghugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, particularly while Wodehouse was finding his feet and experimenting with beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the different facets milestone legalisation of journalism before finding his niche same-sex relationships in comic fiction1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312586</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Wynter Bee and Lucy Clapham Buckland_Zoo|title=People of The Man Who Ate the Day 4Zoo: The Rich and Famous CaricaturedFrank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history|author=Richard Girling
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|summary=Have you ever been asked to buy As a book conservationist in aid Victorian England before the term existed, Frank Buckland was very much a man ahead of a charity his time. Surgeon, naturalist, veterinarian and wished that you'd given a donation and not taken the book? Welleccentric sums him up perfectly, 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 any biographer is definitely worth the cover priceimmediately presented with a colourful tale to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954811038</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Nicholas Williams_Captain|title=Idle Thoughts on Jerome K JeromeCaptain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: A 150th Anniversary CelebrationHis Military Life and Times|author=Ivor George Williams|rating=4.5
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|summary=Although he was a prolific novelist, short story writer, dramatist and journalist, Jerome Klapka Jerome will always be remembered first and foremost as In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the author 17th Regiment of ''Three Men Foot. He was in command of the troops and convicts on board a Boat''. This fascinating anthologyship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, published on the 150th anniversary of Australia: his birth, reminds us that there wife and young son accompanied him. He was far more not destined to the man than that one admittedly enduring book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956221203</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard D Ryder|title=Nelson, Hitler and Diana|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Was Horatio Nelson, live a navy officer of great renownlong life, forever thrusting himself into dying suddenly at the limelightage of 34 at Bangalore, doing it because leaving his mother passed away when he was nine? Was Hitler overly affected by widow to raise their two young sons. Edwards' death left his father dying widow in a time of paternal disapprovaldifficult position: not only did she have their farm to manage, and a kind of Oedipal reaction to being but she was also responsible for the man in convicts who worked the house making him suffer when land. Two years later she herself died? And can Diana, Princess of Wales' parents' divorce lead to a claim she was a sufferer of borderline personality disorder?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845401662</amazonuk>would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.
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|genre=AutobiographyBiography|summary=Emma Charles was on the edge of thinking that she Mostly we choose what books to read because there is so little time and her family were doing quite well. They were an ordinary family – mum, dad, two daughters, three dogs, a rabbit and a couple of guinea pigs. Sprinkle in an Open University course for Mum, private schooling for so many books… I can understand the girlsapproach, a nice car in the drive of the nice housebut I also think we sell ourselves short by it, good clothes and fun holidays – and you can understand why she might be rather pleased with we sell the way that life was goingmyriad lesser-known authors short as well. Then her fifteen year old daughterSo while, Tamsinlike most other people I have my favourite genres, gave her a noteand favoured authors, couched in graphic termsand while, saying that her father had been sexually abusing her for like most other people I read the past five years.In moments the family's life fell apart. Gone were all the certainties, the hopes reviews and the expectations. In came the policefollow up on what appeals, Social Services and Child Protection OfficersI also have a third-string to my reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090005</amazonuk>
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