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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]==Biography==__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Blumenthal1788360702|title=Steve JobsCharles, The Alternative Prince: The Man Who Thought DifferentAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=54
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|summary=Framed by Jobs' iconic speech at a Stanford College graduation ceremonyFor over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and the three stories he told the studentscomplementary therapies. ''Charles, about connecting The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the dotsPrince's opinions, love beliefs and loss, and mortality, this biography gives a succinct and balanced account aims against the background of the scientific evidence. There are few instances of Jobs' life, his successes beliefs being vindicated and his failures, his passions and his ideals, and his infamously polarized personality. The author actively annotates relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the backstory reputation of Jobs with references from this speech, as well as future events, carefully chosen statistics, and Jobs' own reminiscence, giving a rich context to man who is proud of his story. Jobs' achievements are incredible and they're not simply down refusal to his geniusapply evidence-based, but his attitudes towards life and logical reasoning to his incredible charismaambitions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832062</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot1739805100|title=Dotter Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of Her Father's Eyeswar|author=Andrew March
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|genre=Graphic NovelsBiography|summary=If there's one person able to produce a worthwhile potted history 'Loving the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story of James Joyceauthor Andrew March's daughtergrandparents, it should be Mary M Talbotwho first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to teach in the early days of the Nazi regime in the 1930s. She's an eminent academicFred, a sensitive and her father was a major Joycean scholar. Both females thoughtful man, had parents with some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the same names too - James and Nora, both took to growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the stage when younger after going to dance school, but ittime. Fred's the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similarities, in a dual biography painted by one person we know by now as more than able attempts to produce separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for a delightful graphic novel - [[:Category:Bryan Talbot|Bryan Talbot]]lifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096087</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael HolroydWill Brooker|title=A Book of Secrets, Illegitimate Daughters, Absent FathersThe Truth About Lisa Jewell
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|summary=Picture the crowded atelier Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the renowned sculptor, Rodin or perhaps the dimly lit corridors of Lord Grimthorpemost successful British authors I's mansionve never knowingly read. Perhaps you might prefer to frequent the brightly lit splendour Now meet Will Brooker, one of the balconies thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the coastal villa at Cimbrone above two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the magnificent Gulf of Salernotwo closer and closer together. The inhabitants of such places led their tangled livesmeeting was some unspecified combination, sometimes enduring painful losses or by contrastit seems, energetically inspired to passionate love affairs. In these stimulating environments we catch glimpses of her anecdote about cup cakes, the famouswords of her latest book she was reciting, like E.M.Forsterand her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), Virginia Woolfbut pulled Brooker, sometimes accompanied by her close confidantea professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, Vita Sackville West and then there was down the rabbit-hole that tempestuous iconoclast, D.H.Lawrence. Many such lives were inspired by both landscape and lust, fashioned by each otheris Jewell's creative energies and endowed with artistic talents of all kindsdiverse output. Here we learn of talents and beauty that inspires artistic endeavour, Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in the many charms published author's life, working to make a success of Eve Fairfax. Shethe latest title, who after brief affairs was gradually forced into a stoic suspension which she recorded and struggling with thoughts from her friends the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the pages of annotated diaries which became ''A Book of Secrets''result.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099548941</amazonuk>1529136024
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Colin GrantMartha Leigh|title=I & IInvisible Ink: The Natural MysticsA Family Memoir|rating=45|genre=Biography|summary=Just mention the word reggae Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge don, and forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the name that nearly always springs to mind is that complete correspondence of Bob Marley and the Wailersphilosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his life's work. The music has always been very much Her mother is a product of concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in the Jamaican culture, nurtured in years practicalities of turbulent historylife. In this book Colin Grant, born in Britain of Jamaican parents, goes back deep into its roots, and There is love in the process examines the childhood lives of the Wailers’ three main personalities, namely Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Neville Livingston, better known as Bunny Wailer, to provide an account of the group – house but much more than also darker undercurrents thata child does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099526727</amazonuk>1800460384
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter AckroydPolly Barton|title=Dickens: A Memoir of Middle AgeFifty Sounds|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=With publishers falling over each other in an effort to outdo each other in celebrating Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth, it was perhaps inevitable that we should see question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a reappearance of what has become while and if the modern standard lifeworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, by Peter Ackroydbut I am not hopeful. The 1200-page original was And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first published in 1990essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, while this 600-page abridged edition surfaced in 1994among other things, and now makes another timely appearancethe sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099437090</amazonuk>1913097501
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|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Most historians tend to refer to Edwardian England as I confess I picked this one up from the thirteenlibrary in my pre-year interlude between the Victorian era and the shots at Sarajevo which precipitated the First World War, an era lockdown forage of relative stabilityrandom stuff. However, there had been ominous rumblings from the new order of things during the two years or so prior Now I have to June 1914, particularly from a new spirit among the younger literary generation. The old Victorian writers, notably the uniquely terrible Poet Laureate Alfred Austin (doubtless a very good man, but go out an almost comically inept writer of verse) were dismissed as irredeemably old hat by buy my own copy so that I can turn down the likes of Rupert Brooke pages I have marked and Wreturn to its varying wisdom when I need to.H. Davies Some books draw you in slowly. For a short time London was This one had me in the poetry capital of the worldfirst two pages, and the book opens with the opening in January 1913 of Harold Monro’s poetry bookshop in Bloomsbury, which rapidly became wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a magnet for the self-proclaimed Georgian poets and readerssport''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571245986</amazonuk>1781688370
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|genre=AutobiographyBiography|summary='To live forever or die in the attempt' was the essential glory in life and living I normally say that is at the heart of John Yossarian in [[Catch 22 you can tell how much a book means to me by Joseph Heller|Catch 22]]. This autobiography of the daughter of his creator, Joseph Heller, reveals how the same excitement and joie de vivre suffused throughout the Heller familymany pages have corners turned down. The harebrained unpredictability, the madcap exploits and relationships bowl us through this book with terrific pace and verve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099570084</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chambers and Joan Bakewell|title=Chambers Biographical Dictionary|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=It's now the ninth edition Perhaps an even greater measure of this famous volume and that came as a bit of a shock when I glanced at the bookcase and realised that impact is setting out to buy my own copy dated back to 1974 and was still in regular use for a quick guide as to who might have been who. It's advertised as before I've finished reading the great, the good, the not-so-great and the downright wickedone I' and it's difficult to better that summaryve borrowed. It has eighteen thousand biographies and differs from I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful''Whoinspiring's Who'life-changing' with – although it's thirty thousand entries in that covers is definitely the dead as well as first two and only time will tell about the living third – but clichés exist for a reason and the I''interesting'' rather than those who need to be included because they have achieved a certain positionm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0550106936</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Tomalin0241446732|title=Charles DickensOur House is on Fire: A LifeScenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg
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|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Having already written biographies The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of Thomas Hardy the parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and Jane Austentalking and her sister, among othersBeata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. In such circumstances, it's natural to say nothing of seek a study of Dickens and his mistress Nelly Ternansolution close to home, but eventually, Claire Tomalin is admirably qualified it became clear to produce the family that they were ''burned-out people on a major life of the author to mark the bicentenary of his birth in 1812burned-out planet''. (Sadly, she says this will If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be her last large-scale book)radical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917672</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jermaine Jackson0648684806|title=You Are Not AloneClara Colby: Michael Through A Brother's Eyes|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=It is inevitable that the books we have already seen about Michael Jackson in the two years since his sudden passing will be merely the tip of the iceberg. Yet for those which comprise and are based on first-hand knowledge of his life and death, there will surely be few if any to rival this account by his brother Jermaine and ghostwriter Steve Dennis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007435665</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe International Suffragist|author=Graham Holderness|title=Nine Lives of William ShakespeareJohn Holliday
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|summary=There is a subtle irony in The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the fact that USA. At the world’s besttime she was just three-years-known playwrightold but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and possibly the most famous author of all timethree brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, is who doted on her and saw that she received a character about whom so little is known for certaingood education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. NeverthelessBy contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the United States and life was hard, as we are looking at someone who died nearly 400 Clara was 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 ago, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the indisputable documentary evidence is bound to be lackingeldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441151850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Isba1789017977|title=DickensRonnie and Hilda's WomenRomance: His Towards a New Life and Lovesafter World War II|author=Wendy Williams
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|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=The subject of the several women in Ronnie Williams was the life son of Charles Dickens might at first glance seem an unusual theme 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: he claimed to build a biography aroundhave been born in 1863, but this fairly brief but penetrating book serves its purpose he was already many years older than Ethel and he might wellhave shaved a few years off his age. The author’s foreword begins by telling us that Dickens was For a man who 'craved a love so unconditional that while, the yearning family was unlikely quite well-to be satisfied -do but disaster struck in this world, a man in thrall the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a vision of a womanhood so idealized that it was incompatible with everyday domesticity'very different lifestyle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441107207</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bruce Duffy|title=Disaster One thing he did inherit from his father was my God|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The life of Arthur Rimbaud must his need to be one of the most outrageous in literary history, more scandalous than Wilde, more selfwell-turned-destructive than Malcolm Lowery, Rimbaud was the boy poet out and iconoclast who took on this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the literary establishment army at end of the nineteenth century and woneighteen in 1942. So Duffy's fictional account, based closely around the actual facts of Rimbaud's life, was bound to be an exciting and furious, and he doesn't disappoint. This is a difficult book to put down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685273</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul OppenheimerPatti Smith|title=Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology Year of the Monkey
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|summary=MachiavelliOn the coast of Santa Cruz, 'Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the first philosopher to define politics as treachery'monkey - one packed with mischief, has probably been better known as an adjectivesorrow, Machiavellian being and unexpected moments. In a synonym for duplicity in statecraftstranger's words, than as a historical person. Interestingly''Anything is possible: after all, it's the term year of the monkey'Machiavel' became common . As Smith wanders the coast of Santa Cruz in English usage as an adjective solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and noun around 1570ageing are faced head-on, although none of his works were translated into as it the language for another seventy years or so after thatshifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847252214</amazonuk>1526614758
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger Hutchinson1912242052|title=The Silent WeaverO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=43|genre=BiographyArt|summary=There is no question but that ''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the story of Angus has all first person to walk the right ingredients mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a fascinating study. Taken from his Scottish Lowlands agricultural early childhood to the isolation of a Hebridean island of South Uistminer, quarryman, joining the last ever shepherd or pack-horse platoon in the British Army at the outbreak of the Second World Wardriver, then mental breakdown but because he wanted to for pleasure and effective incarceration for almost all the rest of his life, he created some of the most unusual works of folk art that have existed this centuryadventure. And Hutchison tackles every angle of this rich narrative His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, exploring the military thinking behind how horse regiments were to combat Hitlerand its literary consequences, through to changed our view of the operations of mental health care in later twentieth century Scotland, and all points in betweenworld''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841589713</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry ThompsonGraff_Find|title=Tintin: Herge and His CreationFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff
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|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=I love Tintin. I love his quiff and When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of handwritten notes from his innocencejournal, his plus-fours and his foreign adventureshe didn't take much notice of it. At the age of 24, I love Snowy Graff didn't realise the dog and most gravity of all I love Captain Haddock and the flamboyance of his blistering barnacles language. So I pages he was thrilled to see a biography of the character and Hergé, his creator, and I picked it up with enthusiasmholding. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848546726</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Games1789016304|title=Pevsner: The Early LifeWar and Love: Germany A family's testament of anguish, endurance and Artdevotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=45
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|summary=Nikolai Pewsner – the minor changes of name came as a young adult - Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was born entranced by what she discovered, particularly in Saxony in 1902 into a Russian-Jewish ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. Just too young to avoid having to take part in A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the waryears, he had studied art history at no less than four universities by the age of 22but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. He then became an assistant keeper at Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the Dresden Gemaldegaleriecity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, and four years later he was appointed lecturer at Gottingen University.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441190937</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nancy Mitford|title=The Sun King|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Nancy Mitford assumes that you'll need no introduction the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to Louis XIVescalate in the way that it did, who ascended but initial protests melted away as the throne when he was four years old and reigned for well over seventy two yearsorganisers became more circumspect. To put him in context his reign began before Charles I was executed in Whitehall, lasted through the English Civil War, Oliver CromwellIt's Commonwealth, the reigns an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of Charles I, James II, William III and into the beginning tens of the reign thousands of Queen Anne. He bridged the gap between the middle ages and the early modern eraindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099528886</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Kelly1786893452|title=Finding Poland|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Looking at any historical map of Poland anyone may see how its borders have changed over the centuries. Where will you find the Polish home? One answer must be that it is founded deep in the hearts of the Polish people who fought for the liberty and the integrity of the Polish homeland. Now consider the promontory of land around Vilnius, or Wilno as it was then known, which was contained inside Poland in 1921. It was an area in which the small market town of Hruzdowa, comprising some 52 buildings and just large enough to warrant a town hall, was situated. These wild borderlands – known as the Kresy - were fought over for centuries by Austrians, Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians and Lithuanians. It was here that Matthew Kelly's great-grandfather, who had imbibed the values and élan of the dashing officer class, Rafal Ryzewscy, came to teach with his clever young wife, Hanna. They were deeply committed to progress through education and to peaceably raising their two little daughters. However, the dreadful and calamitous year of 1939, was approaching when Hitler and Stalin partitioned Poland in the most cynical pact.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099515997</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Ungrateful Refugee|author=Cita Stelzer|title=Dinner with Churchill: The Prime Minister's Tabletop DiplomacyDina Nayeri
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|summary=The great-grandson 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 a crofterthose stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and son-in-law of a Dukealmost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, Harold Macmillan was born outsiders to the world and the situations that refugees find themselves in London in 1894. Despite It's rare that we find out the journeys from the well-refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity to-do aristocratic backgroundthat, his years as a young adult were marked by bad experiences in the trenches which left him with lifelong war woundsthis intelligent, powerful and his early service as a Conservative Member of Parliament moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the plight middle of the unemployed in his first constituency of Stockton. He had much a revolution in common with another future Prime MinisterIran, Winston Churchill; both had American mothers, and both were mavericks who were elected fleeing to America as Conservatives but refused to toe the party line too steadfastlya ten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844135411</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Ross0857058320|title=Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy LegendLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)
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|summary=Some years ago, I was given ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a Penguin edition of Wildejourney to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle'The Picture of Dorian Grays death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas'great uncle, with what looked like an uniquely fearsome face is the figure who looms large over the 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 the front cover. A year or two later, I saw a photograph centre of Marty Feldman and was convinced he must have inspired this book is whether it if not actually been is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the modelwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857683780</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bettany Hughes1788037812|title=The Hemlock CupFraternity of the Estranged: SocratesThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, Athens and the Search for the Good Life1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=4.5
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|summary=We don't know much about Socrates. For someone whose ideas are still so relevant so long after his deathOriginally passed in 1885, his life is something of the law that had made homosexual relations a mysterycrime remained in place for 82 years. He didn't like to write things downBut during this time, and so Hughes begins this book by saying that it may have something of a 'Socratesrestrictions on same-sized hole' in itsex relationships did not go unchallenged. What we do see is Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the city nature of Athenshomosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, and as well as the hugely important changes which were going on there while Socrates was aliveheterosexual Havelock Ellis. In Athens we see Exploring the beginnings margins of democracysociety and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the seedlings of some publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the ideas that we take for granted today, such as freedom scientific understanding of speechhomosexuality, and beginning the right struggle for recognition and equality, leading to a fair trial. This was an important time in the development milestone legalisation of modern values, and Socrates was an important man. He was not only a brilliant thinker, he was also a man that didn't quite fit, infuriating to converse with, yet fascinating to be aroundsame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554054</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stacy SchiffBuckland_Zoo|title=CleopatraThe Man Who Ate the Zoo: A LifeFrank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history|author=Richard Girling
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|summary=Stacey Schiff's biography starts more of less from Cleopatra's infamous meeting with Caesar, where she sneaks into his rooms in As a sack. This is one of the most popular images of Cleopatra conservationist in Victorian England before the public consciousness and Schiff happily refutes the image of her emerging as a well polished seductressterm existed, pointing out that anyone who had been carried in a sack for Frank Buckland was very much a considerable period man ahead of his time will more likely be fairly dishevelled. Schiff takes us through from this moment Surgeon, naturalist, veterinarian and eccentric sums him up to Cleopatra's much dramatised deathperfectly, and beyond, any biographer is immediately presented with a colourful tale to the end of the Ptolemaic dynastytell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075353956X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tina BrownWilliams_Captain|title=The Diana ChroniclesCaptain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: His Military Life and Times|author=Ivor George Williams|rating=54
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|summary=''The Diana Chronicles'' In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the 17th Regiment of Foot. He was first published in 2007command of the troops and convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, ten years after Diana's untimely death (forgive me if I proffer information that you already know, but prior Australia: his wife and young son accompanied him. He was not destined to reading this booklive a long life, I was one of dying suddenly at the small group age of people in this country happily oblivious 34 at Bangalore, leaving his widow to the Princess Diana industry)raise their two young sons. The book has been re-released Edwards' death left his widow in shocking pink, white and gold livery, as a 'commemorative edition' difficult position: not only did she have their farm to coincide with The Royal Weddingmanage, but she was also responsible for the convicts who worked the land. A fanciful Foreword now imagines Diana's life and reaction to Will and Kate's marriage, had Two years later she survivedwould marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099568357</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances WilsonPeacock_mountain|title=How to Survive the Titanic or the Sinking Into The Mountain, A Life of J. Bruce IsmayNan Shepherd|author=Charlotte Peacock
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|summary=As Mostly we choose what books to read because there is so little time and so many books… I read 'How to Survive can understand the Titanic' approach, but I was conscious that also think we're only a matter of months away from the centenary of the sinking – sell ourselves short by it, and a slew of media to mark we sell the occasionmyriad lesser-known authors short as well. Given that the subject has been mined extensively over the years it will be interesting to see whether there's anything new to be said about So while, like most other people I have my favourite genres, and favoured authors, and while, like most other people I read the tragedy. It's a subject which has always fascinated me – reviews and it was with follow up on what appeals, I also have a sense of anticipation that I opened the bookthird-string to my reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809222</amazonuk>
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