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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]==Biography==__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lois Banner1788360702|title=MarilynCharles, The Alternative Prince: The Passion and the ParadoxAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst
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|summary=With the possible exception For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe is probably the most written-about deceased woman in twentieth-century historyalternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The thirty-six years of her life Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and aims against the manner background of her death will no doubt continue to provide an opportunity for as many writers as they have since her sudden passingthe scientific evidence. After a decade There are few instances of research Lois Banner, a Professor his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of History and Gender Studies at university in California, treatments which have no scientific support has added another weighty tome done considerable damage to the relevant shelves. As reputation of a self-styled pioneer man who is proud of secondhis refusal to apply evidence-wave feminism and the new women’s historybased, she has some interesting insights logical reasoning to offer into her subject’s life as a gender role modelhis ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408814102</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Penny Junor1739805100|title=Prince William: Born to be KingLoving the Enemy: An Intimate Portrait|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Prince William is one of the few people who genuinely needs no introduction. He's been Building bridges in the public eye since his birth and the interest is certain to increase rather than diminish as a time goes by. On the other hand he ''is'' only thirty. Is there really going to be enough to warrant a book and will it be anything more than an attempt to cash in on his marriage in 2011 and the current interest in all things royal engendered by the Queen's Diamond Jubilee? You can see that I was something of a reluctant reader - my sympathies are republican rather than royalist and in addition Penny Junor is known to be a supporter of Prince Charles in what can be described as the War of the Waleses. Was this ''really'' going to be a book which I would enjoy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444720392</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewwar|author=Shirley Harrison|title=Sylvia Pankhurst: The Rebellious SuffragetteAndrew March
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|summary=To some extent, ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the history quite extraordinary story of author Andrew March's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to teach in the suffragettes was also the history early days of the Pankhurst family. Sylvia, born Nazi regime in 1882, was the second daughter of Dr Richard and Emmeline Pankhurst, and one of three sisters1930s. The family had always been heavily politicisedFred, Richard being a founder member of the Fabian Society alongside George Bernard Shaw sensitive and H.G. Wellsthoughtful man, and the children had quite an austere upbringing. When their father’s health took a sudden turn for some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the worse in 1898, Emmeline and eldest daughter Christabel were abroad on business and Sylvia was left growing hostilities between nations unfolding in charge of her younger siblings as well as having to nurse him, taking Europe at the full force of the shock when he died in her armstime. With his passing the family were left strangely detached Fred's attempts to separate individual people from each other. His widow became heavily involved in public work ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and political agitation, an increasingly remote mother from the young children who needed herconnections that lasted for a lifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780950187</amazonuk>
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|summary=Already known for major biographies Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of Nicholas the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, and Alexandrashows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and of Peter her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the Greatauthor events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, Massie a professor of cultural studies who has now written an equally full and absorbing swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse output. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in the published author's life , working to make a success of the late eighteenth-century reigning Empresslatest title, and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the result.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0679456724</amazonuk>1529136024
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim EwartMartha Leigh|title=The Treasures of Queen ElizabethInvisible Ink: A Family Memoir|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Tim Ewart Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is Royal Correspondent for ITV Newsa Cambridge don, which must be one of forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the perfect starting points for writing a biography complete correspondence of the Queen as she celebrates her diamond jubilee. Shephilosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his life's only the second British monarch to achieve this landmark - the other being Queen Victoriawork. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. After sixty years on the throne - and eighty six Neither parent is hugely interested in public life - there's not much which isn't known about the Queen and few pictures which haven't previously seen the light practicalities of day, but Ewart's book life. There is marked out by love in the inclusion of memorabilia which will have house but also darker undercurrents that a freshness for many readerschild does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780970064</amazonuk>1800460384
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|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=A book based around just one dinner sounds Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a little extraordinarywhile and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. But the hostI may get there later this year, painter Benjamin Robert Haydonbut I am not hopeful. And like Barton, was no ordinary artist. He was a friend of many I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the major artistic and literary figures of question in the dayfirst essay, in addition to which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being an ambitious painter of historical scenes. Sadly, his ambition was not matched by popularity or good fortuneamong other things, and despite or perhaps parly because an exaggerated belief in his own abilities, one and a half centuries after his death he is largely forgotten except for his suicide after years the sound of despair, and perhaps his diary as well''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009956372X</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara TuringFrederic Gros|title=Alan M Turing: Centenary EditionA Philosophy of Walking|rating=45|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=June 2012 will see I confess I picked this one up from the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, brilliant mathematician, the man who played a major part library in breaking the Enigma codes in the Second World War and is widely thought to be the father my pre-lockdown forage of computer sciencerandom stuff. To celebrate Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the anniversary Cambridge University Press pages I have reprinted a short biography written by Turing's mother marked and included a memoir written by his older brother, Johnreturn to its varying wisdom when I need to. Some books draw you in slowly. IThis one had me in the first two pages, wherein Gros explains why 'm rarely impressed by biographies written by [[No Ordinary Man by Dominic Carman|family members]] particularly when they're still coming to terms with their own grief, but this book walking is startling for what it says about the family members as much as for what it says about Alan Turingnot a sport''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1107020581</amazonuk>1781688370
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|genre=Biography|summary=Framed I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by Jobshow many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I' iconic speech at a Stanford College graduation ceremony, and ve finished reading the three stories he told the students, about connecting the dots, love and loss, and mortality, this biography gives a succinct and balanced account of Jobsone I' life, his successes and his failures, his passions and his ideals, and his infamously polarized personalityve borrowed. The author actively annotates the backstory of Jobs with references from this speech, as well as future events, carefully chosen statistics, and Jobs I want to avoid clichés like ' own reminiscence, giving a rich context to his story. Jobspowerful' achievements are incredible and they're not simply down to his genius, but his attitudes towards life and his incredible charisma. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832062</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot|title=Dotter of Her Fatherinspiring's Eyes|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=If there's one person able to produce a worthwhile potted history of James Joycelife-changing's daughter, – although it should be Mary M Talbot. She's an eminent academic, and her father was a major Joycean scholar. Both females had parents with is definitely the same names too - James first two and Nora, both took to only time will tell about the stage when younger after going to dance school, third – but clichés exist for a reason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it'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 to produce a delightful graphic novel - [[:Category:Bryan Talbot|Bryan Talbot]]better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224096087</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Holroyd0241446732|title=A Book Our House is on Fire: Scenes of Secretsa Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Illegitimate DaughtersGreta Thunberg, Absent FathersBeata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg
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|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Picture the crowded atelier of the renowned sculptor, Rodin or perhaps the dimly lit corridors of Lord Grimthorpe's mansionThe Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Perhaps you might prefer to frequent the brightly lit splendour of the balconies Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the coastal villa at Cimbrone above the magnificent Gulf of Salerno. The inhabitants parenting of such places led their tangled lives, sometimes enduring painful losses or by contrast, energetically inspired to passionate love affairstwo daughters. In these stimulating environments we catch glimpses of the famous Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, like E.M.ForsterBeata, Virginia Woolfthen nine years old, sometimes accompanied by her close confidante, Vita Sackville West and then there struggled with what was that tempestuous iconoclast, Dhappening.H.Lawrence. Many In such lives were inspired by both landscape and lustcircumstances, fashioned by each otherit's creative energies and endowed with artistic talents of all kinds. Here we learn of talents and beauty that inspires artistic endeavournatural to seek a solution close to home, like the many charms of Eve Fairfax. Shebut eventually, who after brief affairs was gradually forced into a stoic suspension which she recorded with thoughts from her friends in it became clear to the pages of annotated diaries which became family that they were ''A Book of Secretsburned-out people on a burned-out planet''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548941</amazonuk> If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Grant0648684806|title=I & IClara Colby: The Natural MysticsInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday
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|summary=Just mention The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the word reggaeUSA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, and the name that nearly always springs she wasn't allowed to mind is that of Bob Marley sail with her parents and the Wailersthree brothers. The music has always been very much Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a product of the Jamaican culturegood education, nurtured both in years and out of turbulent historyschool. In this book Colin Grant, born She was the only child in Britain of Jamaican parentsthe household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, goes back deep into its roots, and her family had become pioneer farmers in the process examines the childhood lives mid-west of the Wailers’ three main personalitiesUnited States and life was hard, namely Bob Marleyas 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, Peter Toshhad ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and Neville Livingstondied in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, better known as Bunny Wailer, to provide an account of the group – but much more than thata heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526727</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Ackroyd1789017977|title=DickensRonnie and Hilda's Romance: A Memoir of Middle AgeTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams
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|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=With publishers falling over each other in an effort Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to outdo each other have been born in celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth1863, it but he was perhaps inevitable that we should see already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a reappearance of what has become few years off his age. For a while, the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the modern standard life, by Peter Ackroyd1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. The 1200One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-page original was first published in 1990, while out and this 600-page abridged edition surfaced would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1994, and now makes another timely appearance1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099437090</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul HendricksonPatti Smith|title=Hemingway's Boat: Everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961Year of the Monkey
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|summary=This substantial volume is not exactly a full biography On the coast of Ernest Hemingway. In factSanta Cruz, it might almost have been subtitled ‘The rise and fall’. Its theme is more or less Patti Smith enters the second half lunar year of his lifethe monkey - one packed with mischief, from 1934sorrow, when he returned from an African safari and took delivery of his boat Pilarunexpected moments. In a stranger's words, ''Anything is possible: after all, to his tragic death 27 years later. Hendrickson intends it to be an account 's the year of the writer, bringing together monkey''. As Smith wanders the different elements coast of his Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life – fishing, friendship, wives - loss and family ageing are faced head- and above allon, naturally, his writingas it the shifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847921930</amazonuk>1526614758
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Bradford1912242052|title=Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our TimesO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=43|genre=BiographyArt|summary=As ''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a biographer who has previously written substantial biographies of the Queen (published in 1996)miner, of her father George VIquarryman, and her daughter-inshepherd or pack-law Dianahorse driver, Sarah Bradford needs little introductionbut because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. At around 260 pages of textHis rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, this is barely half the length changed our view of her other titles, and probably aimed more at the general reader with an eye on the Diamond Jubilee marketworld''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067091911X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'SheaGraff_Find|title=Amy Winehouse: A Losing GameFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=43.5|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=At the risk When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of stating the obvioushandwritten notes from his journal, this is a sad bookhe didn't take much notice of it. Writing this review some five months after her death, now At the immediate smoke has cleared, it is apparent from this book (as well as other general sources) that she was a gifted performer, with a jazz voice which could have qualified her for a lengthy career long after scores age of aspiring X-Factor contestants had given up singing and opted for less glamorous24, more steady careers. After all, her idols had been not only near-contemporaries like Michael Jackson and Missy Elliott, but also those Graff didn't realise the gravity of an earlier generation such as the classic 1960s girl groups, as well as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, with whom she pages he was thrilled to record a duet four months before she diedholding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859654826</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Hollis1789016304|title=Now All Roads Lead to FranceWar and Love: The Last Years A family's testament of Edward Thomasanguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin
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|summary=Most historians tend Melanie Martin read about what happened to refer to Edwardian England as the thirteen-year interlude between the Victorian era and the shots at Sarajevo which precipitated the First Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World WarII and was entranced by what she discovered, an era particularly in ''The Diary of relative stabilityAnn Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. However, there had been ominous rumblings A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the new order of things city during the two war years or so prior , but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to June 1914, particularly from happen in a new spirit among the younger literary generationcountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. The old Victorian writersMost people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, notably that the uniquely terrible Poet Laureate Alfred Austin (doubtless a very good manAmsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it did, but an almost comically inept writer of verse) were dismissed initial protests melted away as irredeemably old hat by the likes of Rupert Brooke and W.H. Daviesorganisers became more circumspect. For It's an atrocity on a short time London was the poetry capital vast scale but made up of tens of the world, and the book opens with the opening in January 1913 thousands of Harold Monro’s poetry bookshop in Bloomsbury, which rapidly became a magnet for the self-proclaimed Georgian poets and readersindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571245986</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Blackburn1786893452|title=Thin Paths: Journeys in and Around an Italian Mountain VillageThe Ungrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri|rating=4.5
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|summary=Julia Blackburn had known Herman for many yearsHere in the West, but they had drifted apart. She put the postcard which she received from him in an album: it mentioned we see news reports about immigrants on a cottage he had discovered in Liguria and which he was renovatingregular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. Some time later there was another postcard But all of those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and an invitation almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to visit. Over time the cottage would become her home world and Herman her husbandthe situations that refugees find themselves in. It'Thin Paths' is s rare that we find out the stories of journeys from the people who inhabit refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity to do that, in this harshintelligent, wild landscape powerful and of the way moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in which the landscape has formed the people. The thin paths join the people and the places together middle of a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a way of life which is rareten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090682</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erica Heller0857058320|title=Yossarian Slept Here|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary='To live forever or die in the attempt' was the essential glory in life and living that is at the heart of John Yossarian in [[Catch 22 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 Lord Of All the Heller family. The harebrained unpredictability, the madcap exploits and relationships bowl us through this book with terrific pace and verve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099570084</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDead|author=Chambers Javier Cercas and Joan Bakewell|title=Chambers Biographical DictionaryAnne McLean (translator)
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|summary=It's now 'Lord Of All the ninth edition of this famous volume and that came as Dead'' is a bit of a shock when I glanced at journey to uncover the bookcase author's lost ancestor's life and realised that my copy dated back to 1974 and was still in regular use death. Cercas is searching for a quick guide as to who might have been who. Itthe meaning behind his great uncle's advertised as death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas'the greatuncle, is the good, figure who looms large over the not-so-great and the downright wicked' and itbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's difficult to better that summaryforces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. It has eighteen thousand biographies and differs from ''Who's Who'' with The question at the centre of this book is whether it's thirty thousand entries in that covers the dead as well as the living and the ''interesting'' rather than those who need is possible for his great uncle to be included because they have achieved a certain positionhero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0550106936</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Tomalin1788037812|title=Charles DickensThe Fraternity of the Estranged: A LifeThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson
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|summary=Having already Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written biographies by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of Thomas Hardy society and Jane Austenstudying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, among othersbut barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to say nothing the scientific understanding of a study of Dickens homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and his mistress Nelly Ternanequality, Claire Tomalin is admirably qualified to produce a major life of the author leading to mark the bicentenary milestone legalisation of his birth same-sex relationships in 1812. (Sadly, she says this will be her last large-scale book)1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917672</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jermaine JacksonBuckland_Zoo|title=You Are Not AloneThe Man Who Ate the Zoo: Michael Through A Brother's EyesFrank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history|author=Richard Girling
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|summary=It is inevitable that the books we have already seen about Michael Jackson As a conservationist in Victorian England before the two years since term existed, Frank Buckland was very much a man ahead of his sudden passing will be merely the tip of the icebergtime. Yet for those which comprise Surgeon, naturalist, veterinarian and are based on first-hand knowledge of his life eccentric sums him up perfectly, and death, there will surely be few if any biographer is immediately presented with a colourful tale to rival this account by his brother Jermaine and ghostwriter Steve Dennistell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007435665</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham HoldernessWilliams_Captain|title=Nine Lives Captain Ronald Campbell of William ShakespeareBombala Station, Cambalong: His Military Life and Times|author=Ivor George Williams
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|summary=There is a subtle irony In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the 17th Regiment of Foot. He was in command of the fact that the world’s best-known playwrighttroops and convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, Australia: his wife and possibly young son accompanied him. He was not destined to live a long life, dying suddenly at the most famous author age of all time34 at Bangalore, is leaving his widow to raise their two young sons. Edwards' death left his widow in a character about whom so little is known difficult position: not only did she have their farm to manage, but she was also responsible for certainthe convicts who worked the land. Nevertheless, as we are looking at someone who died nearly 400 Two years ago, the indisputable documentary evidence is bound to be lackinglater she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441151850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne IsbaPeacock_mountain|title=Dickens's Women: His Life and Loves|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=The subject of the several women in the life of Charles Dickens might at first glance seem an unusual theme to build a biography around, but this fairly brief but penetrating book serves its purpose well. Into The author’s foreword begins by telling us that Dickens was a man who 'craved a love so unconditional that the yearning was unlikely to be satisfied in this worldMountain, a man in thrall to a vision A Life of a womanhood so idealized that it was incompatible with everyday domesticity'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441107207</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNan Shepherd|author=Bruce Duffy|title=Disaster was my GodCharlotte Peacock
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|summary=MachiavelliMostly we choose what books to read because there is so little time and so many books… I can understand the approach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it, 'and we sell the first philosopher to define politics myriad lesser-known authors short as treachery'well. So while, has probably been better known as an adjectivelike most other people I have my favourite genres, Machiavellian being a synonym for duplicity in statecraftand favoured authors, than as a historical person. Interestinglyand while, like most other people I read the term 'Machiavel' became common in English usage as an adjective reviews and noun around 1570follow up on what appeals, although none of his works were translated into the language for another seventy years or so after thatI also have a third-string to my reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847252214</amazonuk>
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