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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]==Biography==__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry Ricketts1788360702|title=Strange MeetingsCharles, The Alternative Prince: The Lives of the Poets of the Great WarAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=4.5
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|summary=The majority For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of recent books on the War Poets tend to focus on their lives during alternative medicine and immediately after the conflictcomplementary therapies. This enterprising account''Charles, borrowing its name from The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the poem by Wilfred OwenPrince's opinions, takes a different approach in spanning a full fifty years or more. It begins with beliefs and aims against the first meeting background of Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke at one of Eddie Marsh’s breakfasts in July 1914the scientific evidence. Marsh was a tireless supporter There are few instances of modern painters his beliefs being vindicated and after that promising new writers, particularly poets. The journey, or rather account his relentless promotion of meetings, takes us treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the western front and back to England, culminating in reputation of a reunion man who is proud of two of the longesthis refusal to apply evidence-livedbased, Sassoon and David Jones, in 1964logical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951808</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Callow1739805100|title=Charles LaughtonLoving the Enemy: A Difficult ActorBuilding bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew March
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|summary=Once a towering presence on stage and screen, ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the star quite extraordinary story of fifty films and forty playsauthor Andrew March's grandparents, Charles Laughton seems largely forgotten these who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to teach in the early daysof the Nazi regime in the 1930s. As an actor of Fred, a younger generation sensitive and keen admirer thoughtful man, had some vague ideas of his work, Callow is well placed to bring him back to "building bridges" which may guard against the fore. He notes growing hostilities between nations unfolding in his preface that Europe at the man has increasingly slipped out of public consciousness, and even within his own profession he is virtually unknown time. Fred's attempts to anybody under the age of forty|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Sugden|title=Nelson: A Dream of Glory|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=I will admit that I didnseparate individual people from ideology weren't know what I was letting myself in for when I saw 'Nelson: A Dream of Glory' sitting on the Bookbag shelf, universally successful but I had just come back from Portsmouth he did make friendships and connections that lasted for a wander around on the Victory, so it was a bit hard to resistlifetime. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951913</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ChisholmWill Brooker|title=Wits and Wives: Dr Johnson in the Company of WomenThe Truth About Lisa Jewell
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|summary=WhatMeet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors I's your mental image ve never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of a Great Writer? Most people would probably say less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the same thing: someone sitting in splendid isolationtwo meeting each other, probably in a garretas well, writing Great Words and hating themshows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The idea meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of Great Writers having friendsher anecdote about cup cakes, or even the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a familyget-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, is a bizarre one. Partly this professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is because most Great Writers were incredibly weird people. But thereJewell's another issue at playdiverse output. We Brooker decides he're simply not used d like nothing more than to imagining them follow her through a year in contextthe published author's life, just one small part of working to make a large and busy world. Our notion success of biography is an incredibly fragmented one: despite the fact that one of latest title, and struggling with the best indications of someone's character next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is how they interact with other human beings, we expect biographers to essentially confine themselves to the person and their literary outputresult.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845951867</amazonuk>1529136024
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances A GerardMartha Leigh|title=Anna Amalia, Grand DuchessInvisible Ink: Patron of Goethe and SchillerA Family Memoir|rating=45|genre=Biography|summary=Anna Amalia of Brunswick 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 Duchess Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence of Saxethe philosopher Jean-Weimar Eisenach in the eighteenth centuryJacques Rousseau, his life's work. Her mother is scarcely little more than a footnote concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in European royal history these days. Nevertheless it was mainly through her patronage that the court of Weimar became one practicalities of life. There is love in the most artistically renowned of the time, house but also darker undercurrents that a reputation it never lost throughout the increasingly militaristic times that Germany went through from the age of Bismarck and beyondchild does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781550166</amazonuk>1800460384
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|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Herbert Allingham was one of Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the most prolific authors of his time. Between 1886 question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and his death in 1936 he was a busy writer of melodramatic serial stories in if the massworld hadn't gone into melt-market halfpenny papers which flourished at down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the turn question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the century. Yet nothing he wrote was ever published question in book form with his name to itthe first essay, and which is on the magazine proprietors made fortunes while their authors were sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the unsung heroes sound of the trade''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1899262075</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter DoggettFrederic Gros|title=The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The 1970s|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=With hindsight, it’s difficult to argue with the oft-expressed opinion that David Bowie was the single most important rock musician of the 1970s. Having been a perpetual ‘one to watch’ from around 1966 onwards but with only one hit during that decade, ‘Space Oddity’, from 1972 onwards he went through several remarkable self-reinventions in musical style, with an uncanny knack A Philosophy of being able to pre-empt the next big trend. In examining his whole career but focusing largely on his work throughout that particular decade, Peter Doggett looks specifically at every song he recorded, including cover versions. There are also boxed-out features on each album, and articles on related topics such as ‘The Art of Minimalism’ and ‘The Heart of Plastic Soul’. He concludes that by 1979 the man’s extraordinary creativity was more or less spent and his subsequent output, successful though it may have been, was in effect treading water up to his ‘elegant, unannounced retirement’ in 2007.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548879</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Victoria Glendinning|title=Raffles And the Golden Opportunity|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Although Raffles has gone down in history as the founder of Singapore his roots were far from grand. He had no advantages apart from his own drive and determination and his professional life began with a lowly clerkship with the East india Company, then as large and ungainly as many a government. When he went abroad on behalf of the Company he quickly learned the merits of doing something and asking permission afterwards, not least because of the time taken to contact London and then receive a reply. Even if all went well this could take the best part of a year - by which time the original question could well be academic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686032</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Simon Sykes|title=Hockney: The Biography, Volume 1, 1937-1975Walking
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|genre=ArtPolitics and Society|summary=As I confess I picked this one of the major names of British twentieth century art, David Hockney has always been a larger than life figure. Published to coincide with his 75th birthday, this is the first volume of a biography which tells his story up to 1975.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846057086</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lois Banner|title=Marilyn: The Passion and from the Paradox|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=With the possible exception of Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe is probably the most written-about deceased woman library in twentiethmy pre-century historylockdown forage of random stuff. The thirty-six years of her life and the manner of her death will no doubt continue Now I have to provide go out an opportunity for as many writers as they buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have since her sudden passing. After a decade of research Lois Banner, a Professor of History marked and Gender Studies at university in California, has added another weighty tome return to the relevant shelves. As a self-styled pioneer of second-wave feminism and the new women’s history, she has some interesting insights its varying wisdom when I need to offer into her subject’s life as a gender role model.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408814102</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Penny Junor|title=Prince William: Born to be King: An Intimate Portrait|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Prince William is one of the few people who genuinely needs no introduction Some books draw you in slowly. He's been This one had me in the public eye since his birth and the interest is certain to increase rather than diminish as time goes by. On the other hand he first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is'' only thirty. Is there really going to be enough to warrant not 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 ''reallysport'' going to be a book which I would enjoy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444720392</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shirley Harrison|title=Sylvia Pankhurst: The Rebellious Suffragette|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=To some extent, the history of the suffragettes was also the history of the Pankhurst family. Sylvia, born in 1882, was the second daughter of Dr Richard and Emmeline Pankhurst, and one of three sisters. The family had always been heavily politicised, Richard being a founder member of the Fabian Society alongside George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, and the children had quite an austere upbringing. When their father’s health took a sudden turn for the worse in 1898, Emmeline and eldest daughter Christabel were abroad on business and Sylvia was left in charge of her younger siblings as well as having to nurse him, taking the full force of the shock when he died in her arms. With his passing the family were left strangely detached from each other. His widow became heavily involved in public work and political agitation, an increasingly remote mother from the young children who needed her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780950187</amazonuk>1781688370
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionBiography|summary=Reading this 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 rather like curling up in a deep, squishy armchair with a cup of cocoa and some squashed-fly biscuits while a favourite uncle chats setting out to you about books. He tells you interesting things about Roald Dahlbuy my own copy before I's life, and then he discusses how those events may have affected his writing, secure in ve finished reading the knowledge that you already know and love the storiesone I've borrowed. Just as important, he pauses in his chat from time I want to time to ask your opinion — and itavoid clichés like 'powerful' 's clear heinspiring's really interested in your answer. Do you prefer the original version of 'life-changing'James – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the Giant Peach'third – but clichés exist for a reason and I', or the one which was eventually published? Can you imagine how funny m not sure I can succinctly put it would be to see your grandfather looking in through your bedroom window, like the BFG?any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141322136</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo McKinstry0241446732|title=Jack HobbsOur House is on Fire: England's Greatest CricketerScenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg
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|genre=SportPolitics and Society|summary=Back in The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the early 1920sparenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, there were only three Test cricket playing nations; Englandthen nine years old, Australia and South Africastruggled with what was happening. In the summer of 2012such circumstances, both nations have been on tour; Australia recently beaten comprehensively at one day cricket and South Africa about it's natural to start seek a test series solution close to determine the best Test nation in the world. Given that history is repeating itselfhome, but eventually, it seems appropriate became clear to the family that they were ''burned-out people on a new biography of Jack Hobbs, Englandburned-out planet''s greatest run scorer and . If they were to find a man who repeatedly blunted the bowling attacks of both nations, should become available nowway to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083309</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert K Massie0648684806|title=Catherine the GreatClara Colby: Portrait of a WomanThe International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating=4.5
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|summary=Already known for major biographies The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of Nicholas some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and Alexandrathree brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of Peter school. She was the Greatonly child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, Massie has now written an equally full her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the United States and absorbing life of was hard, as 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, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the late eighteenth-century reigning Empresseldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0679456724</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Ewart1789017977|title=The Treasures of Queen Elizabeth|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Tim Ewart is Royal Correspondent for ITV News, which must be one of the perfect starting points for writing a biography of the Queen as she celebrates her diamond jubilee. She's only the second British monarch to achieve this landmark - the other being Queen Victoria. After sixty years on the throne - Ronnie and eighty six in public life - thereHilda's not much which isn't known about the Queen and few pictures which haven't previously seen the light of day, but Ewart's book is marked out by the inclusion of memorabilia which will have Romance: Towards a freshness for many readers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780970064</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNew Life after World War II|author=Jennie Bond|title=Elizabeth: A Diamond Jubilee PortraitWendy Williams
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|summary=A book based around just one dinner sounds a little extraordinaryRonnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. But the host, painter Benjamin Robert HaydonThere's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, but he was no ordinary artistalready many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. He For a while, the family was a friend of many of quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the major artistic 1929 Depression and literary figures of the day, in addition five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to being an ambitious painter of historical scenesa very different lifestyle. Sadly, One thing he did inherit from his ambition father was not matched by popularity or good fortune, and despite or perhaps parly because an exaggerated belief in his own abilities, one need to be well-turned-out and a half centuries after this would stay with him throughout his death he is largely forgotten except for his suicide after years of despair, and perhaps his diary as welllife. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009956372X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara TuringPatti Smith|title=Alan M Turing: Centenary EditionYear of the Monkey
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|summary=June 2012 will see On the centenary coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the birth lunar year of Alan Turingthe monkey - one packed with mischief, brilliant mathematiciansorrow, the man who played a major part in breaking the Enigma codes in the Second World War and is widely thought to be the father of computer scienceunexpected moments. To celebrate the anniversary Cambridge University Press have reprinted In a short biography written by Turingstranger's mother and included a memoir written by his older brotherwords, John. I'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 griefAnything is possible: after all, but this book is startling for what it says about 's the year of the family members as much monkey''. As Smith wanders the coast of Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and ageing are faced head-on, as for what it says about Alan Turingthe shifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1107020581</amazonuk>1526614758
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally E Svenson1912242052|title=Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854 - 1909): A Portrait with HusbandsO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=43|genre=BiographyArt|summary=The woman we will eventually come ''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to know as Lily, Duchess of Marlborough was born Eliza Warren Price in Troywalk the mountains alone, New York in 1854. Her father hailed from Bluegrass Country in Kentucky and met his future wife (who was from Troy) in Washington DC. The family was comfortably off (but not rich) and became part of the Troy's social elite when they returned because he had to live there. Lily (for work, as she became known) had an unremarkable childhood and youth a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but became wealthy though her marriage because he wanted to Louis Hammersley, who died when she was twenty eight for pleasure and left her a wealthy widowadventure. His will would leave her legal problems which would simmer all her life rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and even after her own death twenty one years and two more husbands laterits literary consequences, changed our view of the world''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1457507765</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane BrownGraff_Find|title=Lancelot 'Capability' Brown: The Omnipotent Magician 1716-1783Find Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=43.5|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=Among those who helped their contemporaries living through the Age of Enlightenment to see the world around them in When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a different light, Brown was unquestionably one plastic folder of the most influential. Having trained as a gardenerhandwritten notes from his journal, as a young man he acquired an exhaustive knowledge of plants and trees, as well as didn't take much notice of drainage and water managementit. To this was added a rare ability to look at At the dullest age of gardens and landscapes24, decide that they had 'capabilitiesGraff didn' for improvement (hence t realise the time-honoured epithet), and persuade gravity of the owner that a transformation pages he was both possible and desirableholding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951794</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Johanna Adorjan1789016304|title=An Exclusive War and Love|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=This moving memoir tells : A family's testament of the double suicide of both István (a Hungarian-Jewish form of Stephen) and his wife Vera one Sunday morning in October. The story is told by their granddaughteranguish, Joanna Adorján and tells of her close fondness for them both but in particular with Vera, with whom the author shares many characteristics. The story begins with the systematic persecution of such Hungarian Jews in Budapest under the Nazi occupation endurance and describes their perilous flight to Denmark after the Soviet occupation of Hungary in 1956. It ends with the police reports of the duty officer dated 15.10.91 with the discovery of their bodies devotion in their bungalow in the Charlottenlund, a town of the Capital Region of Denmark. Entry is gained by a local locksmith who charged 297.02 kroner. It is the charm and lyricism with which this tale is related which makes this fateful, haunting and profoundly moving story about identity both sad and memorable. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552671</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewoccupied Amsterdam|author=Karen Blumenthal|title=Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought DifferentMelanie Martin
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|summary=Framed Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by Jobswhat she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' iconic speech at a Stanford College graduation ceremony, but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the three stories he told the students, about connecting city during the dotswar years, love but only five thousand survived and loss, and mortality, Martin could not understand how this biography gives could be allowed to happen in a succinct and balanced account of Jobs' lifecountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most 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, his successes and his failures, his passions and his ideals, and his infamously polarized personality. The author actively annotates that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the backstory of Jobs with references from this speechway that it did, but initial protests melted away as well as future events, carefully chosen statistics, and Jobsthe organisers became more circumspect. It' own reminiscence, giving s an atrocity on a rich context to his story. Jobs' achievements are incredible and they're not simply down to his genius, vast scale but his attitudes towards life and his incredible charismamade up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832062</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot1786893452|title=Dotter of Her Father's EyesThe Ungrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri
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|summary=Picture Here in the crowded atelier of the renowned sculptorWest, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, Rodin or perhaps the dimly lit corridors of Lord Grimthorpe's mansionsome scaremongering about them. Perhaps you might prefer to frequent the brightly lit splendour But all of those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the balconies of the coastal villa at Cimbrone above the magnificent Gulf of Salerno. The inhabitants of such places led their tangled lives, sometimes enduring painful losses or by contrastinvestigative journalism they carry out, energetically inspired outsiders to passionate love affairs. In these stimulating environments we catch glimpses of the famous, like E.M.Forster, Virginia Woolf, sometimes accompanied by her close confidante, Vita Sackville West world and then there was the situations that tempestuous iconoclast, D.H.Lawrencerefugees find themselves in. Many such lives were inspired by both landscape and lust, fashioned by each otherIt's creative energies and endowed with artistic talents of all kinds. Here rare that we learn of talents find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and beauty this is a rare opportunity to do that inspires artistic endeavour, like the many charms of Eve Fairfax. Shein this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who after brief affairs was gradually forced into a stoic suspension which she recorded with thoughts from her friends born in the pages middle of annotated diaries which became ''A Book of Secrets''a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a ten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548941</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Grant0857058320|title=I & I: The Natural MysticsLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)
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|summary=Just mention ''Lord Of All the word reggae, and Dead'' is a journey to uncover the name that nearly always springs to mind is that of Bob Marley author's lost ancestor's life and the Wailersdeath. The music has always been very much a product of Cercas is searching for the Jamaican culture, nurtured meaning behind his great uncle's death in years of turbulent historythe Spanish Civil War. In this book Colin GrantManuel Mena, born in Britain of Jamaican parentsCercas' great uncle, goes back deep into its roots, and in is the figure who looms large over the process examines 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 childhood lives centre of the Wailers’ three main personalities, namely Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Neville Livingston, better known as Bunny Wailer, this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to provide an account of be a hero whilst having fought for the group – but much more than thatwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526727</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Ackroyd1788037812|title=DickensThe Fraternity of the Estranged: A Memoir of Middle AgeThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=45
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|summary=With publishers falling over each other Originally passed in an effort to outdo each other 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in celebrating 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 bicentenary nature of Charles Dickens’ birthhomosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, it as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was perhaps inevitable that we should see a reappearance common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of what has become these men were hugely significant – contributing to the modern standard lifescientific understanding of homosexuality, by Peter Ackroyd. The 1200-page original was first published in 1990and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, while this 600leading to the milestone legalisation of same-page abridged edition surfaced sex relationships in 1994, and now makes another timely appearance1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099437090</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul HendricksonBuckland_Zoo|title=Hemingway's BoatThe Man Who Ate the Zoo: Everything he loved in lifeFrank Buckland, and lost, 1934-1961forgotten hero of natural history|author=Richard Girling|rating=4.5
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|summary=This substantial volume is not exactly As a full biography of Ernest Hemingway. In fact, it might almost have been subtitled ‘The rise and fall’. Its theme is more or less conservationist in Victorian England before the second half of his lifeterm existed, from 1934, when he returned from an African safari and took delivery Frank Buckland was very much a man ahead of his boat Pilar, to his tragic death 27 years latertime. Hendrickson intends it to be an account of the writerSurgeon, bringing together the different elements of his life – fishingnaturalist, friendshipveterinarian and eccentric sums him up perfectly, wives and family - and above all, naturally, his writingany biographer is immediately presented with a colourful tale to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847921930</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah BradfordWilliams_Captain|title=Queen Elizabeth IICaptain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: Her His Military Life in Our and Times|author=Ivor George Williams
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|summary=As a biographer who has previously written substantial biographies In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the Queen (published 17th Regiment of Foot. He was in 1996), command of her father George VIthe troops and convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, Australia: his wife and her daughter-in-law Diana, Sarah Bradford needs little introductionyoung son accompanied him. At around 260 pages of textHe was not destined to live a long life, this is barely half dying suddenly at the length age of her other titles34 at Bangalore, leaving his widow to raise their two young sons. Edwards' death left his widow in a difficult position: not only did she have their farm to manage, and probably aimed more at but she was also responsible for the general reader with an eye on convicts who worked the Diamond Jubilee marketland. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067091911X</amazonuk>
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|summary=Julia Blackburn had known Herman for Mostly we choose what books to read because there is so little time and so many yearsbooks… I can understand the approach, but they had drifted apart. She put the postcard which she received from him in an album: I also think we sell ourselves short by it mentioned a cottage he had discovered in Liguria , and which he was renovating. Some time later there was another postcard and an invitation to visit. Over time we sell the cottage would become her home and Herman her husbandmyriad lesser-known authors short as well. 'Thin Paths' is the stories of the So while, like most other people who inhabit this harshI have my favourite genres, wild landscape and of the way in which the landscape has formed the favoured authors, and while, like most other people. The thin paths join I read the people reviews and the places together in follow up on what appeals, I also have a way of life which is rarethird-string to my reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090682</amazonuk>
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