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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Batchelor1788360702|title=Tennyson: To striveCharles, to seek, to find|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Most readers, if they were asked to name the ultimate poet of the Victorian age, would almost surely choose Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was Poet Laureate for over forty years of Queen Victoria’s reign, and inevitably her favourite versifier.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845950763</amazonuk>}} {{newreview |author=Zareer Masani |title=Macaulay: Britain's Liberal Imperialist |rating=4.5 |genre=Biography |summary=If Thomas Babington Macaulay is remembered at all today, it is probably for the historical writings to which he devoted himself during the last few years of his life. Yet earlier in his career, he was also a Member of Parliament, a government minister, and served for some years in India, playing a major reforming role as a member of the governor-general’s council. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587025</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Campbell|title=Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=It must be rare indeed that a British political figure who never became Prime Minister is the subject of or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages of text. However, as John Campbell demonstrates in this volume, it is difficult to do justice to the life, times and career of Roy Jenkins in much less than that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Walter Dean Myers|title=An African PrincessThe Alternative Prince: From African Orphan to Queen Victoria’s Favourite|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This elegant edition of An African Princess tells of the life of Sarah Bonetta who is suddenly swept from the threat of a savage execution in 1848 only to face a brave new world under the patronage of the imperious Queen Victoria. Meticulously researched by the twice elected US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Walter Dean Myers, it is a creatively imaginative account, with an historical backbone of genuine diary entries, letters, autobiographical work, contemporary newspapers, social and anthropological studies and period photographs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406354449</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nigel Jones|title=Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth|rating=4|genre=Unauthorised Biography|summary=Rupert Chawner Brooke’s reputation as one of the greatest or at least best-remembered war poets rests largely on his sonnet ''The Soldier''. Perhaps it was English literature’s abiding loss that his output was so slender, as his career was cut short so suddenly. Had he lived longer he would surely have developed into a notable writer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857164</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amber Hunt and David Batcher|title=The Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public FamilyEdzard Ernst

|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Kennedy dynasty is mainly known for the men who have come to political prominence: Jack Kennedy, Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the president who was assassinated in November 1963, his brother, Bobby, JackPrince's Attorney General who would be assassinated in June 1968 opinions, beliefs and Senator Edward Kennedy aims against the youngest of the nine children - the only one background of the brothers who would, as they say, live to comb grey hairscientific evidence. Not quite so much is known about the women who were brave enough to marry into the family There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and Amber Hunt and David Batcher his relentless promotion of treatments which have set out no scientific support has done considerable damage to give us some background on five of these women: Rose Kennedy the matriarch reputation of the family and wife a man who is proud of Joe Kennedyhis refusal to apply evidence-based, Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of Jack, Ethel, wife of Bobby and Joan and Vicki, the first and second wives of Teddy Kennedylogical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762796340</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1739805100|title=The Mystery Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughterwar|author=Lucinda HawksleyAndrew March

|summary=As a previous biographer once called her, Princess Louise was Queen Victoria’s unconventional daughter. Always popular with ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the public for her comparatively easygoing manner (thoughquite extraordinary story of author Andrew March's grandparents, being royal, she was not averse who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to pulling rank), her forward-looking views on social issues, notably education and votes for womenteach in the early days of the Nazi regime in the 1930s. Fred, a sensitive and her artistic intereststhoughtful man, she was certainly one had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the most interesting of her familytime. Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for a lifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951549</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=The Frood|author=Jem Roberts|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=They say that you should never meet your heroes. After reading 'The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' a.k.a. ''the Frood'' I understand why. I never heard the original radio series and I have quite deliberately shied away from the Americanised film version (even if it does sell itself well by having Stephen Fry as 'the voice of the book' - I mean, really, in this day and age, who else?!).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184809437X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura ThompsonWill Brooker|title=A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord LucanTruth About Lisa Jewell

|summary=Effie Gray Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, and shows 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 born reciting, and her being in Perth in 1828a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, and knew art critic John Ruskin from an early agedown the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse output. When Brooker decides he finally decided 'd like nothing more than to ask follow her through a year in the published author's life, working to be his wifemake a success of the latest title, she called off an engagement and happily acceptedstruggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the result.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715648578</amazonuk>1529136024

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Victoria: A LifeMartha Leigh|authortitle=Invisible Ink: A N WilsonFamily Memoir|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Every few years Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, it seemsimmediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge don, we are presented with another generouslyforever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-sized biography Jacques Rousseau, his life's work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in the practicalities of Queen Victorialife. How many times can another author follow Elizabeth Longford, Stanley Weintraub, or Christopher Hibbert to name There is love in the house but three, produce 500 pages or more and still say something new about her? Can the blurb’s claim also darker undercurrents that this shows us the sovereign ‘as she’s never been seen before’ really be justified? Fortunately it can, for even more than a century after her death, child does not fully understand but knows is there is still new material from previously unseen sources to add to what we already know about her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848879563</amazonuk>1800460384

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Lives of the Famous and the Infamous: Everything You Need To Know About Everyone Who MatteredPolly Barton|authortitle=The WeekFifty Sounds

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=To describe 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 book as unputdownable is a pretty bold claim to makewhile and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. Jeremy OAnd like Barton, I don'Grady, editor-in-chief of The Week does just that in t know the foreword answer to The Lives the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the Famous and the Infamous, a collection of obituaries from question in the weekly magazine. Thankfullyfirst essay, his bold judgement which is largely spot on. For those unfamiliar, the sound ''giro'The Week'' collates the best offerings from print media outlets around the world– which she describes as being, condenses them into smaller chunksamong other things, adds a little the sound of its own commentary and creates a highly concise and entertaining look at the news''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091958660</amazonuk>1913097501

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Golden ParasolFrederic Gros|authortitle=Wendy Law-YoneA Philosophy of Walking

|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=If you look her I confess I picked this one up Wendy Lawfrom the library in my pre-Yone is described as a Burmese-born American authorlockdown forage of random stuff. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have marked and return to its varying wisdom when I need to. Some books draw you in slowly. That This one had me in the first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''Burmese-born American'walking is not a sport' might be an accurate description of her current citizenship, but it barely hints at the ethnic mix of her heritage, nor of her personal closeness (through her father) to her original homeland's struggle for freedom and democracy.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555999</amazonuk>1781688370

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Art of Neil GaimanSharon Blackie|authortitle=Hayley CampbellIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsBiography|summary=An early [[:Category:Neil Gaiman|Neil Gaiman]] book was all about Douglas Adams, and came out at the time he had a success with I normally say that you can tell how much a book of his own regarding definitions of concepts that had previously not had a specific word attachedmeans to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Gaiman himself Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the one of those conceptsI've borrowed. I know what a polyglot want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is, definitely the first two and a polymath only time will tell about the third – but there should be a word clichés exist for someone like Gaiman, who can write anything and everything he seems to want – a whimsical family-friendly picture book, a behemoth of modern fantasy, an all-ages horror story, something with a soupcon of sci-fi or with a factor of the fable. He can cross genres – reason and to some extent just leave them behind as unnecessary, as well as cross format – he was mastering the lengthy, literary graphic novel just as I'real' books were festering in his creativity, and songs and poems were just appearing here and there. So he is pretty much who you think of as regards someone who m not sure I can turn his hands to anything he wishes. He is a poly-something, then, or just omni-something elsesuccinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781571392</amazonuk>1912836017

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Thompson0241446732|title=A Corner Our House is on Fire: Scenes of Paradise: A love story (with the usual reservations)a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=In the early seventies Brian Thompson met Elizabeth North, both of them part of failing marriages which would have died without any intervention on their partsThe Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. They became friends, they fell in love but they never felt the need to marry Malena Ernman was an opera singer and would be together until Liz's death in 2010 at Svante Thunberg took on most of the age parenting of seventy eighttheir two daughters. Both are authors Then eleven-year- Thompson would maintain that North old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. In such circumstances, it's natural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, it became clear to the better writer - and North would perhaps have said family that they were ''sheburned-out people on a burned-out planet'' should have made that clear. ''A Corner of Paradise'' tells the story - not of the homes If they lived in - but of the joy of were to find a way to live happily again their relationshipsolution would need to be radical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581868</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Grace: Her Lives - Her LovesClara Colby: The startling royal exposéInternational Suffragist|author=Robert LaceyJohn Holliday

|summary=TwentyThe path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-five years before another so-called fairytale royal romance which turned out old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to be anything butsail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, one both in and out of America’s most beloved screen goddesses crossed school. She was the only child in the Atlantic household and married into the principality of Monacoher childhood was glorious. The ceremony By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in 1956 was hailed as the wedding mid-west of the yearUnited States and life was hard, but like as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the later family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and similar eventdied in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, it a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was not the happiest of unionsa rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191016738X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789017977|title=One RiverRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon RainforestTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wade DavisWendy Williams|rating=4.5|genre=TravelHistory|summary=As someone who has always enjoyed learning about Ronnie Williams was the Amazon, son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and with plans Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to travel whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to South America next yearhave been born in 1863, this book practically screamed at me to be reviewedbut he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. And, although For a little tough going and long-winded in partswhile, I'm glad I had the opportunity family was quite well-to get lost -do but disaster struck in Davis' incredible work of nonthe 1929 Depression and five-year-fiction. Difficult old Ronnie had to adjust to describe in terms of genre, this book combines history, politics, science, botany and culturea very different lifestyle. It is delivered through a biographical account of Davis' own travels and as a memoir One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to Richard Evans Schultes, an ethnobotanist be well known for -turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his work and travels life. He joined the army at eighteen in the Amazon and Wade Davis' highly regarded mentor1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592967</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Angela Merkel: The Chancellor and Her WorldPatti Smith|authortitle=Stefan KorneliusYear of the Monkey

|summary=You have to admire On the ladycoast of Santa Cruz, this rather awkward and shy daughter Patti Smith enters the lunar year of a staunch Lutheran pastor who himself had been born as a Polish Catholic. His daughter studied the monkey - one packed with such intelligence mischief, sorrow, and application that soon brought her academic success particularly in Russian and finally in Quantum Chemistryunexpected moments. In a stranger's words, ''Anything is possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey''. At As Smith wanders the age coast of 26Santa Cruz in solitude, she obtained reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her doctorate life - loss and ageing are faced head- in passingon, as it rather seems - her first husband, the physicist Ulrike Merkelshifting political waters in America. Her rise |isbn=1526614758}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary=''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to power was rapid and took place through walk the period in which the DDR collapsed mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as Russian policy under Gorbachev changeda miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. Along His rapturous encounters with a wry their natural beauty, and dry sense its literary consequences, changed our view of humour Angela Merkel’s personality is the embodiment of the characteristic known in German as world''fleissig'' - hardworking, sedulous, diligent and assiduous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883180</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Graff_Find|title=Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of RochesterFind Another Place|author=Alexander LarmanBen Graff|rating=43.5|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=John Wilmot, 2nd Earl When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of Rochesterhandwritten notes from his journal, was the ultimate he didn'live fast, die young' icon t take much notice of the Stuart age, the seventeenth-century embodiment of 'Hope I die before I get old'it. Restoration dandy, satirist and pornographic poet, he died a lingering death at At the age of 3324, racked by venereal disease and alcoholism. If he is remembered at all these days, except by those familiar with Graff didn't realise the history or literature gravity of the age, it is as the James Dean or the Keith Moon of his day, a hellraiser whose poetry pages he was heavily suppressed for many years by the censorsholding. In fact much of his verse was not published under his name until long after his death, and as most of it was only circulated in manuscript form during his lifetime and a good deal destroyed by his mother after his death, it is uncertain how much does still survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851093</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016304|title=Dirty BertieWar and Love: An English King Made A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in Franceoccupied Amsterdam|author=Stephen ClarkeMelanie Martin|rating=45

|summary=Although he Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was Anglo-German entranced by birthwhat she discovered, so Stephen Clarke suggestsparticularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, King Edward VII was very much but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a Parisian by naturecountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. As we would expect from Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the author of several lighthearted books on our Gallic neighbours, including ‘1000 Years of Annoying Germans might reach the French’city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, this is not that the most weighty or solemn biography of Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the King you will ever findway that it did, but it is certainly initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an entertaining, racy gallop through the life atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of its subjectindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780890346</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786893452|title=Josephine: Desire, Ambition, NapoleonThe Ungrateful Refugee|author=Kate WilliamsDina Nayeri|rating=4.5

|summary=Until reading this biographyHere in the West, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. But all of those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, it had never really occurred to me just no matter how shadowy a figure deep the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparteinvestigative journalism they carry out, one of outsiders to the best-known European rulers of world and the age, really wassituations that refugees find themselves in. It may be common knowledge 's rare that her name we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity to do that, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was Josephineborn in the middle of a revolution in Iran, but few of us perhaps really know anything of the woman behind the namefleeing to America as a ten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955142X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0857058320|title=The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a NationLord Of All the Dead|author=Roy HattersleyJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=According ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the back of this book, ‘the story of author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the Devonshires is meaning behind his great uncle's death in the story of Britain’Spanish Civil War. That’s an extravagant claimManuel Mena, but it contains more than a germ of truth. Certainly one would be hard-pushed to find an aristocraticCercas' great uncle, non-royal British family is the figure who has more consistently been central to our history since medieval times, as 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 detailed chronicle demonstratesdictator. From The question at the dissolution centre of the monasteries under Henry VIII presided over in part by Sir William Cavendish, father of the first Earl, this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the big business that their ancestral home Chatsworth House in Derbyshire has now become, the somewhat inaccurately geographically-named Devonshires have often been, or helped to, contribute to, part of the fabric of Britain’s past and presentwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554399</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=The Life Fraternity of Rebecca Jonesthe Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Angharad PriceBrian Anderson

|summary=A newly-married couple make their way home from Originally passed in 1885, the chapellaw that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, riding restrictions on a horsesame-drawn cart as it winds its way round familiar country lanes towards sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the beautiful valley nature of Maesglasauhomosexuality appeared. The horse pauses atop a hill They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the valley spreads out before them: 'heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the vessel margins of their marriage'. The centuries-old stone farmhouse society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the crook UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the mountain is to be their homestead; a sturdyscientific understanding of homosexuality, silent witness to and beginning the tragedy struggle for recognition and joy that is an intrinsic part of equality, leading to the fabric milestone legalisation of family lifesame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738712X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckland_Zoo|title=Wilkie CollinsThe Man Who Ate the Zoo: A Life Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of Sensationnatural history|author=Andrew LycettRichard Girling|rating=4.5

|summary=Wilkie Collins has come down to us as As a conservationist in Victorian England before the chief exponent of the Victorian ‘sensation novel’. This term existed, Frank Buckland was the genre very much a man ahead of story written specifically to expose deep-rooted domestic or family secrets, uncovering illegitimacy, bigamy or other irregular activities by supposedly respectable citizens leading outwardly normal, uneventful liveshis time. There were mysteries, deceptionsSurgeon, betrayalsnaturalist, evil characters veterinarian and good innocent ones. Measured by these standardseccentric sums him up perfectly, he led a ‘sensational’ life himself. When not writing novels, short stories, plays or articles for journals in order to earn a living, this apparently fine upstanding bachelor maintained two households, two mistresses, and children at the same time – and managed to keep them any biographer is immediately presented with a secret from the public who would doubtless have been scandalized colourful tale to know the truthtell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099557347</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Williams_Captain|title=Four SistersCaptain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand DuchessesHis Military Life and Times|author=Helen RappaportIvor George Williams|rating=54

|summary=In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A few years ago, Helen Rappaport wrote and published [[Ekaterinburg: The Last Days Edwards of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport|Ekaterinburg: The Last Days 17th Regiment of Foot. He was in command of the Romanovs]]troops and convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, Australia: his wife and young son accompanied him. He was not destined to live a painstakinglong life, chilling account of the final days and death of dying suddenly at the last Tsar age of Russia and 34 at Bangalore, leaving his familywidow to raise their two young sons. To Edwards' death left his widow in a certain extent this biography is a prequel difficult position: not only did she have their farm to that volumemanage, an account of but she was also responsible for the short lives of OTMA, as they referred to themselves – convicts who worked the Tsar’s daughters Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasialand. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230768172</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Peacock_mountain|title=Into The Holy Fox: The Mountain, A Life of Lord HalifaxNan Shepherd|author=Andrew RobertsCharlotte Peacock

|summary=Of all Mostly we choose what books to read because there is so little time and so many books… I can understand the British nearlyapproach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it, and we sell the myriad lesser-Prime Ministers Edward Woodknown authors short as well. So while, 1st Earl of Halifaxlike most other people I have my favourite genres, must be unique. He was the one who came closest to assuming the mantle only to find the job denied himand favoured authors, and had he done sowhile, on him Britain’s destiny would have depended. For he was like most other people I read the man whom several confidently expected, reviews and many wantedfollow up on what appeals, I also have a third-string to take over after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain during the dark days of May 1940my reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781856974</amazonuk>