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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean Findlay|title=Chasing Lost Time|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary= A Catholic convert and a homosexual, a socialite party goer yet deeply lonely, a secretive spy and a public man of letters, Scott Moncrieff was an enigma. His translation of Proust’s ''A La Recherché du Temps Perdu'' was highly praised, and Moncrieff was also celebrated as a decorated hero of World War One. Here, his great-great niece Jean Findlay skilfully retells the life of an intriguing man – and one whom I was utterly charmed by. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099507080</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Desmond Seward1788360702|title= Renishaw Hall: the story of the Sitwells|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Renishaw HallCharles, Derbyshire, has been the home of the Sitwells since 1625. Though the history of the house and its family go back to the early Stuart era, as Seward tells us in a few wonderfully concise chapters, it is really with the appearance of the eccentric Sir George Sitwell and his three famous children that the narrative comes into its own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178396183X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter Finn and Petra Couvee|title=The Zhivago AffairAlternative Prince: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book|rating=5|genre=An Unauthorised Biography|summary=One of the many things to come out of this incredibly clear and readable book is that we Brits, for all our literary heritage, have got nothing like an equivalent to Boris Pasternak. He or she would have to sell like Rowling, regularly capture the enjoyment and spirit of the nation a la Danny Boyle's Olympics ceremonies, and at the same time have the cultural heft of Larkin, Rushdie, Graham Greene and more combined. Someone connected with choosing recipients of the Nobel Prize declare him here to be the Soviet TS Eliot, but that's nothing like. So the reader probably has to stretch herself to see someone so well-respected and well-loved for his verse, who spent twelve years and more on a huge, society-defining novel, only for the country to nix every plan to get it published.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581345</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marlena de Blasi|title=The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper ClubEdzard Ernst

|summary= Author Marlena de Blasi lives in the (as far as I can tell from having a quick google)For over forty years, beautiful small Italian city of Orvieto – deep in the beautiful Umbrian countryside. Having lived there for some time, she gradually becomes aware of the Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club – a group Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of Italian ladies who meet once a week for supper, alternative medicine and to talkcomplementary therapies. Whilst it takes her some time ''Charles, Marlena eventually manages to be accepted into The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the group, and begins to cook and eat with these unique and fascinating ladies, sharing both tales of life, love, and deathPrince's opinions, beliefs and taking part in delicious home cooked meals. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954304</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter Ackroyd|title=Charlie Chaplin|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Charlie Chaplin dominated aims against the formative years background of the cinema, as actor and director, like no otherscientific evidence. As we There are told in an early chapter few instances of this book, on his first visit beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to America in 1910, he the reputation of a man who is alleged proud of his refusal to have shoutedapply evidence-based, ‘I am coming logical reasoning to conquer youhis ambitions. Every man woman and child shall have my name on their lips!’ Within a few years he had indeed conquered the entire movie-going world|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099287560</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean Smith1739805100|title=Tom Jones - The LifeLoving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew March

|summary=Few singers have sustained a career over half a century and appealed ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew March's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to succeeding generations teach in the way that early days of the Nazi regime in the former Thomas John Woodward of Treforest has managed to do1930s. Almost written off during Fred, a lean period or twosensitive and thoughtful man, he proved himself had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the master of re-invention, and now growing hostilities between nations unfolding in his mid-70s Europe at the time. Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he is loved did make friendships and revered as something of connections that lasted for a national treasurelifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000810445X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek NiemannWill Brooker|title=A Nazi in the Family: The Hidden Story of an SS Family in Wartime GermanyTruth About Lisa Jewell

|summary=I'm sure someone somewhere has rewritten The Devil's Dictionary to include the following – ''familyMeet [[:Category: noun; place where Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the greatest secrets are kept'most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. The Niemann family is no exceptionNow meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. It was long known that grandfather Karl was in Germany during This book starts with the Second World Wartwo meeting each other, as well, people could easily work that out from and shows how 2021 drew the family biographytwo closer and closer together. Yet little The meeting was spoken some unspecified combination, it seems, ofher anecdote about cup cakes, apart from him being an office-bound worker, either in logistics or finance. Since the War two words of three surviving siblings had relocated to the Glasgow environsher latest book she was reciting, and there was even her being in a family quip concerning Goebbels and Gorbals (''family: noun; place where the worst things are spoken in the best wayblack lace mini-dress with gold brocade''). What was (certainly a surprise get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to our authorattend), but pulled Brooker, and many a professor of his relativescultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, was down the rabbit-hole that things were is Jewell's diverse output. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a lot closer to year in the former than had been expectedpublished author's life, for Karl was such an office worker – for the SS. With working to make a lot of family history finally out success of the closet of silent mouthslatest title, and struggling with incriminating photographic evidence revealed the next in unlikely waysline. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, the whole truth can be knownagrees. But And this is certainly not just of interest to that one small familythe result.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722222</amazonuk>1529136024

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miranda Richmond MouillotMartha Leigh|title=Invisible Ink: A Fifty Year SilenceFamily Memoir|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=The story follows the narrator’s quest to find out why Martha Leigh begins her mother’s parents abruptly parted and never reconciledbook talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, or even spoke another word to one anotherimmediately recognisable upper middle class English family. We follow Miranda Her father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as she goes backwards and forwards between her Grandmotherhe edits the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whom she his life's work. Her mother is very close to, and her Grandfather, whom she has always found a difficult characterconcert pianist who practises for hours every day. She Neither parent is determined to get to hugely interested in the bottom practicalities of the story which takes her through terrible first hand accounts of events leading up to and throughout World War Two and what Nazi occupied Europe was like for the Jewishlife. She There is driven by love in the need to know what could cause two people to part so completely after going through so much together, and it’s become her academic life to find outhouse but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922182583</amazonuk>1800460384

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GreenePolly Barton|title=Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of RussiaFifty Sounds

|summary=ItWhere do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?''s no mistake that the cover of Japan has been on my edition of this book is radar for a photo where while and if the Transworld hadn't gone into melt-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the framedown I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. ItAnd like Barton, I don's well known for going east-west, left t know the answer to right across the map question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the largest country by far question in the world. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be a longfirst essay, thin line across the cover, as it which is in our imagination of it as a form of transport and a travel destination in its own right. So when this book mentions it as on the spine or backbone of Russia a couple of times, thatsound ''giro' ''s got to be of a prone Russia – one lying downwhich she describes as being, not upright or active. David Greeneamong other things, a stalwart the sound of northern American radio journalism, uses this book ''every party where you have to see just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians are – and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictment. Itintroduce yourself''s no mistake either for this cover to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for the people met both riding and living alongside the tracks of the Railway are definitely the ribs of the piece.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances WelchFrederic Gros|title=Rasputin: A Short LifePhilosophy of Walking|rating=45|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Was Grigori Rasputin, I confess I picked this one up from the Siberian peasant turned mystic and the time bomb who almost singlelibrary in my pre-handedly precipitated the collapse lockdown forage of random stuff. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the Russian Empire pages I have marked and return to its varying wisdom when I need to. Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in 1917the first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a genuine holy man or an evil-minded reprobate and total disaster?sport''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178072232X</amazonuk>1781688370

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Allen and Amie ParnesSharon Blackie|title=HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary ClintonIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=45|genre=Biography|summary=Hillary Clinton initially came I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to our attention as First Lady and me by how many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an even then she might have faded into international obscurity had it not been for the way in which she managed greater measure of impact is setting out to hold her head high during those unfortunate incidents with Bill - well, HRC wasnbuy my own copy before I't ve finished reading the one I've borrowed. I want to avoid clichés like 'involvedpowerful'' but Iinspiring'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Then she relife-emerged through changing' – although it is definitely the fog of first two and only time will tell about the George W Bush presidency with her bid to gain the Democratic nomination, losing in third – but clichés exist for a hotly contested series of primaries to Barack Obama - reason and went on to become his Secretary of State. Now the question is whether or I'm not she will make another run for President in 2016sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099594692</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Thompson0241446732|title=Life Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford The BiographyCrisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=There can have been few more extraordinary families in British society The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and cultural life during Svante Thunberg took on most of the early twentieth century than the Mitfords, the six parenting of their two daughters . Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and one son of Baron Redesdale. The only sonher sister, killed in action during the Second World WarBeata, led an unexceptional life away from the headlinesthen nine years old, but four of his sisters more than made up for himstruggled with what was happening. Diana In such circumstances, wife of the notorious Sir Oswald Mosleyit's natural to seek a solution close to home, never renounced her admiration for Hitler or the Fascist movementbut eventually, while Unity, who shared her beliefs, shot herself on it became clear to the day war broke family that they were ''burned-out but lingered pathetically for another brainpeople on a burned-damaged eight years, and the fiercely left-wing Jessica became an active member of the American Communist Partyout planet''. Compared If they were to find a way to them Nancy, the eldest and the subject of this biography, seems live happily again their solution would need to have been the most balanced and least eccentric of them allbe radical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082295</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Kennedy0648684806|title=Oscar & LucyClara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating=4.5

|summary=With The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the film about Alan Turingtime she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn''The Imitation Game'' getting rave reviews t allowed to sail with her parents and award nominations rightthree brothers. Instead, left she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and centresaw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was the sterling work done by only child in the Bletchley Park cryptographers during WWII is quite high household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in our mindsthe mid-west of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. But Enigma wasn't the Clara would only code broken know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and Turing wasn't died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the only one doing secret but heroic workeldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>095646968X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Lodge1789017977|title=Lives in WritingRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams

|genre=EntertainmentHistory|summary=David Lodge Lives in Writing. So blares Ronnie Williams was the cover son of my edition, Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and itEthel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not far wrong. When hethey were ever married or even Harry's not entertaining us with his [[birthdate:Category:David Lodge|writing career]] (now he claimed to have been born in its third1863, more erudite but he was already many years older than Ethel and to me more serious stage, after the first third of comic light touches, before he found might well have shaved a few years off his metier – and fame with TV adaptations– with comedies about the social and sexual lives of academe) he's teaching about and around writingage. When I For a while, the family was younger I also read around writing – literature books, quite well-to-do but disaster struck in other words – the 1929 Depression and Lodge's were among those I turned five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust toa very different lifestyle. So One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this book and its contents are a welcome step back down a very familiar roadwould stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587769</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Van der KistePatti Smith|title=The Prussian Princesses: The Sisters Year of Kaiser Wilhelm IIthe Monkey|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Kaiser Wilhelm II is well known and not for the best of reasons and he's certainly over-shadowed his six younger siblings. John Van der Kiste's first biography was of his father, Kaiser Friedrich III and he has also written about Emperor Wilhelm II so he is well placed to write about the three youngest children Kaiser Friedrich and Victoria, Princess Royal. Originally he intended to write about Friedrich's second daughter, but it quickly became obvious that the most satisfying biography - for reader and author - would be a biography of Victoria, Sophie and Margaret, their mother's ''kleebatt'' or trio, as they were known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00QKROC9W</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Churchwell|title=Careless People Murder Mayhem and the Invention of the Great Gatsby|rating=5

|summary=In this accomplished literary biography Professor Churchwell expertly weaves together three guest lists- On the Fitzgeralds and literary cast coast of New YorkSanta Cruz, Patti Smith enters the sensationalist tragic murder victims and suspects lunar year of New Brunswickthe monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, New Jersey and the careless characters of Funexpected moments. ScottIn a stranger's novel using the Fitzgeraldswords, '' archivesAnything is possible: after all, newspaper clippings, literary scrapbooks,diary entries and anecdotes to link it's the stories and chronicle the heedless hedonism year of the 1920smonkey''. It is not only a meticulously researched tribute tracing As Smith wanders the genesis coast of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s plot skeletonSanta Cruz in solitude, which he roughly sketched she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in pencil in the back of a book, entitled Man’s Hopeher life - loss and ageing are faced head-on, but as it also sparkles with sophisticated vocabulary fizzing with the effervescence of a glass of champagne providing new treats for the reader with each inviting chaptershifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844087689</amazonuk>1526614758

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Batchelor1912242052|title=Tennyson: To strive, to seek, to findO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=43|genre=BiographyArt|summary=Most readers''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to walk the mountains alone, if they were asked not because he had to name the ultimate poet of the Victorian agefor work, as a miner, quarryman, would almost surely choose Alfredshepherd or pack-horse driver, Lord Tennysonbut because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. He was Poet Laureate for over forty years of Queen Victoria’s reignHis rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and inevitably her favourite versifierits literary consequences, changed our view of the world''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845950763</amazonuk>

{{newreview Frontpage|authorisbn=Zareer Masani Graff_Find|title=Macaulay: Britain's Liberal Imperialist Find Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=43.5 |genre=Biography Autobiography|summary=If Thomas Babington Macaulay is remembered at all todayWhen Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of handwritten notes from his journal, it is probably for the historical writings to which he devoted himself during the last few years didn't take much notice of his lifeit. Yet earlier in his career, he was also a Member At the age of Parliament24, a government minister, and served for some years in India, playing a major reforming role as a member Graff didn't realise the gravity of the governor-general’s councilpages he was holding. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587025</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Campbell1789016304|title=Roy JenkinsWar and Love: A Well-Rounded Lifefamily's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin

|summary=It must Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly 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, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be rare indeed that allowed to happen in a British political figure country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the occupation could never became Prime Minister is happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the subject of or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages of text. Howevercity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, as John Campbell demonstrates that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in this volumethe way that it did, it is difficult to do justice to but initial protests melted away as the life, times and career organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of Roy Jenkins in much less than thatindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Dean Myers1786893452|title=An African Princess: From African Orphan to Queen Victoria’s FavouriteThe Ungrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri|rating=34.5|genre=Historical FictionBiography|summary=This elegant edition of An African Princess tells of Here in the life West, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. But all of Sarah Bonetta who is suddenly swept from those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the threat of a savage execution in 1848 only investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to face a brave new the world under and the patronage of situations that refugees find themselves in. It's rare that we find out the imperious Queen Victoria. Meticulously researched by journeys from the twice elected US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Walter Dean Myers, it refugees themselves – and this is a creatively imaginative accountrare opportunity to do that, with an historical backbone of genuine diary entriesin this intelligent, letters, autobiographical powerful and moving workby Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the middle of a revolution in Iran, contemporary newspapers, social and anthropological studies and period photographsfleeing to America as a ten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406354449</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel Jones0857058320|title=Rupert Brooke: Life, Death Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and MythAnne McLean (translator)

|summary=Rupert Chawner Brooke’s reputation as one of ''Lord Of All the greatest or at least best-remembered war poets rests largely on his sonnet Dead''The Soldieris a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Perhaps it was English literature’s abiding loss that Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his output was so slendergreat uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, as Cercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his career was cut short so suddenlyuncle fought for this dictator. Had he lived longer he would surely have developed into The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a notable writerhero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857164</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amber Hunt and David Batcher1788037812|title=The Kennedy WivesFraternity of the Estranged: Triumph and Tragedy The Fight for Homosexual Rights in America's Most Public FamilyEngland, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=45

|summary=The Kennedy dynasty is mainly known for the men who have come to political prominence: Jack KennedyOriginally passed in 1885, the president who was assassinated law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in November 1963place for 82 years. But during this time, his brotherrestrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, Bobby, Jack's Attorney General who would be assassinated in June 1968 and Senator Edward Kennedy three books on the youngest nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the nine children - heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the only one margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the brothers who wouldEuropean Continent, as they saybut barely talked about in the UK, live to comb grey hair. Not quite so much is known about the women who publications of these men were brave enough to marry into the family and Amber Hunt and David Batcher have set out hugely significant – contributing to give us some background on five of these women: Rose Kennedy the matriarch of the family and wife of Joe Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, wife scientific understanding of Jack, Ethelhomosexuality, wife of Bobby and Joan beginning the struggle for recognition and Vickiequality, leading to the first and second wives milestone legalisation of Teddy Kennedysame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762796340</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckland_Zoo|title=The Mystery Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughternatural history|author=Lucinda HawksleyRichard Girling

|summary=As a previous biographer once called herconservationist in Victorian England before the term existed, Princess Louise Frank Buckland was Queen Victoria’s unconventional daughtervery much a man ahead of his time. Always popular with the public for her comparatively easygoing manner (thoughSurgeon, being royalnaturalist, she was not averse to pulling rank), her forward-looking views on social issues, notably education veterinarian and votes for womeneccentric sums him up perfectly, and her artistic interests, she was certainly one of the most interesting of her familyany biographer is immediately presented with a colourful tale to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951549</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Williams_Captain|title=The FroodCaptain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: His Military Life and Times|author=Jem RobertsIvor George Williams

|summary=They say that you should never meet your heroesIn March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the 17th Regiment of Foot. After reading 'The Authorised and Very Official History He was in command of Douglas Adams the troops and the Hitchhiker's Guide convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to the Galaxy' a.kSydney, Australia: his wife and young son accompanied him.He was not destined to live a. ''long life, dying suddenly at the Frood'' I understand whyage of 34 at Bangalore, leaving his widow to raise their two young sons. 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 Edwards'the voice of the book' - I mean, really, death left his widow in this day and agea difficult position: not only did she have their farm to manage, but she was also responsible for the convicts who else?!)worked the land. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184809437X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura ThompsonPeacock_mountain|title=A Different Class of Murder: Into The Story of Lord Lucan|rating=5|genre=True Crime|summary=It's difficult to believe that it's forty years since the murder of nanny Sandra Rivett and the subsequent disappearance of Lord LucanMountain, not least because there have been numerous theories about what happened on November the 7th 1974 - and what became of Lucan. It might also be thought that - short of the Earl turning up with an explanation - there's not a great deal ''new'' which can be added to the pile of published material on the subject, so I began reading ''A Different Class Life of Murder'' with the thought that there would be no great surprises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855366</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Effie GrayNan Shepherd|author=Suzanne Fagence CooperCharlotte Peacock

|summary=Effie Gray was born in Perth in 1828, and knew art critic John Ruskin from an early age. When he finally decided Mostly we choose what books to ask her to be his wife, she called off an engagement read because there is so little time and happily accepted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715648578</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Victoria: A Life|author=A N Wilson|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Every few yearsso many books… I can understand the approach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it seems, and we are presented with another generouslysell the myriad lesser-sized biography of Queen Victoriaknown authors short as well. How many times can another author follow Elizabeth LongfordSo while, Stanley Weintraublike most other people I have my favourite genres, or Christopher Hibbert to name but threeand favoured authors, produce 500 pages or more and still say something new about her? Can while, like most other people I read the blurb’s claim that this shows us the sovereign ‘as she’s never been seen before’ really be justified? Fortunately it canreviews and follow up on what appeals, for even more than I also have a century after her death, there is still new material from previously unseen sources third-string to add to what we already know about hermy reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848879563</amazonuk>