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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elizabeth Norton1788360702|title= The Temptation Of Elizabeth Tudor|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Life, or rather survival, in Tudor England was a precarious business. Being close to the crown was anything but a guarantee of safety, as the fate of two of King Henry VIII's Queen's amply demonstrated. His second daughter Elizabeth led a charmed life and went on to reign as Queen for over forty years, but she too had some narrow escapes when her liberty if not her very existence was under threat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081728</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jeffrey James|title= Edward IV: Glorious Son of York|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Medieval England's own game of thronesCharles, The Wars of the Roses, was at the centre of a turbulent age. In retrospect much of the history of medieval England, between the Norman conquest and the advent of the Tudors, seems to have been a chronicle of instability often verging on and sometimes erupting into rebellion or civil war. The fifteenth-century conflicts between the houses of Lancaster and York, lasting intermittently for thirty years, were more protracted and even more brutal than the rest, with several fierce battles and sudden changes of fortune for the two rival families, both descended from King Edward III. The rise, fall and rise again of King Edward IV was a constant theme of the wars.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445646218</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Spencer Leigh|title= Frank SinatraAlternative Prince: An Extraordinary Life|rating= 4|genre= Entertainment|summary= Frank Sinatra was undoubtedly a legend. In a notoriously precarious profession, he managed to stay at the top, or very close to it, for a remarkably long time. Despite a few half-hearted flirtations with other styles which may have strayed a little from his comfort zone, he remained true to his musical style, won the respect of younger generations, and never really went out of fashion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857160869</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Neil Hegarty|title= Frost: That Was The Life That Was: The Authorised Biography|rating= 5|genre= Unauthorised Biography|summary= Just a glance at this book is enough to make us realise, or remind us, that Sir David Frost was a towering presence in the world of television for around half a century. From the days when he stormed the barricades of cosy light entertainment at the start of the swinging sixties, to his major political interviews and his position as one of the founding fathers of TV-am, he was a cornerstone of the industry. Without him, the history of broadcasting during that period would surely have been very different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753556707</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Van der Kiste|title=Jeff Lynne: The Electric Light Orchestra - Before and AfterEdzard Ernst|rating=4.5

|summary=Jeff Lynne grew up in a Birmingham suburb right at the end For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of 1947: even as a child he was passionate about music alternative medicine and was a much respected guitarist as a teenagercomplementary therapies. He was a member of various semi-professional groups - critical acclaim came when he fronted Idle Race in ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the late sixties Prince's opinions, beliefs and popularity and a degree aims against the background of commercial success arrived when he joined the popular group The Movescientific evidence. Whilst still playing with that group he co-founded, along with Roy Wood, There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the groundbreaking Electric Light Orchestra, but it was with Wood's departure that Lynne turned what had been an occasionally uneasy fusion reputation of classical and rock into a successful and popular actman who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781554927</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Findlay1739805100|title=Chasing Lost TimeLoving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew March

|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 PerduLoving the Enemy'' was highly praised, and Moncrieff was also celebrated as a decorated hero tells the quite extraordinary story of World War One. Hereauthor Andrew March's grandparents, his great-great niece Jean Findlay skilfully retells who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to teach in the life early days of an intriguing man – and one whom I was utterly charmed by. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099507080</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Desmond Seward|title= Renishaw Hall: the story of Nazi regime in the Sitwells|rating= 41930s.5|genre= Biography|summary= Renishaw HallFred, Derbyshirea sensitive and thoughtful man, has been had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the home of growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the Sitwells since 1625time. Though the history of the house and its family go back Fred's attempts 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 separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and his three famous children connections that the narrative comes into its ownlasted for a lifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178396183X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Finn and Petra CouveeWill Brooker|title=The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden BookTruth About Lisa Jewell

|summary=One 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 many things to come out thousands of this incredibly clear and readable less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book is that we Britsstarts with the two meeting each other, for all our literary heritageas well, have got nothing like an equivalent to Boris Pasternakand shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. He or she would have to sell like RowlingThe meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, regularly capture the enjoyment and spirit of the nation a la Danny Boyle's Olympics ceremoniesher anecdote about cup cakes, and at the same time have the cultural heft words of Larkinher latest book she was reciting, Rushdie, Graham Greene and more combined. Someone connected her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with choosing recipients of gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the Nobel Prize declare him here author events I get to be the Soviet TS Eliotattend), but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole thatis Jewell's nothing likediverse output. So Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in the reader probably has published author's life, working to stretch herself to see someone so well-respected and well-loved for his versemake a success of the latest title, who spent twelve years and more on a hugestruggling with the next in line. Jewell, society-defining noveldue diligence appropriately done, only for agrees. And this is the country to nix every plan to get it publishedresult.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581345</amazonuk>1529136024

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marlena de BlasiMartha Leigh|title=The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper ClubInvisible Ink: A Family Memoir|rating=45|genre=Biography|summary= Author Marlena de Blasi lives Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in the (as far as I can tell from having a quick google)slightly eccentric, beautiful small Italian city of Orvieto – deep in the beautiful Umbrian countrysideimmediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Having lived there for some timeHer father is a Cambridge don, she gradually becomes aware forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence of the Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club – philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his life's work. Her mother is a group of Italian ladies concert pianist who meet once a week practises for supper, and to talkhours every day. Whilst it takes her some time, Marlena eventually manages to be accepted into Neither parent is hugely interested in the group, and begins to cook and eat with these unique and fascinating ladies, sharing both tales practicalities of life, . There is love, and death, and taking part in delicious home cooked mealsthe house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091954304</amazonuk>1800460384

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter AckroydPolly Barton|title=Charlie ChaplinFifty Sounds

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Charlie Chaplin dominated Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the formative years of question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the cinemaworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, as actor and directorbut I am not hopeful. And like Barton, like no other. As we are told I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in an early chapter respect of this bookthe question in the first essay, which is on his first visit to America in 1910the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, he is alleged to the sound of ''every party where you have shouted, ‘I am coming to conquer youintroduce yourself''. 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|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099287560</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sean SmithFrederic Gros|title=Tom Jones - The LifeA Philosophy of Walking|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Few singers I confess I picked this one up from the library in my pre-lockdown forage of random stuff. Now I have sustained a career over half a century and appealed to succeeding generations in the way go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the former Thomas John Woodward of Treforest has managed pages I have marked and return to its varying wisdom when I need to do. Some books draw you in slowly. Almost written off during a lean period or This one had me in the first twopages, he proved himself the master of re-invention, and now in his mid-70s he wherein Gros explains why ''walking is loved and revered as something of not a national treasuresport''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000810445X</amazonuk>1781688370

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek NiemannSharon Blackie|title=A Nazi in the Family: The Hidden Story of an SS Family in Wartime GermanyIf Women Rose Rooted

|genre=Biography|summary=I'm sure someone somewhere has rewritten The Devil's Dictionary normally say that you can tell how much a book means to include the following – ''family: noun; place where the greatest secrets are kept''me by how many pages have corners turned down. The Niemann family Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is no exception. It was long known that grandfather Karl was in Germany during the Second World War, people could easily work that setting out from to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the family biography. Yet little was spoken of, apart from him being an office-bound worker, either in logistics or financeone I've borrowed. Since the War two of three surviving siblings had relocated I want to the Glasgow environs, and there was even a family quip concerning Goebbels and Gorbals (avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring'family: noun; place where the worst things are spoken in the best way'life-changing'). What was a surprise to our author, – although it is definitely the first two and many of his relatives, was that things were a lot closer to only time will tell about the former than had been expected, for Karl was such an office worker third – but clichés exist for the SS. With a lot of family history finally out of the closet of silent mouths, reason and with incriminating photographic evidence revealed in unlikely ways, the whole truth I'm not sure I can be known. But this is certainly not just of interest to that one small familysuccinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722222</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miranda Richmond Mouillot0241446732|title=A Fifty Year Silence|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=The story follows the narrator’s quest to find out why her mother’s parents abruptly parted and never reconciled, or even spoke another word to one another. We follow Miranda as she goes backwards and forwards between her Grandmother, whom she Our House is very close to, on Fire: Scenes of a Family and her Grandfather, whom she has always found a difficult character. She is determined to get to the bottom 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 Jewish. She is driven by 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 out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922182583</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPlanet in Crisis|author=David Greene|title=Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of RussiaMalena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating=4.5

|summary=It's no mistake that The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the cover parenting of my edition of this book is a photo where the Trans-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the frametheir two daughters. It's well known for going eastThen eleven-year-westold Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, left to right across the map of the largest country by far in the worldBeata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. 9In such circumstances,288 kilometres from Moscow it's natural to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be seek a longsolution close to home, thin line across the coverbut eventually, as it 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 became clear to the spine or backbone of Russia a couple of times, family thatthey were 's got to be of 'burned-out people on a prone Russia – one lying down, not upright or activeburned-out planet''. David Greene, If they were to find a stalwart of northern American radio journalism, uses this book way to see just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians are – and finds live happily again their lying down solution would need to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictment. It'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 pieceradical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Welch0648684806|title=RasputinClara Colby: A Short LifeThe International Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|summary=Was Grigori RasputinThe 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 some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was the Siberian peasant turned mystic only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the time bomb who almost singlemid-handedly precipitated west of the collapse of United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the Russian Empire 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 1917childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a genuine holy man or an evil-minded reprobate heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789017977|title=Ronnie and total disaster?Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=4|genre=History|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>178072232X</amazonuk>Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. For a while, the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Allen and Amie ParnesPatti Smith|title=HRC: State Secrets and Year of the Rebirth of Hillary ClintonMonkey

|summary=Hillary Clinton initially came to our attention as First Lady On the coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, and even then she might have faded into international obscurity had unexpected moments. In a stranger's words, ''Anything is possible: after all, it not been for 's the year of the monkey''. As Smith wanders the way coast of Santa Cruz in which solitude, she managed to hold reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and ageing are faced head high during those unfortunate incidents with Bill - wellon, HRC wasnas it the shifting political waters in America. |isbn=1526614758}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary='t 'Oh Joy for me!'involved'gives Coleridge credit for being ' but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Then she re-emerged through the fog of first person to walk the George W Bush presidency with her bid mountains alone, not because he had to gain the Democratic nominationfor work, losing in as a hotly contested series of primaries miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to Barack Obama - for pleasure and went on to become his Secretary of Stateadventure. Now His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the question is whether or not she will make another run for President in 2016world''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Graff_Find|title=Find Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>0099594692</amazonuk>When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of handwritten notes from his journal, he didn't take much notice of it. At the age of 24, Graff didn't realise the gravity of the pages he was holding.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Thompson1789016304|title=Life War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford The Biographyoccupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin

|summary=There can have been few more extraordinary families Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in British society occupied Amsterdam during World War II and cultural life during the early twentieth century than the Mitfordswas entranced by what she discovered, the six daughters and one son particularly in ''The Diary of Baron RedesdaleAnn Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. The only son, killed in action A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the Second World War, led an unexceptional life away from the headlineswar years, but four of his sisters more than made up for himonly five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Diana 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, wife of that the notorious Sir Oswald Mosley, Amsterdammers would never renounced her admiration for Hitler or allow what happened to escalate in the Fascist movement, while Unity, who shared her beliefsway that it did, shot herself on the day war broke out but lingered pathetically for another brain-damaged eight years, and initial protests melted away as the fiercely left-wing Jessica organisers became more circumspect. It's an active member atrocity on a vast scale but made up of the American Communist Party. Compared to them Nancy, the eldest and the subject tens of this biography, seems to have been the most balanced and least eccentric thousands of them allindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082295</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Kennedy1786893452|title=Oscar & LucyThe Ungrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri

|summary=With Here in the film West, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about Alan Turingthem. But all of those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, ''The Imitation Game'' getting rave reviews and award nominations rightalmost always, left and centreno matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the sterling work done by world and the Bletchley Park cryptographers during WWII is quite high situations that refugees find themselves in our minds. But Enigma wasnIt't s rare that we find out the journeys from the only code broken refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity to do that, in this intelligent, powerful and Turing wasn't moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the only one doing secret but heroic workmiddle of a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a ten-year-old. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>095646968X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Lodge0857058320|title=Lives in WritingLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=Kaiser Wilhelm II ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is well known a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and not death. Cercas is searching for the best of reasons and hemeaning behind his great uncle's certainly over-shadowed his six younger siblingsdeath in the Spanish Civil War. John Van der KisteManuel Mena, Cercas's first biography was of his fathergreat uncle, 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 Royalfigure who looms large over the book. Originally he intended to write about FriedrichHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's second daughter, but forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it quickly became obvious that the most satisfying biography - is possible for reader and author - would his great uncle to be a biography of Victoria, Sophie and Margaret, their mother's ''kleebatt'' or trio, as they were knownhero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00QKROC9W</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Churchwell1788037812|title=Careless People Murder Mayhem and the Invention The Fraternity of the Great GatsbyEstranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|summary=In Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this accomplished literary biography Professor Churchwell expertly weaves together three guest liststime, restrictions on same- the Fitzgeralds sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and literary cast of New York1908, three books on the sensationalist tragic murder victims nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and suspects of New BrunswickJohn Addington Symonds, New Jersey and as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the careless characters margins of F. Scott's novel using society and studying homosexuality was common on the Fitzgeralds' archivesEuropean Continent, newspaper clippings, literary scrapbooksbut barely talked about in the UK,diary entries and anecdotes to link the stories and chronicle so the heedless hedonism publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the 1920s. It is not only a meticulously researched tribute tracing the genesis scientific understanding of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s plot skeletonhomosexuality, which he roughly sketched in pencil in and beginning the back of a bookstruggle for recognition and equality, entitled Man’s Hope, but it also sparkles with sophisticated vocabulary fizzing with leading to the effervescence milestone legalisation of a glass of champagne providing new treats for the reader with each inviting chaptersame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844087689</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John BatchelorBuckland_Zoo|title=TennysonThe Man Who Ate the Zoo: To strive, to seek, to find|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Most readersFrank Buckland, if they were asked to name the ultimate poet forgotten hero 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 natural history|author=Zareer Masani |title=Macaulay: Britain's Liberal Imperialist Richard Girling|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

|summary=It must be rare indeed that As a British political figure who never became Prime Minister is conservationist in Victorian England before the subject of or deserves term existed, Frank Buckland was very much a biography comprising 750 pages man ahead of texthis time. HoweverSurgeon, as John Campbell demonstrates in this volumenaturalist, veterinarian and eccentric sums him up perfectly, it and any biographer is difficult to do justice immediately presented with a colourful tale to the life, times and career of Roy Jenkins in much less than thattell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Dean MyersWilliams_Captain|title=An African Princess: From African Orphan to Queen Victoria’s Favourite|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This elegant edition Captain Ronald Campbell 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 LiteratureBombala Station, 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 Cambalong: His Military Life and period photographs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406354449</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTimes|author=Nigel Jones|title=Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and MythIvor George Williams

|summary=Rupert Chawner Brooke’s reputation as one In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the greatest or at least best-remembered war poets rests largely 17th Regiment of Foot. He was in command of the troops and convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, Australia: his sonnet ''The Soldier''wife and young son accompanied him. Perhaps it He was English literature’s abiding loss that not destined to live a long life, dying suddenly at the age of 34 at Bangalore, leaving his widow to raise their two young sons. Edwards' death left his output was so slenderwidow in a difficult position: not only did she have their farm to manage, as his career but she was cut short so suddenlyalso responsible for the convicts who worked the land. Had he lived longer he Two years later she would surely have developed into a notable writermarry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857164</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amber Hunt and David BatcherPeacock_mountain|title=Into The Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public FamilyMountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd|author=Charlotte Peacock|rating=4.5

|summary=The Kennedy dynasty Mostly we choose what books to read because there is mainly known for so little time and so many books… I can understand the men who have come to political prominence: Jack Kennedy, the president who was assassinated in November 1963, his brotherapproach, Bobbybut I also think we sell ourselves short by it, Jack's Attorney General who would be assassinated in June 1968 and Senator Edward Kennedy the youngest of we sell the nine children myriad lesser- the only one of the brothers who would, known authors short as they saywell. So while, live to comb grey hair. Not quite so much is known about the women who were brave enough to marry into the family and Amber Hunt and David Batcher like most other people I have set out to give us some background on five of these women: Rose Kennedy the matriarch of the family my favourite genres, and wife of Joe Kennedyfavoured authors, Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of Jack, Ethel, wife of Bobby and Joan and Vickiwhile, like most other people I read the first reviews and second wives of Teddy Kennedyfollow up on what appeals, I also have a third-string to my reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762796340</amazonuk>