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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Amy Licence1788360702|title= Edward IV & Elizabeth WoodvilleCharles, The Alternative Prince: A True RomanceAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Given the current resurgence in popularity of biographies dealing with the YorkistsFor over forty years, the time is right for Prince Charles has been an account ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the marriage of King Edward IV Prince's opinions, beliefs and Elizabeth Woodville, a union that proved so divisive in aims against the era background of York vs Lancasterthe scientific evidence. With several There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of the great nobility declaring allegiance treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to one side and then another in turn during the Wars reputation of the Rosesa man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, it was a divisive era logical reasoning to start withhis ambitions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alison Weir1739805100|title= The Lost Tudor PrincessLoving the Enemy: A Life Building bridges in a time of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennoxwar|author=Andrew March|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary=Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was one of ''Loving the more shadowy, lesser known personalities among Enemy'' tells the Tudor royal family. She was the daughter quite extraordinary story of King Henry VIIIauthor Andrew March's sister Margaretgrandparents, by her second marriage who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Archibald Douglas, Earl Dresden to teach in the early days of Angusthe Nazi regime in the 1930s. Fred, a sensitive and like so many others who were closely related thoughtful man, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the time. Fred's attempts to King Henry VIII separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and his children, she led what was at times quite connections that lasted for a precarious life in that she was on occasion suspected of treasonable activities, and also experienced no little personal tragedy|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546469</amazonuk>lifetime.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peggy CaravantesWill Brooker|title=Marooned in the ArcticThe Truth About Lisa Jewell

|summary=Misogynists are manmadeMeet [[: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. And if anyone was in a position to hate men This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the lot they put on their shoulders, it was Ava Blackjacktwo closer and closer together. Her surname spoke of an abusive man she had a son byThe meeting was some unspecified combination, but it was seems, of her time with four other men that made for one anecdote about cup cakes, the words of the last century's more remarkable stories. An Inuit nativeher latest book she was reciting, but one brought up and her being in a city and ''black lace mini-dress with English lessons, she was invited on an excursion alongside many other gold brocade'Eskimo' and four intrepid Westerners(certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, to the uninhabited Wrangel Islanda professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, perched off down the northern Siberian coastrabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse output. They were there just Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to stick follow her through a flag year in it and call it Britishthe published author's life, even if they were pretty much fully American and Canadianworking to make a success of the latest title, and struggling with the chap whose ideas these all were bore an Icelandic name; she was along to provide native expertise, especially waterproof fur clothingnext in line. And that was it – none of her kin joined herJewell, leaving her in one tent and four men in anotherdue diligence appropriately done, in one of the world's most remote and inhospitable placesagrees. And that was just this is the start of her worries…result.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>1529136024

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robert Douglas-FairhurstMartha Leigh|title=The Story of AliceInvisible Ink: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of WonderlandA Family Memoir|rating= 4.5

|summary= Think 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 Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence of iconic novelsthe philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and "Alicehis life's Adventures work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in Wonderland" will be near the top practicalities of your listlife. From There is love in the rabbit hole to house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|isbn=1800460384}}{{Frontpage|author=Polly Barton|title=Fifty Sounds|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the Mad Hatterquestion 's tea party 'Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the Queenworld hadn's cricket groundt gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, Lewis CarrollI don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'s imagination has established itself firmly ' She explains her feelings in Western cultural heritage: with a parade respect of characters ranging from the weird to question in the wonderful and a constant play with logic and languagefirst essay, Carrollwhich is on the sound 's masterpiece has earned its place 'giro' '' – which she describes as being, among classicsother things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959403X</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonny SteinbergFrederic Gros|title=Man A Philosophy of Good HopeWalking

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=''A Man of Good Hope'' is I confess I picked this one up from the remarkable biography library in my pre-lockdown forage of Asad Abdullahirandom stuff. It tells Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the story of a Somalian boy abandoned at eight years of age pages I have marked and his journey to adulthood. It is also a testament return to the human spirit and its capacity varying wisdom when I need to survive. Epic Some books draw you in its scope it covers a journey that stretches the length of the continent of Africaslowly. In a time when This one had me in the mass migration of people has never beenfirst two pages, more in focus it tells the story of what it really means to be wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a refugee by someone who has experienced it all his lifesport''. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099563770</amazonuk>1781688370

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johnny RoganSharon Blackie|title= Ray Davies: A Complicated LifeIf Women Rose Rooted|rating= 5|genre= EntertainmentBiography|summary= Most of Britain's most popular and successful songwriters of the last 150 years, from Gilbert and Sullivan and Lennon and McCartney, I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, me by how many pages have been partnershipscorners turned down. The only solo writer in the same league Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is Ray Davies, front man of The Kinks from their formation in 1963 setting out to their final performance in 1994buy my own copy before I've finished reading the one I've borrowed. While this mighty tome is partly an account of the groupI want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 's tortuous thirtylife-year history, changing' – although it is also definitely the first two and foremost, as only time will tell about the title says, third – but clichés exist for a biography of Davies himself. Through interviews with the Davies brothers, Ray reason and his younger brother Dave, the groupI's guitarist and only other constant member of the line-up, other group members, managers, friends and associates, Rogan has given us as complete a book of the man as we are ever likely to getm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099554089</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate Grenville0241446732|title= One LifeOur House is on Fire: My Mother's StoryScenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating= 5|genre= BiographyPolitics and Society|summary= This memoir could so easily have become a sentimental tribute to Grenville's motherThe Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. But somehowIn such circumstances, the author has managed it's natural to seek a solution close to make home, but eventually, it so much more than became clear to the family thatthey were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782116877</amazonuk>If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Crawford0648684806|title= Young EliotClara Colby: From St Louis to The Waste LandInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 54|genre= Biography|summary= Did TThe path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA.S. Eliot like ice At the time she was just three-years-cream? I should really be asking, old but because of coursesome childhood ailment, whether she wasn''Tom'' liked ice-creamt allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, since Robert Crawford in his marvellous biography insists who doted on bringing us into intimate her and personal contact with this so closed saw that she received a good education, both in and impersonal out of poetsschool. For many of us, to wonder what this literary giant's favourite flavour of ice-cream She was seems a somehow unsuitable curiosity – irreverent or frivolous even – as if to think about his taste for such ordinary pleasures would distract from the appreciation for his very momentous achievements only child in poetrythe household and her childhood was glorious. It is By contrast, however, Crawford's aim to make these kinds her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of commonplace aspects of T.S. Eliot's the United States and life and personality much more familiar to uswas hard, as he draws our attention Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the poet's childhood 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 eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and youthWisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955495X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David P Colley1789017977|title=Seeing the WarRonnie and Hilda's Romance: The Stories Behind the Famous Photographs from Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams

|summary=As anybody could tell, a still photograph is only part Ronnie Williams was the son of the truth, if thatThomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There is a beforehand we don't sees 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 an after we can only fantasise about unless we know otherwisehe might well have shaved a few years off his age. Take For a while, the famous image of wartime grunts pushing the flag pole upright – an icon of the War family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the Pacific for the US soldiers, 1929 Depression and the films made about Iwo Jima sincefive-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. But other images of the war have been just as longOne thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-lasting, out and the people in the photos don't always have movies made of their full story arcthis would stay with him throughout his life. This book is a collection of He joined the images, and a corrective to that narrative lack, giving much more of a full biography with which to pay tributearmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611687268</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)Patti Smith|title=HieronymusYear of the Monkey

|summary=Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in 1769On the coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the younger brother lunar year of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but who is perhaps better remembered as a philosopher the monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, and linguistunexpected moments. The family was well-to-do and both brothers benefitted from an excellent educationIn a stranger's words, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed mother''Anything is possible: after all, but it was a legacy from her which would fund Alexander's first explorationsthe year of the monkey''. His first travels would be As Smith wanders the coast of Santa Cruz in Europe where he met solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and was influenced by people such ageing are faced head-on, as Joseph Banks, President of it the Royal Society, who had travelled with Thomas Cook. But it was his travels shifting political waters in Latin America which would lay the foundations for his life's work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>1526614758

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Parker1912242052|title= Bertolt Brecht - A Literary LifeO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating= 3.5|genre= BiographyArt|summary= Drawing on letters, diaries, and unpublished material, Stephen Parker offers a rich and detailed account of Brecht's life and work, and paints a new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons – a man whose plays are performed more in Germany than ShakespeareOh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being 's. Examining Brecht's beginnings in Bavaria, through the First World War and onto first person to walk the beginnings of a career. Thenmountains alone, Brecht's journey through Weimar Germany where not because he became had to for work, as a political artistminer, struggling with the fascists who would eventually drive him to exile in Denmarkquarryman, and onto life in the US – suspected of being a Soviet agentshepherd or pack-horse driver, before the eventual return but because he wanted to Germany, for pleasure and a later life plagued adventure. His rapturous encounters with illness. This is a fascinating book about the man, his worktheir natural beauty, and the climates in which he wrote and influenced his workits literary consequences, as well as providing insights into the thought processes, health, and women who filled changed our view of the world of Brecht''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474240003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dominic Pearce|title= Henrietta Maria|rating= 4.5|genreisbn= HistoryGraff_Find|summary=The phrase 'tragic Queen' is an often overused one, but the French princess who became the second Stuart Queen Consort of Britain surely has as strong a claim as any to the title. In British history she was unique in that she not only lived to see her husband defeated in civil war, but also sentenced to death and in effect judicially murdered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445645475</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFind Another Place|author=Philip Weinstein|title=Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of RageBen Graff

|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=''Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage'' makes frequent mention of FranzenWhen Ben Graff's attendance at Swathmore College in Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1977 and where the author, Philip Weinstein was, until last year Professor grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of English. An earlier graduate, the novelist James A. Michner left his entire estate of some 10 million dollars to the college and the proceeds handwritten notes from his works, including the one on which ''South Pacific'' was founded. It was at Swarthmore that Franzen met his wife, where she had been a gifted classmate. Weinstein, the author who teaches there, has personally known Franzen for over two decades and the latter has given him a personal interview and been otherwise in contact with him for some considerable time. If this all seems just a little blurred in its boundaries, not to say incestuous, then that might not matter. However, Franzen's work closely concern itself with shame, guilt, incest, rage and humiliation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307177</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Adam Sisman|title= John le Carre: The Biography|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary=Some twenty years ago David Cornwell, better known as novelist John le Carréjournal, told a couple of would-be writers about him that he did not believe in 'authoriseddidn' biographies or critiques. Adam Sisman, who has since then been granted exclusive access to the man and his private archive, can therefore consider himself a lucky man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827921</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Catherine Hewitt|title= The Mistress t take much notice of Paris|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary= Born into poverty, no-one could have guessed that the girl who would one day be known as Valtesse de la Bigne would have achieved greatnessit. This is At the tale age of her rise to wealth and power – starting in a dress shop as a thirteen year old24, but fast becoming a courtesan who would be fought over by some of Graff didn't realise the greatest men of her time. A woman who kept an air of mystery about many details gravity of her life, Catherine Hewitt nevertheless paints an incredible story around the gaps, and this proves to be both a full and intriguing biography, and a fascinating portrait of the time periodpages he was holding. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848319266</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Despina Stratigakos1789016304|title=Hitler at HomeWar and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin

|genre=HistoryBiography|summary=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 ''Please do not make Hitler look good.The Diary of Ann Frank'' Words to live by but then realised that the author of this volume received from her mother, a Kefalonian who knew Nazi abuse when she saw itown family's stories were equally fascinating. Rest assured that A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the book does not do thatwar years, but it certainly provides a much fresher, more eloquent only five thousand survived and interesting look at certain aspects of his life, and introduces us Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to someone else from the Nazi times – Gerdy Troost, happen in a country with liberal values who might as well be summarised as Hitler's interior designerwere resistant to German occupation. In picking apart Most people believed that the entire life of Troost, occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the nature of her work and how Germans might reach the buildings and décor she surrounded Hitler in became a part of his propaganda, we get a refreshingly new yet authoritative bookcity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that for those with an interest the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in this side of our recent history will easily be considered one of, if not theway that it did, best book of but initial protests melted away as the yearorganisers became more circumspect. The person who does come out with the laurels worn highest is our author.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>030018381X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elizabeth Norton|title= The Temptation Of Elizabeth Tudor|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Life, or rather survival, in Tudor England was It's an atrocity on a precarious business. Being close to the crown was anything vast scale but a guarantee made up of safety, as the fate tens of two thousands 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 threatindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081728</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jeffrey James|title= Edward IV: Glorious Son of York|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Medieval England's own game of thrones, 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 Sinatra: An Extraordinary Life|rating= 4|genreisbn= 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 Hegarty1786893452|title= Frost: That Was The Life That Was: The Authorised Biography|rating= 5|genre= 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>}}{{newreviewUngrateful Refugee|author=John Van der Kiste|title=Jeff Lynne: The Electric Light Orchestra - Before and AfterDina Nayeri

|summary=Jeff Lynne grew up Here in a Birmingham suburb right at the end of 1947: even as West, we see news reports about immigrants on a child he was passionate regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about music and was a much respected guitarist as a teenagerthem. He was a member But all of various semi-professional groups - critical acclaim came when he fronted Idle Race those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the world and the situations that refugees find themselves in . It's rare that we find out the journeys from the late sixties and popularity refugees themselves – and this is a degree of commercial success arrived when he joined the popular group The Move. Whilst still playing with rare opportunity to do that group he co-founded, along with Roy Woodin this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the groundbreaking Electric Light Orchestramiddle of a revolution in Iran, but it was with Wood's departure that Lynne turned what had been an occasionally uneasy fusion of classical and rock into fleeing to America as a successful and popular actten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781554927</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Findlay0857058320|title=Chasing Lost TimeLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating=4.5

|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 PerduLord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor' was highly praised, s life and Moncrieff was also celebrated as a decorated hero of World death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War One. HereManuel Mena, 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 uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great-great niece Jean Findlay skilfully retells uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the life of an intriguing man – and one whom I was utterly charmed bywrong side. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099507080</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Desmond Seward1788037812|title= Renishaw Hall: the story The Fraternity of the SitwellsEstranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Renishaw HallOriginally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, Derbyshirerestrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, has been three books on the home nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the Sitwells since 1625heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Though Exploring the history margins of the house society and its family go back to studying homosexuality was common on the early Stuart eraEuropean Continent, as Seward tells us but barely talked about in a few wonderfully concise chaptersthe UK, it is really with so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the appearance scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the eccentric Sir George Sitwell struggle for recognition and his three famous children that equality, leading to the narrative comes into its ownmilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178396183X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Finn and Petra CouveeBuckland_Zoo|title=The Zhivago AffairMan Who Ate the Zoo: The KremlinFrank Buckland, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Bookforgotten hero of natural history|author=Richard Girling|rating=4.5

|summary=One of As a conservationist in Victorian England before the many things to come out of this incredibly clear and readable book is that we Britsterm existed, 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 Frank Buckland was very much a man ahead of the nation a la Danny Boyle's Olympics ceremonies, and at the same his time have the cultural heft of Larkin. Surgeon, Rushdienaturalist, Graham Greene veterinarian and more combined. Someone connected with choosing recipients of the Nobel Prize declare eccentric sums him here to be the Soviet TS Eliotup perfectly, 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 any biographer is immediately presented with a huge, society-defining novel, only for the country to nix every plan colourful tale to get it publishedtell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581345</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marlena de BlasiWilliams_Captain|title=The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper ClubCaptain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: His Military Life and Times|author=Ivor George Williams

|summary= Author Marlena de Blasi lives in In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the (as far as I can tell from having a quick google), beautiful small Italian city 17th Regiment of Orvieto – deep Foot. He was in the beautiful Umbrian countryside. Having lived there for some time, she gradually becomes aware command of the Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club – troops and convicts on board a group of Italian ladies who meet once a week for suppership sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, Australia: his wife and young son accompanied him. He was not destined to talk. Whilst it takes her some timelive a long life, Marlena eventually manages to be accepted into dying suddenly at the groupage of 34 at Bangalore, and begins leaving his widow to cook and eat with these unique and fascinating ladies, sharing both tales of life, love, and raise their two young sons. Edwards' deathleft his widow in a difficult position: not only did she have their farm to manage, and taking part in delicious home cooked mealsbut she was also responsible for the convicts who worked the land. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954304</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter AckroydPeacock_mountain|title=Charlie ChaplinInto The Mountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd|author=Charlotte Peacock

|summary=Charlie Chaplin dominated Mostly we choose what books to read because there is so little time and so many books… I can understand the formative years of approach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it, and we sell the cinema, myriad lesser-known authors short as actor and directorwell. So while, like no most other. As we are told in an early chapter of this bookpeople I have my favourite genres, on his first visit to America in 1910and favoured authors, he is alleged to have shoutedand while, ‘I am coming to conquer you. Every man woman like most other people I read the reviews and child shall follow up on what appeals, I also have my name on their lips!’ Within a few years he had indeed conquered the entire moviethird-going world|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099287560</amazonuk>string to my reading bow: randomness.