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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Aubrey1788360702|title= Brief LivesCharles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary= John Aubrey was a modest manFor over forty years, Prince Charles has been an antiquarian ardent supporter of alternative medicine and the inventor of modern biographycomplementary therapies. His lives of ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the prominent figures of his generation include Shakespeare, MiltonPrince's opinions, beliefs and Sir Walter Raleigh. Funny, illuminating and full aims against the background of historical details, they have been plundered by historians for centuriesthe scientific evidence. Here Aubrey's biographical writings There are collected, painting a series few instances of unforgettable portraits his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the characters reputation of a man who is proud of his day – all more alive and kicking than in a conventional history bookrefusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870331</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ruth Scurr1739805100|title= John AubreyLoving the Enemy: My Own LifeBuilding bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew March|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary=John Aubrey''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 teach in the seventeenth-century antiquaryearly days of the Nazi regime in the 1930s. Fred, writer a sensitive and archaeologistthoughtful man, occupies a peculiar, even unique place had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in English literatureEurope at the time. When he died, the work for which he is most famous, Fred'Brief Livess attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren', was a disorganised collection of manuscripts which remained unpublished t universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for over a centurylifetime. Only in the last hundred years or so has be become more widely recognised as an interesting character and perceptive commentator on society, scholarship and on his contemporaries during the post-restoration era.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099490633</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amy LicenceWill Brooker|title= Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True RomanceThe Truth About Lisa Jewell|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Given 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 current resurgence in popularity thousands of biographies dealing less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the Yorkiststwo meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the time is right for an account two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the marriage words of King Edward IV her latest book she was reciting, and Elizabeth Woodvilleher being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a union professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that proved so divisive in the era of York vs Lancasteris Jewell's diverse output. With several of the great nobility declaring allegiance Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to one side and then another follow her through a year in turn during the Wars published author's life, working to make a success of the Roseslatest title, it was a divisive era to start and struggling withthe next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the result. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>1529136024

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alison WeirMartha Leigh|title= The Lost Tudor PrincessInvisible Ink: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of LennoxFamily Memoir

|summary=Margaret Douglas Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, Countess 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 Lennoxthe philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, was one his life's work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in the practicalities of life. There is love in the more shadowyhouse 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, lesser known personalities among with the Tudor royal family. She was question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the daughter of King Henry VIIIworld hadn's sister Margaret, t gone into melt-down I would have visited by her second marriage to Archibald Douglasnow. I may get there later this year, Earl of Angusbut I am not hopeful. And like Barton, and like so many others who were closely related I don't know the answer to King Henry VIII and his childrenthe question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she led what was at times quite a precarious life in that she was on occasion suspected describes as being, among other things, the sound of treasonable activities, and also experienced no little personal tragedy''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099546469</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peggy CaravantesFrederic Gros|title=Marooned in the ArcticA Philosophy of Walking

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Misogynists are manmadeI confess I picked this one up from the library in my pre-lockdown forage of random stuff. And if anyone was in a position Now I have to hate men and the lot they put on their shoulders, it was Ava Blackjack. Her surname spoke of go out an abusive man she had a son by, but it was her time with four other men buy my own copy so that made for one of I can turn down the last century's more remarkable stories. An Inuit native, but one brought up in a city pages I have marked and with English lessons, she was invited on an excursion alongside many other 'Eskimo' and four intrepid Westerners, return to its varying wisdom when I need to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, perched off the northern Siberian coast. They were there just to stick a flag Some books draw you in it and call it British, even if they were pretty much fully American and Canadian, and the chap whose ideas these all were bore an Icelandic name; she was along to provide native expertise, especially waterproof fur clothingslowly. And that was it – none of her kin joined her, leaving her in This one tent and four men had me in anotherthe first two pages, in one of the worldwherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a sport''s most remote and inhospitable places. And that was just the start of her worries…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>1781688370

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robert Douglas-FairhurstSharon Blackie|title=The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of WonderlandIf Women Rose Rooted|rating= 4.5

|summary= Think I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an even greater measure of iconic novels, and "Aliceimpact is setting out to buy my own copy before I's Adventures in Wonderland" will be near ve finished reading the top of your listone I've borrowed. From the rabbit hole I want to the Mad Hatteravoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring's tea party and the Queen's cricket ground, Lewis Carrolllife-changing's imagination has established itself firmly in Western cultural heritage: with a parade of characters ranging from – although it is definitely the weird to first two and only time will tell about the wonderful and third – but clichés exist for a constant play with logic reason and language, CarrollI's masterpiece has earned its place among classicsm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959403X</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonny Steinberg0241446732|title=Man Our House is on Fire: Scenes of Good Hopea Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg

|summary=''A Man The path of Good HopeClara Dorothy Bewick'' is s life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the remarkable biography of Asad AbdullahiUSA. It tells At the story of a Somalian boy abandoned at eight time she was just three-years -old but because of age some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and his journey to adulthoodthree brothers. It is also a testament to the human spirit Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and its capacity to survive. Epic in its scope it covers a journey saw that stretches the length of the continent of Africa. In she received a time when the mass migration of people has never beengood education, more both in focus it tells the story of what it really means to be a refugee by someone who has experienced it all his life. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563770</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Johnny Rogan|title= Ray Davies: A Complicated Life|rating= 5|genre= Entertainment|summary= Most of Britain's most popular and successful songwriters out of the last 150 years, from Gilbert and Sullivan and Lennon and McCartney, to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, have been partnershipsschool. The She was the only solo writer child in the same league is Ray Davieshousehold and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, front man of The Kinks from their formation her family had become pioneer farmers in 1963 to their final performance in 1994. While this mighty tome is partly an account the mid-west of the group's tortuous thirty-year history, it is also first United States and foremostlife was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the title says, a biography of Davies himselffamily. Through interviews with the Davies brothersClara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, Ray and his younger brother Davehad ten pregnancies, the group's guitarist seven surviving children and only other constant member of died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the line-upeldest girl, other group members, managers, friends a heavy burden would fall on Clara and associates, Rogan has given us as complete Wisconsin was a book of the man as we are ever likely to getrude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554089</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate Grenville1789017977|title= One Life: My Mother's Story|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= This memoir could so easily have become a sentimental tribute to GrenvilleRonnie and Hilda's mother. But somehow, the author has managed to make it so much more than that. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782116877</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Crawford|title= Young EliotRomance: From St Louis to The Waste Land|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= Did T.S. Eliot like ice-cream? I should really be asking, of course, whether ''Tom'' liked ice-cream, since Robert Crawford in his marvellous biography insists on bringing us into intimate and personal contact with this so closed and impersonal of poets. For many of us, to wonder what this literary giant's favourite flavour of ice-cream was seems Towards 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 in poetry. It is, however, Crawford's aim to make these kinds of commonplace aspects of T.S. Eliot's life and personality much more familiar to us, as he draws our attention to the poet's childhood years and youth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955495X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNew Life after World War II|author=David P Colley|title=Seeing the War: The Stories Behind the Famous Photographs from World War IIWendy 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|authorisbn= Dominic PearceGraff_Find|title= Henrietta MariaFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating= 43.5|genre= HistoryAutobiography|summary=The phrase When Ben Graff'tragic Queens grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of handwritten notes from his journal, he didn' is an often overused onet take much notice of it. At the age of 24, but Graff didn't realise the French princess who became the second Stuart Queen Consort gravity of Britain surely has as strong a claim as any to the title. In British history she pages he 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 murderedholding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445645475</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Weinstein1789016304|title=Jonathan FranzenWar and Love: The Comedy A family's testament of Rageanguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=3.5

|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 ''Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy Diary of RageAnn Frank'' makes frequent mention of Franzenbut then realised that her own family's attendance at Swathmore College in Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1977 and where the author, Philip Weinstein was, until last year Professor of Englishstories were equally fascinating. An earlier graduate, the novelist James A. Michner left his entire estate of some 10 million dollars to the college hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the proceeds from his works, including city during the one on which ''South Pacific'' was founded. It was at Swarthmore that Franzen met his wifewar years, where she had been but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a gifted classmatecountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Weinstein, Most people believed that the author occupation could never happen: even those who teaches therethought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, has personally known Franzen for over two decades and that the latter has given him a personal interview and been otherwise Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in contact with him for some considerable time. If this all seems just a little blurred in its boundariesthe way that it did, not to say incestuous, then that might not matterbut initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. However, Franzen It's work closely concern itself with shame, guilt, incest, rage and humiliationan atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307177</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Adam Sisman1786893452|title= John le Carre: The BiographyUngrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary=Some twenty years ago David CornwellHere in the West, better known as novelist John le Carréwe see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, told a couple some scaremongering about them. But all of would-be writers about him 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 he did not believe refugees find themselves in . It'authorised' biographies or critiques. Adam Sismans rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity to do that, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who has since then been granted exclusive access to was born in the man and his private archivemiddle of a revolution in Iran, can therefore consider himself fleeing to America as a lucky manten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827921</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Catherine Hewitt0857058320|title= The Mistress of ParisLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary= Born into poverty, no-one could have guessed that ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the girl who would one day be known as Valtesse de la Bigne would have achieved greatnessauthor's lost ancestor's life and death. This Cercas is searching for the tale of her rise to wealth and power – starting meaning behind his great uncle's death in a dress shop as a thirteen year oldthe Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, but fast becoming a courtesan is the figure who would be fought looms large over by some of the greatest men of her timebook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. A woman who kept an air The question at the centre of mystery about many details of her life, Catherine Hewitt nevertheless paints an incredible story around the gaps, and this proves book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be both a full and intriguing biography, and a fascinating portrait of hero whilst having fought for the time periodwrong side. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848319266</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Despina Stratigakos1788037812|title=Hitler at HomeThe Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|genre=HistoryBiography|summary=''Please do not make Hitler look good.'' Words to live by that the author of this volume received from her motherOriginally passed in 1885, a Kefalonian who knew Nazi abuse when she saw it. Rest assured that the book does not do law that, but it certainly provides had made homosexual relations a much freshercrime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, more eloquent restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and interesting look at certain aspects 1908, three books on the nature of his life, homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and introduces us to someone else from the Nazi times – Gerdy TroostJohn Addington Symonds, who might as well be summarised as Hitler's interior designerthe heterosexual Havelock Ellis. In picking apart Exploring the entire life margins of Troostsociety and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the nature publications of her work and how these men were hugely significant – contributing to the buildings and décor she surrounded Hitler in became a part scientific understanding of his propagandahomosexuality, we get a refreshingly new yet authoritative book, that and beginning the struggle for those with an interest in this side of our recent history will easily be considered one ofrecognition and equality, if not leading to the, best book milestone legalisation of the year. The person who does come out with the laurels worn highest is our authorsame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>030018381X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elizabeth NortonBuckland_Zoo|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 thrones, The Wars of Man Who Ate 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 SinatraZoo: 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= Biography|summary= Just a glance at this book is enough to make us realiseBuckland, 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 forgotten hero 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 natural 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 AfterRichard Girling

|summary=Jeff Lynne grew up As a conservationist in a Birmingham suburb right at Victorian England before the end of 1947: even as a child he was passionate about music and term existed, Frank Buckland was a very much respected guitarist as a teenager. He was a member man ahead of various semi-professional groups - critical acclaim came when he fronted Idle Race in the late sixties and popularity and a degree of commercial success arrived when he joined the popular group The Movehis time. Whilst still playing with that group he co-foundedSurgeon, along with Roy Woodnaturalist, the groundbreaking Electric Light Orchestraveterinarian and eccentric sums him up perfectly, but it was and any biographer is immediately presented with Wood's departure that Lynne turned what had been an occasionally uneasy fusion of classical and rock into a successful and popular actcolourful tale to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781554927</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean FindlayWilliams_Captain|title=Chasing Lost TimeCaptain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: His Military Life and Times|author=Ivor George Williams|rating=4.5

|summary= In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Catholic convert Edwards of the 17th Regiment of Foot. He was in command of the troops and convicts on board a homosexualship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, Australia: his wife and young son accompanied him. He was not destined to live a socialite party goer yet deeply lonelylong life, a secretive spy and a public man dying suddenly at the age of letters34 at Bangalore, Scott Moncrieff was an enigmaleaving his widow to raise their two young sons. His translation of Proust’s Edwards''A La Recherché du Temps Perdu'' was highly praiseddeath left his widow in a difficult position: not only did she have their farm to manage, and Moncrieff but she was also celebrated as a decorated hero of World War Oneresponsible for the convicts who worked the land. Here, his great-great niece Jean Findlay skilfully retells the life of an intriguing man – and one whom I was utterly charmed byTwo years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099507080</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Desmond SewardPeacock_mountain|title= Renishaw Hall: the story of the Sitwells|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Renishaw HallInto The Mountain, Derbyshire, has been the home of the Sitwells since 1625. Though the history A Life 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>}}{{newreviewNan Shepherd|author=Peter Finn and Petra Couvee|title=The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden BookCharlotte Peacock|rating=4.5

|summary=One of the many things Mostly we choose what books to come out of this incredibly clear read because there is so little time and readable book is that so many books… I can understand the approach, but I also think we Brits, for all our literary heritage, have got nothing like an equivalent to Boris Pasternak. He or she would have to sell like Rowlingourselves short by it, regularly capture the enjoyment and spirit of we sell the nation a la Danny Boyle's Olympics ceremoniesmyriad lesser-known authors short as well. So while, and at the same time like most other people I have the cultural heft of Larkinmy favourite genres, Rushdieand favoured authors, Graham Greene and more combined. Someone connected with choosing recipients of the Nobel Prize declare him here to be the Soviet TS Eliotwhile, but that's nothing like. So most other people I read the reader probably has to stretch herself to see someone so well-respected reviews and well-loved for his versefollow up on what appeals, who spent twelve years and more on I also have a huge, societythird-defining novel, only for the country string to nix every plan to get it publishedmy reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581345</amazonuk>