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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Teresa Cole1788360702|title= Henry VCharles, The Alternative Prince: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of Agincourt|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Henry V is remembered as one of England's greatest warrior kings, not least as a result of his immortalisation in the play by Shakespeare (as well as by two film versions of the drama). Ironically he was one of several great-grandchildren of Edward III, and as he was considered relatively unimportant at the time of his birth, exactly when he arrived in the world was not recorded and two different dates have been given. It was the deposition of his father's childless cousin Richard II in 1399 which placed him directly in the line of succession.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655411</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Peter Ackroyd|title= Alfred Hitchcock|rating= 4|genre= An Unauthorised Biography|summary= Peter Ackroyd has established a reputation for himself in recent years as the master of the pithy biography, particularly but not exclusively of those with a strong London connection. J.M.W. Turner, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and Charlie Chaplin are among those who have come under his scrutiny, and now he looks at the noted film director and producer, the 'Master of Suspense'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099287668</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Bower|title=Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of PowerEdzard Ernst

|summary=In May 1997 we went to vote gleefullyFor over forty years, sure that there was going to be a change from the tired, sleaze-ridden Conservative government we'd Prince Charles has been sufferingan ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The BlairsAlternative Prince'' entry into Downing Street critically assesses the following day - through crowds of well-wishers - was like a breath of fresh air Prince's opinions, beliefs and (perhaps fortunately) it would be years before I discovered that aims against the 'well wishers' had been bussed in for background of the eventscientific evidence. Looking back now it seems that our hopes for what 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 'New Labour' government could achieve were unreasonably high and there's reputation of a special place in hell reserved for those man who disappoint us in this way. I've often wondered quite how history will see Blair: Afghanistan and Iraq as well as is proud of his failure refusal to deal with Gordon Brown would always sour his premiership for meapply evidence-based, but logical reasoning to what extent could his achievements such as the Good Friday Agreement, the minimum wage and higher welfare payments be balanced against his failures?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314201</amazonuk>ambitions.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Popham 1739805100|title=The Lady and Loving the GeneralsEnemy: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for FreedomBuilding bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew March

|summary=On 13 November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest after spending 15 of ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the previous 21 years as a prisoner quite extraordinary story of Burmaauthor Andrew March's military junta. Political reforms soon followedgrandparents, culminating with Suu (as she prefers who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to be known) being elected Dresden to parliament. The West rejoiced; leaders, business men, and tourists poured teach in; and Suu entered the pantheon early days of modern-day political heroesthe Nazi regime in the 1930s. Burma was Fred, a burgeoning democracy, sensitive and Suu was a saint. In realitythoughtful man, as Peter Popham argues had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the time. Fred'The Lady s attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and the Generals', the situation was far more complexconnections that lasted for a lifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043719</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John AubreyWill Brooker|title= Brief LivesThe Truth About Lisa Jewell|rating= 45|genre= Biography|summary= John Aubrey was a modest manMeet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], an antiquarian and one of the inventor of modern biographymost successful British authors I've never knowingly read. His lives Now meet Will Brooker, one of the prominent figures thousands of his generation include Shakespeareless successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, Miltonas well, and Sir Walter Raleighshows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. Funny The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, illuminating and full her 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 professor of historical detailscultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, they have been plundered by historians for centuriesdown the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse output. Here Aubrey Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in the published author's biographical writings are collectedlife, painting working to make a series of unforgettable portraits success of the characters of his day – all more alive latest title, and kicking than struggling with the next in a conventional history bookline. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the result. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784870331</amazonuk>1529136024

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ruth ScurrMartha Leigh|title= John AubreyInvisible Ink: My Own LifeA Family Memoir|rating= 4.5

|summary=John Aubrey, the seventeenth-century antiquary, writer and archaeologist, occupies Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a peculiarslightly eccentric, even unique place in immediately recognisable upper middle class English literaturefamily. When Her father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he diededits the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the his life's work for which he . Her mother is most famous, 'Brief Lives', was a disorganised collection of manuscripts which remained unpublished concert pianist who practises for over a centuryhours every day. Only Neither parent is hugely interested 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 practicalities of life. There is love in the post-restoration erahouse but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099490633</amazonuk>1800460384

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amy LicencePolly Barton|title= Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True RomanceFifty Sounds|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyPolitics and Society|summary= Given the current resurgence in popularity of biographies dealing Where do I start? I could start with the Yorkistswhere Barton herself starts, with the time is right question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for an account of a while and if the marriage of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodvilleworld hadn't 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, a union that proved so divisive I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in the era of York vs Lancaster. With several respect of the great nobility declaring allegiance to one side and then another question in turn during the Wars of first essay, which is on the Rosessound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, it was a divisive era the sound of ''every party where you have to start withintroduce yourself''. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alison WeirFrederic Gros|title= The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life Philosophy of Margaret Douglas, Countess of LennoxWalking|rating= 5|genre= BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was I confess I picked this one up from the library in my pre-lockdown forage of the more shadowy, lesser known personalities among the Tudor royal familyrandom stuff. She was Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the daughter of King Henry VIII's sister Margaret, by her second marriage pages I have marked and return to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, and like so many others who were closely related its varying wisdom when I need to King Henry VIII and his children. Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the first two pages, she led what was at times quite wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a precarious life in that she was on occasion suspected of treasonable activities, and also experienced no little personal tragedysport''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099546469</amazonuk>1781688370

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peggy CaravantesSharon Blackie|title=Marooned in the ArcticIf Women Rose Rooted

|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 in the same league is Ray Davies, front man of The Kinks from their formation in 1963 to their final performance child in 1994. While this mighty tome is partly an account of the group's tortuous thirty-year history, it is also first household and foremost, as the title says, a biography of Davies himselfher childhood was glorious. Through interviews with the Davies brothers, Ray and his younger brother DaveBy contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the group's guitarist and only other constant member mid-west of the line-up, other group members, managers, friends United States and associateslife was hard, Rogan has given us as complete a book of the man as we are ever likely Clara was to get.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554089</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kate Grenville|title= One Life: My Mother's Story|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= This memoir could so easily have become a sentimental tribute find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to Grenville's mother. But somehow, join the author has managed to make it so much more than thatfamily. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782116877</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Crawford|title= Young EliotClara would only know her mother for a few months: From St Louis to The Waste Land|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= Did T.S. Eliot like ice-cream? I should really be askingshe was married for fifteen years, of coursehad ten pregnancies, whether ''Tom'' liked ice-cream, since Robert Crawford seven surviving children and died in his marvellous biography insists on bringing us into intimate and personal contact with this so closed and impersonal of poetschildbirth not long after Clara arrived. For many of us As the eldest girl, to wonder what this literary giant's favourite flavour of ice-cream was seems a somehow unsuitable curiosity – irreverent or frivolous even – as if to think about his taste for such ordinary pleasures heavy burden 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 fall on Clara and personality much more familiar to us, as he draws our attention to the poet's childhood years 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|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 TudorMan Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history|author=Richard Girling|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Life, or rather survival, As a conservationist in Tudor Victorian England was a precarious business. Being close to before the crown term existed, Frank Buckland was anything but very much a guarantee man ahead of safetyhis time. Surgeon, naturalist, veterinarian and eccentric sums him up perfectly, as the fate of two of King Henry VIII's Queen's amply demonstrated. His second daughter Elizabeth led and any biographer is immediately presented with a charmed life and went on colourful tale 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 threattell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081728</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jeffrey JamesWilliams_Captain|title= Edward IVCaptain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: Glorious Son of YorkHis Military Life and Times|author=Ivor George Williams|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryBiography|summary= Medieval England's own game of thrones, The Wars In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the Roses, was at the centre 17th Regiment of a turbulent ageFoot. In retrospect much He was in command of the history of medieval Englandtroops and convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, between the Norman conquest Australia: his wife and young son accompanied him. He was not destined to live a long life, dying suddenly at the advent age of the Tudors34 at Bangalore, seems leaving his widow to raise their two young sons. Edwards' death left his widow in a difficult position: not only did she 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 Yorktheir farm to manage, lasting intermittently but she was also responsible for thirty years, were more protracted and even more brutal than the rest, with several fierce battles and sudden changes of fortune for convicts who worked the two rival families, both descended from King Edward IIIland. The rise, fall and rise again of King Edward IV was a constant theme of the warsTwo years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445646218</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Spencer LeighPeacock_mountain|title= Frank Sinatra: An Extraordinary Into The Mountain, A 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>}}{{newreviewNan Shepherd|author= Neil Hegarty|title= Frost: That Was The Life That Was: The Authorised BiographyCharlotte Peacock|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Just a glance at this book Mostly we choose what books to read because there is enough to make us realiseso little time and so many books… I can understand the approach, or remind usbut I also think we sell ourselves short by it, that Sir David Frost was a towering presence in and we sell the world of television for around half a centurymyriad lesser-known authors short as well. From the days when he stormed the barricades of cosy light entertainment at the start of the swinging sixtiesSo while, like most other people I have my favourite genres, and favoured authors, to his major political interviews and his position as one of the founding fathers of TV-amwhile, he was a cornerstone of like most other people I read the industry. Without himreviews and follow up on what appeals, the history of broadcasting during that period would surely I also have been very differenta third-string to my reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753556707</amazonuk>