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|author=Amy Licence
|title=Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True Wife
|rating=5
|genre=Biography
|summary= Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives and Queens, was arguably the most unhappy figure during the Tudor era who did not meet her end on the scaffold or at the stake. The cliché 'tragic love story' must be a fitting one in her case.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656701</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steven Burgauer
|rating= 5
|genre= Biography
|summary= This memoir could so easily have become a sentimental tribute to Grenville's mother. But somehow, the author has managed to make it so much more than that. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782116877</amazonuk>
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|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 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>
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