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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sofka Zinovieff1788360702|title= Charles, The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and MeAlternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Faringdon House in Oxfordshire was the home of Lord Berners; composerFor over forty years, writer, painter, friend Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein, and a man renowned for both his eccentricity alternative medicine and his homosexualitycomplementary therapies. Turning Faringdon into an aesthete ''s paradiseCharles, exquisite food was served to many of the great minds and beauties of the day. Since The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the early 1930Prince'sopinions, his companion there was Robert Heber-Percy, twenty-eight years his junior, wildly physical beliefs and unscholarly, a hothead who rode naked through aims against the grounds and was known to all as background of the Mad Boyscientific evidence. If those two sounded an odd couple, especially at a time when homosexuality was illegal, the addition There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of Jennifer Fry treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the household in 1942, reputation of a pregnant high society girl man who became Robert's wife, was really rather astounding. After the child was born, the marriage soon foundered. Berners died in 1950, and Robert was left in charge is proud of Faringdon, ably assisted by a ferocious Austrian housekeeper. This mad world was the one first encountered by author Sofka Zinovieffhis refusal to apply evidence-based, Robert's granddaughter. A typical child of the sixties, it was much logical reasoning to her astonishment that Robert decided to leave the house to herhis ambitions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>009957196X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive1739805100|title=Penguin BloomLoving the Enemy: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family|rating=5|genre=Biography |summary=Cameron and his wife, Sam, had been leading a very active, adventurous life. Even after the birth of their three sons they wanted to continue their adventures, so they decided to travel to Thailand for a family holiday. They were having Building bridges in a brilliant time until, suddenly, Sam was involved in a dreadful, almost fatal, accident. The accident left her paralysed and, because of the sudden and extremely severe impact on her life she slid quickly into a very deep and dark depression. Cameron feared for his family's future, and his wife's life, until one day a small abandoned magpie chick came along, and managed to change everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782119795</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewwar|author= Simon Callow|title=Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man BandAndrew March

|summary= Orson Welles''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 noted actorearly days of the Nazi regime in the 1930s. Fred, director a sensitive and producerthoughtful man, was one had some vague ideas of those larger than life characters whose impact on "building bridges" which may guard against the world of stage growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the time. Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and screen during his connections that lasted for a lifetime was inestimable. Simon Callow has found the task of condensing his story into a single volume is impossible, and this is the third of three solid instalments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099502836</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graeme ThomsonWill Brooker|title= George Harrison: Behind the Locked DoorThe Truth About Lisa Jewell

|summary= George Harrison was Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the youngest most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the four wartime-born youngsters who came together to form The Beatlesthousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. He was also This book starts with the only one who came from a relatively stable family backgroundtwo meeting each other, as well, his early years not scarred by and shows how 2021 drew the loss of one parent through divorce or early bereavement. With two elder brothers closer and a sistercloser together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, he was the baby words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the Harrison clan. A poor scholar author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a promising trainee electrician in his teensprofessor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, a musical ear and down the advent of rockrabbit-hole that is Jewell'ns diverse output. Brooker decides he'roll soon led him along an alternative career path. This is d like nothing more than to follow her through a finely balanced warts-and-all portrait of year in the man, his published author's life, characterworking to make a success of the latest title, songwriting and other interestsstruggling with the next in line. Jewell, an often baffling figuredue diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the result.|isbn=1529136024}}{{Frontpage|author= Martha Leigh|title= Invisible Ink: A Family Memoir|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a strange mix of good and badslightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Thomson has dug deeply and spoken to several people who knew him well and worked with himHer father is a Cambridge don, and forever clacking away on his typewriter as a life he edits the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his life'Dark Horse', I doubt it could be bettereds work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Scrupulously researched, it Neither parent is easily hugely interested in the most comprehensive Harrison practicalities of life I have come across, and . There is love in the most objectivehouse but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1468310658</amazonuk>1800460384

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander LarmanPolly Barton|title= Byron's WomenFifty Sounds

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary= George GordonWhere do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, who became with the 6th Lord Byron at the age of ten in 1798 question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the death of his grandfatherworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, is remembered but I am not only as one of hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the great poets question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the Romantic era, but also as somebody whose severe lack of moral compass was guaranteed to attract scandal wherever he laid his hat. This new book, as question in the title suggestsfirst essay, which is not a biography of him, rather an account of his life and those of nine of on the women who were unfortunate enough to become involved with him. They include his mothersound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, his abused wifeamong other things, his half-sister with whom he slept as well, plus lovers and mistresses and his two daughters. Larman admits that there could the sound of ''every party where you have been several more – actresses, servant women, in fact almost anyone. For Byronic, maybe we should read to introduce yourself'insatiable'.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784082023</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Susan HigginbothamFrederic Gros|title= Margaret Pole: The Countess in the TowerA Philosophy of Walking|rating=45|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary= The fate I confess I picked this one up from the library in my pre-lockdown forage of Margaret Pole, who as random stuff. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the cover says has a good claim pages I have marked and return to its varying wisdom when I need to . Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the title of first two pages, wherein Gros explains why 'the last Plantagenet', was a sorry one. As walking is not a close relation of the Yorkists and the Tudors at a time of upheaval, her life was overshadowed by the executions of several of her family – and ultimately leading to her own, largely it seems, for the sport'crime' of being who she was.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445635941</amazonuk>1781688370

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Barbara FoxSharon Blackie|title= When the War is OverIf Women Rose Rooted|rating= 45

|summary=Gwenda and Douglas Brady were I normally say that you can tell how much a brother and sister from Newcastle who were evacuated book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the Lake District during the Second World Warone I've borrowed. I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful'When the War is Over'inspiring' tells Gwenda's story of evacuee life in -changing' – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the idyllic village of Bampton, where they spent several years living with third – but clichés exist for a kindly schoolmaster reason and his wife. As they settled into village life, Gwenda and Douglas found I'm not sure I can succinctly put it harder and harder to come to terms with the idea that they would have to return home to their parents at some pointany better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751561398</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241446732|title=Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=John HowlettMalena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=The 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. In such circumstances, it's natural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, it became clear to the family that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0648684806|title= James DeanClara Colby: Rebel LifeThe International Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|summary= James Dean The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was in a sense probably determined when her family emigrated to the 1950s what Sid Vicious USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was the 1970s – only child in the ultimate 'live fasthousehold and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, die young' character, although as her family had become pioneer farmers in the star of three classic movies mid-west of the era he achieved rather more in his short United States and life than was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the hapless punk icon ever did 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 hischildbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655342</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean Cunningham1789017977|title=Prince ArthurRonnie and Hilda's Romance: The Tudor King Who Never WasTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyHistory|summary= Prince Arthur Ronnie Williams was the eldest son of Thomas Henry VIIWilliams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. Had There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he lived longerclaimed to have been born in 1863, there but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have been no Henry VIIIshaved a few years off his age. For a while, thus paving the way for family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very large counterfactual 'what if' in British historydifferent lifestyle. The name Arthur, that of the mythical King several centuries earlier, had great expectations attached, never One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be fulfilledwell-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647664</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenifer RobertsPatti Smith|title=The Beauty Year of Her Age: A Tale of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian Englandthe Monkey|rating=4.5

|summary= The name On the coast of Yolande Stephens (nee Duvernay) is not that well-known in Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the annals lunar year of Victorian Englandthe monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, but behind it lies an enthralling rags-to-riches sagaand unexpected moments. How did In a young girl born into poverty in Paris become one stranger's words, ''Anything is possible: after all, it's the year of the most celebrated ballerinas monkey''. As Smith wanders the coast of her time Santa Cruz in Englandsolitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and after that one of ageing are faced head-on, as it the richest women shifting political waters in the country, with a fortune on her death which rivalled that of Queen Victoria?America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445653206</amazonuk>1526614758

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Rex1912242052|title=William the Conqueror: The Bastard of NormandyO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=4.53|genre=History Art|summary= The basic facts of William I's life are inevitably as clouded as those surrounding 'Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to walk the Norman conquestmountains alone, the events and politics which led up not because he had to itfor work, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and the aftermathadventure. As Peter Rex makes clear in his introductionHis rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, any surviving sources are inevitably very incomplete. Moreoverand its literary consequences, 'the writing changed our view of the history of the eleventh century requires the historian to attempt to provide motives and explanations for events that are only sketchily described at bestworld''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660172</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Teresa ColeGraff_Find|title= Henry V: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of AgincourtFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating= 43.5|genre= BiographyAutobiography|summary= Henry V is remembered as one of EnglandWhen Ben Graff's greatest warrior kings, not least as grandfather Martin handed him a result plastic folder of handwritten notes from 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 IIIjournal, and as he was considered relatively unimportant at the time didn't take much notice of his birth, exactly when he arrived in the world was not recorded and two different dates have been givenit. It was At the deposition age of his father24, Graff didn's childless cousin Richard II in 1399 which placed him directly in t realise the line gravity of successionthe pages he was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655411</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Peter Ackroyd1789016304|title= Alfred Hitchcock|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary= Peter Ackroyd has established a reputation for himself in recent years as the master War and Love: A family's testament of the pithy biographyanguish, particularly but not exclusively of those with a strong London connection. J.M.W. Turner, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins endurance 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>}}{{newreviewdevotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Tom Bower|title=Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of PowerMelanie Martin|rating=45

|summary=In May 1997 we went Melanie Martin read about what happened to vote gleefully, sure that there Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was going to be a change from the tiredentranced by what she discovered, sleaze-ridden Conservative government weparticularly in ''d been suffering. The BlairsDiary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family' entry into Downing Street s stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the following day - through crowds of well-wishers - was like a breath of fresh air war years, but only five thousand survived and (perhaps fortunately) it would Martin could not understand how this could be years before I discovered that the 'well wishers' had been bussed allowed to happen in for the eventa country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Looking back now it seems Most people believed that our hopes for what the 'New Labour' government occupation could achieve were unreasonably high and there's a special place in hell reserved for never happen: even those who disappoint us thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in this the waythat it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. IIt've often wondered quite how history will see Blair: Afghanistan and Iraq as well as his failure to deal with Gordon Brown would always sour his premiership for me, s an atrocity on a vast scale but 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>made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Popham 1786893452|title=The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for FreedomUngrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri

|summary=On 13 November 2010Here in the West, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest after spending 15 of the previous 21 years as we see news reports about immigrants on a prisoner regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. But all of Burma's military junta. Political reforms soon followedthose stories are written by journalists – almost always western, culminating with Suu (as she prefers to be known) being elected to parliament. The West rejoiced; leadersand almost always, business menno matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the world and tourists poured the situations that refugees find themselves in; . It's rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and Suu entered the pantheon of modern-day political heroes. Burma was this is a burgeoning democracyrare opportunity to do that, in this intelligent, powerful and Suu moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the middle of a saint. In realityrevolution in Iran, fleeing to America as Peter Popham argues in 'The Lady and the Generals', the situation was far more complexa ten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043719</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Aubrey0857058320|title= Brief Lives|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary= John Aubrey was a modest man, an antiquarian and the inventor of modern biography. His lives of Lord Of All the prominent figures of his generation include Shakespeare, Milton, and Sir Walter Raleigh. Funny, illuminating and full of historical details, they have been plundered by historians for centuries. Here Aubrey's biographical writings are collected, painting a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day – all more alive and kicking than in a conventional history book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870331</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDead|author= Ruth Scurr|title= John Aubrey: My Own LifeJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary=John Aubrey, ''Lord Of All the seventeenth-century antiquary, writer and archaeologist, occupies Dead'' is a peculiar, even unique place in English literature. When he died, journey to uncover the work for which he is most famous, author'Brief Livess lost ancestor', was a disorganised collection of manuscripts which remained unpublished for over a century. Only in the last hundred years or so has be become more widely recognised as an interesting character and perceptive commentator on society, scholarship s life and on his contemporaries during the post-restoration eradeath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099490633</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amy Licence|title= Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True Romance|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Given the current resurgence in popularity of biographies dealing with the Yorkists, the time Cercas is right searching for an account of the marriage of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, a union that proved so divisive in the era of York vs Lancaster. With several of the meaning behind his great nobility declaring allegiance to one side and then another uncle's death in turn during the Wars of the Roses, it was a divisive era to start withSpanish Civil War. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Weir|title= The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret DouglasManuel Mena, Countess of Lennox|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary=Margaret DouglasCercas' great uncle, Countess of Lennox, was one of is the more shadowy, lesser known personalities among figure who looms large over the Tudor royal familybook. She was the daughter of King Henry VIIIHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's sister Margaret, by her second marriage to Archibald Douglas, Earl forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of Angus, and like so many others who were closely related this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to King Henry VIII and his children, she led what was at times quite be a precarious life in that she was on occasion suspected of treasonable activities, and also experienced no little personal tragedy|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546469</amazonuk>hero whilst having fought for the wrong side.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peggy Caravantes1788037812|title=Marooned The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in the ArcticEngland, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|summary=Misogynists are manmade. And if anyone was Originally passed in a position to hate men and 1885, the lot they put on their shoulders, it was Ava Blackjack. Her surname spoke of an abusive man she law that had made homosexual relations a son by, but it was her time with four other men that made crime remained in place for one of the last century's more remarkable stories82 years. An Inuit nativeBut during this time, but one brought up in a city restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and with English lessons1908, she was invited three books on an excursion alongside many other 'Eskimo' and four intrepid Westerners, to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, perched off the northern Siberian coastnature of homosexuality appeared. They were there just to stick a flag in it written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and call it BritishJohn Addington Symonds, even if they were pretty much fully American as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and Canadianstudying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, and so the chap whose ideas publications of these all men were bore an Icelandic name; she was along hugely significant – contributing to provide native expertise, especially waterproof fur clothing. And that was it – none the scientific understanding of her kin joined herhomosexuality, leaving her in one tent and four men in another, in one of beginning the world's most remote struggle for recognition and inhospitable places. And that was just equality, leading to the start milestone legalisation of her worries…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>same-sex relationships in 1967.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Douglas-FairhurstBuckland_Zoo|title=The Story of AliceMan Who Ate the Zoo: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Think of iconic novels, and "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" will be near the top of your list. From the rabbit hole to the Mad Hatter's tea party and the Queen's cricket groundFrank Buckland, Lewis Carroll's imagination has established itself firmly in Western cultural heritage: with a parade forgotten hero of characters ranging from the weird to the wonderful and a constant play with logic and language, Carroll's masterpiece has earned its place among classics.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959403X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewnatural history|author=Jonny Steinberg|title=Man of Good HopeRichard Girling|rating=4.5

|summary=''A Man of Good Hope'' is As a conservationist in Victorian England before the remarkable biography of Asad Abdullahi. It tells the story of term existed, Frank Buckland was very much a Somalian boy abandoned at eight years man ahead of age and his journey to adulthoodtime. It Surgeon, naturalist, veterinarian and eccentric sums him up perfectly, and any biographer is also immediately presented with a testament colourful tale to the human spirit and its capacity to survive. Epic in its scope it covers a journey that stretches the length of the continent of Africa. In a time when the mass migration of people has never been, more in focus it tells the story of what it really means to be a refugee by someone who has experienced it all his lifetell. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563770</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johnny RoganWilliams_Captain|title= Ray Davies: A Complicated Life|rating= 5|genre= Entertainment|summary= Most Captain Ronald Campbell of Britain's most popular and successful songwriters of the last 150 yearsBombala Station, from Gilbert and Sullivan and Lennon and McCartney, to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, have been partnerships. 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 in 1994. While this mighty tome is partly an account of the group's tortuous thirty-year history, it is also first and foremost, as the title says, a biography of Davies himself. Through interviews with the Davies brothers, Ray and his younger brother Dave, the group'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 get.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554089</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kate Grenville|title= One Cambalong: His Military Life: My Mother's Story|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>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Crawford|title= Young Eliot: 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 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>}}{{newreviewTimes|author=David P Colley|title=Seeing the War: The Stories Behind the Famous Photographs from World War IIIvor George Williams

|genre=HistoryBiography|summary=As anybody could tell, a still photograph is only part In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the truth, if that17th Regiment of Foot. There is a beforehand we don't see, and an after we can only fantasise about unless we know otherwise. Take the famous image He was in command of wartime grunts pushing the flag pole upright – an icon of the War in the Pacific for the US soldierstroops and convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, Australia: his wife and the films made about Iwo Jima sinceyoung son accompanied him. But other images of the war have been just as He was not destined to live a long-lastinglife, and the people in dying suddenly at the photos don't always have movies made age of 34 at Bangalore, leaving his widow to raise their full story arctwo young sons. This book is Edwards' death left his widow in a collection of the images, and a corrective difficult position: not only did she have their farm to that narrative lackmanage, giving much more of a full biography with which to pay tributebut she was also responsible for the convicts who worked the land. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611687268</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)Peacock_mountain|title=HieronymusInto The Mountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd|author=Charlotte Peacock|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsBiography|summary=This Mostly we choose what books to read because there is a book for those who find so little time and so many books… I can understand the approach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it amusing that a biography of someone who has been dead 500 years is called 'unauthorised', and we sell the myriad lesser-known authors short as well. This is a book where the detail is in the devil – So while, like most other people pissing in the street; the locals baiting blind I have my favourite genres, and favoured authors, and while, like most other people armed with cudgels in a pit with a pig, often failing to whack I read the beast reviews and hitting their colleagues by mistake; farting demons visiting the sleeper. This is a book for those who don't mind a spot of ribaldryfollow up on what appeals, an affront to religious piety or suchlike in their graphic novels. Whether or not this is I also have a book for those seeking a biography of Hieronymus Bosch remains third-string to be seenmy reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662466</amazonuk>