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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tony FletcherClaire Dederer|title= In the Midnight HourMonsters: The Life & Soul of Wilson PickettWhat Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|rating= 4.53|genre= EntertainmentPolitics and Society|summary= Tamla Motown groups and singers apart, in Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the mid-sixties there were three major names audience'' in the soul music field who mattered above all. James Brown was something of a cult name who rarely bothered about or troubled the singles chartsdeconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, and Otis Redding was on exploration of the verge old aphorism of shooting into separating the art from the stratosphere when he died artist in an aeroplane crashthe context of contemporary ''cancel culture''. Dederer's work is original and expressive. The other was reader gets the impression that the man thoughts simply sprang and leapt from Alabamaher brilliant mind and onto the page. In particular, the prologue packs a punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for his art, and yet despises for his actions. This model of ''monstrous men'' as she calls them, is consistent for the wicked Pickett'first few chapters, interrogating the likes of Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. Her critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and maintaining her own subjectivity, as she holds it so dearly, and a personal, rather than collective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0190252944</amazonuk>1399715070

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Juliet Nicolson1788360702|title= A House Full of DaughtersCharles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating= 4.5

|summary= With grandparents who were distinguished writers For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and a father who co-founded a major publishing housecomplementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, it was inevitable that Juliet Nicolson would follow in beliefs and aims against the family’s literary traditionbackground of the scientific evidence. Already known for two works 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 reputation of social historya man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, here she tells her family story through seven generationslogical reasoning to his ambitions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099598035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip Valentine Coates1739805100|title= Sarah Valentine, No Great Expectations Part 1Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew March|rating=4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Sarah was ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew March's grandparents, who first of several children born in dire poverty met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to Jim and Sarah Valentine, and these pages tell her story from birth teach in December 1819 to her eighteenth birthday. Everything is vividly conveyed, from the poorly-clothed barefoot children in crowded living quarters early days of the Nazi regime in the Whitechapel Road area1930s. Fred, without a lock on the door sensitive and with no possessions worth stealing except for the occasional shillingthoughtful man, to had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the noisy public houses with their fist-fights and growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the dirty, evil-smelling streets with sewage overflowing down the alleys time. Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and where epidemics spread all too rapidlyconnections that lasted for a lifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524665428</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura CummingWill Brooker|title= The Vanishing Man - In Search of VelazquezTruth About Lisa Jewell

|genre=ArtBiography|summary=Pitching 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 thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the 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 an auction and picking up the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a lost masterpiece for a pittance professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is the dream for most art loversJewell's diverse output. That seemingly happy circumstance happened Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to bookseller John Snare at follow her through a sale year in 1845 and is the centrepiece to Laura Cummingpublished author's excellent ''The Vanishing Man – In Pursuit life, working to make a success of Velazquez''the latest title, and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the result. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587041</amazonuk>1529136024

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=G A JonesMartha Leigh|title=The Cruise of NaromisInvisible Ink: August in the Baltic 1939A Family Memoir|rating=45|genre=TravelBiography|summary=There's brave, and there is brave. I may well have been born in Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a coastal county but certainly would baulk at the idea of setting out to sea with four colleagues childhood spent in a 37'-long boat. Boats to me are like planes – the bigger the betterslightly eccentric, and the safer I feel as a resultimmediately recognisable upper middle class English family. But luckily for the purpose of this book, George Jones was born with Her father is a much different pair of sea-legs to mineCambridge don, and took to forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the waters complete correspondence of the English Channelphilosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the North Sea and beyond in his life''Naromis'' with brios work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. But – and this Neither parent is where hugely interested in the further definition practicalities of bravery comes life. There is love in – he did it in August 1939, knowing full well the house but also darker undercurrents that he would be sailing full tilt into the teeth of wara child does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1899262334</amazonuk>1800460384

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julian PalaciosPolly Barton|title= Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark GlobeFifty Sounds|rating= 4.5|genre= EntertainmentPolitics and Society|summary= There were few sadder casualties of Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the sixties music scene than Syd (real name Roger) Barrettworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. The original songwriting genius and front man of Pink FloydI may get there later this year, he burnt out all too soonbut I am not hopeful. A few months And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the spotlight were followed all too soon by a pathetic postscript of a stuttering solo careerquestion in the first essay, and over three decades which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as a largely housebound reclusebeing, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0859655482</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keggie CarewFrederic Gros|title=Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted TerritoryPhilosophy of Walking

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Keggie Carew is I confess I picked this one up from the second child library in my pre-lockdown forage of a most unorthodox fatherrandom stuff. On the one hand he's a left-handed stutterer with little Now I have to recommend him other than go out an buy my own copy so that he was a law unto himself I can turn down the pages I have marked and a complete maverickreturn to its varying wisdom when I need to. But - born Some books draw you in 1919, the second world war found him being tested for SOE, Churchill's secret army, who were tasked with conducting espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe and later in South East Asiaslowly. Within a matter of months he would be parachuted into occupied France with the aim of supporting resistance groups ahead of the allied invasion of occupied France and carrying This one had me in the rank of major - at the age of just 24. Later, in South East Asia he would be known as 'Lawrence of Burma' and worked with Aung Sanfirst two pages, the head of the Burma Defence Army (and father of Aung San Suu Kyi)and was at one stage wherein Gros explains why ''plucked off the Irrawaddy by walking is not a flying boat, like James Bondsport''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178470315X</amazonuk>1781688370

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donald NaismithSharon Blackie|title=A Bradford ApprenticeshipIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary=with all schools removed from their control and established as freestanding and self-governing academies. In effect this would (and possibly will) mean that what was once a national service, locally administered will become a local service, nationally administered. Donald Naismith is perhaps best known as the former Chief Education Officer of Richmond-upon-Thames, Croydon and then Wandsworth but his education and formative working years took place in his adopted home city of Bradford. In ''A Bradford Apprenticeship'' he gives us an affectionate tribute to the city which made him what he is and his thoughts on the education system. Bradford was once one of the country's leading education authorities and he values the opportunities it gave him to fine tune his thinking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524636118</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Ashdown-Hill|title= The Private Life of Edward IV|rating= 4.5

|summary= Edward IV is currently I normally say that you can tell how much a popular subject for biographersbook means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. All credit Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is therefore due setting out to Dr Ashdownbuy my own copy before I've finished reading the one I've borrowed. I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-Hill, one of changing' – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the foremost of current Yorkist-era historians, third – but clichés exist for looking at the King from a fresh angle – that of his romantic involvementsreason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445652455</amazonuk>1912836017

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0241446732|title=Anja Reich-Osang Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and Imogen Taylor (translator)a Planet in Crisis|titleauthor=The Scholl CaseMalena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg

|summary=I think IThe path of Clara Dorothy Bewick'd like Ludwigsfeldes life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. I wouldnAt the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't have liked it when it was an industrial village, allowed to sail with one or two huge mechanical plants her parents and nothing else to its namethree brothers. But nowInstead, even 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 constant hum of only child in the autobahn (one of Hitler's) keeping it company, it must have an appealhousehold and her childhood was glorious. It has been rebuiltBy contrast, refashioned and remodelled since her family had become pioneer farmers in the end mid-west of East Germany, under the most prosperous United States and forward-looking mayor in the statelife was hard, if not as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the countryfamily. He it Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was who put married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in a mostly-nude swimming spachildbirth not long after Clara arrived. It has dispensers for doggy poo bagsAs the eldest girl, so therea heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789017977|title=Ronnie and Hilda's nothing Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as uncouth Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as taking your ownto 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 he might well have shaved a few years off his age. The mayor, bless himFor a while, even expanded the motorway family was quite well-to three lanes -do but disaster struck in each directionthe 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. It is within touch of Berlin, One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and in tune this would stay with so many business wants, yet is surrounded by woodlandhim throughout his life. Woodland where, between Christmas and New Year a few years back, He joined the mayor's own wife and dog were found, both having been strangled…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240932</amazonuk>army at eighteen in 1942.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S D TuckerPatti Smith|title=Great British EccentricsYear of the Monkey|rating=4.5

|summary= Some very strange people have stalked our green On the coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, and pleasant landunexpected moments. In his introductiona stranger's words, Tucker asks us why''Anything is possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey''. Is it our status as an island people which has made so many As Smith wanders the coast of our countrymen turn Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and ageing are faced head-on ourselves? Has our long libertarian tradition of the idea of individual freedom, as long as we do nobody else any harm, permitted weirdness to flourish among us?it the shifting political waters in America. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445660326</amazonuk>1526614758

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Karen Jennings1912242052|title= Travels With My FatherO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating= 43|genre= General Fiction Art|summary= Despite the coda, this does not feel like ''an autobiographical novelOh Joy for me!''. I am not sure why Jennings felt the need to couch it in those terms unless there is much in the structure that is fiction. Igives Coleridge credit for being 'm hoping there isn't. I am hoping that the fiction is purely that conceit that this pretends first person to be a novel. If that was necessary to get it published, then I'll applaud walk the subterfugemountains alone, not because this is writing that needs he had to be read. It is – if as true for work, as I want it to be – a delicate reminiscence: a daughter's ''in memoriam'' to a father she lovedminer, worshippedquarryman, idealisedshepherd or pack-horse driver, cared-but because he wanted to for, lived with, pleasure and yes (in true daughterly fashion) at times, hatedadventure. A father who wasHis rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, thereforeand its literary consequences, a good dadchanged our view of the world''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907320695</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Van der KisteGraff_Find|title=Pop Pickers and Music Vendors: David Jacobs, Alan Freeman, John Peel, Tommy Vance and Roger ScottFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=43.5|genre=EntertainmentAutobiography|summary=You know those questions you get in celebrity interviews - When Ben Graff'which extinct being would you most like to see brought back to life?' Well, I'd like to see Jimmy Savile brought back, so that he could get s grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of handwritten notes from his comeuppance. It's not just the damage he did to children and young peoplejournal, dreadful as that was - it's the shadow he cast over the entertainment industry. We know that he wasndidn't alone in what he did, but somehow there's a whole era take much notice of entertainment which has been tarred by the same brushit. John Van der Kiste has turned At the spotlight away from Savile and on to five age of 24, Graff didn't realise the great DJs gravity of the music industrypages he was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781555443</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016304|title=Tales War and Love: A family's testament of Loving anguish, endurance and Leavingdevotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Gaby WeinerMelanie Martin|rating=4.5

|summary=In 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 ''Tales The Diary of Loving and LeavingAnn Frank''but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, author Gaby Weiner tells but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the story of three of her family membersoccupation could never happen: her grandmothereven those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, Amalia Moszkowicz Dinger; her motherthat the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it did, Steffi Dinger; and her father, Uszer Frochtbut initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524635081</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Lewis1786893452|title=Henry III: The Son of Magna CartaUngrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri

|summary= For Here in the West, we see news reports about immigrants on a monarch whose reign over England regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. But all of fifty-six years was unequalled until those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the nineteenth centuryinvestigative journalism they carry out, Henry III remains curiously little-known. Nobody could claim that he was a particularly outstanding or successful ruler, but outsiders to the world and the fact situations that he held his throne for so long refugees find themselves in an unstable age was no mean achievement in itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445653575</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Amy Licence|title=Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIIIIt's True Wife|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary= Catherine of Aragon, rare that we find out the journeys from the first of Henry VIII's six wives refugees themselves – and Queensthis is a rare opportunity to do that, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was arguably born in 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 middle of a fitting one revolution in her caseIran, fleeing to America as a ten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656701</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Burgauer0857058320|title=The Road To War: Duty & Drill, Courage & CaptureLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=After World War II Bill Frodsham led an everyday life, raising a family in an ordinary US suburb. He, his wife and children became friends with ''Lord Of All the Burgauer family, little Steven Burgauer knowing him as Mr F. Time rolls on and little Steven grows up, and then eventually retires from the American financial sector to write science fiction and lecture from time to time. HeDead's therefore surprised when, out of the blue, Mr F's daughter tracks him down and presents him with is a pile of handwritten notes asking Steven journey to make them into a book. These are Mr Funcover the author's self-authored memoirs, stretching from his youth onwards and showing that this seemingly good, kind but unremarkable man was anything but unremarkable. During the war Mr F trained for the impossible and then lived it as he led men across Omaha Beach on D Day. He was then captured and spent the rest of the war as a POW in inhumane conditions. Steven accepted the request and lost ancestor''The Road to War'' is the result: the s life and war of Captain William C Frodsham Jrdeath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1450218806</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sofka Zinovieff|title= The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Faringdon House in Oxfordshire was Cercas is searching for the home of Lord Berners; composer, writer, painter, friend of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein, and a man renowned for both his eccentricity and meaning behind his homosexuality. Turning Faringdon into an aesthete's paradise, exquisite food was served to many of the great minds and beauties of the day. Since the early 1930uncle's, his companion there was Robert Heber-Percy, twenty-eight years his junior, wildly physical and unscholarly, a hothead who rode naked through death in the grounds and was known to all as the Mad BoySpanish Civil War. If those two sounded an odd coupleManuel Mena, especially at a time when homosexuality was illegalCercas' great uncle, is the addition of Jennifer Fry to the household in 1942, a pregnant high society girl figure who became Robert's wife, was really rather astounding. After looms large over the child was born, the marriage soon founderedbook. Berners He died in 1950, and Robert was left in charge of Faringdon, ably assisted by a ferocious Austrian housekeeper. This mad world was the one first encountered by author Sofka Zinovieff, Robertrelatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's granddaughterforces. A typical child of the sixties, it was much to her astonishment that Robert decided to leave the house to her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>009957196X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive|title=Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family|rating=5|genre=Biography |summary=Cameron and Cercas ruminates on why 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 uncle fought for a family holiday. They were having a brilliant time until, suddenly, Sam was involved in a dreadful, almost fatal, accidentthis dictator. The accident left her paralysed and, because question at the centre of the sudden and extremely severe impact on her life she slid quickly into a very deep and dark depression. Cameron feared this book is whether it is possible for his family's future, and his wife's life, until one day a small abandoned magpie chick came along, and managed great uncle to change everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782119795</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Callow|title=Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary= Orson Welles, the noted actor, director and producer, was one of those larger than life characters whose impact on the world of stage and screen during his lifetime was inestimable. Simon Callow has found the task of condensing his story into be a single volume is impossible, and this is hero whilst having fought for the third of three solid instalmentswrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099502836</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme Thomson1788037812|title= George HarrisonThe Fraternity of the Estranged: Behind the Locked DoorThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|summary= George Harrison was Originally passed in 1885, the youngest of the four wartimelaw that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-born youngsters who came together to form The Beatlessex relationships did not go unchallenged. He was also the only one who came from a relatively stable family backgroundBetween 1891 and 1908, his early years not scarred by three books on the loss nature of one parent through divorce or early bereavementhomosexuality appeared. With They were written by two elder brothers homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and a sisterJohn Addington Symonds, he was as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the baby margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the Harrison clan. A poor scholar European Continent, but a promising trainee electrician barely talked about in his teensthe UK, a musical ear and so the advent of rock'n'roll soon led him along an alternative career path. This is a finely balanced warts-and-all portrait publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the man, his life, character, songwriting and other interests, an often baffling figure, a strange mix scientific understanding of good and bad. Thomson has dug deeply and spoken to several people who knew him well and worked with himhomosexuality, and as a life of beginning the 'Dark Horse'struggle for recognition and equality, I doubt it could be bettered. Scrupulously researched, it is easily leading to the most comprehensive Harrison life I have come across, and the most objectivemilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468310658</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander LarmanBuckland_Zoo|title= Byron's WomenThe Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history|author=Richard Girling

|summary= George Gordon, who became the 6th Lord Byron at the age of ten As a conservationist in 1798 on the death of his grandfather, is remembered not only as one of the great poets of Victorian England before the Romantic eraterm existed, but also as somebody whose severe lack of moral compass Frank Buckland was guaranteed to attract scandal wherever he laid his hat. This new book, as the title suggests, is not very much a biography of him, rather an account man ahead of his life and those of nine of the women who were unfortunate enough to become involved with himtime. They include his mother, his abused wifeSurgeon, his half-sister with whom he slept as wellnaturalist, plus lovers veterinarian and mistresses and his two daughters. Larman admits that there could have been several more – actresseseccentric sums him up perfectly, servant women, in fact almost anyone. For Byronic, maybe we should read 'insatiable'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082023</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Susan Higginbotham|title= Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary= The fate of Margaret Pole, who as the cover says has a good claim to the title of 'the last Plantagenet', was a sorry one. As 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 'crime' of being who she was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445635941</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Barbara Fox|title= When the War is Over|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary=Gwenda and Douglas Brady were a brother and sister from Newcastle who were evacuated to the Lake District during the Second World War. ''When the War any biographer is Over'' tells Gwenda's story of evacuee life in the idyllic village of Bampton, where they spent several years living immediately presented with a kindly schoolmaster and his wife. As they settled into village life, Gwenda and Douglas found it harder and harder to come to terms with the idea that they would have to return home colourful tale to their parents at some pointtell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561398</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John HowlettWilliams_Captain|title= James DeanCaptain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: Rebel His Military Lifeand Times|author=Ivor George Williams

|summary= James Dean In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the 17th Regiment of Foot. He was in command of the troops and convicts on board a sense ship sailing from Plymouth to the 1950s what Sid Vicious Sydney, Australia: his wife and young son accompanied him. He was not destined to live a long life, dying suddenly at the 1970s – the ultimate 'live fastage of 34 at Bangalore, die leaving his widow to raise their two youngsons. Edwards' characterdeath left his widow in a difficult position: not only did she have their farm to manage, although as but she was also responsible for the star of three classic movies of convicts who worked the era he achieved rather more in his short life than the hapless punk icon ever did in hisland. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655342</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean CunninghamPeacock_mountain|title=Prince Arthur: Into The Tudor King Who Never WasMountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd|author=Charlotte Peacock

|summary= Prince Arthur was the eldest son of Henry VII. Had he lived longer, there might have been no Henry VIII, thus paving the way for a very large counterfactual 'Mostly we choose what if' in British history. The name Arthur, that of the mythical King several centuries earlier, had great expectations attached, never books to be fulfilled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647664</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenifer Roberts|title=The Beauty of Her Age: A Tale of Sex, Scandal read because there is so little time and Money in Victorian England|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary= The name of Yolande Stephens (nee Duvernay) is not that well-known in so many books… I can understand the annals of Victorian Englandapproach, but behind I also think we sell ourselves short by it lies an enthralling rags, and we sell the myriad lesser-to-riches sagaknown authors short as well. How did a young girl born into poverty in Paris become one of the So while, like most celebrated ballerinas of her time in Englandother people I have my favourite genres, and favoured authors, and after that one of while, like most other people I read the richest women in the countryreviews and follow up on what appeals, with I also have a fortune on her death which rivalled that of Queen Victoria?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445653206</amazonuk>third-string to my reading bow: randomness.