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|author=Peter Popham

|title=The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom

|rating=4.5

|genre=Biography

|summary=On 13 November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest after spending 15 of the previous 21 years as a prisoner of Burma's military junta. Political reforms soon followed, culminating with Suu (as she prefers to be known) being elected to parliament. The West rejoiced; leaders, business men, and tourists poured in; and Suu entered the pantheon of modern-day political heroes. Burma was a burgeoning democracy, and Suu was a saint. In reality, as Peter Popham argues in 'The Lady and the Generals', the situation was far more complex.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043719</amazonuk>

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|author= John Aubrey

|summary= Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire, has been the home of the Sitwells since 1625. Though the history of the house and its family go back to the early Stuart era, as Seward tells us in a few wonderfully concise chapters, it is really with the appearance of the eccentric Sir George Sitwell and his three famous children that the narrative comes into its own.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178396183X</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Peter Finn and Petra Couvee~~

~~|title=The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Biography~~

|summary=One of the many things to come out of this incredibly clear and readable book is that we Brits, for all our literary heritage, have got nothing like an equivalent to Boris Pasternak. He or she would have to sell like Rowling, regularly capture the enjoyment and spirit of the nation a la Danny Boyle's Olympics ceremonies, and at the same time have the cultural heft of Larkin, Rushdie, Graham Greene and more combined. Someone connected with choosing recipients of the Nobel Prize declare him here to be the Soviet TS Eliot, but that's nothing like. So the reader probably has to stretch herself to see someone so well-respected and well-loved for his verse, who spent twelve years and more on a huge, society-defining novel, only for the country to nix every plan to get it published.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581345</amazonuk>~~

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