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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon CallowClaire Dederer|title=Orson Welles, Volume 3Monsters: One-Man BandWhat Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=4.53|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary= Orson Welles, Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the noted actoraudience'' in a deconstructed, director and producerthoroughly nitpicked, was one exploration of those larger than life characters whose impact on the world old aphorism of separating the art from the artist in the context of stage contemporary ''cancel culture''. Dederer's work is original and expressive. The reader gets the impression that the thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and screen during his lifetime was inestimableonto the page. Simon Callow has found In particular, the prologue packs a punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the task of condensing director Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for his story into a single volume is impossibleart, and this yet despises for his actions. This model of ''monstrous men'' as she calls them, is consistent for the third first few chapters, interrogating the likes of three solid instalmentsWoody 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>0099502836</amazonuk>1399715070

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme Thomson1788360702|title= George HarrisonCharles, The Alternative Prince: Behind the Locked DoorAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=54

|summary= George Harrison was the youngest of the four wartime-born youngsters who came together to form The Beatles. He was also the only one who came from a relatively stable family backgroundFor over forty years, his early years not scarred by the loss Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of one parent through divorce or early bereavementalternative medicine and complementary therapies. With two elder brothers and a sister ''Charles, he was The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the baby of the Harrison clan. A poor scholar but a promising trainee electrician in his teensPrince's opinions, a musical ear beliefs and aims against the advent background of rock'n'roll soon led him along an alternative career paththe scientific evidence. This is a finely balanced warts-and-all portrait There are few instances of the man, his life, character, songwriting beliefs being vindicated and other interests, an often baffling figure, a strange mix his relentless promotion of good and bad. Thomson treatments which have no scientific support has dug deeply and spoken done considerable damage to several people the reputation of a man who knew him well and worked with him, and as a life is proud of the 'Dark Horse'his refusal to apply evidence-based, I doubt it could be bettered. Scrupulously researched, it is easily the most comprehensive Harrison life I have come across, and the most objectivelogical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468310658</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Larman1739805100|title= Byron's WomenLoving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew March

|summary= George Gordon, who became ''Loving the 6th Lord Byron at Enemy'' tells the age quite extraordinary story of ten author Andrew March's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to teach in 1798 on the death of his grandfather, is remembered not only as one early days of the great poets of Nazi regime in the Romantic era, but also as somebody whose severe lack of moral compass was guaranteed to attract scandal wherever he laid his hat1930s. This new book, as the title suggestsFred, is not a biography of himsensitive and thoughtful man, rather an account of his life and those of nine had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the women who were unfortunate enough time. Fred's attempts to become involved with him. They include his mother, his abused wife, his half-sister with whom separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he slept as well, plus lovers did make friendships and mistresses and his two daughters. Larman admits connections that there could have been several more – actresses, servant women, in fact almost anyone. For Byronic, maybe we should read 'insatiable'lasted for a lifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082023</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Susan HigginbothamWill Brooker|title= Margaret Pole: The Countess in the TowerTruth About Lisa Jewell|rating=45

|summary= The fate of Margaret PoleMeet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], who as the cover says has a good claim to the title one of 'the last Plantagenetmost successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, was a sorry oneof the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. As a close relation of This book starts with the Yorkists two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the Tudors at a time two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of upheavalher anecdote about cup cakes, her life was overshadowed by the executions of several words of her family – latest book she was reciting, and ultimately leading 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 her ownattend), but pulled Brooker, largely it seemsa professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, for down the rabbit-hole that is Jewell'crimes diverse output. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in the published author' s life, working to make a success of being who she wasthe latest title, and struggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the result.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445635941</amazonuk>1529136024

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Barbara FoxMartha Leigh|title= When the War is OverInvisible Ink: A Family Memoir|rating= 45

|summary=Gwenda and Douglas Brady were Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a brother and sister from Newcastle who were evacuated to childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the Lake District during complete correspondence of the Second World Warphilosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his life's work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. ''When the War Neither parent is Over'' tells Gwenda's story of evacuee life hugely interested in the idyllic village practicalities of Bampton, where they spent several years living with a kindly schoolmaster and his wifelife. As they settled into village life, Gwenda and Douglas found it harder and harder to come to terms with There is love in the idea house but also darker undercurrents that they would have to return home to their parents at some pointa child does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751561398</amazonuk>1800460384

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John HowlettPolly Barton|title= James Dean: Rebel Life|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary= James Dean was in a sense to the 1950s what Sid Vicious was to the 1970s – the ultimate 'live fast, die young' character, although as the star of three classic movies of the era he achieved rather more in his short life than the hapless punk icon ever did in his.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655342</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sean Cunningham|title=Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never WasFifty Sounds

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary= Prince Arthur was Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the eldest son of Henry VIIquestion ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. Had he lived longerI may get there later this year, there might have been no Henry VIIIbut I am not hopeful. And like Barton, thus paving I don't know the way for a very large counterfactual answer to the question ''why Japan?'what if' She explains her feelings in British history. The name Arthurrespect of the question in the first essay, that of which is on the mythical King several centuries earliersound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, had great expectations attachedamong other things, never the sound of ''every party where you have to be fulfilledintroduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445647664</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenifer RobertsFrederic Gros|title=The Beauty of Her Age: A Tale Philosophy of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian EnglandWalking|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary= The name I confess I picked this one up from the library in my pre-lockdown forage of Yolande Stephens (nee Duvernay) is not random stuff. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that well-known in I can turn down the annals of Victorian England, but behind it lies an enthralling rags-pages I have marked and return to its varying wisdom when I need to-riches saga. Some books draw you in slowly. How did a young girl born into poverty in Paris become one of the most celebrated ballerinas of her time in England, and after that This one of the richest women had me in the countryfirst two pages, with wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a fortune on her death which rivalled that of Queen Victoria?sport''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445653206</amazonuk>1781688370

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter RexSharon Blackie|title=William the Conqueror: The Bastard of NormandyIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=4.5|genre=History |summary= The basic facts of William I's life are inevitably as clouded as those surrounding the Norman conquest, the events and politics which led up to it, and the aftermath. As Peter Rex makes clear in his introduction, any surviving sources are inevitably very incomplete. Moreover, 'the writing 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 best'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660172</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Teresa Cole|title= Henry V: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of Agincourt|rating= 4.5

|summary= Henry V is remembered as one of England's greatest warrior kings, not least as I normally say that you can tell how much a result of his immortalisation in the play book means to me by Shakespeare (as well as by two film versions 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 drama)one I've borrowed. Ironically he was one of several greatI want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-grandchildren of Edward III, changing' – although it is definitely the first two and as he was considered relatively unimportant at the only time of his birth, exactly when he arrived in will tell about the world was not recorded third – but clichés exist for a reason and two different dates have been given. It was the deposition of his fatherI's childless cousin Richard II in 1399 which placed him directly in the line of successionm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445655411</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Peter Ackroyd0241446732|title= Alfred HitchcockOur House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating= 45|genre= BiographyPolitics and Society|summary= Peter Ackroyd has established a reputation for himself in recent years as The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the master parenting of the pithy biographytheir two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, particularly but not exclusively of those struggled with a strong London connectionwhat was happening. J.M.W. TurnerIn such circumstances, Edgar Allan Poeit's natural to seek a solution close to home, Wilkie Collins and Charlie Chaplin are among those who have come under his scrutiny, and now he looks at the noted film director and producerbut eventually, it became clear to the family that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet'Master of Suspense'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099287668</amazonuk> If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Bower0648684806|title=Broken VowsClara Colby: Tony Blair The Tragedy of PowerInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|summary=In May 1997 we went to vote gleefully, sure that there The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was going probably determined when her family emigrated to be a change from the tired, sleaze-ridden Conservative government we'd been sufferingUSA. The Blairs' entry into Downing Street At the following day time she was just three- through crowds of wellyears-wishers - was like a breath old but because of fresh air some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and (perhaps fortunately) it would be years before I discovered three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that the 'well wishers' had been bussed she received a good education, both in for the eventand out of school. Looking back now it seems that our hopes for what She was the only child in the 'New Labour' government could achieve were unreasonably high household and there's a special place in hell reserved for those who disappoint us in this wayher childhood was glorious. I've often wondered quite how history will see Blair: Afghanistan By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the United States and Iraq life was hard, as well as his failure Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to deal with Gordon Brown join the family. Clara would always sour his premiership only know her mother for a few months: she was married for mefifteen years, had ten pregnancies, but to what extent could his achievements such as seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the Good Friday Agreementeldest girl, the minimum wage a heavy burden would fall on Clara and higher welfare payments be balanced against his failures?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314201</amazonuk>Wisconsin was a rude awakening.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Popham 1789017977|title=The Lady Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Ronnie Williams was the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and BurmaEthel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's Struggle for Freedombirthdate: 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. For a while, the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patti Smith|title=Year of the Monkey|rating=4.5

|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 coast 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 menSanta Cruz, and tourists poured in; and Suu entered Patti Smith enters the pantheon lunar year of modernthe monkey -day political heroes. Burma was a burgeoning democracyone packed with mischief, sorrow, and Suu was a saintunexpected moments. In realitya stranger's words, as Peter Popham argues in 'The Lady and the Generals'Anything is possible: after all, it's the situation was far more complex.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043719</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Aubrey|title= Brief Lives|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary= John Aubrey was a modest man, an antiquarian and year of the inventor of modern biographymonkey''. His lives of As Smith wanders the prominent figures coast of his generation include Shakespeare, MiltonSanta Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and Sir Walter Raleigh. Funny, illuminating and full of historical details, they have been plundered by historians for centuries. Here Aubrey's biographical writings ageing are collectedfaced head-on, painting a series of unforgettable portraits of as it the characters of his day – all more alive and kicking than shifting political waters in a conventional history bookAmerica. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784870331</amazonuk>1526614758

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ruth Scurr1912242052|title= John Aubrey: My Own LifeO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating= 4.53|genre= BiographyArt|summary=John Aubrey, ''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to walk the seventeenth-century antiquarymountains alone, writer and archaeologistnot because he had to for work, occupies as a peculiarminer, quarryman, even unique place in English literature. When he diedshepherd or pack-horse driver, the work for which but because he is most famous, 'Brief Lives', was a disorganised collection of manuscripts which remained unpublished wanted to for over a centurypleasure and adventure. Only in the last hundred years or so has be become more widely recognised as an interesting character His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and perceptive commentator on societyits literary consequences, scholarship and on his contemporaries during changed our view of the post-restoration eraworld''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099490633</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Amy LicenceGraff_Find|title= Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True RomanceFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating= 43.5|genre= BiographyAutobiography|summary= Given the current resurgence in popularity When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of biographies dealing with the Yorkistshandwritten notes from his journal, the time is right for an account he didn't take much notice of it. At the marriage age of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville24, a union that proved so divisive in Graff didn't realise the era of York vs Lancaster. With several of the great nobility declaring allegiance to one side and then another in turn during the Wars gravity of the Roses, it pages he was a divisive era to start withholding. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alison Weir1789016304|title= The Lost Tudor PrincessWar and Love: A Life family's testament of Margaret Douglasanguish, Countess of Lennoxendurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary=Margaret DouglasMelanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, Countess particularly in ''The Diary of Lennox, was one of the more shadowy, lesser known personalities among the Tudor royal Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. She was A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the daughter of King Henry VIII's sister Margaretwar years, by her second marriage but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, and like so many others happen in a country with liberal values who were closely related resistant to King Henry VIII and his childrenGerman occupation. Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, she led that the Amsterdammers would never allow what was at times quite a precarious life happened to escalate in the way that she was it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on occasion suspected a vast scale but made up of tens of treasonable activities, and also experienced no little personal tragedy|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546469</amazonuk>thousands of individual tragedies.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peggy Caravantes1786893452|title=Marooned in the ArcticThe Ungrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri|rating=4.5

|summary=Misogynists are manmade. And if anyone was Here in a position to hate men and the lot they put West, we see news reports about immigrants on their shouldersa regular basis – some media welcoming them, it was Ava Blackjacksome scaremongering about them. Her surname spoke But all of an abusive man she had a son those stories are written byjournalists – almost always western, but it was her time with four other men that made for one of the last century's more remarkable stories. An Inuit native, but one brought up in a city and with English lessonsalmost always, she was invited on an excursion alongside many other 'Eskimo' and four intrepid Westernersno matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, perched off world and the northern Siberian coastsituations that refugees find themselves in. They were there just to stick It's rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and this is a flag in it and call it British, even if they were pretty much fully American and Canadian, and the chap whose ideas these all were bore an Icelandic name; she was along rare opportunity to provide native expertise, especially waterproof fur clothing. And do that was it – none of her kin joined her, leaving her in one tent and four men in anotherthis intelligent, in one of the world's most remote powerful and inhospitable places. And that moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was just born in the start middle of her worries…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a ten-year-old.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Douglas-Fairhurst0857058320|title=The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and the Secret History of WonderlandAnne McLean (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Think of iconic novels, and "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" will be near 'Lord Of All the top of your list. From the rabbit hole Dead'' is a journey to uncover the Mad Hatterauthor's lost ancestor's tea party life and death. Cercas is searching for the Queenmeaning behind his great uncle's cricket grounddeath in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Lewis CarrollCercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's imagination has established itself firmly in Western cultural heritage: with a parade forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of characters ranging from the weird this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wonderful and a constant play with logic and language, Carroll's masterpiece has earned its place among classicswrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959403X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonny Steinberg1788037812|title=Man The Fraternity of Good Hopethe Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|summary=''A Man of Good Hope'' is Originally passed in 1885, the remarkable biography of Asad Abdullahilaw that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. It tells Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the story nature of a Somalian boy abandoned at eight years of age homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and his journey to adulthoodJohn Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. It is also a testament to Exploring the human spirit margins of society and its capacity to survive. Epic studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in its scope it covers a journey that stretches the length UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the continent scientific understanding of Africa. In a time when homosexuality, and beginning the mass migration of people has never beenstruggle for recognition and equality, more in focus it tells leading to the story milestone legalisation of what it really means to be a refugee by someone who has experienced it all his lifesame-sex relationships in 1967. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563770</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johnny RoganBuckland_Zoo|title= Ray DaviesThe Man Who Ate the Zoo: A Complicated LifeFrank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history|author=Richard Girling|rating= 4.5|genre= EntertainmentBiography|summary= Most of Britain's most popular and successful songwriters 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 partnerships. The only solo writer As a conservationist in Victorian England before the same league is Ray Daviesterm existed, front Frank Buckland was very much a man ahead 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 himselfhis time. Through interviews with the Davies brothersSurgeon, Ray and his younger brother Davenaturalist, the group's guitarist veterinarian and only other constant member of the line-eccentric sums him upperfectly, other group members, managers, friends and associates, Rogan has given us as complete any biographer is immediately presented with a book of the man as we are ever likely colourful tale to gettell.|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 to Grenville's mother. But somehow, the author has managed to make it so much more than that. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782116877</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert CrawfordWilliams_Captain|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, Captain Ronald Campbell of courseBombala Station, 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 Cambalong: His Military Life 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 that. There is a beforehand we don't see, and an after we can only fantasise about unless we know otherwise. Take the famous image 17th Regiment of wartime grunts pushing the flag pole upright – an icon of the War in the Pacific for the US soldiers, and the films made about Iwo Jima sinceFoot. But other images of the war have been just as long-lasting, and the people He was in the photos don't always have movies made of their full story arc. This book is a collection command of the images, troops and convicts on board a corrective ship sailing from Plymouth to that narrative lackSydney, giving much more of a full biography with which to pay tribute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611687268</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marcel Ruijters Australia: his wife and Laura Watkinson (translator)|title=Hieronymus|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=This is a book for those who find it amusing that a biography of someone who has been dead 500 years is called 'unauthorised'young son accompanied him. This is He was not destined to live a book where long life, dying suddenly at the detail is in the devil – people pissing in the street; the locals baiting blind people armed with cudgels in a pit with a pigage of 34 at Bangalore, often failing leaving his widow to whack the beast and hitting raise their colleagues by mistake; farting demons visiting the sleepertwo young sons. This is Edwards' death left his widow in a book difficult position: not only did she have their farm to manage, but she was also responsible for those the convicts who don't mind a spot of ribaldry, an affront to religious piety or suchlike in their graphic novelsworked the land. Whether or not this is a book for those seeking a biography of Hieronymus Bosch remains to be seenTwo years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662466</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea WulfPeacock_mountain|title=Into The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von HumboldtMountain, the Lost Hero A Life of ScienceNan Shepherd|author=Charlotte Peacock

|summary=Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in 1769, the younger brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but who Mostly we choose what books to read because there is perhaps better remembered as a philosopher so little time and linguist. The family was well-to-do and both brothers benefitted from an excellent education, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed motherso many books… I can understand the approach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it was a legacy from her which would fund Alexander's first explorations. His first travels would be in Europe where he met , and was influenced by people such as Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, who had travelled with Thomas Cook. But it was his travels in Latin America which would lay we sell the foundations for his life's work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Parker|title= Bertolt Brecht myriad lesser- A Literary Life|rating= 3known authors short as well.5|genre= Biography|summary= Drawing on lettersSo while, diarieslike most other people I have my favourite genres, and unpublished materialfavoured authors, Stephen Parker offers a rich and detailed account of Brecht's life and workwhile, and paints a new picture of one of the twentieth century's like most controversial cultural icons – a man whose plays are performed more in Germany than Shakespeare's. Examining Brecht's beginnings in Bavaria, through other people I read the First World War reviews and onto the beginnings of a career. Thenfollow up on what appeals, Brecht's journey through Weimar Germany where he became I also have a political artist, struggling with the fascists who would eventually drive him to exile in Denmark, and onto life in the US – suspected of being a Soviet agent, before the eventual return third-string to Germany, and a later life plagued with illness. This is a fascinating book about the man, his work, and the climates in which he wrote and influenced his work, as well as providing insights into the thought processes, health, and women who filled the world of Brechtmy reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474240003</amazonuk>