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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor GreiveClaire Dederer|title=Penguin BloomMonsters: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a FamilyWhat Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=53|genre=Biography Politics and Society|summary=Cameron Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the audience'' in a deconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the old aphorism of separating the art from the artist in the context of 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 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 wifeart, Samand yet despises for his actions. This model of ''monstrous men'' as she calls them, had been leading a very activeis consistent for the first few chapters, adventurous life. Even after interrogating the birth likes of their three sons they wanted to continue their adventuresWoody Allen, so they decided to travel to Thailand for a family holidayMichael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. They were having a brilliant time untilHer critical voice is acutely present throughout, suddenlynever slipping into anonymity and maintaining her own subjectivity, Sam was involved in as she holds it so dearly, and a dreadfulpersonal, almost fatalrather than collective voice.|isbn=1399715070}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360702|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=For over forty years, accidentPrince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The accident left her paralysed Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and, because aims against the background of the sudden and extremely severe impact on her life she slid quickly into a very deep and dark depressionscientific evidence. Cameron feared for There are few instances of his family's future, beliefs being vindicated and his wife's life, until one day relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the reputation of a small abandoned magpie chick came alongman who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, and managed logical reasoning to change everythinghis ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782119795</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Callow1739805100|title=Orson Welles, Volume 3Loving the Enemy: One-Man BandBuilding bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew 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 the Harrison clan. A poor scholar but a promising trainee electrician her latest book she was reciting, and her being in his teens, a musical ear and the advent of rock'n'roll soon led him along an alternative career path. This is black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a finely balanced warts-andget-all portrait of up never commonly worn at the manauthor events I get to attend), his life, character, songwriting and other interests, an often baffling figurebut pulled Brooker, a strange mix professor of good and badcultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse output. Thomson has dug deeply and spoken Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to several people who knew him well and worked with himfollow her through a year in the published author's life, and as working to make a life success of the 'Dark Horse'latest title, I doubt it could be betteredand struggling with the next in line. Scrupulously researched Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, it agrees. And this is easily the most comprehensive Harrison life I have come across, and the most objectiveresult.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1468310658</amazonuk>1529136024

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander LarmanMartha Leigh|title= ByronInvisible Ink: A Family Memoir|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a 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 complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his life's Womenwork. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in the practicalities of life. There is love in the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|isbn=1800460384}}{{Frontpage|author=Polly Barton|title=Fifty 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' 'inspiring'When the War is Over'life-changing' tells Gwenda– although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason and I's story m not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|isbn=1912836017}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241446732|title=Our House is on Fire: Scenes of evacuee life a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena 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 idyllic village parenting of Bamptontheir two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, where they spent several Beata, then nine years living old, struggled with a kindly schoolmaster and his wifewhat was happening. As they settled into village life In such circumstances, Gwenda and Douglas found it harder and harder 's natural to seek a solution close to come home, but eventually, it became clear to terms with the idea family that they would have were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''. If they were to return home find a way to live happily again their parents at some pointsolution would need to be radical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561398</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Howlett0648684806|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 LivesLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary= John Aubrey was ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a modest man, an antiquarian journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and the inventor of modern biographydeath. His lives of Cercas is searching for the prominent figures of meaning behind his generation include Shakespearegreat uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, MiltonCercas' great uncle, and Sir Walter Raleighis the figure who looms large over the book. Funny, illuminating and full of historical details, they have been plundered by historians He died relatively young whilst fighting for centuries. Here AubreyFrancisco Franco's biographical writings are collected, painting a series of unforgettable portraits of forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the characters centre of this book is whether it is possible for his day – all more alive and kicking than in great uncle to be a conventional history bookhero whilst having fought for the wrong side. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870331</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ruth Scurr1788037812|title= John Aubrey: My Own Life|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary=John Aubrey, the seventeenth-century antiquary, writer and archaeologist, occupies a peculiar, even unique place in English literature. When he died, the work for which he is most famous, 'Brief Lives', was a disorganised collection The Fraternity 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 and on his contemporaries during the post-restoration era.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099490633</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amy Licence|title= Edward IV & Elizabeth WoodvilleEstranged: A True Romance|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Given the current resurgence in popularity of biographies dealing with the Yorkists, the time is right The Fight 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 great nobility declaring allegiance to one side and then another Homosexual Rights in turn during the Wars of the RosesEngland, it was a divisive era to start with. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1891-1908|author= Alison Weir|title= The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary=Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was one of the more shadowy, lesser known personalities among the Tudor royal family. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII's sister Margaret, by her second marriage to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, and like so many others who were closely related to King Henry VIII and his children, she led what was at times quite a precarious life in that she was on occasion suspected of treasonable activities, and also experienced no little personal tragedy|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546469</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peggy Caravantes|title=Marooned in the ArcticBrian 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 the remarkable biography of Asad Abdullahi. It tells the story of a Somalian boy abandoned at eight years of age and his journey to adulthood. It is also As a testament to the human spirit and its capacity to survive. Epic conservationist in its scope it covers a journey that stretches Victorian England before the length of the continent of Africa. In term existed, Frank Buckland was very much a time when the mass migration man ahead 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 lifetime. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563770</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Johnny Rogan|title= Ray Davies: A Complicated Life|rating= 5|genre= Entertainment|summary= Most of Britain's most popular and successful songwriters of the last 150 yearsSurgeon, from Gilbert and Sullivan and Lennon and McCartneynaturalist, to Andrew Lloyd Webber veterinarian and Tim Rice and Barryeccentric sums him up perfectly, 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 any biographer 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 immediately presented 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 colourful tale to gettell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554089</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate GrenvilleWilliams_Captain|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 somehowCaptain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, the author has managed to make it so much more than that. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782116877</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Crawford|title= Young EliotCambalong: 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 His Military Life 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 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 1769Mostly we choose what books to read because there is so little time and so many books… I can understand the approach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it, and we sell the younger brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but who is perhaps better remembered myriad lesser-known authors short as a philosopher and linguistwell. The family was well-to-do So while, like most other people I have my favourite genres, and both brothers benefitted from an excellent educationfavoured authors, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed motherand while, but 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 like most other people such as Joseph Banks, President of I read the Royal Societyreviews and follow up on what appeals, who had travelled with Thomas Cook. But it was his travels in Latin America which would lay the foundations for his life's workI also have a third-string to my reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>