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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1788360702|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Alexander LarmanEdzard Ernst|titlerating=4|genre=Biography|summary= ByronFor over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's Womenopinions, beliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidence. 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 a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitions.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739805100|title=Loving 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 the Lake District during the Second World War. ''When the War is Over'' tells Gwenda's story of evacuee life childhood spent in the idyllic village of Bampton, where they spent several years living with a kindly schoolmaster and his wife. As they settled into village lifeslightly eccentric, Gwenda and Douglas found it harder and harder to come to terms with the idea that they would have to return home to their parents at some pointimmediately recognisable upper middle class English family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Howlett|title= James Dean: Rebel Life|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary= James Dean was in Her father is a sense to the 1950s what Sid Vicious was to the 1970s – the ultimate 'live fastCambridge don, die young' character, although forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the star of three classic movies complete correspondence of the era he achieved rather more in philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his short life than 's work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in the hapless punk icon ever did practicalities of life. There is love in histhe house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0859655342</amazonuk>1800460384

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sean CunninghamPolly Barton|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 Romance|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Given the current resurgence in popularity of biographies dealing with the Yorkists, the time is right 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 in turn during the Wars of the Roses, it was a divisive era to start with. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFind Another Place|author= Alison Weir|title= The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of LennoxBen Graff|rating= 3.5|genre= BiographyAutobiography|summary=Margaret Douglas, Countess When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of Lennoxhandwritten notes from his journal, was one he didn't take much notice of the more shadowy, lesser known personalities among the Tudor royal familyit. She was At the daughter age of King Henry VIII24, Graff didn's sister Margaret, by her second marriage to Archibald Douglas, Earl t realise the gravity of Angus, and like so many others who were closely related to King Henry VIII and his children, she led what the pages he 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>holding.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peggy Caravantes1789016304|title=Marooned War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in the Arcticoccupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin

|summary=Misogynists are manmade. And if anyone was Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in a position to hate men occupied Amsterdam during World War II and the lot they put on their shoulders, it was Ava Blackjack. Her surname spoke of an abusive man entranced by what she had a son bydiscovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but it was then realised that her time with four other men that made for one of the last centuryown family's more remarkable storieswere equally fascinating. An Inuit nativeA hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, but one brought up only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a city and country with English lessons, she was invited on an excursion alongside many other 'Eskimo' and four intrepid Westerners, liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the uninhabited Wrangel Island, perched off Germans might reach the northern Siberian coast. They city were there just to stick a flag in it and call it British, even if convinced that they were pretty much fully American and Canadianwould soon be pushed back, and that the chap whose ideas these all were bore an Icelandic name; she was along Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to provide native expertise, especially waterproof fur clothing. And escalate in the way that was it – none of her kin joined herdid, leaving her in one tent and four men in another, in one of but initial protests melted away as the worldorganisers became more circumspect. It's most remote and inhospitable placesan atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies. And that was just the start of her worries…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Douglas-Fairhurst1786893452|title=The Story of Alice: 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 ground, Lewis Carroll's imagination has established itself firmly in Western cultural heritage: with a parade 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>}}{{newreviewUngrateful Refugee|author=Jonny Steinberg|title=Man of Good HopeDina Nayeri|rating=4.5

|summary=''A Man of Good Hope'' is Here in the remarkable biography of Asad AbdullahiWest, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. It tells the story But all of a Somalian boy abandoned at eight years of age those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and his journey to adulthood. It is also a testament almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the human spirit world and its capacity to survive. Epic in its scope it covers a journey the situations that stretches the length of the continent of Africa. In a time when the mass migration of people has never been, more refugees find themselves in focus it tells the story of what it really means to be a refugee by someone who has experienced it all his life. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099563770</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Johnny Rogan|title= Ray Davies: A Complicated Life|rating= 5|genre= Entertainment|summary= Most of BritainIt's most popular and successful songwriters of rare that we find out the last 150 years, journeys from Gilbert the refugees themselves – and Sullivan and Lennon and McCartneythis is a rare opportunity to do that, to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and Barryin this intelligent, Robin powerful and Maurice Gibb, have been partnerships. The only solo writer moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the same league is Ray Davies, front man middle of The Kinks from their formation a revolution in 1963 Iran, fleeing to their final performance in 1994. While this mighty tome is partly an account of the group's tortuous thirtyAmerica as a ten-year history, it is also first and foremost, as the title says, a biography of Davies himself. Through interviews with the Davies brothers, Ray and his younger brother Dave, the group's guitarist and only other constant member of the line-up, other group members, managers, friends and associates, Rogan has given us as complete a book of the man as we are ever likely to getold.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554089</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kate Grenville0857058320|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, Lord Of All the author has managed to make it so much more than that. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782116877</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDead|author=Robert Crawford|title= Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= Did T.S. Eliot like ice-cream? I should really be asking, of course, whether ''Tom'' liked ice-cream, since Robert Crawford in his marvellous biography insists on bringing us into intimate and personal contact with this so closed and impersonal of poets. For many of us, to wonder what this literary giant's favourite flavour of ice-cream was seems a somehow unsuitable curiosity – irreverent or frivolous even – as if to think about his taste for such ordinary pleasures would distract from the appreciation for his very momentous achievements in poetry. It is, however, Crawford's aim to make these kinds of commonplace aspects of T.S. Eliot's life and personality much more familiar to us, as he draws our attention to the poet's childhood years Javier Cercas and youth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955495X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David P Colley|title=Seeing the War: The Stories Behind the Famous Photographs from World War IIAnne McLean (translator)

|genre=HistoryBiography|summary=As anybody could tell, a still photograph is only part of ''Lord Of All the truth, if that. There Dead'' is a beforehand we donjourney to uncover the author't see, s lost ancestor's life and an after we can only fantasise about unless we know otherwisedeath. Take Cercas is searching for the famous image of wartime grunts pushing the flag pole upright – an icon of meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War in the Pacific for the US soldiers. Manuel Mena, and the films made about Iwo Jima since. But other images of the war have been just as long-lastingCercas' great uncle, and is the people in figure who looms large over the photos donbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco't always have movies made s forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of their full story arc. This this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a collection of hero whilst having fought for the images, and a corrective to that narrative lack, giving much more of a full biography with which to pay tributewrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611687268</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)1788037812|title=HieronymusThe Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsBiography|summary=This is Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a book crime remained in place for those who find it amusing that a biography of someone who has been dead 500 82 years is called 'unauthorised'. This is a book where But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the detail is in nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the devil – people pissing in heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the street; margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the locals baiting blind people armed with cudgels European Continent, but barely talked about in a pit with a pigthe UK, often failing so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to whack the beast scientific understanding of homosexuality, and hitting their colleagues by mistake; farting demons visiting beginning the sleeper. This is a book struggle for those who don't mind a spot of ribaldryrecognition and equality, an affront leading to religious piety or suchlike the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in their graphic novels. Whether or not this is a book for those seeking a biography of Hieronymus Bosch remains to be seen1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662466</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea WulfBuckland_Zoo|title=The Invention of NatureMan Who Ate the Zoo: The Adventures of Alexander von HumboldtFrank Buckland, the Lost Hero forgotten hero of Sciencenatural history|author=Richard Girling

|summary=Alexander von Humboldt was born As a conservationist in Berlin in 1769Victorian England before the term existed, the younger brother Frank Buckland was very much a man ahead of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but who is perhaps better remembered as a philosopher and linguisthis time. The family was well-to-do and both brothers benefitted from an excellent educationSurgeon, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed mothernaturalist, but it was a legacy from her which would fund Alexander's first explorations. His first travels would be in Europe where he met veterinarian and was influenced by people such as Joseph Bankseccentric sums him up perfectly, President of the Royal Society, who had travelled and any biographer is immediately presented with Thomas Cook. But it was his travels in Latin America which would lay the foundations for his life's worka colourful tale to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen ParkerWilliams_Captain|title= Bertolt Brecht - A Literary Captain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: His Military Lifeand Times|author=Ivor George Williams|rating= 3.54|genre= Biography|summary= Drawing on letters, diaries, and unpublished material, Stephen In March 1829 Ann Parker offers a rich and detailed account married Captain J A Edwards of Brecht's life and work, and paints a new picture the 17th Regiment of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons – a man whose plays are performed more in Germany than Shakespeare'sFoot. Examining Brecht's beginnings He was in Bavaria, through command of the First World War troops and onto the beginnings of convicts on board a career. Thenship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, Brecht's journey through Weimar Germany where he became a political artist, struggling with the fascists who would eventually drive Australia: his wife and young son accompanied him . He was not destined to exile in Denmarklive a long life, and onto life in dying suddenly at the US – suspected age of being a Soviet agent34 at Bangalore, before the eventual return leaving his widow to Germany, and a later life plagued with illnessraise their two young sons. This is a fascinating book about the man, Edwards' death left his work, and the climates widow in which he wrote and influenced his worka difficult position: not only did she have their farm to manage, as well as providing insights into but she was also responsible for the thought processes, health, and women convicts who filled worked the world of Brechtland. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474240003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dominic PearcePeacock_mountain|title= Henrietta Maria|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=Into The phrase 'tragic Queen' is an often overused oneMountain, but the French princess who became the second Stuart Queen Consort A Life of Britain surely has as strong a claim as any to the title. In British history she was unique in that she not only lived to see her husband defeated in civil war, but also sentenced to death and in effect judicially murdered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445645475</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNan Shepherd|author=Philip Weinstein|title=Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of RageCharlotte Peacock|rating=34.5

|summary=''Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage'' makes frequent mention of Franzen's attendance at Swathmore College in Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1977 Mostly we choose what books to read because there is so little time and where so many books… I can understand the authorapproach, Philip Weinstein wasbut I also think we sell ourselves short by it, until last year Professor of English. An earlier graduate, the novelist James A. Michner left his entire estate of some 10 million dollars to the college and we sell the proceeds from his works, including the one on which ''South Pacific'' was foundedmyriad lesser-known authors short as well. It was at Swarthmore that Franzen met his wifeSo while, where she had been a gifted classmate. Weinsteinlike most other people I have my favourite genres, the author who teaches thereand favoured authors, has personally known Franzen for over two decades and while, like most other people I read the latter has given him a personal interview reviews and been otherwise in contact with him for some considerable time. If this all seems just follow up on what appeals, I also have a little blurred in its boundaries, not third-string to say incestuous, then that might not matter. However, Franzen's work closely concern itself with shame, guilt, incest, rage and humiliationmy reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307177</amazonuk>