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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Buckland -->{{Frontpage[[image:Buckland_Zoo.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784701610?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&campisbn=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784701610]]1788360702|title===[[Charles, The Man Who Ate the ZooAlternative Prince: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history by Richard Girling]]=An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating=4 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] As a conservationist in Victorian England before the term existedsummary=For over forty years, Frank Buckland was very much a man ahead Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of his timealternative medicine and complementary therapies. Surgeon ''Charles, naturalist, veterinarian and eccentric sums him up perfectlyThe Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, beliefs and any biographer is immediately presented with a colourful tale to tell. [[The Man Who Ate aims against the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero background of natural history by Richard Girling|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Williams -->[[image:Williams_Captain.jpg|left|link=https://wwwthe scientific evidence.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1546280804?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1546280804]] ===[[Captain Ronald Campbell There are few instances of Bombala Station, Cambalong: His Military Life his beliefs being vindicated and Times by Ivor George Williams]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the 17th Regiment reputation of Foot. He was in command a man who is proud of the troops and convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, Australia: his wife and young son accompanied him. He was not destined refusal to live a long life, dying suddenly at the age of 34 at Bangaloreapply evidence-based, leaving his widow logical reasoning to raise their two young sons. Edwards' death left his widow in a difficult position: not only did she have their farm to manage, she was also responsible for the convicts who worked the land. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbellambitions. [[Captain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: His Military Life and Times by Ivor George Williams|Full Review]]<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Seward -->[[image:Seward Husband.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471159558?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471159558]]1739805100|title===[[My Husband and ILoving the Enemy: The Inside Story Building bridges in a time of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage by Ingrid Seward]]war|author=Andrew March|rating== [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] Isummary= ''m writing this review on Loving the eve of Enemy'' tells the seventieth anniversary quite extraordinary story of the wedding the the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh: itauthor Andrew March's an amazing achievement particularly grandparents, who first met when you add grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to teach in the difficulties early days of maintaining any relationship for that period of time the burden of Nazi regime in the Queen being our monarch for sixty-five years 1930s. Fred, a sensitive and thoughtful man, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the challenges of having to live their joint and separate lives growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the public eyetime. Ingrid Seward gives us the story of the marriage Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and insights into both parties, particularly Prince Philipconnections that lasted for a lifetime. [[My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage by Ingrid Seward|Full Review]]<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Peacock -->[[image:Peacock_mountain.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1903385563?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINauthor=1903385563]]Will Brooker|title===[[Into The Mountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd by Charlotte Peacock]]==Truth About Lisa Jewell|rating=5 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]],summary=Meet [[:Category:HistoryLisa Jewell|HistoryLisa Jewell]] Mostly we choose what books to read, because there is so little time and so many books… I can understand one of the approach, but most successful British authors I also think we sell ourselves short by it've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, and we sell one of the myriad lesser known thousands of less successful authors short as wellI quite confidently never have read. So while, like most This book starts with the two meeting each other people I have my favourite genres, and favoured authorsas well, and while, like most other people I read shows how 2021 drew the reviews two closer and follow up on what appeals, I also have a third string to my reading bow: randomnesscloser together. [[Into The Mountainmeeting was some unspecified combination, A Life of Nan Shepherd by Charlotte Peacock|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Hewitt -->[[image:Hewitt_Renoir.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782738?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782738]] ===[[Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]]it seems, [[:Category:Art|Art]] Deep in the rural parts of France in the 1860s, you would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a full artistic period – and not just a movement at thather anecdote about cup cakes, but a full generation of both creative and societal change. And if you were to expect that someone, they would like as not be male. But almost stumbling into the hedonistic culture words of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. She started in the circus that first caught her teenaged eye, although her gymnastic career was short-lived. But what latest book she did have from that was the poise to be an appealing model for some seriously important paintersreciting, and her being in a natural beauty and figure to appeal to both them and their audiences. And what she also had, much to the surprise of many and the distaste of some, was artistic talent of her own… [[Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt|Full Review]]<br> <!'black lace mini-- Ravilious -->[[image:Ravilious_James.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1908524944?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1908524944]] ===[[James Ravilious: A Life by Robin Ravilious]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] The name of Eric Ravilious, war artist, engraver and designer, has long been familiar. Less well-known was his equally gifted son James. This delightful biography by his widow should help to put the situation right. [[James Ravilious: A Life by Robin Ravilious|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br> <!-- Thomas -->[[image:Thomas_Pearl.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/144566125X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=144566125X]] ===[[The Kingdress with gold brocade''s Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary by Melita Thomas]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] As the eldest surviving child of (certainly a muchget-married father whose main aim was up never commonly worn at the author events I get to secure the royal succession with sonsattend), Mary Tudor's relationship with Henry VIIIbut pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who called her his 'pearl of has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the worldrabbit-hole that is Jewell', was inevitably an important and often fraught ones diverse output.[[The King Brooker decides he's Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary by Melita Thomas|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br> <!-- Gordon -->[[image:Gordon_Carter.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099575728?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099575728]] ===[[The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] Angela Carter is remembered as an influential and inventive writer – with works d like ''The Bloody Chamber'' and ''Nights at the Circus'' propelling nothing more than to follow her to fame, and through a status as an icon and inspiration for many modern-day writers.Here year in the published author Edmund Gordon delves into the 's life of Carter – from the London of the 1940s through , working to the London make a success of the 1990slatest title, and struggling with stops the next in Bristolline. Jewell, Tokyodue diligence appropriately done, Australia, and various other places in betweenagrees. A work that is as full of detail as it is full of devotion to a remarkable woman, ''The Invention of Angela Carter'' And this is the first authorised biography of a woman and a writer who is hugely missed todayresult. [[The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Dittricht -->[[image:Dittrich_Patient.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099571862?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099571862]]1529136024===[[Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] Luke Dittrich seeks to shed light on the man behind the initials, and in doing so, uncovers quite a bit more than he expected. [[Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br> <br> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=S Morris and N GrueningerMartha Leigh|title=In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIIIInvisible Ink: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queensA Family Memoir

|genre= HistoryBiography|summary= It was inevitable that each 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 six wives philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his life's work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in the practicalities of Henry VIII 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|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have left their mark visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in some way respect of the question in the first essay, which is on the places they lived sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|isbn=1913097501}}{{Frontpage|author=Frederic Gros|title=A Philosophy of Walking|rating=5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I confess I picked this one up from the library in my pre-lockdown forage of random stuff. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have marked and visitedreturn to its varying wisdom when I need to. Some books draw you in slowly. This book straddles several categories; history, gazetteer or guide bookone had me in the first two pages, and collection of potted biographieswherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a sport''. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144567114X</amazonuk>1781688370

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Terry BrevertonSharon Blackie|title= Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor DynastyIf Women Rose Rooted|rating= 4.5

|summary= Owen Tudor I normally say that you can tell how much a 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 one I've borrowed. I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|isbn=1912836017}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241446732|title=Our House is on Fire: Scenes of 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 parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was one happening. In such circumstances, it's natural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, it became clear to the family that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the 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 those shadowy yet very important characters school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in medieval historythe mid-west of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. While we may Clara would only know little about himher mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789017977|title=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 son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or at least did not until this biography appearedthey were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. 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 historical importance can hardly father was his need to be overestimatedwell-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. Without him He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patti Smith|title=Year of the Monkey|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=On the coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, and unexpected moments. In a stranger's words, ''Anything is possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey''. As Smith wanders the coast of Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and ageing are faced head-on, there would have been no Tudor dynastyas it the shifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445654180</amazonuk>1526614758

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jenny Landreth1912242052|title= SwellO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating= 53|genre= Politics and SocietyArt|summary= I love Jenny's own description of her book 'Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a waterbiography miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and I love her encouragement that we should each write our ownadventure. This is more than just (I say His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''just''!) a recollection of the .}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Graff_Find|title=Find Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=When Ben Graff's own encounters with water; it's also grandfather Martin handed him a history plastic folder of womenhandwritten notes from his journal, he didn's fight for the right to swim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about t take much notice of it, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of At the absurd. Not a lover age of book blurbs myself24, I do always seek to give a shout-out to those who get it dead right: in this case IGraff didn'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-t realise the gravity of the-commute funny''pages he was holding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472938941</amazonuk>

<!-- Blackburn -->{{Frontpage[[image:Blackburn_Threads.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099582198?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINisbn=0099582198]]1789016304|title===[[ThreadsWar and Love: The Delicate Life A family's testament of John Craske by Julia Blackburn]]=anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=5 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]], [[:Category:Art|Art]] John Craske summary=Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was a fishermanentranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a family of fishermen, country with liberal values who became too ill to go were resistant to seaGerman occupation. He was born in Sheringham on Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the north Norfolk coast in 1881 and would eventually die in Germans might reach the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have been defined by ill health. There city were various explanations for what ailed himconvinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what caused him happened to sink into a stupourescalate in the way that it did, sometimes for years at a time and he was on occasions described but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an imbecile'atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786893452|title=The Ungrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri|rating=4. But John had 5|genre=Biography|summary=Here in the West, we see news reports about immigrants on a natural artistic talentregular basis – some media welcoming them, albeit that his work had to be done on the available surfaces in his homesome scaremongering about them. Chair seatsBut all of those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, window sillsno matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of world and the seasituations that refugees find themselves in. Then he moved on to embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of It's rare that we find out the journeys from the Norfolk coast - refugees themselves – andthis is a rare opportunity to do that, most famouslyin this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the middle of the evacuation at Dunkirka revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a ten-year-old. [[Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske by Julia Blackburn|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Elkin0857058320|title=Flaneuse: Women Walk Lord Of All the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice Dead|author=Javier Cercas and LondonAnne McLean (translator)

|genre=History Biography|summary=Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: they're places where you can't or shouldn't be seen walking; places where, in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking of everything from ''Madame BovaryLord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor'Revolutionary Roads life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle'')s death in the Spanish Civil War. When she imagines to herself what the female version of that well-known historical figureManuel Mena, the carefree ''flâneur'Cercas'great uncle, might be, she thinks about women is the figure who freely wandered looms large over the worldbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great cities without uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the more insalubrious connotation of the word 'streetwalker' applied to themwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Jones1788037812|title= The Black PrinceFraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 5

|summary= Generally known Originally passed in 1885, the law 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. Between 1891 and shortly after his lifetime 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as Edward the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of Woodstocksociety and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, having been born at Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshirebut barely talked about in the UK, so the eldest son publications of King Edward III was arguably one these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the Kings that never was. At last we have a modern biography struggle for recognition and equality, leading to put him the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in his proper perspective1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972932</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David E HoffmanBuckland_Zoo|title=The Billion Dollar SpyMan Who Ate the Zoo: A True Story Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of Cold War Espionage and Betrayalnatural history|author=Richard Girling|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary=With As a conservationist in Victorian England before the Cold War at its frostiestterm existed, Frank Buckland was very much a man ahead of his time. Surgeon, naturalist, there were few tougher locations for western intelligence agencies to try veterinarian and run an agent than 1970s Moscow. That makes the tale of Adolf Tolkacheveccentric sums him up perfectly, and any biographer is immediately presented with a Russian engineer who provided thousands of top secret documents colourful tale to the Americans right under the noses of the KGB, all the more incredibletell. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781979</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kieron Moore and Rajesh NagulakondaWilliams_Captain|title=BuddhaCaptain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: An Enlightened His Military Life (Campfire Graphic Novels)and Times|author=Ivor George Williams

|genre=Graphic NovelsBiography|summary=I don't do religion, but still there In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the 17th Regiment of Foot. He was something that drew me to this comic book. For one, in command of the whole Buddhist faith is still troops and convicts on board a little unknown ship sailing from Plymouth to meSydney, Australia: his wife and this young son accompanied him. He was certainly going not destined to be educational. Yeslive a long life, I knew some dying suddenly at the age of the terms it ends up using34 at Bangalore, but not others, such as bhikshu, and had never really come across the manleaving his widow to raise their two young sons. Edwards's life story. Yes, I knew he found enlightenment and taught death left his widow in a very pacifist kind of faith, but where did he come from? What failings difficult position: not only did he she have on his paththeir farm to manage, and but she was also responsible for the convicts who were worked the ones that joined him along the way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182299</amazonuk>land. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanna Arman Peacock_mountain|title= Into The Warrior Queen: The Mountain, A Life and Legend of Aethelflaed, Daughter of Alfred the Great Nan Shepherd|author=Charlotte Peacock|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= AethelflaedMostly we choose what books to read because there is so little time and so many books… I can understand the approach, the 'Lady of the Mercians'but I also think we sell ourselves short by it, was and we sell the daughter and eldest child of King Alfredmyriad lesser-known authors short as well. Considering the scanty details of her life which So while, like most other people I have been handed down to posteritymy favourite genres, the author has done a very good job in presenting us with a portrait of her life and times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662043</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kathryn Warner|title= Edward II: The Unconventional King|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= Edward II has come down to us as one of the worst English kings of all. With a reign filled by reliance on male favouritesfavoured authors, constant threats of civil warsand while, endless quarrels with his barons, unsuccessful military campaigns (including what was perhaps like most other people I read the worst English military defeat ever to take place reviews and follow up on British soil)what appeals, abdication and – so we are led to believe – I also have a brutal death in captivity third- the balance sheet is a pretty poor onestring to my reading bow: randomness. But is it the full story?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666723</amazonuk>