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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&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINisbn=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, naturalistThe Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the Prince's opinions, veterinarian beliefs and eccentric sums him up perfectly, 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 lifeapply evidence-based, dying suddenly at the age of 34 at Bangalore, 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 landambitions. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell. [[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|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471159558?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471159558]] ===[[My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage by Ingrid Seward]]==isbn=1739805100 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] I'm writing this review on Loving the eve of the seventieth anniversary of the wedding the the Queen and the Duke of EdinburghEnemy: it's an amazing achievement particularly when you add to the difficulties of maintaining any relationship for that period of Building bridges in a time the burden of the Queen being our monarch for sixty-five years and the challenges of having to live their joint and separate lives in the public eye. Ingrid Seward gives us the story of the marriage and insights into both parties, particularly Prince Philip. [[My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage by Ingrid Seward|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Peacock -->war[[image:Peacock_mountain.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1903385563?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1903385563]]Andrew March ==|rating=[[Into The Mountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd by Charlotte Peacock]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]],[[:Category:History|History]] Mostly we choose what books to read, because there is so little time and so many books… I can understand summary= ''Loving the approach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it, and we sell Enemy'' tells the myriad lesser known authors short as well. So while, like most other people I have my favourite genres, and favoured authors, and while, like most other people I read the reviews and follow up on what appeals, I also have a third string to my reading bow: randomness. [[Into The Mountain, A Life quite extraordinary story 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]] ===[[Renoirauthor Andrew March's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]]grandparents, [[:Category:Art|Art]] Deep who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to teach in the rural parts early days of France the Nazi regime in the 1860s1930s. Fred, you would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a full artistic period – sensitive and not just a movement at thatthoughtful man, but a full generation had some vague ideas 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 "building bridges" which may guard against the hedonistic culture of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. She started growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the circus that first caught her teenaged eye, although her gymnastic career was short-livedtime. But what she Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did have from make friendships and connections that was the poise to be an appealing model lasted for some seriously important painters, and a natural beauty and figure to appeal to both them and their audienceslifetime. 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>}}{{Frontpage<!-- 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]]==author=Will Brooker [[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=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>Truth About Lisa Jewell<!-- Thomas -->[[image:Thomas_Pearl.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/144566125X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creativerating=6738&creativeASIN=144566125X]]5|genre===[[The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary by Melita Thomas]]===Biography[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Meet [[:Category:BiographyLisa Jewell|BiographyLisa Jewell]] As the eldest surviving child , one of a much-married father whose main aim was to secure the royal succession with sons, Mary Tudormost successful British authors I's relationship with Henry VIIIve never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, who called her his 'pearl one of the world', was inevitably an important and often fraught one.[[The King'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 thousands of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon]]=== [[image:5starless successful authors I quite confidently never have read.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] Angela Carter is remembered as an influential and inventive writer – This book starts with works like ''The Bloody Chamber'' and ''Nights at the Circus'' propelling her to fametwo meeting each other, as well, and a status as an icon shows how 2021 drew the two closer and inspiration for many modern-day writerscloser together.Here author Edmund Gordon delves into the life The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of Carter – from her anecdote about cup cakes, the London words of the 1940s through to the London of the 1990s, with stops in Bristol, Tokyo, Australiaher latest book she was reciting, and various other places her being in between. A work that is as full of detail as it is full of devotion to a remarkable woman, ''The Invention of Angela Carterblack lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' is the first authorised biography of (certainly a woman and a writer who is hugely missed today. [[The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon|Full Review]]<br> <!get-- Dittricht -->[[image:Dittrich_Patient.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099571862?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099571862]] ===[[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 up never commonly worn at the author events I get to shed light on the man behind the initialsattend), and in doing sobut pulled Brooker, uncovers quite a bit more than he expected. [[Patient H.M.: A Story professor of Memorycultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br> <br> <!down the rabbit-- Morris -->[[image:Morris_Footstepshole that is Jewell's diverse output.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/144567114X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=144567114X]] ===[[In Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitorpublished author's companion life, working to make a success of the palaceslatest title, castles & houses associated and struggling with Henry VIII's iconic queens by S Morris and N Grueninger]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] It was inevitable that each of the six wives of Henry VIII would have left their mark next in some way on the places they lived and visitedline. This book straddles several categories; it is part history Jewell, part gazetteer or guide bookdue diligence appropriately done, and also a collection of potted biographiesagrees. [[In And this is the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens by S Morris and N Grueningerresult.|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br>isbn=1529136024}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Terry BrevertonMartha Leigh|title= Owen TudorInvisible Ink: Founding Father of the Tudor DynastyA Family Memoir|rating= 4.5

|summary= Owen Tudor was one of those shadowy yet very important characters Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in medieval historya slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. While we may know little about himHer father is a Cambridge don, or at least did not until this biography appearedforever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his historical importance can hardly be overestimatedlife's work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in the practicalities of life. Without him, There is love in the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there would have been no Tudor dynasty.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445654180</amazonuk>1800460384

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny LandrethPolly Barton|title= SwellFifty 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 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 respect of the question in the first essay, which is on the 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

|summary= I love Jenny's 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 description of her book as a waterbiography copy so that I can turn down the pages I have marked and return to its varying wisdom when I love her encouragement that we should each write our ownneed to. Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is more than just (not a sport''.|isbn=1781688370}}{{Frontpage|author=Sharon Blackie|title=If Women Rose Rooted|rating=5|genre= Biography|summary= 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'just'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 recollection 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 authorparenting 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 happening. In such circumstances, it's own encounters with water; natural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, itbecame clear to the family that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet's also '. If they were to find a history 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 womenClara Dorothy Bewick's fight for life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the right time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to swimsail with her parents and three brothers. That sounds absurd until you start reading about itInstead, 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 only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the United States and life was hard, then it becomes seriousas Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly Clara would only know her mother for a lover of 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 absurdeldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening. Not }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789017977|title=Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a lover New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Ronnie Williams was the son of book blurbs myselfThomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they 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, I the family was quite well-to-do always seek but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to give a shoutvery different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out to those who get it dead right: and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in this case I1942.}}{{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, ''m definitely with Alexandra HeminsleyAnything is possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey''giggles. 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, as it the shifting political waters in America. |isbn=1526614758}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary=''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 miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the-commute funnyworld''.}}{{Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472938941</amazonuk>Graff_Find|title=Find Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of handwritten notes from his journal, he didn't take much notice of it. At the age of 24, Graff didn't realise the gravity of the pages he was holding.

<!-- 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>