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[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]==Biography==__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Ewart1788360702|title=Charles, The Treasures of Queen Elizabeth|rating=3.5|genre=Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|summary=Tim Ewart is Royal Correspondent for ITV News, which must be one of the perfect starting points for writing a biography of the Queen as she celebrates her diamond jubilee. She's only the second British monarch to achieve this landmark - the other being Queen Victoria. After sixty years on the throne - and eighty six in public life - there's not much which isn't known about the Queen and few pictures which haven't previously seen the light of day, but Ewart's book is marked out by the inclusion of memorabilia which will have a freshness for many readers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780970064</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennie Bond|title=Elizabeth: A Diamond Jubilee PortraitEdzard Ernst
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|summary=Jennie Bond was the BBC's Royal Correspondent for fourteen For over forty years from 1989 , Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and covered a period of particular turbulence in the Royal familycomplementary therapies. It might not have been unprecedented but it was the first time that what was happening was so widely reported throughout the world. This book covers a much wider period with ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the emphasis being on pictures rather than words. ItPrince's a heavyopinions, well-produced beliefs and lavishly-presented book of aims against the type which would make a good present or souvenir background of a visit to the United Kingdomscientific evidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847329608</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christina Schmid|title=Always By My Side: Losing the love There are few instances of my life his beliefs being vindicated and the fight to honour his memory|rating=2.5|genre=Biography|summary=On Halloween 2009 bomb disposal expert Olaf (Oz) Schmid became another mortality statistic from the conflict in Afghanistan. Many people enjoy magazines like ''Hello'' who will absorb the stories relentless promotion of Oz's early years, how he met Christina, the family holidays, stories about both sets of parents etc. But for me, this is like looking at someone else's personal photo album; even if you treatments which have a connection with the album's owner, after a while it becomes boring and lacks meaning. Although I wouldn't have had half the inner strength and courage that Christina showed after no scientific support has done considerable damage to the death reputation of a soul mate, the emphasis of ''Always By My Side'' man who is out proud of kilterhis refusal to apply evidence-based, the descriptions of life in Afghanistan and the subsequent campaign being almost lost in the family detaillogical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184605947X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Penelope Hughes-Hallett1739805100|title=The Immortal DinnerLoving the Enemy: A famous evening Building bridges in a time of genius and laughter in literary London, 1817war|author=Andrew March
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|summary=June 2012 will see ''Loving the centenary of Enemy'' tells the birth quite extraordinary story of Alan Turingauthor Andrew March's grandparents, brilliant mathematician, the man who played a major part first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to teach in breaking the Enigma codes early days of the Nazi regime in the Second World War and is widely thought to be the father of computer science1930s. To celebrate the anniversary Cambridge University Press have reprinted Fred, a short biography written by Turing's mother sensitive and included a memoir written by his older brotherthoughtful man, Johnhad some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the time. IFred'm rarely impressed by biographies written by [[No Ordinary Man by Dominic Carman|family members]] particularly when theys attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren're still coming to terms with their own grief, t universally successful but this book is startling he did make friendships and connections that lasted for what it says about the family members as much as for what it says about Alan Turinga lifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1107020581</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally E SvensonWill Brooker|title=Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854 - 1909): A Portrait with HusbandsThe Truth About Lisa Jewell|rating=45
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|summary=The woman we will eventually come to know as LilyMeet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], Duchess one of Marlborough was born Eliza Warren Price in Troythe most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, New York in 1854one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. Her father hailed from Bluegrass Country in Kentucky This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and met his future wife (who was from Troy) in Washington DCcloser together. The family meeting was comfortably off some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and 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 attend), but not rich) and became part pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the Troyrabbit-hole that is Jewell's social elite when they returned to live therediverse output. Lily (as she became known) had an unremarkable childhood and youth but became wealthy though Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her marriage through a year in the published author's life, working to Louis Hammersleymake a success of the latest title, who died when she was twenty eight and left her a wealthy widowstruggling with the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. His will would leave her legal problems which would simmer all her life and even after her own death twenty one years and two more husbands laterAnd this is the result.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1457507765</amazonuk>1529136024
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane BrownMartha Leigh|title=Lancelot 'Capability' BrownInvisible Ink: The Omnipotent Magician 1716-1783A Family Memoir|rating=45|genre=Biography|summary=Among those who helped their contemporaries living through the Age of Enlightenment to see the world around them Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a different lightslightly eccentric, Brown was unquestionably one of the most influentialimmediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Having trained as Her father is a gardenerCambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as a young man he acquired an exhaustive knowledge edits the complete correspondence of plants and treesthe philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as of drainage and water managementhis life's work. To this was added Her mother is a rare ability to look at concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in the dullest practicalities of gardens and landscapes, decide that they had 'capabilities' for improvement (hence the time-honoured epithet), and persuade life. There is love in the owner house but also darker undercurrents that a transformation was both possible and desirablechild does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845951794</amazonuk>1800460384
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Johanna AdorjanPolly Barton|title=An Exclusive LoveFifty Sounds
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|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=This moving memoir tells of Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the double suicide of both István (question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a Hungarianwhile and if the world hadn't gone into melt-Jewish form of Stephen) and his wife Vera one Sunday morning in Octoberdown I would have visited by now. The story is told by their granddaughterI may get there later this year, Joanna Adorján and tells of her close fondness for them both but in particular with VeraI am not hopeful. And like Barton, with whom I don't know the author shares many characteristics. The story begins with the systematic persecution of such Hungarian Jews in Budapest under the Nazi occupation and describes their perilous flight answer to Denmark after the Soviet occupation of Hungary question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in 1956. It ends with the police reports respect of the duty officer dated 15.10.91 with the discovery of their bodies in their bungalow question in the Charlottenlundfirst essay, a town of the Capital Region of Denmark. Entry is gained by a local locksmith who charged 297.02 kroner. It which is on the charm and lyricism with sound ''giro' '' – which this tale is related which makes this fatefulshe describes as being, among other things, haunting and profoundly moving story about identity both sad and memorablethe sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099552671</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen BlumenthalFrederic Gros|title=Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought DifferentA Philosophy of Walking
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|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Framed by Jobs' iconic speech at a Stanford College graduation ceremony, and I confess I picked this one up from the three stories he told 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 students, about connecting the dots, love pages I have marked and loss, and mortality, this biography gives a succinct and balanced account of Jobs' life, his successes and his failures, his passions and his ideals, and his infamously polarized personalityreturn to its varying wisdom when I need to. Some books draw you in slowly. The author actively annotates This one had me in the backstory of Jobs with references from this speechfirst two pages, as well as future events, carefully chosen statistics, and Jobswherein Gros explains why '' own reminiscence, giving walking is not a rich context to his story. Jobssport' achievements are incredible and they're not simply down to his genius, but his attitudes towards life and his incredible charisma. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408832062</amazonuk>1781688370
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary M Talbot and Bryan TalbotSharon Blackie|title=Dotter of Her Father's EyesIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsBiography|summary=If thereI 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's ve finished reading the one person able to produce a worthwhile potted history of James JoyceI's daughter, it should be Mary M Talbotve borrowed. SheI want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 's an eminent academic, and her father was a major Joycean scholar. Both females had parents with inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the same names too - James first two and Nora, both took to only time will tell about the stage when younger after going to dance school, third – but clichés exist for a reason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it's the contrasts between them this volume subtly picks out rather than any similarities, in a dual biography painted by one person we know by now as more than able to produce a delightful graphic novel - [[:Category:Bryan Talbot|Bryan Talbot]]better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224096087</amazonuk>1912836017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Holroyd0241446732|title=A Book Our House is on Fire: Scenes of Secretsa Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Illegitimate DaughtersGreta Thunberg, Absent FathersBeata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg
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|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Picture the crowded atelier of the renowned sculptor, Rodin or perhaps the dimly lit corridors of Lord Grimthorpe's mansionThe Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Perhaps you might prefer to frequent the brightly lit splendour of the balconies Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the coastal villa at Cimbrone above the magnificent Gulf of Salerno. The inhabitants parenting of such places led their tangled lives, sometimes enduring painful losses or by contrast, energetically inspired to passionate love affairstwo daughters. In these stimulating environments we catch glimpses of the famous Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, like E.M.ForsterBeata, Virginia Woolfthen nine years old, sometimes accompanied by her close confidante, Vita Sackville West and then there struggled with what was that tempestuous iconoclast, Dhappening.H.Lawrence. Many In such lives were inspired by both landscape and lustcircumstances, fashioned by each otherit's creative energies and endowed with artistic talents of all kinds. Here we learn of talents and beauty that inspires artistic endeavournatural to seek a solution close to home, like the many charms of Eve Fairfax. Shebut eventually, who after brief affairs was gradually forced into a stoic suspension which she recorded with thoughts from her friends in it became clear to the pages of annotated diaries which became family that they were ''A Book of Secretsburned-out people on a burned-out planet''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548941</amazonuk> If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Grant0648684806|title=I & IClara Colby: The Natural MysticsInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday
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|summary=Just mention The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the word reggaeUSA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, and the name that nearly always springs she wasn't allowed to mind is that of Bob Marley sail with her parents and the Wailersthree brothers. The music has always been very much Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a product of the Jamaican culturegood education, nurtured both in years and out of turbulent historyschool. In this book Colin Grant, born She was the only child in Britain of Jamaican parentsthe household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, goes back deep into its roots, and her family had become pioneer farmers in the process examines the childhood lives mid-west of the Wailers’ three main personalitiesUnited States and life was hard, namely Bob Marleyas Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, Peter Toshhad ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and Neville Livingstondied in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, better known as Bunny Wailer, to provide an account of the group – but much more than thata heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526727</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Ackroyd1789017977|title=DickensRonnie and Hilda's Romance: A Memoir of Middle AgeTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams
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|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=With publishers falling over each other in an effort Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas 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 outdo each other have been born in celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth1863, it but he was perhaps inevitable that we should see already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a reappearance of what has become few years off his age. For a while, the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the modern standard life, by Peter Ackroyd1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. The 1200One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-page original was first published in 1990, while out and this 600-page abridged edition surfaced would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1994, and now makes another timely appearance1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099437090</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul HendricksonPatti Smith|title=Hemingway's Boat: Everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961Year of the Monkey
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|summary=This substantial volume is not exactly a full biography On the coast of Ernest Hemingway. In factSanta Cruz, it might almost have been subtitled ‘The rise and fall’. Its theme is more or less Patti Smith enters the second half lunar year of his lifethe monkey - one packed with mischief, from 1934sorrow, when he returned from an African safari and took delivery of his boat Pilarunexpected moments. In a stranger's words, ''Anything is possible: after all, to his tragic death 27 years later. Hendrickson intends it to be an account 's the year of the writer, bringing together monkey''. As Smith wanders the different elements coast of his Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life – fishing, friendship, wives - loss and family ageing are faced head- and above allon, naturally, his writingas it the shifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847921930</amazonuk>1526614758
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Bradford1912242052|title=Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our TimesO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=43|genre=BiographyArt|summary=As ''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 biographer who has previously written substantial biographies of the Queen (published in 1996)miner, of her father George VIquarryman, and her daughter-inshepherd or pack-law Dianahorse driver, Sarah Bradford needs little introductionbut because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. At around 260 pages of textHis rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, this is barely half the length changed our view of her other titles, and probably aimed more at the general reader with an eye on the Diamond Jubilee marketworld''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067091911X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'SheaGraff_Find|title=Amy Winehouse: A Losing GameFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=43.5|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=At the risk When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of stating the obvioushandwritten notes from his journal, this is a sad bookhe didn't take much notice of it. Writing this review some five months after her death, now At the immediate smoke has cleared, it is apparent from this book (as well as other general sources) that she was a gifted performer, with a jazz voice which could have qualified her for a lengthy career long after scores age of aspiring X-Factor contestants had given up singing and opted for less glamorous24, more steady careers. After all, her idols had been not only near-contemporaries like Michael Jackson and Missy Elliott, but also those Graff didn't realise the gravity of an earlier generation such as the classic 1960s girl groups, as well as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, with whom she pages he was thrilled to record a duet four months before she diedholding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859654826</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Hollis1789016304|title=Now All Roads Lead to FranceWar and Love: The Last Years A family's testament of Edward Thomasanguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin
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|summary=Most historians tend Melanie Martin read about what happened to refer to Edwardian England as the thirteen-year interlude between the Victorian era and the shots at Sarajevo which precipitated the First Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World WarII and was entranced by what she discovered, an era particularly in ''The Diary of relative stabilityAnn Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. However, there had been ominous rumblings A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the new order of things city during the two war years or so prior , but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to June 1914, particularly from happen in a new spirit among the younger literary generationcountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. The old Victorian writersMost people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, notably that the uniquely terrible Poet Laureate Alfred Austin (doubtless a very good manAmsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it did, but an almost comically inept writer of verse) were dismissed initial protests melted away as irredeemably old hat by the likes of Rupert Brooke and W.H. Daviesorganisers became more circumspect. For It's an atrocity on a short time London was the poetry capital vast scale but made up of tens of the world, and the book opens with the opening in January 1913 thousands of Harold Monro’s poetry bookshop in Bloomsbury, which rapidly became a magnet for the self-proclaimed Georgian poets and readersindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571245986</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Blackburn1786893452|title=Thin Paths: Journeys in and Around an Italian Mountain VillageThe Ungrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri|rating=4.5
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|summary=Julia Blackburn had known Herman for many yearsHere in the West, but they had drifted apart. She put the postcard which she received from him in an album: it mentioned we see news reports about immigrants on a cottage he had discovered in Liguria and which he was renovatingregular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. Some time later there was another postcard and an invitation to visit. Over time the cottage would become her home and Herman her husband. 'Thin Paths' is the But all of those stories of the people who inhabit this harshare written by journalists – almost always western, wild landscape and of almost always, no matter how deep the way in which the landscape has formed the people. The thin paths join investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the people world and the places together situations that refugees find themselves in a way of life which is rare.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090682</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Erica Heller|title=Yossarian Slept Here|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It'To live forever or die in s rare that we find out the attempt' was journeys from the essential glory in life refugees themselves – and living this is a rare opportunity to do that is at the heart of John Yossarian , in [[Catch 22 this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Joseph Heller|Catch 22]]. This autobiography of Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the daughter middle of his creatora revolution in Iran, Joseph Heller, reveals how the same excitement and joie de vivre suffused throughout the Heller family. The harebrained unpredictability, the madcap exploits and relationships bowl us through this book with terrific pace and vervefleeing to America as a ten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099570084</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chambers and Joan Bakewell0857058320|title=Chambers Biographical DictionaryLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)
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|summary=It's now 'Lord Of All the ninth edition of this famous volume and that came as Dead'' is a bit of a shock when I glanced at journey to uncover the bookcase author's lost ancestor's life and realised that my copy dated back to 1974 and was still in regular use death. Cercas is searching for a quick guide as to who might have been who. Itthe meaning behind his great uncle's advertised as death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas'the greatuncle, is the good, figure who looms large over the not-so-great and the downright wicked' and itbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's difficult to better that summaryforces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. It has eighteen thousand biographies and differs from ''Who's Who'' with The question at the centre of this book is whether it's thirty thousand entries in that covers the dead as well as the living and the ''interesting'' rather than those who need is possible for his great uncle to be included because they have achieved a certain positionhero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0550106936</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claire Tomalin1788037812|title=Charles DickensThe Fraternity of the Estranged: A LifeThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson
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|summary=Having already 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 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written biographies by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of Thomas Hardy society and Jane Austenstudying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, among othersbut barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to say nothing the scientific understanding of a study of Dickens homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and his mistress Nelly Ternanequality, Claire Tomalin is admirably qualified to produce a major life of the author leading to mark the bicentenary milestone legalisation of his birth same-sex relationships in 1812. (Sadly, she says this will be her last large-scale book)1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917672</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jermaine JacksonBuckland_Zoo|title=You Are Not AloneThe Man Who Ate the Zoo: Michael Through A Brother's EyesFrank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history|author=Richard Girling
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|summary=It is inevitable that the books we have already seen about Michael Jackson As a conservationist in Victorian England before the two years since term existed, Frank Buckland was very much a man ahead of his sudden passing will be merely the tip of the icebergtime. Yet for those which comprise and are based on first-hand knowledge of his life and deathSurgeon, naturalist, there will surely be few if any to rival this account by his brother Jermaine veterinarian and ghostwriter Steve Dennis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007435665</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Graham Holderness|title=Nine Lives of William Shakespeare|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=There is a subtle irony in the fact that the world’s best-known playwrighteccentric sums him up perfectly, and possibly the most famous author of all time, any biographer is immediately presented with a character about whom so little is known for certain. Nevertheless, as we are looking at someone who died nearly 400 years ago, the indisputable documentary evidence is bound colourful tale to be lackingtell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441151850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne IsbaWilliams_Captain|title=Dickens's WomenCaptain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: His Military Life and LovesTimes|author=Ivor George Williams
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|summary=The subject In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the several women 17th Regiment of Foot. He was in command of the life of Charles Dickens might at first glance seem an unusual theme troops and convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to build a biography aroundSydney, but this fairly brief but penetrating book serves its purpose wellAustralia: his wife and young son accompanied him. The author’s foreword begins by telling us that Dickens He was not destined to live a man who 'craved a love so unconditional that long life, dying suddenly at the yearning was unlikely age of 34 at Bangalore, leaving his widow to be satisfied raise their two young sons. Edwards' death left his widow in this world, a man in thrall difficult position: not only did she have their farm to a vision of a womanhood so idealized that it manage, but she was incompatible with everyday domesticity'also responsible for the convicts who worked the land. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441107207</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce DuffyPeacock_mountain|title=Disaster was my GodInto The Mountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd|author=Charlotte Peacock
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|summary=MachiavelliMostly 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 first philosopher to define politics myriad lesser-known authors short as treachery'well. So while, has probably been better known as an adjectivelike most other people I have my favourite genres, Machiavellian being a synonym for duplicity in statecraftand favoured authors, than as a historical person. Interestinglyand while, like most other people I read the term 'Machiavel' became common in English usage as an adjective reviews and noun around 1570follow up on what appeals, although none of his works were translated into the language for another seventy years or so after thatI also have a third-string to my reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847252214</amazonuk>
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