132,585
edits
Changes
no edit summary
[[Category:Biography|*]]
[[Category:New Reviews|Biography]]==Biography==__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Chisholm1788360702|title=Wits and Wives: Dr Johnson in the Company of Women|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=What's your mental image of a Great Writer? Most people would probably say the same thing: someone sitting in splendid isolation, probably in a garretCharles, writing Great Words and hating them. The idea of Great Writers having friends, or even a family, is a bizarre one. Partly this is because most Great Writers were incredibly weird people. But there's another issue at play. We're simply not used to imagining them in context, just one small part of a large and busy world. Our notion of biography is an incredibly fragmented oneAlternative Prince: despite the fact that one of the best indications of someone's character is how they interact with other human beings, we expect biographers to essentially confine themselves to the person and their literary output.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951867</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Frances A Gerard|title=Anna Amalia, Grand Duchess: Patron of Goethe and SchillerEdzard Ernst
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=Anna Amalia of BrunswickFor over forty years, a Duchess Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach in the eighteenth century, is scarcely little more than a footnote in European royal history these daysalternative medicine and complementary therapies. Nevertheless it was mainly through her patronage that ''Charles, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the court of Weimar became one of the most artistically renowned of the timePrince's opinions, a reputation it never lost throughout beliefs and aims against the increasingly militaristic times that Germany went through from the age background of Bismarck and beyond.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781550166</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adrian Fort|title=Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=Nancy, Lady Astor, the first woman to take her seat as an elected Member of Parliament at Westminster, is one of those characters about whom it is surely impossible for anyone to write a dull biographyscientific evidence. A determined character who inspired admiration, respect and exasperation in equal measure from most if not all who had dealings with her, she is well served by this latest in a long line of titles devoted to her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022409016X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julia Jones|title=Fifty Years In The Fiction Factory: The Working Life Of Herbert Allingham|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Herbert Allingham was one of the most prolific authors There are few instances of his time. Between 1886 beliefs being vindicated and his death in 1936 he was a busy writer relentless promotion of melodramatic serial stories in the mass-market halfpenny papers treatments which flourished at have no scientific support has done considerable damage to the turn reputation of a man who is proud of the century. Yet nothing he wrote was ever published in book form with his name refusal to itapply evidence-based, and the magazine proprietors made fortunes while their authors were the unsung heroes of the tradelogical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262075</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Doggett1739805100|title=The Man Who Sold The WorldLoving the Enemy: David Bowie And The 1970sBuilding bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew March
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Although Raffles has gone down in history as ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the founder quite extraordinary story of Singapore his roots were far from grand. He had no advantages apart from his own drive and determination and his professional life began with a lowly clerkship with the East india Companyauthor Andrew March's grandparents, then as large and ungainly as many a government. When he who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went abroad on behalf to Dresden to teach in the early days of the Company he quickly learned Nazi regime in the merits of doing something 1930s. Fred, a sensitive and asking permission afterwardsthoughtful man, not least because had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the time taken . Fred's attempts to contact London separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and then receive connections that lasted for a reply. Even if all went well this could take the best part of a year - by which time the original question could well be academiclifetime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686032</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher Simon SykesWill Brooker|title=Hockney: The Biography, Volume 1, 1937-1975Truth About Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Prince William is Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the few people who genuinely needs no introductionthousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. He's been in This book starts with the public eye since his birth two meeting each other, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the interest is certain to increase rather than diminish as time goes bytwo closer and closer together. On The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the other hand he 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 pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that isJewell'' only thirtys diverse output. Is there really going to be enough to warrant a book and will it be anything Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than an attempt to cash in on his marriage in 2011 and the current interest follow her through a year in all things royal engendered by the Queenpublished author's Diamond Jubilee? You can see that I was something of a reluctant reader - my sympathies are republican rather than royalist and in addition Penny Junor is known life, working to be make a supporter success of Prince Charles in what can be described as the War of latest title, and struggling with the Walesesnext in line. Was Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this ''really'' going to be a book which I would enjoy?is the result.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444720392</amazonuk>1529136024
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley HarrisonMartha Leigh|title=Sylvia PankhurstInvisible Ink: The Rebellious SuffragetteA Family Memoir|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=To some extent Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, the history of the suffragettes was also the history of the Pankhurst immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. SylviaHer father is a Cambridge don, born in 1882, was forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the second daughter of Dr Richard and Emmeline Pankhurst, and one of three sisters. The family had always been heavily politicised, Richard being a founder member complete correspondence of the Fabian Society alongside George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wellsphilosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the children had quite an austere upbringinghis life's work. When their father’s health took Her mother is a sudden turn concert pianist who practises for the worse in 1898, Emmeline and eldest daughter Christabel were abroad on business and Sylvia was left hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in charge of her younger siblings as well as having to nurse him, taking the full force practicalities of the shock when he died in her arms. With his passing the family were left strangely detached from each otherlife. His widow became heavily involved There is love in public work and political agitation, an increasingly remote mother from the young children who needed herhouse but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780950187</amazonuk>1800460384
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tracy BormanPolly Barton|title=Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, first Queen of EnglandFifty Sounds
|rating=4.5
|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Writing Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the biography of any woman who lived as long ago as the eleventh century, even someone as illustrious as question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a Queen, is a pretty thankless task. There will always be huge gaps in while and if the knowledge available. For example we do not know when Matilda was born, and likewise we do not world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have a precise date for her marriage, although we do know when she died. No lifelike images of her are known, though evidence suggests that she was quite short of staturevisited by now. In a male-dominated society, I may get there are approximate records of when her sons were bornlater this year, but I am not her daughtershopeful. Even more confusingly perhapsAnd like Barton, many I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the stories passed down to us throughout history are quite probably false. It question in the first essay, which is hardly surprising that this appears to be on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the first full-length life sound of her yet ''every party where you have to appear in Englishintroduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099549131</amazonuk>1913097501
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael RosenFrederic Gros|title=Fantastic Mr DahlA Philosophy of Walking
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Reading I confess I picked this book is rather like curling one up from the library in a deep, squishy armchair with a cup my pre-lockdown forage of cocoa and some squashed-fly biscuits while a favourite uncle chats to you about booksrandom stuff. He tells you interesting things about Roald Dahl's life, and then he discusses how those events may Now I have affected his writing, secure in to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the knowledge that you already know pages I have marked and love the stories. Just as important, he pauses in his chat from time return to time its varying wisdom when I need to ask your opinion — and it's clear he's really interested . Some books draw you in your answerslowly. Do you prefer This one had me in the original version of first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''James and the Giant Peachwalking is not a sport'', or the one which was eventually published? Can you imagine how funny it would be to see your grandfather looking in through your bedroom window, like the BFG?.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141322136</amazonuk>1781688370
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leo McKinstrySharon Blackie|title=Jack Hobbs: England's Greatest CricketerIf Women Rose Rooted
|rating=5
|genre=SportBiography|summary=Back in the early 1920s, there were only three Test cricket playing nations; England, Australia and South AfricaI normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. In the summer Perhaps an even greater measure of 2012, both nations have been on tour; Australia recently beaten comprehensively at one day cricket and South Africa about impact is setting out to start a test series to determine buy my own copy before I've finished reading the best Test nation in the worldone I've borrowed. Given that history I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is repeating itself, it seems appropriate that definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a new biography of Jack Hobbs, Englandreason and I's greatest run scorer and a man who repeatedly blunted the bowling attacks of both nations, should become available nowm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224083309</amazonuk>1912836017
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert K Massie0241446732|title=Catherine the GreatOur House is on Fire: Portrait Scenes of a WomanFamily and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Already known for major biographies The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of Nicholas the parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and Alexandratalking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, and of Peter the Greatstruggled with what was happening. In such circumstances, it's natural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, Massie has now written an equally full and absorbing life of it became clear to the late eighteenthfamily that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-century reigning Empressout planet''. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0679456724</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Ewart0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The Treasures of Queen ElizabethInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating=3.54
|genre=Biography
|summary=Tim Ewart is Royal Correspondent for ITV News, which must be one The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the perfect starting points for writing a biography USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of the Queen as some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she celebrates remained with her diamond jubileegrandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She's was the only child in the second British monarch 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, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to achieve this landmark - join the other being Queen Victoriafamily. After sixty Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years on the throne - , had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and eighty six died in public life - there's childbirth not much which isn't known about long after Clara arrived. As the Queen eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara 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 Wisconsin was a freshness for many readersrude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780970064</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennie Bond1789017977|title=ElizabethRonnie and Hilda's Romance: A Diamond Jubilee PortraitTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=A book based around just one dinner sounds a little extraordinaryRonnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. But the host, painter Benjamin Robert HaydonThere'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 no ordinary artistalready many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. He For a while, the family was a friend of many of quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the major artistic 1929 Depression and literary figures of the day, in addition five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to being an ambitious painter of historical scenesa very different lifestyle. Sadly, One thing he did inherit from his ambition father was not matched by popularity or good fortune, and despite or perhaps parly because an exaggerated belief in his own abilities, one need to be well-turned-out and a half centuries after this would stay with him throughout his death he is largely forgotten except for his suicide after years of despair, and perhaps his diary as welllife. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009956372X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara TuringPatti Smith|title=Alan M Turing: Centenary EditionYear of the Monkey
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=June 2012 will see On the centenary coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the birth lunar year of Alan Turingthe monkey - one packed with mischief, brilliant mathematiciansorrow, the man who played a major part in breaking the Enigma codes in the Second World War and is widely thought to be the father of computer scienceunexpected moments. To celebrate the anniversary Cambridge University Press have reprinted In a short biography written by Turingstranger's mother and included a memoir written by his older brotherwords, John. I'm rarely impressed by biographies written by [[No Ordinary Man by Dominic Carman|family members]] particularly when they're still coming to terms with their own griefAnything is possible: after all, but this book is startling for what it says about 's the year of the family members as much 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, as for what it says about Alan Turingthe shifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1107020581</amazonuk>1526614758
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally E Svenson1912242052|title=Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854 - 1909): A Portrait with HusbandsO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=43|genre=BiographyArt|summary=The woman we will eventually come ''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to know as Lily, Duchess of Marlborough was born Eliza Warren Price in Troywalk the mountains alone, New York in 1854. Her father hailed from Bluegrass Country in Kentucky and met his future wife (who was from Troy) in Washington DC. The family was comfortably off (but not rich) and became part of the Troy's social elite when they returned because he had to live there. Lily (for work, as she became known) had an unremarkable childhood and youth a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but became wealthy though her marriage because he wanted to Louis Hammersley, who died when she was twenty eight for pleasure and left her a wealthy widowadventure. His will would leave her legal problems which would simmer all her life rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and even after her own death twenty one years and two more husbands laterits literary consequences, changed our view of the world''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1457507765</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane BrownGraff_Find|title=Lancelot 'Capability' Brown: The Omnipotent Magician 1716-1783|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Among those who helped their contemporaries living through the Age of Enlightenment to see the world around them in a different light, Brown was unquestionably one of the most influential. Having trained as a gardener, as a young man he acquired an exhaustive knowledge of plants and trees, as well as of drainage and water management. To this was added a rare ability to look at the dullest of gardens and landscapes, decide that they had 'capabilities' for improvement (hence the time-honoured epithet), and persuade the owner that a transformation was both possible and desirable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951794</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFind Another Place|author=Johanna Adorjan|title=An Exclusive LoveBen Graff|rating=43.5|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=This moving memoir tells of the double suicide of both István (When Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a Hungarian-Jewish form plastic folder of Stephen) and handwritten notes from his wife Vera one Sunday morning in October. The story is told by their granddaughterjournal, Joanna Adorján and tells of her close fondness for them both but in particular with Vera, with whom 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 to Denmark after the Soviet occupation of Hungary in 1956. It ends with the police reports he didn't take much notice of the duty officer dated 15.10it.91 with At the discovery age of their bodies in their bungalow in the Charlottenlund24, a town of Graff didn't realise the Capital Region gravity of Denmark. Entry is gained by a local locksmith who charged 297.02 kroner. It is the charm and lyricism with which this tale is related which makes this fateful, haunting and profoundly moving story about identity both sad and memorablepages he was holding. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099552671</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Blumenthal1789016304|title=Steve JobsWar and Love: The Man Who Thought DifferentA family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin
|rating=5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Framed Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by Jobswhat she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' iconic speech at a Stanford College graduation ceremony, but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the three stories he told the students, about connecting city during the dotswar years, love but only five thousand survived and loss, and mortality, Martin could not understand how this biography gives could be allowed to happen in a succinct and balanced account of Jobs' lifecountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most 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, his successes and his failures, his passions and his ideals, and his infamously polarized personality. The author actively annotates that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the backstory of Jobs with references from this speechway that it did, but initial protests melted away as well as future events, carefully chosen statistics, and Jobsthe organisers became more circumspect. It' own reminiscence, giving s an atrocity on a rich context to his story. Jobs' achievements are incredible and they're not simply down to his genius, vast scale but his attitudes towards life and his incredible charismamade up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832062</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot1786893452|title=Dotter of Her Father's EyesThe Ungrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Picture Here in the crowded atelier of the renowned sculptorWest, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, Rodin or perhaps the dimly lit corridors of Lord Grimthorpe's mansionsome scaremongering about them. Perhaps you might prefer to frequent the brightly lit splendour But all of those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the balconies of the coastal villa at Cimbrone above the magnificent Gulf of Salerno. The inhabitants of such places led their tangled lives, sometimes enduring painful losses or by contrastinvestigative journalism they carry out, energetically inspired outsiders to passionate love affairs. In these stimulating environments we catch glimpses of the famous, like E.M.Forster, Virginia Woolf, sometimes accompanied by her close confidante, Vita Sackville West world and then there was the situations that tempestuous iconoclast, D.H.Lawrencerefugees find themselves in. Many such lives were inspired by both landscape and lust, fashioned by each otherIt's creative energies and endowed with artistic talents of all kinds. Here rare that we learn of talents find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and beauty this is a rare opportunity to do that inspires artistic endeavour, like the many charms of Eve Fairfax. Shein this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who after brief affairs was gradually forced into a stoic suspension which she recorded with thoughts from her friends born in the pages middle of annotated diaries which became ''A Book of Secrets''a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a ten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548941</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Grant0857058320|title=I & I: The Natural MysticsLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=Just mention ''Lord Of All the word reggae, and Dead'' is a journey to uncover the name that nearly always springs to mind is that of Bob Marley author's lost ancestor's life and the Wailersdeath. The music has always been very much a product of Cercas is searching for the Jamaican culture, nurtured meaning behind his great uncle's death in years of turbulent historythe Spanish Civil War. In this book Colin GrantManuel Mena, born in Britain of Jamaican parentsCercas' great uncle, goes back deep into its roots, and in is the figure who looms large over the process examines book. 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 childhood lives centre of the Wailers’ three main personalities, namely Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Neville Livingston, better known as Bunny Wailer, this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to provide an account of be a hero whilst having fought for the group – but much more than thatwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526727</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Ackroyd1788037812|title=DickensThe Fraternity of the Estranged: A Memoir of Middle AgeThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=45
|genre=Biography
|summary=With publishers falling over each other Originally passed in an effort to outdo each other 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in celebrating 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 bicentenary nature of Charles Dickens’ birthhomosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, it as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was perhaps inevitable that we should see a reappearance common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of what has become these men were hugely significant – contributing to the modern standard lifescientific understanding of homosexuality, by Peter Ackroyd. The 1200-page original was first published in 1990and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, while this 600leading to the milestone legalisation of same-page abridged edition surfaced sex relationships in 1994, and now makes another timely appearance1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099437090</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul HendricksonBuckland_Zoo|title=Hemingway's BoatThe Man Who Ate the Zoo: Everything he loved in lifeFrank Buckland, and lost, 1934-1961forgotten hero of natural history|author=Richard Girling|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=This substantial volume is not exactly As a full biography of Ernest Hemingway. In fact, it might almost have been subtitled ‘The rise and fall’. Its theme is more or less conservationist in Victorian England before the second half of his lifeterm existed, from 1934, when he returned from an African safari and took delivery Frank Buckland was very much a man ahead of his boat Pilar, to his tragic death 27 years latertime. Hendrickson intends it to be an account of the writerSurgeon, bringing together the different elements of his life – fishingnaturalist, friendshipveterinarian and eccentric sums him up perfectly, wives and family - and above all, naturally, his writingany biographer is immediately presented with a colourful tale to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847921930</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah BradfordWilliams_Captain|title=Queen Elizabeth IICaptain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: Her His Military Life in Our and Times|author=Ivor George Williams
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=As a biographer who has previously written substantial biographies In March 1829 Ann Parker married Captain J A Edwards of the Queen (published 17th Regiment of Foot. He was in 1996), command of her father George VIthe troops and convicts on board a ship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, Australia: his wife and her daughter-in-law Diana, Sarah Bradford needs little introductionyoung son accompanied him. At around 260 pages of textHe was not destined to live a long life, this is barely half dying suddenly at the length age of her other titles34 at Bangalore, leaving his widow to raise their two young sons. Edwards' death left his widow in a difficult position: not only did she have their farm to manage, and probably aimed more at but she was also responsible for the general reader with an eye on convicts who worked the Diamond Jubilee marketland. Two years later she would marry Captain Ronald Campbell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067091911X</amazonuk>
}}
|genre=Biography
|summary=Julia Blackburn had known Herman for Mostly we choose what books to read because there is so little time and so many yearsbooks… I can understand the approach, but they had drifted apart. She put the postcard which she received from him in an album: I also think we sell ourselves short by it mentioned a cottage he had discovered in Liguria , and which he was renovating. Some time later there was another postcard and an invitation to visit. Over time we sell the cottage would become her home and Herman her husbandmyriad lesser-known authors short as well. 'Thin Paths' is the stories of the So while, like most other people who inhabit this harshI have my favourite genres, wild landscape and of the way in which the landscape has formed the favoured authors, and while, like most other people. The thin paths join I read the people reviews and the places together in follow up on what appeals, I also have a way of life which is rarethird-string to my reading bow: randomness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090682</amazonuk>
}}