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Craig Brown’s Elizabeth II biography is incomparable

Book review – biography

Book Review

Craig Brown’s Elizabeth II biography is incomparable

A Voyage Around the Queen is an extraordinarily original, enlightening and fresh look at Elizabeth II

Philip Hensher

The enduring working-class charisma of Brazil’s Lula

Fernando Morais is clinical in his detail of the underground union gatherings, abject poverty and family tragedy which formed the Brazilian president

Patrick Graney

Pat Nixon, ambassador of goodwill

In a new biography of the former First Lady, Heath Hardage Lee attempts to uncover the real woman

Christopher Sandford

A new and compelling study of the life of the iconic rebel Nat Turner

Anthony Kaye seeks to reframe the life of the famous slave rebel in the context of his religious beliefs

Clement Knox

Book Review

The wit and wisdom of Margaret Cavendish

As a portrait of the thrilling, rackety milieu of the seventeenth-century literary world, Francesca Peacock’s Pure Wit is truly delightful

Lisa Hilton

Book Review
January 23, 2024
Relive Lou Reed’s wild, contradictory life
In Lou Reed: The King of New York, Will Hermes seems unusually well attuned to his subject, while resisting any temptation to soft-pedal
Philip Clark
Book Review
December 20, 2023
A definitive biography of Liz and Dick, Hollywood’s most controversial and glamorous couple
Roger Lewis answers what it is about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor that still hooks us in
Harry Mount
Book Review
September 13, 2023
An admirable but flawed new biography of George Eliot
The Marriage Question shows us a woman fragmented
Oliver Soden
Book Review
June 18, 2023
Why is George Orwell so difficult to pin down?
The writer is an easy man to admire and sympathize with, but a hard one to like
Alexander Larman
Book Review
June 18, 2023
Lady Caroline Lamb and the frantic bed-hopping between the great houses of England
Antonia Fraser paints a convincing, shocking picture of upper-class mores in the late eighteenth century
Harry Mount
Book Review
May 21, 2023
The king and queen who saved the British monarchy
A well-researched new biography of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Christopher Sandford
Book Review
April 20, 2023
Who was the real Martin Luther King, Jr.?
King: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of the black civil rights hero to appear in more than thirty years
David J. Garrow
Book Review
February 27, 2023
Vince McMahon: the modern-day P.T. Barnum who changed America
The new biography Ringmaster unpacks a controversial legend
Art Tavana
Books
July 25, 2019
How Klaus Fuchs’s treachery may have averted Armageddon
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close reviewed
Jay Elwes
Books
April 18, 2019
Was there no end to John Buchan’s talents?
Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan by Ursula Buchan reviewed
Allan Massie

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