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I haven't done a rigorous study of biographies of US presidents. The ones I have looked at over...

jeremy gavron: my mother was a woman who looked...

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What the critics thought of Michael Aschroft and Isabel Oakeshott’s biography of David Cameron,the...

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Nicholas Martin’s wonderful screenplay for the original film is accompanied by Jasper Rees’s...

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Was Orson Welles a frightening bully or a wayward genius? The third instalment of an epic...

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The Queen is revealed by the former domestic secretary to be without moral defect,possessed of...

the fall of the house of wilde review - oscar s...

Emer O’Sullivan traces the journey of the literary giant’s family from riches to ragsOscar...

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Princess Margaret was bossy,petty and volatile, looked down on and lusted after. She is perfect...

a house full of daughters by juliet nicolson...

Nicolson’s family story has been written many times,but never before with the focus on daughters....

over the hills and far away by matthew dennison...

A biography of the creator of Peter Rabbit connects her classic animal tales with her inner...

franz liszt: musician, celebrity, superstar by...

This is a biography for those with an interest in the composer’s life. He was charismatic and...

comrade corbyn: a very unlikely coup review -...

Ex-girlfriends,the state of his flat and very petite ideological insight … a flawed account of how...

beryl bainbridge by brendan king review - drink,...

This vivid biography details Bainbridge’s complicated private life,out of which emerged some of...

the invention of nature: the adventures of...

From Russia to the jungles of South America to the Himalayas,an intrepid (brave in the face of...

dadland by keggie carew review - retrieving the...

Tom Carew was a war hero and an unconventional father with heaps of charm. When he began to lose his...

kid gloves: a voyage round my father by adam mars...

Bigoted,irascible, brilliant … a forensic portrait of a homophobic judge by his gay writer sonAdam...

dadland: a journey into uncharted territory and...

Keggie Carew and Iain Maitland explore in memoir and epistolary form the fraught relations between...

the making of the wind in the willows review -...

Peter Hunt’s elegant account of the genesis of Kenneth Grahame’s classic only hints at the...

charlotte bronte: a life by claire harmann review...

Written for the bicentenary of her birth,this is an eminently sane retelling of the author’s...

elizabeth jane howard by artemis cooper review -...

For a time known as much for her beauty and care for life as her admired Cazalet novels,Howard...

television: a biography by david thomson review -...

The film historian’s enjoyable,anecdotal book traces TV’s shift from family unifier to a medium...

kissinger: the idealist review - an admiring,...

In this riposte to the great American cold warrior’s left-leaning critics,Niall Ferguson, seeks to...

the name of god is mercy by pope francis; francis...

The popular and charismatic pope has proved to be passionate approximately social justice,but the...

gothic for the steam age by gavin stamp review -...

George Gilbert Scott’s reputation suffered because of his prolific work rate,but at last he has...

einstein s greatest mistake by david bodanis -...

An admiring but critical biography finds the great genius guilty of inflexible thinking in his later...

being here: the life of paula modersohn becker...

She worked at fever pitch,producing 80 pictures in a year, and was dead by 31 an intense and...

martin luther: renegade and prophet by lyndal...

An absorbing original life of Luther portrays the theologian as an authoritarian fuelled by hatred...

written lives by javier marias review - 26...

William Faulkner,Joseph Conrad and James Joyce are all described with a novelist’s eye for the...

guilty thing by frances wilson review - a superb...

He made opium sublime,hero-worshipped Wordsworth and was obsessed with murder … an exceptional...

two sisters by Åsne seierstad review - a journey...

The author of The Bookseller of Kabul tells the valid anecdote of two jihadi daughters and the...

diane arbus: portrait of a photographer review - a...

Arthur Lubow’s life of the controversial US photographer is sometimes eye-opening,but casts no...

diary of a somebody: could i solve the mystery of...

After biographer Alexander Masters was given a pile of discarded diaries,he began piecing together a...

the outrun by amy liptrot review - the badlands of...

This debut by a mettlesome,vulnerable author describes the wind and wildness of Orkney and spares no...

the letters of samuel beckett 1966 1989 review - a...

The fourth and final volume of these impeccably edited letters covers the years in which Beckett won...

the visitors book: in francis bacon s shadow...

Jon Lys Turners biography of Bacon’s closest friends,Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller, is...

the visitors book: in francis bacon s shadow...

Jon Lys Turner’s biography of Bacon’s closest friends,Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller,...

groucho marx by lee siegel review - apparently, he...

This provocative biography argues that the man who is the ‘central intelligence’ of the Marx...

what happened, miss simone? by alan light - review

From her raging,handwritten letters to late-night phone calls with David Bowie, this biography gets...

cameron at 10: the inside story 2010 2015 review -...

Is he a sphinx without a riddle? This authorised account of the first term by Anthony Seldon and...

stalin s englishman: the lives of guy burgess by...

Burgess – charming and often drunk – was a much more hazardous and effective spy than has been...

the penguin lessons by tom michell review -...

How a young British teacher rescued a tar-soaked penguin and charmed a boys’ school in Isabel...

the goddess pose by michelle goldberg - the...

This biography of Indra Devi,the teacher who brought yoga to the west, features occultism, or early...

david astor by jeremy lewis review - definitive...

A fine biography of the privileged amateur who gave the Observer its journalistic DNA in the postwar...

jane jacobs, the writer who changed the face of...

The journalist,activist and subject of a new biography believed cities should be haphazard and...

hitler: ascent by volker ullrich review - an...

A rigorous life of Hitler strips away the myth to reveal the manThis is the year when Mein Kampf has...

margaret thatcher: the authorised biography,...

A few major revelations,some lapses into Tory triumphalism, and something still missing – an...

take six girls by laura thompson review - the...

Thompson tells the story of the six Mitford sisters with specific insight and intellgenceLaura...

karen carpenter: starved of love, by randy schmidt...

Karen Carpenter's velvet voice charmed millions in the 70s… but behind the wholesome image...

anthony powell: dancing to the music of time by...

This affectionate life of Anthony Powell succeeds in restoring the reputation of the witty postwar...

dirt for arts sake: whats offensive and whats...

The families of literary figures rarely get along with their biographers – but does that mean that...

a life discarded: 148 diaries found in a skip by...

Though beautifully written,Alexander Masters’s account of trying to identify a mystery diarist is...

broken vows: tony blair, the tragedy of power by...

The former PM under a palm tree or parading in his underpants … priceless vignettes,but is there a...

eamon de valera: a will to power review - the man...

Ronan Fanning’s stylish biography of Éamon de Valera offers fresh insight on the divisive Irish...

anne de courcy: the prime minister fell in love...

Margot Asquith’s biographer explains why life at 10 Downing Street between 1912 and 1916 makes...

anne de courcy: i read the letters and diaries...

Margot Asquith’s biographer explains why life at 10 Downing Street between 1912 and 1916 makes...

universal man: the seven lives of john maynard...

Richard Davenport-Hines broadens the focus of his insightful biography beyond economics,presenting...

two lives of lou reed: notes from the velvet...

He was an angry,heroin-taking, gender-fluid nonconformist, or but it was Reed’s...

wallis in love: the untold true passion of the...

‘There is no reason to suggest she was a lesbian. I merely mention it as a way of getting your...

evelyn waugh: a life revisited by philip eade...

Rather than shed fresh light on the writer’s life,this biography ignores the literature in favour...

a life discarded by alexander masters - the...

The author of Stuart: A Life Backwards was given 148 volumes of a diary that had been thrown into a...

groovy bob: the life and times of robert fraser by...

Celebrities,drugs and a seemingly endless party: an updated biography tells the vivid story of a...

leonardo da vinci: the biography review - portrait...

Walter Isaacson’s illuminating study explains why the original Renaissance man left so many...

vanessa bell by frances spalding review - luminous...

This 1983 biography gives us a fascinating picture of Virginia Woolf’s sister,a complex woman and...

florynce flo kennedy: the life of a black feminist...

Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical A Lecture by Sherie M. Randolph...

lara: the untold love story that inspired doctor...

Anna Pasternak tale of her remarkable-uncle’s love affair with his muse would create a Hollywood...

david astor by jeremy lewis review - how the...

He thought any house with fewer than 16 bedrooms was a ‘cottage’ and never knew what a mortgage...

jumpin jack flash by kieron pim review - david...

An intimate of the Rolling Stones,jester to Eric Clapton, close to the Krays, or painted by Lucian...

the mistress of paris review - glittering story of...

Catherine Hewitt’s life of the prostitute’s daughter who rose to the highest ranks of French...

a very dangerous woman review - an enjoyably...

The life of Moura Budberg – aristocratic spy and ‘remarkable liar’ – is tough to pin...

how confrontational evangelism is failing...

Christian evangelists act,in a very genuine sense, as salespeople of their ideology. And they are...

a woman on the edge of time by jeremy gavron...

The manner of Hannah Gavron’s death was kept from her young son. Four decades later,he set out to...

the trials of the king of hampshire by elizabeth...

The 1823 insanity trial of the earl of Portsmouth was a cause celebre,involving sex, greed and an...

lives shaped by history with hisham matar and...

We examine how the most personal writing can illuminate a wider world as Hisham Matar and Margo...

climbing days by dan richards - review

Dorothy Pilley’s memoirs set her grand-grand-nephew on a beguiling quest to follow in her...

what will they call hillary clinton if she wins?

Harpy,shrew, feminazi … Ever since Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the public eye, and writers fill...

ruth scurr: i wanted to make john aubrey present...

The author explains why creating a fictional diary for this 17th-century man of letters made more...

guy burgess: the spy who knew everyone by stewart...

The second recent biography of the cold war spy adds much to a familiar epic thanks to newly...

lemmy: the definitive biography by mick wall...

A life of the Motörhead frontman shows us a man who kept up the habits of a rock’n’roll...

catullus bedspread by daisy dunn review - ancient...

A finely crafted biography of the poet and libertine fascinates without being titillatingThe...

margaret thatcher: the authorized biography,...

The moment portion of Moore’s biography of the Iron Lady is fast paced and forensic but omits her...

florence gould, the woman who bought happiness

Susan Roland talks about her biography A unsafe Woman: American Beauty,famous Philanthropist, Nazi...

jumpin jack flash: david litvinoff and the rock n...

Keiron Pim’s account of swinging London’s notorious fabulist,a man who befriended rock stars and...

book claims prince charles is a capricious...

Tom Bower’s unauthorised biography,Rebel Prince, reveals discontented future king who says his...

the wife s tale by aida edemariam review -...

Edemariam deftly traces her grandmother’s life in Ethiopia,taking in Haile Selassie’s feudal...

mary louise parkers letters to men real and...

Award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker talks approximately her book of letters, Dear Mr....

a strange evolution: when fundagelicals loved the...

Long,long ago, when I was a wee vivid-eyed Pentecostal lass, and I had a run-in with an anti-theist...

the art of the biography

James Atlas has built a career writing biographies approximately people like Saul Bellow and...

a fresh look at the life politics of vladimir...

Victor Sebestyen joins us to discuss his new book Lenin: The Man,the Dictator, and the Master of...

jimmy savile was supremely controlling - of people...

Dan Davies,winner of the 2015 Gordon Burn prize, explains his long struggle to get to know the man...

you must be born again (and again, and again, and...

Most people have likely heard of the Bible verse advising that people must be born again in order...

hero of the empire: the making of winston...

Churchill made his name as a daring journalist and soldier in South Africa in 1899-1900. It began a...

lord snow: life, death, immortality, and what...

Originally I'd intended this post to be a retrospective and celebration of Lord Snow,but along...

the unequally yoked club: terrible christian...

Last time we met up,we talked approximately why Christians possess such a bizarrely-regressive view...

true life stories: conor mcgregor

Mixed martial arts champion Conor McGregor is one of the most approved figures in modern sports....

gossip, truth and the impossibility of biography |...

A unusual book about Ted Hughes has been criticised by his widow for its ‘factual...

max porter and katharine norbury on grief - books...

We discuss how literature can be forged from sadness with two writers longlisted for the Guardian...

the worst advice biff got from christians about...

If there's one thing ex-Christians in the Unequally Yoked Club know,it's that our...

true life stories: kanye west

Egomaniacal. Divisive. Provocateur. Genius. Whatever your take on Kanye West,you can't deny his...

the unequally yoked club: how marriage became a...

Today,we're going to glimpse at why Christian leaders push so tough to accumulate their flocks...

live in the wild: an introduction to fake abortion...

The CPC is one of the most slickly-packaged of all of the fake women's clinics,pretending to be...

sticky fingers by joe hagan review - rolling stone...

An excellent biography of Jann Wenner 50 years after he founded the pop culture magazine makes...

biography dictionary criticised for lack of new...

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography accused of blinkered view,but editors argue it merely...

frantumaglia: a writer s journey by elena ferrante...

The reflections,letters and interviews of the Italian writer who chooses to remain anonymous are as...

the worst video game i ever played (is not e.t.)

Lately,I've been thinking approximately wonderful--and bad--video games from years past....

the israel obsession: an introduction to christian...

When it comes to fundagelical Christianity,few things make as little sense to outsiders to that...

ariel: a literary life of jan morris by derek...

The lives of two colourful veterans of British travel writing are uncovered with contrasting...

letter: norman harris obituary

As a 12-year-ancient on the Isle of Mull in 1964,I read The Legend of Lovelock, the biography of the...

stalin s englishman review: the louche master of...

Guy Burgess is recast as the key player in the Cambridge spy ring in a meticulous (extremely careful...

trendy testimonies: why christians keep saying...

Christians might want to help ease or (in their wildest dreams) reverse their decade-long...

no one s happier than i: the enchantment of jack...

Ex-Christians have a lot of shorthand ways of talking approximately how it feels to be deconverted....

who invented rock n roll? a new biography stakes a...

Peter Guralnick talks approximately the founder of Sun Records,Sam Phillips, who produced the likes...

rapture, tribulation, and the fear of missing out...

The type of Christians who go in for the Rapture also tend to suffer from what the contemporary age...

captain s log: adventures in mayonnaise making

I like cooking. But sometimes my attempts to revise a recipe gets me into trouble. The most recent...

laura lee, sex work stigma, and the limits of...

Though Laura Lee is gone,her friends will not let her be forgotten; there were many dreadful people...

captain cassidy s (big ol huge) deconversion.

In this blog's first year,I spent a few months outlining all the different elements that went...

letters from tim: what christians don t realize...

final week letters turned up in my mail that really encapsulated exactly what Christians carry out...

few words

The life and career of championship freestyle skier Candide Thovex take middle stage in Few...

interview: jessie hartland and telling the story...

Steve Jobs,we feel we know him and yet he is something of a mystery and there is an enormous amount...

bible verses i wish i d known about while i was...

The CPC also left out an awful lot of Bible verses that reveal that the Bible's god is a total...

call me dave by michael ashcroft and isabel...

This score-settling book made headlines but turns out to be a mixture of gossipy censure and...

demi lovato: simply complicated

Demi Lovato's career trajectory has taken her from a Disney darling to a chart-topping pop...

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guilty thing by frances wilson review - a superb...

two sisters by Åsne seierstad review - a journey...

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diary of a somebody: could i solve the mystery of...

the outrun by amy liptrot review - the badlands of...

the letters of samuel beckett 1966 1989 review - a...

the visitors book: in francis bacon s shadow...

the visitors book: in francis bacon s shadow...

groucho marx by lee siegel review - apparently, he...

what happened, miss simone? by alan light - review

cameron at 10: the inside story 2010 2015 review -...

stalin s englishman: the lives of guy burgess by...

the penguin lessons by tom michell review -...

the goddess pose by michelle goldberg - the...

david astor by jeremy lewis review - definitive...

jane jacobs, the writer who changed the face of...

hitler: ascent by volker ullrich review - an...

margaret thatcher: the authorised biography,...

take six girls by laura thompson review - the...

karen carpenter: starved of love, by randy schmidt...

anthony powell: dancing to the music of time by...

dirt for arts sake: whats offensive and whats...

a life discarded: 148 diaries found in a skip by...

broken vows: tony blair, the tragedy of power by...

eamon de valera: a will to power review - the man...

anne de courcy: the prime minister fell in love...

anne de courcy: i read the letters and diaries...

universal man: the seven lives of john maynard...

two lives of lou reed: notes from the velvet...

wallis in love: the untold true passion of the...

evelyn waugh: a life revisited by philip eade...

a life discarded by alexander masters - the...

groovy bob: the life and times of robert fraser by...

leonardo da vinci: the biography review - portrait...

vanessa bell by frances spalding review - luminous...

florynce flo kennedy: the life of a black feminist...

lara: the untold love story that inspired doctor...

david astor by jeremy lewis review - how the...

jumpin jack flash by kieron pim review - david...

the mistress of paris review - glittering story of...

a very dangerous woman review - an enjoyably...

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a woman on the edge of time by jeremy gavron...

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