Posts tagged with ‘England’
July 24, 2012
FASCINATING BIOGRAPHY OF HENRY VII examines the roots of the Tudor dynasty. Well researched and engrossing!
Grade: B PLUS
WINTER KING: HENRY VII AND THE DAWN OF TUDOR ENGLAND
Simon & Schuster
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction
July 22, 2012
ENGROSSING, THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED look at Queen Victoria’s very public mourning for husband Prince Albert.
Grade: SOLID B
A MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION: VICTORIA, ALBERT, AND THE DEATH THAT CHANGED THE BRITISH MONARCHY
St. Martin's Press
2012
Tags: Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
July 9, 2012
WRENCHINGLY HONEST, BRUTALLY eloquent, a novelist’s memoir of losing her sight and her way in life astounds.
Grade: A MINUS
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN WINTER: A MEMOIR IN BLINDNESS
Harper
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Addiction and Recovery, England, Health, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Scotland
June 27, 2012
A LONDON WOMAN’S unexpected, life-changing reunion with her Nigerian birth mother–thoughtful, touching novel.
Grade: SOLID B
BEING LARA
William Morrow
2012
Tags: Black Writers, England, London, Nigeria, Novels, Solid B Reviews
May 20, 2012
THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR gets yet another biography; this one offers some interesting new information, insights.
Grade: SOLID B
THAT WOMAN: THE LIFE OF WALLIS SIMPSON, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR
St. Martin's Press
2012
Tags: Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
March 10, 2012
MARY BOLEYN, MISTRESS and later sister-in-law to Henry VIII, is richly envisioned in this adept biography.
Grade: B PLUS
MARY BOLEYN: MISTRESS OF KINGS
Ballantine
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction
February 22, 2012
FASCINATING BIOGRAPHY, RICH with newly released letters, of Victorian art figure Effie Gray Ruskin Millais.
Grade: B PLUS
EFFIE: THE PASSIONATE LIVES OF EFFIE GRAY, JOHN RUSKIN, AND JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS
St. Martin's
2011
Tags: 19th Century, Art History, B Plus Reviews, Biography, England, Non-Fiction
June 1, 2009
RICHLY DETAILED BIOGRAPHY of Victorian England’s greatest acting duo follows the public and private lives of each. A MINUS
A STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY: THE DRAMATIC LIVES OF ELLEN TERRY, HENRY IRVING, AND THEIR REMARKABLE FAMILIES by Michael Holroyd
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux
March 2009
Grade: A MINUS
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction, Theater
May 20, 2009
FOR BARBARA VINE FANS ONLY! Starts off well, w/ interesting kinky-Tory premise, but dissipates into non-sequiturs. B minus.
THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT by Barbara Vine
March, 2009
New York: Shaye Areheart Books
Grade: B MINUS
Tags: B Minus Reviews, England, Mystery, Novels, Thriller