Biography


Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor

Francis Phillips | 10 January 2013 |
tags: biography, book reviews
The career of an Edwardian society lady - the first to take a seat in the British parliament - makes entertaining reading.


The genius of Chesterton

Zac Alstin | 08 January 2013 |
tags: biography, book reviews
A comprehensive new biography of the brilliant controversialist will delight fans and instruct the sceptical.


A portrait of the artist as a businessman

G. Tracy Mehan III | 06 November 2012 |
tags: biography, book reviews, heroes, Steve Jobs
Did shrewdness, artistry and obsession make Steve Jobs America's greatest businessman?


Hugh Trevor-Roper

Francis Phillips | 02 August 2010 |
tags: biography, history
The famous Oxford historian was brilliant but bedeviled by the emotional deprivation of his childhood.


A witness who paid the price

Francis Phillips | 29 December 2009 |
tags: biography, Bonhoeffer, Christianity, Nazi
The German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was charismatic, courageous and controversial


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