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The Age of WonderTheir words
My two favourite group biographies are Jenny Uglow’s Lunar Men and Richard Holmes’ The Age of Wonder.
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Marie AntoinetteTheir words
What has stuck with me is that Zweig’s Marie Antoinette is a human being, rather than a distant figure in a palace who eventually has her head chopped off.
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WedlockTheir words
Wedlock reads like a crime story, an absolute page-turner.
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Landscape & MemoryTheir words
Books like Landscape & Memory came after I got interested but it was a book which expressed in black and white the hunch I had: it was there, laid out so beautifully, because Simon Schama has this talent for taking little stories and placing them in a broad context.
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The Arcadian FriendsTheir words
For me The Arcadian Friends is a brilliant book because Richardson does two things.
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Founding BrothersTheir words
Ellis wrote this quite small book, Founding Brothers, for which he won the Pulitzer, I think.
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