Books
by David Gilmour
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Curzon: Imperial Statesman - Imperial Statesman |
Scholarly, certainly comprehensive and as objective as it is possible to be with such a complicated, many-sided, turbulent and often misunderstood politician, who left such deep and lasting marks on Britain. Who today knows he was one of those particularly involved with saving those historic places which quite soon led to the National Trust? Enigmatic and occasionally lovable, Curzon comes to life for us here with all his many warts but also his many virtues.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 47 September 2008) |
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The Film Club: No School. No Work ... Just Three Films a Week |
How badly must your son be failing at school for you to take him out and home-school him with three films a week? Great to pick movies your child has to watch especially as mine would refuse any I suggested on principle, but this is so much more a book about the dynamics of a complicated father/son, complex coming-of-age relationship than the life-lessons in the movies themselves, making me mightily relieved to be relatively shallow.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 87 Winter 2018) |
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