Books
by Sarah Bradford
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George VI: The full story behind The King's Speech |
This accessible, detailed and readable biography has become the more relevant and interesting following the release of The King's Speech. Reading this book having seen the film brought the chief character, the King, his entourage, his family history, his whole reign vividly to life. Published in 1989 and now reissued, it is a breathtaking and fascinating read, with many valuable details and quotations from material only recently in the public domain. A great experience and highly recommended.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 61 Summer 2011) |
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Lucrezia Borgia - Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy |
Not, after all, the monster of popular legend . . . Despite her inauspicious start - daughter of infamous Alexander VI and sister of the truly monstrous Cesare - it turns out she spent most of her adult life competently ruling Ferrara while her husband went warring. Bradford's exemplary research brings Renaissance Italy and Lucrezia herself vividly alive (gosh, the feasts and clothes!) and never mind if one occasionally loses track of the vast dramatis personae and complicated history.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 40 June 2007) |
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