WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Haldane: The Forgotten Statesman who Shaped Modern Britain
Engaging biography of an establishment technocrat
CATALYST: Richard Haldane’s caricatured as ‘Hegelian politician’ by Leslie ‘Spy’ Ward in Vanity Fair, 1896
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
MEMO to my reviewing self: don’t always judge a book by its fly-leaf blurb — as a result of doing just that, I very nearly threw this brick on RB Haldane into the bin.
Its author, John Campbell, is the co-founder of an international private equity and infrastructure house and this would appear to be his first, rather patrician, foray into biography.
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PAUL SIMON falls under the spell of little known authors from an island at the edge of the world
