A. Barr, Drink: a social history (1998)
E. Crispin, Swan song (1947)
G. Dyer, The last days of Roger Federer (2022)
M. Evans, Who let the Gods out (2017)
A. Light, Common people: this history of an English family (2014)
G. Dyer, The last days of Roger Federer (2022)
M. Evans, Who let the Gods out (2017)
A. Light, Common people: this history of an English family (2014)
A. Tinniswood, The Verneys (2007)
After an exceptionally good month in January, this was poor. The BOTM is probably the only one I'd recommend, and you do need to have read a lot of Wodehouse to get the value (which I have). It's a good biography, and marshals everything well. I find the chronological analysis of writing deeply fascinating. And in this case, it's particularly interesting given that Wodehouse wrote into his 90s, and the fault line in his life happened at 58. It means that the corpus for which he is best known is almost entirely from the latter part of his life. Like Elizabeth I, we wonder what his reputation would be if he died at an average age. Also, I loved the attention paid to his oft-neglected Broadway musical period.
