Biography
NOTE the change of frequency and the day of the monthfor the new academic year.
We will now meet on the 4th Wednsday of every other month starting in September 2007.
The group meets to review biographies, sometimes all reading the same biography but sometimes comparing different biographies of the same characters with some facinating pictures emerging which might almost be different people.
See below for the programme for 2007/2008.
Winston Churchill - several possible authors
Churchill: A Biography - Roy Jenkins
Churchill: A Life - Martin Gilbert
Winston Churchill - Henry Pelling
Or for more specialised parts of his life
My early Life (An Autobiography - Winston Churchill
The Struggle for Survival 1945-1960 - Lord Moran (his Doctor)
The Life and Times of Muhammed - Sir John Glubb
Three short books , take your own choice
Stuart- A Life Backwards - Alexander Masters
To War with Whittiker (1939-1945)
Ladies of the Grand Tour - Brian Dolan
Thomas Hardy, The Time-torn Man - Claire Tomalin
Thomas Hardy, The Gaurded Life _ Ralph Pite
Daphne du Maurier _ Margaret Forster