Biographies

Anyone who knows me would, I think, generally agree that I am nosy! Biographies are one way to be politely nosy!! ;-)

• Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self by Claire Tomalin
• Spilling the beans by Clarrisa Dickson Wright
• Shakespeare: the world as a stage by Bill Bryson
• The two of us: my life with John Thaw* by Sheila Hancock
• Diana: story of a princess* by Tim Clayton
• The first American: the life and times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands
• Alistair Cooke: the biography by Nick Clarke
• The story of the Trapp family singers* by Maria Augusta Trapp

*already sitting on my shelves!