WebIon Trewin, Alan Clark. The biography, Uitgeverij Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Londen 2009, ISBN 9780297850731 (hardcover), 552 pag., €33,95 ‘Not for the first time I wondered about the Queen. Is she really rather dull and stupid? Or is she thinking, "How do people as dull and stupid as this ever get to be ministers?" Or is, for her, the WebIon Trewin has had unrestricted access to extensive family papers (including twenty years of unpublished diaries). He has talked to politicians, to those who knew him at the prep school which burnt down, to friends at Eton and Oxford, and to some of the many women he found impossible to resist despite a loving marriage of forty-one years.
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Web4 feb. 2016 · Here his biographer Ion Trewin, drawing on the personal papers from the Clarks' Saltwood Castle home in Kent, tells an enthralling story of the life that Clark himself chose not to discuss: an unhappy childhood with neglectful parents, the fire destroyed his first school, wartime Eton, and his time at Oxford under Hugh Trevor-Roper. WebIon Trewin, Literary Director for the Man Booker Prizes. This is a general description. It is not a review. History. Cancel Save. Logo/Picture. Add Image. Related book awards. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. Guardian 1000. 1001 boeken die je gelezen moet hebben! The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time ... rock used for drainage
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WebThe unknown life of Alan Clark, celebrated diarist, womaniser, Tory MP and controversial minister in Mrs Thatcher's... Alan Clark: The Biography (ebook), Ion Trewin … Web27 sep. 2009 · Is the Alan Clark of Ion Trewin's biography a different one from the philandering MP's own diaries, asks Charles Moore. By Charles Moore 27 September 2009 • 6:00am . Web16 nov. 2024 · Earthly Powers by Anthony Burges (Hutchinson) Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai (Heinemann) The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro (Viking) No Country for Young Men by Julia O’Faolain (Viking) Pascali’s Island by Barry Unsworth (Michael Joseph) A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr. rock used for drainage creek