Biography – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Britain’s Prime Ministers

Alan — Mon, 20 May 2024 07:13:50 +0000

This useful single-volume collection combines an introductory essay on the emergence and changing role of the British prime minister with 51 concise biographies of the people who have played this role, from Sir Robert Walpole at the beginning of the 18th century to current prime minister Tony Blair. These essays reveal how each figure molded the office in response to the situation of the time…

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The Spirit of Self-Help

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

Chosen for Spring 2017 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction When Dominic Sandbrook quoted Samuel Smiles extensively in his TV series on nineteenth-century work and leisure; when Ian Hislop flourished a copy of Smiles’s Self-Help (“the book that launched the genre”) in his programme on ‘Workers or Shirkers?’; when Andy Burnham reflected publicly on “lack of aspiration” as a…

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Pamela Hansford Johnson

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

Finalist in 2014-15 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE for Non-Fiction Pamela Hansford Johnson’s first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, published in 1935 when she was 22 and had no literary contacts to ease her path, was a succès de scandale. On the publication of her second, John Brophy wrote in Time and Tide: ‘I have no doubt at all that Miss Hansford Johnson is already one of the most gifted and interesting of…

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Lady Sue Ryder of Warsaw

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:50 +0000

Finalist in the People’s book Prize Winter Collection for Non-Fiction. There are numerous Sue Ryder charity shops throughout the UK, but few shoppers know much about their founder. Miss Ryder was a determined and philanthropic woman who created homes for those who were damaged by trauma and injury experienced during the Second World War. She was born into a privileged family and, when only 16…

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