Advantages: explains the barbarity of the common law in the 18th century Disadvantages: it's difficult to comprehend the sheer level of unjust judicial killing
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An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers
As Geoffrey Robertson QC points out in the foreword to this now wildly popular biography, (following the recent television series), William Garrow ...
Advantages: It's about books, chatty and readable style Disadvantages: Narrow horizons and range of books discussed, few black writers or writers from other countries
Susan Hill was looking for a particular book one day. Everywhere she looked, she found at least a dozen books she had never read, sometimes as many as 200. Then she found books she had read, but coming across them prompted her to want to reread. She de ...
Advantages: Well-rounded objective portrait of a tragic figure Disadvantages: None, really
The author Joan Haslip (1912-94) began her career as a novelist, but after fierce criticism of her second work of fiction by a reviewer she turned to biography, writing books on Lady Hester Stanhope, Parnell, and various European royalties. Throug ...
Advantages: Informative, Brings a remote war to life Disadvantages: Harrowing
“When Broken Glass Floats” by Chanrithy Him is an autobiographical account of growing up in Cambodia in the Khmer Rouge and for obvious reasons, contains many similarities to the book “First they Killed my Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers” by Loun ...
