Categorie archieven: Biografie

Biografie, Filosofie, Filosoof, Frankrijk

Emmanuelle Fantin & Bran Nicol – Jean Baudrillard biografie

Emmanuelle Fantin & Bran Nicol Jean Baudrillard biografie recensie en review van het boek over de Franse filosoof en socioloog. Op 1 september 2025 verschijnt bij Reaktion Books in de reeks Critical Lives de biografie van Jean Baudrillard, de socioloog en filosoof uit Frankrijk. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Emmanuelle Fantin & Bran Nicol Jean Baudrillard biografie recensie en review

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van de biografie van Jean Baudrillard, geschreven door Emmanuelle Fantin en Bran Nicol, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Emmanuelle Fantin & Bran Nicol Jean Baudrillard biografie

Jean Baudrillard

  • Auteurs: Emmanuelle Fantin, Bran Nicol
  • Soort boek: biografie van de Franse filosoof
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Reaktion Books
  • Verschijnt: 1 september 2025
  • Omvang: 184 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van Jean Baudrillard de Franse filosoof, socioloog

Provides new insights into the influential, yet enigmatic intellectual Jean Baudrillard.

Jean Baudrillard, once hailed as a ‘historian of the future’, remains a vital figure for understanding modern life. Famous for ideas like ‘simulation’ and the ‘hyperreal’, linked to postmodernism and The Matrix, Baudrillard was both celebrated and controversial, known for bold pronouncements about events like the Gulf War and 9/11. Yet the man himself was enigmatic, leading a public life while remaining personally elusive.

This first biography in English explores Baudrillard’s life and work, tracing his journey from the early years and French intellectual prominence to his global influence as a thinker, photographer and public intellectual. Using newly uncovered material, it provides fresh insights into his major works and ideas, offering readers a clear guide to his singular, uncompromising philosophy.

Jean Baudrillard werd op 27 juli 1929 in Reims, Frankrijk geboren. Hij studeerde Duits aan de Sorbonne en gaf op verschillende middelbare scholen in Frankrijk les in deze taal. In 1965 startte hij met de studie sociologie. In 1968 stopte met lesgeven en zette zich aan het schrijven van een doctorale studie over de sociologie van het dagelijkse leven. Tijdens de studentenopstand in mei 1968 was hij een van de leidende figuren op de achtergrond. in 1970 publiceerde hij het spraakmakende boek La Societé de consommation (De consumptiemaatschappij) waarna nog enige tientallen publicaties zouden volgen. Op 6 maart 2007 overlijdt hij in Parijs aan de golgen van kanker. Hij werd 77 jaar oud.

Emmanuelle Fantin is Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies at Sorbonne Université. Her books include Le livre dont Jean Baudrillard est le héros (with Camille Zéhenne, 2023).

Bran Nicol is Professor of English Literature at the University of Surrey. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction (2009).

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Biografie, Duitse schrijver

Ritchie Robertson – E.T.A. Hoffmann biografie

Ritchie Robertson E.T.A. Hoffmann biografie recensie, review en informatie boek over de Duitse schrijver, componist en dirigent. Op 1 september 2025 verschijnt bij Reaktion Books in  de reeks Critical Lives de biografie van E.T.A. Hofmann, de schrijver en componist uit Duitsland. De biografie is geschreven door Ritchie Robertson. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling verkrijgbaar.

Ritchie Robertson E.T.A. Hoffmann biografie recensie en review

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van de biografie van E.T.A. Hoffman, geschreven door Ritchie Robertson, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Ritchie Robertson E.T.A. Hoffmann biografie

E.T.A. Hoffmann

  • Auteur: Ritchie Robertson (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: biografie van E.T.A. Hoffmann
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Reaktion Books
  • Reeks: Critical Lives
  • Verschijnt: 1 september 2025
  • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van E.T.A. Hoffmann de Duise schrijver en componist

A revealing portrait of Romantic writer, composer and public figure E.T.A. Hoffmann.

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) is celebrated for his supernatural fiction such as ‘The Sandman’ as well as his musical achievements, notably the opera Undine. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to Hoffmann as a Romantic writer, composer and public figure. It follows his life as a lawyer, theatre director and senior judge in Berlin, where he clashed with authorities over their persecution of student radicals. Drawing on Hoffmann’s personal writings and contemporary recollections, it also highlights how historical events like Napoleon’s invasion disrupted his career. By combining his literary and musical contributions, the book presents Hoffmann as a multifaceted artist whose inventiveness, both comic and spine-chilling, remain influential today.

Ritchie Robertson was born in 1952. He is a Fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford, and Emeritus Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford. His books include Friedrich Nietzsche (Reaktion Books, 2022) and German Political Tragedy: The Machiavellian Plot and the Necessary Crime (2024).

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse historicus, Biografie

F. Gregory Toretta – Preeminent Strategist

F. Gregory Toretta Preeminent Strategist review, recensie en informatie biografie van General Joseph Eggleston Johnston. Op 1 februari 2026 verschijnt bij Casemate Publishers de biografie van de Confederate States Army General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, geschreven door F. Gregory Toretta. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

F. Gregory Toretta Preeminent Strategist review

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Preeminent Strategist, General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, The Confederacy’s Most Agile General, geschreven door F. Gregory Toretta, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

F. Gregory Toretta Preeminent Strategist

Preeminent Strategist

General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, The Confederacy’s Most Agile General

  • Auteur: F. Gregory Toretta (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Casemate Publishers
  • Verschijnt: 1 februari 2026
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 34,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst biografie van General Joseph Eggleston Johnston

Explores Confederate General Joseph Johnston’s innovative strategies and leadership during the Civil War.

Confederate General Joseph Eggleston Johnston’s brilliance in adapting to the evolving art of war set him apart as one of the Civil War’s most innovative strategists. Johnston keenly understood the revolutionary impact of new technologies—rifled muskets, railroads, telegraphs, and trench warfare-and applied these insights to conserve the South’s most critical resource: its soldiers. His motto, “Let the place go, and save the garrison,” encapsulated his belief in prioritizing manpower over territory; he was convinced of the importance of concentrating force to overcome the advantage in numbers the Union enjoyed.

Johnston’s reputation as a master tactician was widely recognized, even by his adversaries. Renowned British war correspondent Sir William Howard Russell lauded him in 1861 as the Confederacy’s finest strategist. Years later, Union General Ulysses S. Grant conceded that Johnston caused him more anxiety than any other Southern commander, stating, “Take it all in all, the South, in my opinion, had no better soldier than Joe Johnston—none at least that gave me more trouble.”

Despite his genius, Johnston’s career was marred by his fraught relationship with Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Davis was critical of Johnston and his meddling undermined Johnston’s strategies and weakened the Southern war effort. As noted by his contemporary, General James Longstreet, Johnston’s talents for army command and campaign management were unparalleled, but he was denied the opportunities afforded to others. This book argues that with proper support and alignment of leadership, Johnston’s innovative strategies might have altered the course of the war.

Widely regarded as the first modern war, the Civil War demanded visionary leadership. This new biography of Johnston sheds light on his legacy as a brilliant leader, offering a fresh perspective on a conflict that defined a nation.

F. Gregory Toretta is a writer and historian with a passion for the American Civil War, accumulating an extensive library and undertaking copious research.

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Biografie, Engelse geschiedenis

Robert Hardman – Charles III

Robert Hardman Charles III review, recensie en informatie boek en biografie met de inside story van de Britse koning. Op 28 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Pan Macmillan het boek over de Britse Koning Charles III, geschreven door Robert Hardman. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Robert Hardman Charles III review en recensie

  • “This glorious book reveals the real Charles III. Hardman’s magisterial biography, full of detail about the King, the Queen and the Sussexes alike, will become a historical document.” (Simon Heffer, The Telegraph)
  • “Scoops aplenty are here … An irresistible insider account of momentous royal events.” (Melanie Reid, The Times)
  • “Fascinating … the book everyone is talking about.” (Daily Mail)
  • “He did it with Elizabeth II and now he has done it again with Charles III. Robert Hardman is the unsurpassed grand master when it comes to the inside story of the modern monarchy. Full of surprises and glorious detail.” (Andrew Roberts, author of George III)

Robert Hardman Charles III

Charles III

The Inside Story

  • Auteur: Robert Hardman (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: biografie van koning Charles III
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Pan Mcmillan
  • Verschijnt: 28 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 576 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van koning Charles III

By the acclaimed royal biographer and commentator Robert Hardman, Charles III is an intimate portrait of the monarch that draws on unrivalled access to the Royal Family, their close friends and staff, plus previously unseen papers from the Royal Archives.

With damaging headlines unleashed by the Sussexes, political crises and questions about the future of the monarchy, Charles III had no shortage of challenges when he came to the throne. The Royal Family then faced a double blow in early 2024 when the King and Catherine, the Princess of Wales, were diagnosed with cancer. By the end of the year, the King had returned to regular duties, dealing with a new government at home and diplomatic turmoil abroad. As head of state of fifteen nations, he would soon find himself caught up in the new and uncertain world order taking shape following the election of President Trump.

The dramatic story is uncovered here, along with the vital role played by Queen Camilla, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Princess Royal and others. From the emotional days following the death of Elizabeth II and the truth about the King’s relationship with Prince William and Prince Harry to his handling of Prince Andrew, Hardman takes us behind the pomp and ceremony to reveal Charles the man as well as the monarch.

Authoritative and richly insightful, Charles III is the definitive account of a king determined to maximize ‘the time God grants me’ – and enjoy it.

Robert Hardman was born in 1965. He is an internationally renowned writer and broadcaster, specializing in royalty and history for more than twenty-five years. He is author of a number ofacclaimed books along with the BBC and ITV television documentaries of the same name. Among other television credits, he wrote BBC1’s Charles III: The Coronation Year, the BBC Two documentary George III – The Genius of the Mad King and the BBC series, The Queen’s Castle. Hardman interviewed the Prince of Wales for the BBC’s Charles at 60, the Duke of Edinburgh for the BBC’s The Duke: In His Own Words and the Princess Royal for ITV’s Anne: The Princess Royal at 70. He wrote and co-produced the BBC’s Prince Philip: The Royal Family Remembers, for which he interviewed a dozen members of the Royal Family. He is also an award-winning newspaper journalist for the Daily Mail in London.

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Biografie, Kunst, Kunstboeken

Amy Newman – Barnett Newman biografie

Amy Newman Barnett Newman biografie review, recensie en informatie van het boek over de Amerikaanse schilder. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek Here van Amy Newman over de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Barnett Newman. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Amy Newman Barnett Newman biografie review en recensie

  • “Barnett Newman told tales, poked authorities, shifted shapes, pronounced truths—and became, to the surprise of many, the oracle of modern American art. How he divined his legendary ‘zip’ is the great story of Amy Newman’s biography, but the artist’s avuncular charm—he was always a Barney not just a Barnett—adds earthy seasoning to his spirited quest.” (Mark Stevens)
  • “Amy Newman delivers an authoritative and compelling account of Barnett Newman as an artist, critic, citizen, and person. Comprehensive in coverage, insightful in analysis, and sensitive in interpretation, the result is a riveting biographical portrait of one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century.” (Michael Schreyach, author of Pollock’s Modernism)
  • “Skillfully charts the artist’s improbable path to success. Especially welcome are [Amy Newman’s] efforts to distinguish the true chronology of Newman’s career from his retrospective tendencies toward self-mythologizing. Thoroughly explored too are the ways the painter’s Judaism informed his self-understanding as an artist and influenced his choices of titles and themes…. essential reading for those interested in understanding both the man and his work.” (Library Journal)

Amy Newman Barnett Newman Biography

Barnett Newman

Here

  • Auteur: Amy Newman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie, kunstboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 728 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 39.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon 

Flaptekst van de biografie van de Amerikaanse schilder Barnett Newman

Barnett Newman (1905–1970), a founding member of the abstract expressionist movement, was a contemporary of such figures as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. He left behind only 118 finished paintings, six sculptures, and 83 acknowledged drawings, yet is often regarded as the greatest painter to have emerged after the Second World War. Barnett Newman is the definitive biography of a charismatic New Yorker who defied the rules and created an art of the sublime.

This landmark book features original research conducted over decades, using scores of interviews, oral histories, and previously unseen correspondence to paint a richly textured portrait of a creative sage who became an exemplar of the artist-citizen. Born in New York to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, he grandly aspired to involve himself in every detail of the city’s life. He was a crusader for the civil service, ran against La Guardia for mayor, worked as a teacher, wrote poetry, criticism, and manifestos, produced political plays, and promoted other artists—all before painting a mature work of his own in his early forties. Newman began with none of the qualities once considered indispensable for a master artist, such as training, apprenticeship, or natural facility. But he possessed a galvanizing intellect and a conviction that aesthetic expression is an ecstatic declaration of existence and an assertion of human dignity.

Drawing on previously unpublished sources gleaned from full access to Newman’s archives, Amy Newman presents a portrait of a maverick whose works are among the most enduring of the twentieth century and whose influence continues to this day.

Amy Newman is an art historian and journalist. She is the author of Challenging Art: “Artforum” 1962–1974 and the editor (with Irving Sandler) of Defining Modern Art: Selected Writings of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. She is not related to Barnett Newman.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Biografie

Alexis Pauline Gumbs – Survival Is a Promise Audre Lorde Biography

Alexis Pauline Gumbs Survival Is a Promise Audre Lorde Biography review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de biografie. Op 20 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Farrar, Straus and Giroux Survival Is a Primise, The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, de biografie van de Amerikaanse lesbische schrijfster geschreven door Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs Survival Is a Promise Audre Lorde Biography review en recensie

  • “Gumbs’s persuasive close readings create a virtuous circle, shining a light on how the life generated the poems, which now elucidate that life. Her goal is to steer us away from the one-liners … that have too often been Lorde’s legacy and focus us instead on the poet’s forthright voice, on the political and emotional resonance of her work … Gumbs honors Lorde’s desire for an expansive legacy.” (Ayten Tartici, The New York Times Book Review)
  • “Layered and original … Gumbs’s book revels in Lorde’s lush multiplicity, moving through the ebbs and flows of her life with both precision and lyricism and expanding the limits of what a biography can be and hold and feel like … The result is a prismatic work of art.” (Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic)
  • “An endless constellation of everyone who affected and was affected by Lorde … Survival is a Promise admirably demonstrates the breadth and depth of Lorde’s journey from Harlem to the stars … By recounting Lorde’s story outside linear chronology, and putting her alongside the rivers, forests, radio waves and obsidian, Gumbs is faithful to her subject’s great desire to be something more eternal. But Survival is a Promise finally shows that this cosmic life is achieved through grounded and deep human work.” (Zito Madu, The Washington Post)

Alexis Pauline Gumbs Survival Is a Promise Audre Lorde Biography

Survival Is a Promise

The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

  • Auteur: Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Verschijnt: 21 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 528 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 14,99
  • Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van schrijfster Audre Lorde

Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions. Understand each word as an opportunity for Audre’s fierce love, which is the same love that birthed the volcanoes and split the continents, to reach you, wherever you are.

Audre Lorde was a survivor: of childhood disability injustice, of her best friend’s suicide, of the atomic age. She was a college activist against nuclear arms. A mother who knew poetry could help her children survive a racist world. And, ultimately, a cancer survivor, who understood the war going on within her cells was connected to the struggle against oppression taking place all around her.

This stunning new account of Lorde’s life and work illuminates how, for Lorde, survival was not simply about getting through, or about resilience. It was about how to live on, and with, a planet in transformation. Lorde’s commitment to justice was intimately connected to her deep engagement with the natural world; with the planetary dynamics of geology, meteorology, and biology. For Lorde, ecological images are not simply metaphors but rather literal guides to how to be on earth, and how to live fully as a Black feminist lesbian warrior poet.

In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde’s manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Audre Lorde. Her life and work swell to become a cosmic force, showing us the grand possibility of life together on earth.

Audre Lorde Zami recensieAudre Lorde (Verenigde Staten) – Zami
Een nieuwe spelling van mijn naam
gemythiseerde memoir
Uitgever: HetMoet
Verschijnt: 10 juli 2025
Zami is het gemythiseerde verhaal van Audre Lordes vroege leven, van haar kindertijd als dochter van Caribische immigranten in New York tot haar zelfontwikkeling als Zwarte, lesbische vrouw in het Amerika van de jaren vijftig en zestig…lees verder >

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Biografie, Film, filmboek, Filmgeschiedenis

Bernard F. Dick – Claudette Colbert

Bernard F. Dick Claudette Colbert review, recensie en informatie biografie van de Frans-Amerikaanse actrice. Op 15 december 2025 verschijnt bij Mississippi University Press het boek over de in Frankrijk geboren Amerikaanse actrice Claudette Colbert. De biografie is geschreven door Bernard F. Dick. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Bernard F. Dick Claudette Colbert review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Claudette Colbert, She Walked in Beauty, de biografie van de Frans-Amerikaanse filmster, geschreven door Bernard F. Dick, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Bernard F. Dick Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert

She Walked in Beauty

  • Auteur: Bernard F. Dick (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie, filmboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Mississippi University Press
  • Verschijnt: 15 december 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 25.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van de Frans-Amerikaanse actrice Claudette Colbert

A biography of the award–winning and versatile star of screen, stage, and television.

Claudette Colbert’s mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry’s most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Though Colbert (1903–1996) began her career on the New York stage, she was beloved for her roles in such films as Preston Sturges’s The Palm Beach Story, Cecil B. DeMille’s Cleopatra, and Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night, for which she won an Academy Award. She showed remarkable prescience by becoming one of the first Hollywood stars to embrace television, and she also returned to Broadway in her later career.

Bernard F. Dick chronicles Colbert’s long career but also explores her early life in Paris and New York. Along with discussing how she left her mark on Broadway, Hollywood, radio, and television, the book explores Colbert’s lifelong interests in painting, fashion design, and commercial art. Using correspondence, interviews, periodicals, film archives, and other research materials, the biography reveals a smart, talented actress who conquered Hollywood and remains one of America’s most captivating screen icons.

Bernard F. Dick is professor of communication and English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and is author of many books.

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Biografie, Engeland, Engelse geschiedenis, Verenigd Koninkrijk

Andrew Lownie – Entitled

Andrew Lownie Entitled review, recensie en informatie boek en biografie over de opkomst en ondergang van Prins Andrew en Sarah Ferguson. Op 14 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij William Collins het boek van Andrew Lownie, de Engelse biograaf, over de opkomst en ondergang van het huis York. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Andrew Lownie Entitled review en recensie

  • “The Rise and Fall of the House of York is the most devastating royal biography ever written.” (Daily Mail)
  • “This searing biography of Prince Andrew crackles with scandals about sex and money on almost every page. The author’s best-selling biographies have a habit of changing the reputation of famous figures… Although in the case of Entitled, he hasn’t so much cemented Prince Andrew’s reputation, as put it in concrete boots and thrown it in the river. It is hard to see how he might come back from this.” (BBC News)
  • “Explosive … Makes Prince Harry’s Spare look positively restrained.” (Sunday Times)
  • “Entitled, Andrew Lownie’s biography of the Duke and Duchess of York, is a 400-page character assassination.” (The Times)
  • “Schandaalprins Andrew is nog walgelijker dan iedereen al dacht.” (Libelle)

Andrew Lownie Entitled

Entitled

The Rise and Fall of the House of York

  • Auteur: Andrew Lownie (Engeland_
  • Soort boek: biografie van Prins Andrew
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: William Collins
  • Verschijnt: 14 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 448 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van Prins Andrew geschreven door Andrew Lownie

Drawing on four years of research, numerous FOI requests and interviews with over a hundred people who have never spoken before, the book traces the lives of the late Queen’s second son and his ex-wife through their childhoods, courtship, marriage, divorce, careers, and royal and charitable activities.

Still living in the same house, they claim to be ‘the happiest divorced couple in the world’. The book investigates the reality of their relationship and their love lives. It charts Andrew’s record in the Falklands, his business activities and reveals details of how the couple have been able financially to sustain their extravagant lifestyles. It also recounts the full story of the Yorks’ links with Jeffrey Epstein.

Chronicling their lives in parallel, the picture that emerges is of a spoilt prince unable to connect and a duchess pushed by her insecurities into a desperate need to maintain the attention her ‘royal’ status brought. Rigorously researched and packed full of revelations, this is eye-watering biography at its best.

Andrew Lownie was born in december 1961. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Union, before taking his master’s and doctorate at Edinburgh University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he later returned to Cambridge as a visiting fellow at Churchill College. He has been a bookseller, publisher, journalist writing for The Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Spectator, Guardian and since 1988 has run his own literary agency. He is President of the Biographers Club, sits on the board of Biographers International Organisation and is a Trustee of the Campaign for Freedom of Information. His books include the prize-winning Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess (2015) and the top ten Sunday Times bestsellers The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves (2019) and Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (2021).

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Biografie, Egypte, Midden-Oosten

Anne Alexander – Nasser

Anne Alexander Nasser review, recensie en informatie over de biografie van Gamal Abd al-Nasser, de president van Egypte 1956-1970. Op 3 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Haus Publishing de biografie van President Nasser van Egypte, geschreven door Anne Alexander. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Anne Alexander Nasser review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Nasser, de biografie van de tweede president van Egypte, geschreven door Anne Alexander, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Anne Alexander Nasser

Nasser

  • Auteur: Anne Alexander (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: biografie van Gamal Abd al-Nasser
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Haus Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 2 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van de Egyptische president Nasser

More than fifty years after his death, Gamal Abd-al-Nasser continues to influence the Arab world. As one of the young officers who overthrew British-backed King Farouk in 1952, Nasser rose to prominence as a charismatic visionary who challenged foreign dominance. At just 36 years old, he became the undisputed leader of Egypt in a presidency that would run from 1956 to 1970.

This insightful biography delves into Nasser’s life, charting his rise to power, his nationalisation of the Suez Canal and his turbulent years as president. Many in the Arab world celebrate his defiance of colonial rule and his dream of Arab unity, but Nasser’s legacy is not without its contradictions; critics have alluded, for instance, to his autocratic rule and unfulfilled promises. In Nasser, Anne Alexander explores the tension between Nasser’s revolutionary ideas and the reality of his governance, offering a nuanced portrait of one of the most complex figures of the modern Middle East.

Anne Alexander is a researcher specialising on leadership, collective action and social movements in the Middle East. She has written for Middle East International and has worked for the BBC World Service. She is currently Learning Director of the Cambridge Digital Humanities network at the University of Cambridge.

Bijpassende boeken

Muziek, Biografie, Popmuziek

Kathleen Perricone – Billie Eilish Is Life

Kathleen Perricone Billie Eilish Is Life review, recensie en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse zangeres. Op 12 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Quarto Publishing in de reeks Modern Icons het boek en biografie van Billie Eilish. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Kathleen Perricone Billie Eilish Is Life review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Billie Eilish Is Life, A Superfan’s Guide to All Things We Love about Billie Eilish, geschreven door Kathleen Perricone, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Kathleen Perricone Billie Eilish Is Life

Billie Eilish Is Life

A Superfan’s Guide to All Things We Love about Billie Eilish

  • Auteur: Kathleen Perricone (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: muziekboek, portret
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Quarto Publishing Modern Icons
  • Verschijnt: 12 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 19,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over zangeres Billie Eilish

Embrace your individuality and blaze your own trail with this gorgeously illustrated guide to all things Billie Eilish.

From her debut single “Ocean Eyes” to winning two Academy Awards for her iconic songs for No Time to Die and Barbie, Billie Eilish is a young talent whose career knows no bounds. Gathering the details of her life, career, music, and fan culture into one handy volume, Billie Eilish Is Life captures her wide-ranging musical endeavors, her epic achievements, and her ability to live life on her own terms.

This guide to all things Billie includes:

  • A full biography, delving into her early life and inspirations, her collaborations with her brother Finneas, and her amazing musical career to date
  • A discography of Billie Eilish’s music, including When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Happier Than Ever, and Hit Me Hard and Soft
  • All her awards and accolades across music and movies
  • Billie’s fierce commitment to being herself, from her unique—and evolving—style to her political activism

For all the bad guys who love Billie’s music to fans of Bond and Barbie who came to know her through her award-winning songs for those major films, Billie Eilish Is Life is a stunning illustrated tribute to this multifaceted artist.

The Modern Icons series takes you on a journey through the lives and legacies of cultural icons who have shaped our world, from fashion to music to media. With original illustrations and meticulously crafted prose, this series captivates and enlightens, offering a glimpse into the personalities whose unparalleled charm and authenticity have left an indelible mark on popular culture.

Kathleen Perricone is a freelance writer of long-form magazines (bookazines) with published titles about Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy, Anne Frank, Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and dozens more. Over the past two decades, Kathleen has also worked as a celebrity news editor in New York City as well as for Yahoo!, Ryan Seacrest Productions, and a reality TV family who shall remain nameless. She lives in Los Angeles.

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portret, muziekboek
Uitgever: Quarto Publishing Modern Icons
Verschijnt: 4 augustus 2025

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