C. S. Burrough

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser  My rating:  4 out of 5 stars While Antonia Fraser is perhaps my...

Tigers are Better-Looking: With a selection from The Left Bank by Jean Rhys My rating:  5 out of 5 stars No Jean Rhys fan would want to let ...

Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball by Stefan Kanfer My rating: 4 out of 5 stars TV comedy mostly irritates me, ...

Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England by Robert Hutchinson My rating:  4 out of 5 stars The ic...

Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman by Caryl Flinn My rating:  4 out of 5 stars It was when I heard an old industry anecdote th...

Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke My rating:  4 out of 5 stars As irresistible as its subject, this fine biography had me...

Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart  by John Guy My rating:  5 out of 5 stars An essential element of any historical biographer...

Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser My rating: 5 out of 5 stars Nobel Laureate Lady Antonia Fraser's rare combination of formidable hi...

Mae West: It Ain't No Sin by Simon Louvish My rating:  4 out of 5 stars I loved reading about this skilful, acutely intelligent performe...

Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth, 1527-1608 by   Mary S. Lovell My rating:  4 out of 5 stars I relished this important biography o...

Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III by Flora Fraser My rating:  4 out of 5 stars I was intensely immersed in Flora Fraser's impr...

I'll Cry Tomorrow by Lillian Roth, Gerold Frank, Mike Connolly My rating:  4 out of 5 stars Riveting 1954 memoir of 1920s & '30s...

Marilyn: The Last Take Peter Harry Brown My rating:  4 out of 5 stars Regardless of its seeming irrelevance in the fifty-year blizzard of Ma...

Princess Margaret: A Biography by Theo Aronson My rating:  4 out of 5 stars Princess Margaret was, when I was growing up, the royal rebel pe...

Good Morning, Midnight by   Jean Rhys My rating:  5 out of 5 stars   Jean Rhys's 1939 Kafkaesque tragi-farce is an all-powerful and evoc...

Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh by Alexander Walker My rating:  4 out of 5 stars It was on reflection of what would have been Vivien Leigh...

Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by   David Starkey My rating:   4 out of 5 stars   There's something to be said of the feministic...

Elizabeth I by   Alison Plowden My rating:   4 out of 5 stars I just re-read this, as background revision, while watching the 2022 drama ser...

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy My rating:  4 out of 5 stars This is for me the definitive period saga, by Nobel Prize-winning John Gals...

Showcase: Spark Includes my latest work: Little Spark of Oz/Prelude to a Voyage Delighted to be part of this exciting new collection,  Showc...

Sydney Morning Herald concluded: "... astute characterisation and detailed evocation of the theatre world ... an impressive debut novel...

So grateful for the prestigious Historical Novel Society's great review   ... of my novel Or Forever Be Damned: "Once, not so long ...