6/28/2023 0 Comments Craig brown ma am darling![]() If you want to know what it was like to live those extraordinary Beatles years in real time, read this book. ![]() In a polychromatic cavalcade of chapters of varying length, the man with kaleidoscope eyes conveys what it was like to live through those extraordinary Beatles years. Brown seems to have invented a wholly new biographical form. His previous book, One on One, was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson prize for Non-Fiction. by far the best book anyone has written about them and the closest we can get to the truth.’ Craig Brown's last book, Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret won both the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature. ‘A brilliantly executed study of cultural time, social space and the madness of fame. It’s ingenious, wholly original (not a given, what with the subject matter), absolutely gripping, funny, sad and moving. 'Like everyone else, I have been relishing Craig Brown's Ma'am. ![]() One Two Three Four is a critical appreciation, a personal history, a miscellany, a work of scholarship and speculation, and a tribute as passionate and worshipful as any fan letter.’ Brown has done something amazing with Ma'am Darling: in my wilder moments, I wonder if he hasn't reinvented the biographical form' - The Observer. ![]() ‘A celestial combination of writer and subject. Brown is such an infectiously jolly writer that you don’t even need to like the Beatles to enjoy his book. ![]()
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