This obituary of Laurence Picken caught my eye, in part because he was my father's tutor at Jesus College, Cambridge, but mainly because of Picken's spectacular career change from Zoology to Musicology, in which he was equally successful.
Praise for "Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness"
"Richard Toye's double biography of Lloyd George and Churchill has caught readers' imagination."
- Michael Gove, The Times, 22 May 2007
"[A]dmirably nuanced and just"
- Max Hastings, The Sunday Times, 18 March 2007
"[E]xhaustive and scholarly [...] Toye has deployed an astonishingly wide range of sources [...] His book is a mine of fascinating material which will be unfamiliar even to readers who think they know their Lloyd George and Churchill pretty well. "
- John Campbell, The Sunday Telegraph, 15 April 2007
"Toye has written a fine and nuanced study of a volatile relationship."
- A.W. Purdue, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 18 May 2007
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