Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
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Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (17 May 1933 – 16 July 2019) was a British author, known for biographies, including one of Alfred Kinsey, and books of social history on the British nanny and public school system. For his autobiography, Half an Arch, he received the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography in 2005. He also wrote novels and children's literature. Source: [Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy]( on Wikipedia.
Books
Kinsey
..."Reflects screenwriter and director Bill Condon's five year foray into the facts, figures and files of Kinsey's life and work for his film "Kinsey" "--Jacket.
Jane's adventures in a balloon
Launched by mistake in a magnificent airship, a young girl embarks on some harrowing adventures
Cyril Bonhamy and the great drain robbery
An English tourist vacationing in France becomes mixed up with a notorious gang of jewel thieves.
Jane's adventures in and out of the book
Left behind when her parents go on vacation, Jane finds a kingsize book, recites a couplet, and magically falls into the pages, thus starting an adventure in dreamland.
Janes' adventures : in and out of the book, on the Island of Peeg, in a balloon
Jane's adventures on the Island of Peeg
Jarred loose from the ocean floor by a tremendous explosion, an island occupied by a young girl and her two companions floats out to sea under the command of two British sailors who believe that World War II is still in progress.
Operation Peeg
Jarred loose from the ocean floor by a tremendous explosion, an island occupied by a young girl and her two companions floats out to sea under the command of two British sailors who believe that World War II is still in progress.
Alfred C. Kinsey
In this brilliant, groundbreaking biography, twenty years in the making, James H. Jones presents a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Jones shows that the public image Alfred Kinsey cultivated of disinterested biologist was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. By any measure he was an extraordinary man—and a man with secrets. Drawing upon never before disclosed facts about Kinsey's childhood, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his tortured upbringing. Between the sexual tensions of the culture and Kinsey's devoutly religious family, Jones depicts Kinsey emerging from childhood with psychological trauma but determined to rescue humanity from the emotional and sexual repression he had suffered. New facts about his marriage, family life, and relationships with students and colleagues enrich this portrait of the complicated, troubled man who transformed the state of public discourse on human sexuality.