John Aubrey

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<p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD</p><p><b>This is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.</b></p><p>You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest man, a gentleman-scholar who cared far more for the preservation of history than for his own legacy. But he was a passionate collector, an early archaeologist and the inventor of modern biography.</p><p>With all the wit, charm and originality that characterises her subject, Ruth Scurr has seamlessly stitched together John Aubreys own words to tell his life story and a captivating history of seventeenth-century England unlike any other.</p><p><b>'A game-changer in the world of biography' Mary Beard</b></p><p><b>'Ingenious' Hilary Mantel</b></p><p><b>'Irresistible' Philip Pullman</b></p>

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Ruth Scurr is an historian, biographer and literary critic. She teaches history and politics at Cambridge University, where she is a Lecturer and Fellow of Gonville&Caius College. Her first book,<i>Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution</i>won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in<i>The Times</i>. She reviews regularly for the<i>Times Literary Supplement</i>,<i>The Telegraph</i>and the<i>Wall Street Journal</i>.

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