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WINNER of the 2006 Distinguished Book Award for Biography/Memoir, from the Society for Military History (US), “an outstanding contribution to military history”.

SHORT-LISTED The Maritime Foundation’s 2005 Media Awards. Short-listed for the Mountbatten Maritime Prize; Dr Colin White short-listed for the Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award.

Colin White...successfully reminds us why the memory of Nelson and his achievements has endured.
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

Standing far above the bicentenary fanfare...White has significantly added to our understanding of Nelson's tempestuous personality. THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

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SHORT-LISTED for the Cambridge Local History Society's Book of the Year Award for 2005

A rich mixture of transcriptions from saints' lives, accounts of miracles, chronicles and archives, it is a wonderful source of information, not only about Ely, but.about the life of all great medieval religious institutions, and an insight into the medieval mind. HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW

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Diana McVeagh

NOMINATED in the Creative Communication category of the 2006 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards.

This has been long in preparation, but the wait has been worthwhile. Lucky the composer who finds so fair-minded, candid and scrupulous a biographer and one who writes so well...[McVeagh's] analyses achieve the rare distinction of being both illuminating and readable. This is one of the best-written books about a musician to appear for many years. BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE [Michael Kennedy]

McVeagh surely loves Finzi's music and it shows. However her devotion is clear-eyed and her writing completely avoids the sort of pastoral hagiography that Finzi scholarship can easily collapse into. The book is self-recommending but that does not stop me recommending it. - CLASSICAL MUSIC ON THE WEB

[This] is unquestionably destined to be the standard biography of Gerald Finzi.
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS SOCIETY JOURNAL [Rolf Jordan]

[Now] we have McVeagh at last, so good and so well written that those who already possess . other books must have it, not only to complement them but for the sheer pleasure afforded by such a winning combination of scholarship, insight and clear-eyed humanity.. their belief will be reinforced and intensified by Miss McVeagh's candour and her remarkable achievement in writing not only a good biography but in re-creating the atmosphere of English musical life in the half-century of Finzi's life.  FINZI NEWSLETTER