{"product_id":"9780099490630","title":"John Aubrey : My Own Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Scurr, Ruth \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 07\/04\/2016,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 544 pages, 8,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780099490630,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith all the wit, charm and originality that characterises her subject, Ruth Scurr has seamlessly stitched together John Aubrey's own words to tell his life story and a captivating history of seventeenth-century England unlike any other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A game-changer in the world of biography' Mary Beard'Ingenious' Hilary Mantel'Irresistible' Philip Pullman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697556750380,"sku":"9780099490630","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780099490630.jpg?v=1722596883","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780099490630","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}