'But surely,' he said, 'that must be an orange.'

Highlights include:

For your first two years (when you were small) you lived in a foster home with people who raised you into a very polite young man. Two is like you plus me, that's what two is.

Some people adopted you before me and they called you Timmy (which is a stupid name) and they returned your ass almost immediately because you were so annoying at that age.

Like think about how annoying you are right now at seven years old, but way worse.

I'm better than them though, I don't call you Timmy and I wore earplugs to bed for three years because you love to scream at bedtime. Earplugs are like when I roll over and go back to sleep even when you are yelling so so so loud.

I got you at a time in my life when I was really sick (being sick is like when I'm up late because I'm throwing up and you are a very handsome good boy who sits with me) and they had to put me asleep for a procedure. A procedure is like what happened to you when they put you asleep and took your balls away.

-> 4.6. Thirteen O'Clock - The Ninth Doctor Adventures

Yay

The Porcupine by John Carswell, a life of Algernon Sidney. There's a longer, more complete biography of Sidney by Jonathan Scott, but Carswell's is the most readable I think. Scott's is more of a reference.

Free-Born John by Pauline Gregg, a life of John Lilburne, the great Leveller. I used to have a sticker of Lilburne on my laptop. I put it over the manufacturer's logo. I made it myself. I haven't made a Lilburne post yet, partly because it's been ages since I read this, but I'd like to. Maybe I'll reread it. Honestly this should be a joint biography of John and his wife Elizabeth, and nearly is.

The Tyrannicide Brief by Geoffrey Robertson, a life of John Cooke, the prosecutor at the trial of Charles I. I read this one on the recommendation of @suzannahnatters some years ago!

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson by Lucy Hutchinson. This one obviously isn't a modern biography, she's contemporary to the period; and it's a little weird that it's easier for me to find a biography by than about a seventeenth-century woman. But her biography of her husband is also very much about her own experiences. And she's fascinating.

And not all historical novels are Royalist-leaning. Rosemary Sutcliff's The Rider on the White Horse is about Thomas Lord Fairfax, from the perspective of his wife. It's quite good.

What, my hot-headed warm-hearted long-winded aristocratic exile, defendant in a disgracefully rigged trial with ludicrously inadmissible evidence? How could I not put him with Six?