The King’s Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
This book, based on letters and diaries, is a good complement to the film, The King’s Speech, filling in a lot of the background to the film; however, Lionel’s tendency to fawn over his ‘betters’, especially the Queen Mother, does at times become both irritating and even embarrassing. The book was written and published after the film was made, and, while the film concentrates on a very short period in the lives of Lionel Logue (speech therapist) and King George VI, the book attempts to give a reasonably detailed picture of the lives of both men. At times, the reliance on diary entries, can become a trifle stilted and, in places, the book reads very much as a diary or a journal; nevertheless, as a source of information, not only about the two main characters but also about the times themselves, it is an interesting and, in many ways, a valuable book.
Photo of Mark Logue and Peter Conradi from