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Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Culture of Sentimentality
In this perceptive and witty book, Theodore Dalrymple unmasks the sentimentality that is suffocating modern life. Under the multiple guises of raising children well, caring for the …
The Dark Heart of Russia: A Journey Through Putin's Empire of Brutality
An essential guide to the strange, sinister culture ofcontemporary Russia. When Jonathan Fink studied Russiain university in the 1990s he developed a passion for thecountry that …
Chasing Hieroglyphs: My Journey to Egypt
As a child Jean-Fran ois Champollion had but one fervent wish--to travel to Egypt and solve the mystery of the ancient hieroglyphs. Finally, a brief lull in the Mediterranean war …
Blowing up Ukraine
Marlon Brando in Private - 'I love this book' Jane Fonda
'Riveting' Kirk DouglasFrom his first Oscar, Marlon Brando built an impenetrable fortress around his private life: unauthorised releases-or snapshots of him, even by friends-were …
After Everest - 'The last innocent adventure' Ian Morris
On 29 May 1953 Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary conquered Everest.Before it had claimed the lives of dozens of climbers, including George Leigh Mallory in 1924. Norgay, the …