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The Art of Always Being Right: The 38 Ways to Win an Argument
We all know people who are incredibly persuasive. In this concise book, the philosophy of persuasion is parsed in 38 subtle rules that will give you the magic formula to achieve …
The Duchess of Windsor: Memoirs of a Friend
An intimate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Diana Mitford (Lady Mosley) was a frequent guest at their parties in Paris or at the 'Moulin' in the village of Orsay just outside …
Unquiet Vietnam: A Journey to a Vanishing World
Unquiet Vietnam retraces the ancient Vietnamese civilisation that has has been crushed by an avalanche of 21st century foreign investment following the violent mixture of French …
Blowing up Ukraine
Too Thin for a Shroud: 8 June 1982, Falklands: Britain's Most Lethal Day of Combat Since World War II
How 10 minutes can change the course of history...In May 1982, eight young officers of the Welsh Guards-whose colonel-in-chief is the King-found themselves despatched at short …
Virginia Giuffre: Virginia Giuffre, Epstein's Masseuse Who Took Down the Rich
Virginia Giuffre's three nights in March 2001 have become well-trodden territory in the world media, but who really is the person who took on her previous billionaire employers and …
A Wolf in the World?: China from 1950 to the Present
What really drives China? Centuries of self-imposed separation from the outside world continue to lead astray Western thinkers, whose mythologies obstruct our understanding. Based …
Blowing Up Russia the Secret KGB Plot That Delivered Russia to Putin
New introduction by Yuri Felshtinsky. Blowing up Russia trace the extraordinary story behind the fake Islamist attacks on Moscow that led to marshal law and triggered Russia's …
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 …
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: Emperor of the French
Six years after the death of Napoleon, Sir Walter Scott wrote the first, hugely successful biography of Napoleon that riveted Britain and the continent and led to him being …