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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 …
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 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 …
My Journey to Egypt
Jean-Francois Champollion broke the code of the hieroglyphs on 14 September 1822. But this didn't yet mean understanding how old the culture of the pharaohs was, or any of its …
France, a Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Meet the real French, and chuckle!The French are savvy, sophisticated, elegant - Right? Wrong! The French...* lecture the world about haute cuisine yet they eat more McDonald's …
Duchess of Windsor
An intimate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Diana Mosley was a frequent guest at their parties in Paris, or at 'the Moulin' in Orsay, where they were neighbours. Written in her …
Prince Philip: I Know I Am Rude
'By far the funniest.' TelegraphFrom Prince Philip's blunt speech making, to his fearless mocking of officials and captains of industry, to his fond teasing of Her Majesty herself, …
Ada's Algorithm
Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the dangerous romantic poet whose name became a byword for scandal. Over the past decades, she herself has become a …
In Praise of Folly
Travelling to the hard-living Dylan Thomas's Boathouse in Laugharne, Wales, psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple considered along the way another foible - the folly of eminent people. …
The Killer Prince?: MBS and the Chilling Special Operation to Assassinate Washington Post Journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Forces
On October 2, 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi went into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul and was never seen again. After many years of uncertainty over his …
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 …