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Ferdinand Mount
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR
Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in…
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Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of…
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From the bestselling author of the memoir Cold Cream comes this affectionate, bizarre, tragi-comical tale of Ferdinand Mount’s Aunt Munca.
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A pitch-perfect memoir, brilliantly funny, wise and moving, of family, friends and political life over the last sixty years
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A brilliantly written and convincingly researched argument that marriage and the family, far from being the handmaidens of oppression by a ruling class, are in fact the chief obstacles to…
A deliciously funny political satire from the bestselling author of Cold Cream and the Sunday Times Book of the Year Kiss Myself Goodbye
How does Jeremiah Mount, the dealer in pornography, come to be the lover of the Duchess of Albemarle and the colleague of the great Samuel Pepys? This autobiography takes its…
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For the final appointment of his long career, senior civil servant Gus Cotton is offered a dead-end posting in Swansea (Dept of Driving Licences). He decides to chuck it and…
George Gordon, cousin to Byron, heir to a desolate Scottish estate, superficially enjoys a brilliant career: he dines at Malmaison with Napoleon and Josephine, excavates the Acropolis, shares a night…
From the bestselling author of Kiss Myself Goodbye comes a raucous, deliciously funny political satire for fans of Evelyn Waugh and Veep.
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The story behind the great thinkers and politicians who have shaped human history over the past two millennia
From the bestselling author of the memoir Cold Cream comes the affectionate, bizarre, tragi-comical tale of Aunt Munca
In this updated edition to his provocative and ruthlessly frank book, Ferdinand Mount argues that there is a new class divide in Britain which is just as vicious and hard…
Anthony Powell
This is an abridged version of Powell’s four volumes memoirs, which were published between 1976 and 1982. These memoirs reveal Powell the man and author, and also provide an inside…
