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Big Caesars and Little Caesars
How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson
Häftad, 2024
157 kr
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A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARWho said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it’s become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize …
Soft
A History of Sentimentality
Häftad, 2026
157 kr
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'[An] erudite, immensely entertaining book...Mount makes for a delightful guide' -- Literary ReviewFrom troubadours to Twitter: a thousand years of feelings, fads and furious sentiment, from renowned essayist Ferdinand Mount.Whatever we think we feel, you can be sure that the past has had a part to …
Very Like a Whale
Häftad, 2010
242 kr
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Pheasant-shooting on the Wiltshire downs; East-West conflict in a Berlin night club; infighting in city boardrooms; and sexual skirmishing in the Kensington outback, on the fringes of Winkhill golf club and in a smart Basque resort are some of the elements of this novel. The story concerns the …
Clique
A Novel of the Sixties
Häftad, 2010
219 kr
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'We're a group, like in Mary McCarthy', says one of the girls in the Clique. On the other hand, their style may remind you more of Evelyn Waugh's Bright Young Things. And their know-all panache has a touch of J. D. Salinger's quiz-kid Glass family. But The Clique is unmistakably a satire for its …
Selkirk Strip
A Post-Imperial Tale
Häftad, 2010
219 kr
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Aldous Cotton, commonly known as Gus, a civil servant of dry and melancholy humour, stands observing the November dawn from his North London doorstep. His calm existence is about to be disrupted by two events: the invasion of that unloved piece of imperial territory on the other side of the world, …
Subversive Family
Häftad, 1998
189 kr
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British politician and writer, Ferdinand Mount, challenges contemporary beliefs about society and family—including the history of divorce, childcare, and the concept of the nuclear family.In Subversive Family, politician and writer Ferdinand Mount argues that society is shaped by a series of …
Cold Cream
My Early Life and Other Mistakes
Häftad, 2009
165 kr
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Cold Cream is a sparkling autobiography in the great tradition: wonderfully perceptive, exquisitely rendered and bursting with characters and anecdotes of every shade and hue. A tender, moving and witty portrait of Ferdinand Mount's family and his early life, it follows his bumbling path from his …
Umbrella
Häftad, 1995
203 kr
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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 in a hayloft with Metternich, inherits the Earldom of Aberdeen, marries two beautiful women, …
Big Caesars and Little Caesars
How They Rise and How They Fall - from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson
E-bok, 2023
164 kr
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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 modern times it''s become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize …
Big Caesars and Little Caesars
How They Rise and How They Fall - from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson
E-bok, 2023
164 kr
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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 modern times it''s become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize …
Soft
A Brief History of Sentimentality
E-bok, 2025
216 kr
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'[An] erudite, immensely entertaining book...Mount makes for a delightful guide' -- Literary ReviewFrom troubadours to Twitter: a thousand years of feelings, fads and furious sentiment, from renowned essayist Ferdinand Mount.Whatever we think we feel, you can be sure that the past has had a part to …
Soft
A Brief History of Sentimentality
E-bok, 2025
221 kr
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'[An] erudite, immensely entertaining book...Mount makes for a delightful guide' -- Literary ReviewFrom troubadours to Twitter: a thousand years of feelings, fads and furious sentiment, from renowned essayist Ferdinand Mount.Whatever we think we feel, you can be sure that the past has had a part to …
Soft
A Brief History of Sentimentality
Inbunden, 2025
238 kr
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'[An] erudite, immensely entertaining book...Mount makes for a delightful guide' -- Literary ReviewFrom troubadours to Twitter: a thousand years of feelings, fads and furious sentiment, from renowned essayist Ferdinand Mount.Whatever we think we feel, you can be sure that the past has had a part to …
Jem (and Sam)
E-bok, 2010
100 kr
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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? In Pepys' Diary, Jem Mount plays a shadowy role, but in Jem's own memories Sam looms large. Friends and drinking partners at first, they become vicious …
Man Who Rode Ampersand
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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The man who rode Ampersand was in fact, an amateur jockey named Harry Cotton. Harry is a compulsive gambler. The resulting decline in his fortunes takes him through three decades of adventures, melancholy, heroic, and comic by turn, which cut a broad swathe of disorder through provincial race …
Condor's Head
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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A fair-haired young man from Virginia sees a dark girl rowing on the lake at Versailles and he falls in love. She turns out to be the Duchess de La Rochefoucauld, known as Rosalie, married to a man twice her age who also happens to be her uncle. It is the spring of 1875 and the young American, …
Heads You Win
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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Heads You Win is a tragicomedy of second chances. After taking early retirement, Gus Cotton is surprised to find himself persuaded by two old friends - a disgraced wheeler-dealer and a convicted drug smuggler - into taking on the City by launching the greatest headhunting company of all time. Added …
Fairness
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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Fairness is about Helen, the tiny, blonde, serious girl whom the narrator meets when they are both looking after children during a summer vacation in Normandy. Her adventures in search of a morally satisfying life lead her into situations that are neither satisfying nor moral, from the mining boom …
Of Love And Asthma
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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We should have awakened to the sun streaming in from across the valley, but this is not a story about things as they should be, and it was a dark blustery morning, blasting the blossom off the may. Only in the shelter of the high hedgerows down in the lanes streaked with red mud was there ant …
British Constitution Now
Recovery or Decline?
E-bok, 2011
74 kr
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In this book the former head of Mrs Thatcher's policy unit looks at the state of the British Constitution at a crucial time in its history, arguing that recent years have seen an increased willingness to monitor itself on the part of the Establishment, but that more audacious reforms are needed to …
Umbrella
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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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 in a hayloft with Metternich, inherits the Earldom of Aberdeen, marries two beautiful women, …
Subversive Family
E-bok, 2010
199 kr
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British politician and writer, Ferdinand Mount, challenges contemporary beliefs about society and family—including the history of divorce, childcare, and the concept of the nuclear family. In Subversive Family , politician and writer Ferdinand Mount argues that society is shaped by a series of …
Tears of the Rajas
Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905
E-bok, 2015
121 kr
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The Tears of the Rajas is a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows. They lived through the most appalling …
English Voices
Lives, Landscapes, Laments
E-bok, 2016
121 kr
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‘A sheer delight’ Times Literary Supplement Ferdinand Mount has spent many years writing articles, columns and reviews for prestigious magazines, newspapers and journals. Whether reviewing great published works by some of England's finest authors and poets (both alive and dead) including Kingsley …
Prime Movers
The real stories of twelve great thinkers from Pericles to Gandhi
Häftad, 2019
127 kr
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Ferdinand Mount has been fascinated by the great thinkers and politicians who have shaped human history over the past two millennia In this fascinating, and provocative book, he examines the proposals for a political theory from a number of widely different historical figures. Twelve key people, …
Prime Movers
E-bok, 2018
121 kr
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Ferdinand Mount has been fascinated by the great thinkers and politicians who have shaped human history over the past two millennia In this fascinating, and provocative book, he examines the proposals for a political theory from a number of widely different historical figures. Twelve key people , …
Kiss Myself Goodbye
The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
E-bok, 2020
143 kr
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''Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page'' – Hilary Mantel ''Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original'' – Hadley Freeman ''Wonderful, funny and wise'' – Kate Summerscale SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021 A SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK …
Kiss Myself Goodbye
The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
E-bok, 2020
139 kr
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''Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page'' – Hilary Mantel ''Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original'' – Hadley Freeman ''Wonderful, funny and wise'' – Kate Summerscale SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021 A SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK …
Kiss Myself Goodbye
The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
Häftad, 2021
138 kr
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'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' – Hilary Mantel'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' – Hadley Freeman‘Wonderful, funny and wise’ – Kate SummerscaleSHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021A SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE …
Making Nice
E-bok, 2021
239 kr
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The deliciously sharp new novel from Ferdinand Mount, author of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Kiss Myself Goodbye Ferdinand Mount''s stinging satire plunges into the dubious world of London PR firms, the back rooms of Westminster and the campaign trail in Africa and America. We follow the …
