The untold story of Winston Churchill`s precarious finances
- & the most original & surprising book about Churchill to emerge for
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With the summer beckoning, life in France seems the ultimate dream for all of us rosbifs. But behind the sun, the wine, & the beautifully honey-coloured houses what is the reality of actually living in France? Based on her own experiences, those of her friends & of the many readers who write in to her Sunday Times column French Mistress, Powell tells the story of the daily passions in La Douce France warts & all in a fresh, fast & humorous narrative. ...

7 July 2005. Simon Weekes is travelling on the London underground. Shortly into the journey, his carriage is wrecked by a bomb. Virtually everyone is killed & almost all the survivors are injured. Simon is among the few to have escaped relatively unharmed. He quickly organises the band of survivors into a rescue team & together they help the maimed & the mutilated. In the days following, word of his heroics gets out & he finds himself under the media spotlight. The only thing is, he doesn`t want the attention. He can`t afford it. He has too much to lose. ...

Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she writes crap all day. It`s a life. Or it was a life. But now they`re fighting, locked in oral combat. He won`t shut up & she is putting her finger down her throat again. So there`s only one thing for it
- Frank has to go. But go where? & do what? Frank Ritz has been on heat more or less continuously since he could speak his own name. Let him out of the house & his first instinct is to go looking for sex. Deviant sex, treacherous sex, even straight sex, so long as it`s immoderate
- he`s never been choosy. But what happens when sex is all you know but no longer what you want?

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What do you do with the rest of your life, after you`ve achieved brilliance at an early age? This is the question posed by celebrated-journalist Chris Wright to some of the most renowned adventurers, athletes & politicians of the twentieth century. What happens if you are an athlete or gymnast & your career peaks at 14, like Nadia Comaneci, who scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic competition
- & the second, & the third, fourth, fifth, sixth & seventh. What is the next challenge for the likes of adventurer Reinhold Messner, when you have climbed all the really tall mountains? Where do you take your career, when you`ve achieved the impossible & walked on the moon? In this far-reaching & illuminating book, Chris Wright travels the globe, talking to Apollo astronauts, record breakers, world leaders & prisoners of war, people whose defining moments came early in their life, & asks a rare but captivating question: what happened next?
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Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today`s physics, chemistry & biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding & of politics. Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister of Finance just before the upheaval did research on crystals & the spread of animal disease. After it, Paris`s first mayor was an astronomer, the general who fought off invaders was a mathematician while Marat, a major figure in the Terror, saw himself as a leading physicist. Paris in the century around 1789 saw the first lightning conductor, the first flight, the first estimate of the speed of light & the invention of the tin can & the stethoscope. The metre replaced the yard & the theory of evolution came into being. The city was saturated in science & many of its monuments still are. The Eiffel Tower, built to celebrate the Revolution`s centennial, saw the world`s first wind-tunnel & first radio message, & first observation of cosmic rays. Perhaps the greatest Revolutionary scientist of all, Antoine Lavoisier, founded modern chemistry & physiology, transformed French farming, & much enhanced gunpowder manufacture. His political activities brought him a fortune, but in the end led to his execution. The judge who sentenced him
- & many other researchers
- claimed that `the Revolution has no need for geniuses`. In this enthralling & timely book Steve Jones shows how wrong this was & takes a sideways look at Paris, its history, & its science, to give a dazzling new insight into the City of Light.

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No Need To Ask!
- Early Maps of London's Underground Railways by David Leboff & Tim Demuth, published by Capital Transport in
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The Non-Nonsense Guide to International Development explains what ‘development’ actually is
- & explores its political & economic
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This is a clear yet wide-ranging introduction to the state of health worldwide, exploring the ways in which health provision is often determined by ethnicity, class, & gender. Starting with a brief history of medical progress, this guide delves into current politics of health in the contexts of big business & private health provision, media, gender, & the environment. ...

In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed & morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which shows that Clinton was at once philanderer & philistine, crooked & corrupt, Hitchens challenges perceptions
- of liberals & conservatives alike
- of this highly divisive figure.

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