Gibson Square: 57 books
by Jonathan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
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 hamburgers than anywhere else in the world
* roll their eyes at foreign culture even as CSI is their...
The Ex-Factor
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Are your past lovers really in the past? Have you ever wondered 'what if'? Maybe had a look on Facebook? Marina has the life she always dreamed of. She is married to Mark, a gorgeous surgeon, writes a weekly column for a leading newspaper and lives in the heart of London. But working on an article...
by Helena Frith-Powell
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
What do you do if you find a bra in your husband's luggage that isn't yours? Or even his! This is the dilemma facing mother-of-three Sophie Reed, shortly after she moves to France with her family to start a new life. As they are unpacking her husband admits to having an affair with a French woman...
The Diversity Illusion
What We Got Wrong About Immigration & How to Set It Right
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
2002 - ICM Research polling for the BBC: 47 per cent of white Britons believed immigration had damaged British society (a belief shared by 22 per cent of black and Asian Britons) and 28 per cent believed it had benefited it. 2012 - YouGov polling for the Sunday Times: 11 per cent of people believe...
Protest Vote
How Politicians Lost the Plot
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Through riveting inside accounts how Britain's maverick politicians exploit the behind-the-scenes struggles in the major parties, Newark takes us through the triumphs and tribulations of the UKIP, the Lib Dems and anyone from Boris Johnson to Nadine Dorries. With entertaining portraits of the main...
Blowing up Russia
The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
Strikingly written and based on Litvinenko's 20 years of insider's knowledge of Russian spy campaigns, Blowing up Russia describes how the successor of the KGB fabricated terrorist attacks and launched war to have the unknown Putin - Litvinenko's former superior at the Russian secret service - elected with a landslide victory.
The Putin Corporation
The Story of Russia's Secret Takeover
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
'Impressive.' TLS 'Dodgy deals and horrible murders.' New Statesman Book of the Year 'Explosive.' Daily Telegraph Welcome to the Putin Corporation. Russia's March 2012 presidential election showed that Vladimir Putin's position is unassailable. Why is he on course to lead Russia for a longer period...
'The Year I Turn'
A Quirky A-Z of Ageing
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
In this buoyant, inspirational A-Z, Angela Neustatter writes about the quirky side of ageing. The ways we learn to deal with conflicts, problems, relationships, feelings about our appearance and behaviour through the years become a delight rather than a chore. Angela Neustatter considers in a light-hearted...
Annus Horribilis
The Worst Year in British Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
'Brilliant.' Matthew Parris What was Parliament's Annus Horribilis? It started in September when the government dropped the economic ball with the mother of financial crashes. And that was for starters. Never before have tax payers got such entertainment value out of their elected representatives:...
The Pleasure of Thinking
A Journey through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways...
The Falklands Intercept
MI5, Sûreté, CIA
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
In the shadowy world of British intelligence there is only one man Lady Nevinson, the National Security Advisor, trusts for a highly-confidential private investigation — Daniel Jacot. Britain's chief of military intelligence is mysteriously found dead in the chambers of a Cambridge college, the...
by Crispin Black
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
How could a moment of triumph about the Olympic Bid turn into a catastrophe? These terrible events follow on the continuing revelations that the intelligence reports that were the government's basis for the invasion of Iraq were deeply flawed and the recent admission by the Ministry of Defence that...
If I Did It
Confession of the Killer
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Years after being acquitted of criminal charges in a case that was highly-publicised in the US, finally in November 2008, OJ Simpson was found guilty of the crime he committed as a result of the penury brought upon him by the efforts of the Goldman Family. This updated paperback edition brings together...
The Economi of Success
Twelve Things Politicians Don't Want You to Know
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
In this new myth busting book Director of the Adam Smith Institute Eamon Butler describes how it is by looking to the markets, rather than to the politicians, that we will return to prosperity. Butler decribes how the free market harnesses self-interest and punishes greed, how government intervention...