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  • Heads You Win
    Ferdinand Mount
    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 to this mix the fourth partner in their venture is a beautiful young woman with...
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  • Jem (and Sam)
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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 rivals for fame and women. In his struggle to survive and triumph over his adversa...
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  • Umbrella
    Ferdinand Mount
    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 becomes Foreign Secretary twice and then ultimately Prime Minister.Yet Lord Aberdeen re...
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    22,80 €

  • The Subversive Family
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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 the exercise of any authority, whether political or religious, temporal or spiritual' (Auberon Waugh, 'The Daily Mail'). ...
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    17,23 €