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"The fullest picture of this presidency yet". ("Daily Telegraph"). "Kantor digs for detail and strikes gold". ("The Times"). When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit. Together they planned a White...

Stephen Fry is known to millions who watch him every week on TV, follow him on Twitter or Facebook, read his books, and listen to him on the radio. But, as this heart-warming, and often heartbreaking, memoir reveals, we don't really know him at all. This dazzling memoir is courageously frank, honest and poignant. It details some of the most...

Benny glowered at her. Babe by name, but most certainly not by nature. A summer in the Irish countryside is not Benny Shaw#8217;s idea of a good time. Especially since the people of Duncade don#8217;t appreciate him as the sporting prodigy that he is. All he gets is teasing, which is a favourite pastime of annoying tomboy Babe Meara. Streetwise...

Rising rage and extreme bewilderment had swelled the noble breast of Mr Pickwick, almost to the bursting of his waistcoat. Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet...

'I am plagued by the nightmare that the party that started with Gladstone will end with Ashdown'. Paddy Ashdown wrote this following his election as Leader of the future Liberal Democrats in 1988. Faced with party infighting, the conflict with David Own and the SDP, and the brink of financial insolvency, Ashdown's future seemed doomed. However, by...

Spanning the fifth century to the sixteenth, and ranging from Afghanistan to Spain, this unique collection provides a profound insight into the sheer vitality and depth of Classical Arabic literature.nbsp; From the earliest surviving fragments of The Thousand and One Nights to the elegant beauty and profound power of the Qur'an - believed by the...