Big Caesars and Little Caesars by Ferdinand Mount autobiography Learn to spot the difference

Learn to spot the difference between landed gentry and oligarchs

Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals

It's a book about learning from our mistakes and about not being afraid

This collection of spirited stories and vibrant poetry will brighten your mood as it brings together Charles Dickens and Philip Larkin

would introduce him to Hemingway and Fitzgerald

Big Caesars and Little Caesars by Ferdinand Mount autobiography Learn to spot the differenceWho 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 power and why they fall. There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and Marx, that history progresses in a nice