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  • Amo, Amas, Amat ... and All That

    How to Become a Latin Lover

    by Harry Mount ...
    **"If you know someone who missed out on Latin at school and wants to live a happier life, you could do no better than give them Harry Mount's entertainingly educative Latin primer." Daily Mail"Amo, Amas, Amat is a diverting meander and Mount's love of Latin shines out on every page." The Spectator"Latin without the pain." Guardian"If you studied Latin at school this will bring back fond memories, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Summer Madness

    How Brexit Split the Tories, Destroyed Labour and Divided the Country

    by Harry Mount ...
    In the three short weeks between the EU referendum on 23 June 2016 and Theresa May's ascent to Downing Street on 13 July, Brexit morphed into a mass murderer, destroying everything it touched. As the Bullingdon boys, David Cameron and George Osborne, were sensationally whacked, Mafia-style, the Cabinet was drained of blue blood and the tight-knit Notting Hill Set torn asunder.Michael Gove stabbed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greek To Us

    The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World

    by John Davie ...
    Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that's before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas Touch. And what about crocodile tears, which comes from the Greek's belief that crocodiles cried while eating ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Carpe Diem

    How to Become a Latin Lover

    by Harry Mount ...
    Liber prosperissimus et mirabilis ex Britannia ad Americam tandem advenit! Umquam vexatus es quando homo inritans "sine qua non" aut "mea culpa" dicit Aut postmeridiana tempora vetera, quando verba obscura ediscere conatus es, terrunt.Nil desperandum!Linguae Latinae hoc in itinere iucundo, qui omnia ex lectione grammatica ab Monte Pythone ad Angelinae Jolia in pelle notas et omnia optima in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson

    by Harry Mount ...
    A return to the wit and wisdom of Boris Johnson – Brexiteer, Foreign Secretary, Prime Minister. New and updated edition.2019 – the year that Boris took on the 'lingering gloomadon-poppers', pledged to steer the UK between the 'Scylla and Charybdis of Corbyn and Farage' and into the calmer waters of political freedom. Of course there was always bound to be 'a bit of plaster coming off the ceilings ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Harry Mount's Odyssey

    Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus

    by Harry Mount ...
    Architecture, art, sculpture, economics, mathematics, science, metaphysics, comedy, tragedy, drama and epic poetry were all devised and perfected by the Greeks. Of the four classical orders of architecture, three were invented by the Greeks and the fourth, the only one the Romans could come up with, was a combination of two of the former.The powerful ghost of ancient Greece still lingers on in the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Et tu, Brute?

    The Best Latin Lines Ever

    Harry Mount and John Davie unlock the wisdom of the past in this light-hearted and fascinating book, revealing how ancient Latin can help us to live better in the present.There are so many Latin phrases in everyday use that often we use them without understanding the background and context within which they were actually used. 'Carpe diem'; 'Stet'; 'Memento mori'; 'Et tu Brute' – examples would ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

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    Greek To Us

    The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World

    by John Davie ...
    Narrated by John Davie ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 53 min

    Bloomsbury presents Greek To Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World, written and read by John DavieAncient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us ‘hypocrite’; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that’s before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Et tu, Brute?

    The Best Latin Lines Ever

    Narrated by John Telfer ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    Bloomsbury presents Et tu, Brute? by Harry Mount and John Davie, read by John Telfer.Harry Mount and John Davie unlock the wisdom of the past in this light-hearted and fascinating book, revealing how ancient Latin can help us to live better in the present.There are so many Latin phrases in everyday use that often we use them without understanding the background and context within which they were ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Carpe Diem

    Put a Little Latin in Your Life

    by Harry Mount ...
    Narrated by Stephen Hoye ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    In this lighthearted guided tour of Latin, journalist and former Latin tutor Harry Mount breathes life back into the greatest language of all, drawing on everything from a Monty Python grammar lesson to Angelina Jolie's tattoos. Filled with fascinating tidbits and humorous asides, Carpe Diem will delight the word lovers who made Eats, Shoots and Leaves such a monster hit.Whether we're aware of it ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    by Jeremy Paxman ...
    News, views and hilarious stories from the legend of Newsnight and long-standing quiz master of University Challenge.‘Bursting with good things’ Daily TelegraphDuring 25 years as BBC Newsnight’s supreme inquisitor, Jeremy Paxman proved himself as the master of the political intervview. From John Major to Theresa May and Tony Blair to Ed Miliband, he has them quaking in their boots. But it wasn’t ... Read more

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  • The Ancient Greeks For Dummies

    The civilisation of the Ancient Greeks has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science and arts of Western culture. As well as instigating itself as the birthplace of the Olympics, Ancient Greece is famous for its literature, philosophy, mythology and the beautiful architecture- to which thousands of tourists flock every year.This entertaining ... Read more

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