A fully updated edition of Gimson's 2006 biography, with new material covering Boris's years as Mayor of London. His distinctive appearance (' Like a haystack on a bicycle'), befuddled manner & ready wit have assured a high media profile & a large fanbase with the general public. In 2008 he was elected Mayor of London with over 1 million votes, the largest personal mandate of any UK politician. In this, the first & most authoritative biography of Boris, Andrew Gimson investigates Boris' twin-faced dilemma
- politics or entertainment
- & asks how deep his political ambition runs. Boris has transcended his class, education & his various occupations (Mayor of London, Conservative MP for Henley-on-Thames, Conservative spokesman for Higher Education, columnist on the Daily Telegraph, motoring correspondent for GQ, novelist, TV presenter) to become a paradoxical character
- the old Etonian who fascinates teenagers as well as grandparents, the classical scholar who is also a TV quiz-show contestant. Despite being a comic actor of genius, he is not just an act & Andrew Gimson's biography covers all facets of this complex individual. There is his exotic Turkish ancestry, his place among five siblings, his competitive relationship with his father Stanley, the distinguished university career, his five years as a journalist in Brussels, his first failed venture into politics ('I fought Clwyd South
- & Clwyd South fought back'), overseeing the Spectator during the David Blunkett affair & the Liverpool editorial fiasco which led to Boris' sacking from the shadow cabinet, his exile & return under David Cameron, his two marriages, four children & love affairs. Interviewing Boris' contemporaries, his family & his detractors, Andrew Gimson has created a fascinating & amusing portrait of this unique man of our times.



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Based on the historical figure of the nobleman Boris Godunov, who seized power from Ivan the Terrible's successor in sixteenth-century Russia, & partly inspired by Shakespeare's Macbeth, this title charts the rise & fall of this ambitious prince. ...

Boris Karloff
- a name synonymous with horror. Drawing on research, letters, & interviews with those who knew him, this biography
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One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of

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Details: Harry always knew he would go back one day... Eighteen years ago when he was a boy, he had made a decision that
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' Hard eyes stare out of massive beards, their faces marked by the scars of battle. With these guys their webbing looks like it belongs to them, rather than it's been hung on a pair of reluctant shoulders. There's not a word been said to us, but the ante has clearly been upped. There's a dark & sinister feeling in the air. It doesn't take a genius to figure it's about to kick off.' Former SAS soldier Big Phil Campion tells it like is in this brutally honest account of his insanely dangerous life as a private military operator. From playing chicken with a suicide bomber in backstreet Kabul, to taking on pirates with his bare hands, this is true-life action-packed drama at its best. ...

Not dead yet. Not kidnapped, captured, tortured or killed. But he's come bloody close... Meet ' Big' Phil Campion. To his fellow operators he's a private military contractor. To you or me he's a mercenary, a soldier of fortune, a gun for hire selling violence to the highest bidder. But to Big Phil it's all just another chapter in a life spent fighting in the shadows. Abandoned. Run-away. Half-beaten to death. Blown-up. Locked up. & all before the age of twenty. This is the incredible true story of how Phil Campion survived all of that, & went on to complete Commando selection, Para selection, & to join the SAS
- before fighting as a mercenary in the world's toughest war zones. Undertaking deniable operations, freeing hostages & escaping terrorists hell bent on revenge
- the dangers & insane risks of life as a private military operator eclipsed even those of waging war in an SAS Sabre Squadron. Big Phil's story of life on the private military circuit (' The Circuit') is a high-octane blend of chasing fast bucks in a Wild West industry, whilst always staying one step ahead of the bad guys. 'I've often been asked if I've killed anyone. My answer: I didn't shoot to miss.' Phil Campion, January 2010.

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Reg Kray is one of Britain's most notorious criminals. Together with his brother Ron, he rose through the ranks of London's East End gangland to run an evil empire of vice & villainy. But, after half a lifetime behind bars, Reg wants to set the record straight. Here, in his own words, is the true story of his life as one half of a criminal double act with his brother Ron, the chilling career of two street-wise kids who became standard-bearers of violence
- from fire-bombings to shootings & cold-blooded murder. But here too is the inner voice of a one-time mobster who learned compassion through his own struggle to come to terms with a life sentence.
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When hundreds of thousands of Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, they brought with them long experience as rebels & outcasts as well as unparalleled skills as frontiersmen & guerrilla fighters. This book chronicles the epic journey of this remarkable ethnic group. ...

Explains how empathy develops, why it is essential for our development into healthy adults, & how it is threatened in the modern world. This title shows that compassion underlies the qualities that make society work
- trust, altruism, collaboration, love, charity-and how difficulties related to empathy are key factors in social problems.
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