Republished for the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, this new edition of Best of Enemies gives an entertaining and perceptive overview of Anglo-French relations. Updated to include the Anglo-French disagreements over the second Gulf War, this is an extensively revised edition of a book that was widely praised when it first appeared in 1995. Robert Gibson gives a lucid and lively account of the love-hate relationship between the English and the French that has lasted for more than a thousand years. Richly illustrated with cartoons from both sides of the Channel, this intelligent and well-documented study will appeal to anyone interested in the history of English and French relations. Reviews of the previous edition "Best of Enemies is a thoroughly absorbing - and at times hilarious - study of 800 years of hostilities and misunderstandings between our nations." Tom Hibbert, The Mail on Sunday "Copious quotation plus a pleasingly crisp style combine to make this a very attractive and readable volume. Just the thing to consult en route to the gîte." Michèle Roberts, The Independent "This is a readable and scholarly enhancement of the understanding of our diplomatic and military history over nearly a thousand years." Alan Clark, The Daily Telegraph "[A] highly readable account of Anglo-French relations over the past millennium . the perspectives Gibson offers are welcome and timely." A.C. Grayling, The Financial Times

Best of Enemies: Anglo-french Relations Since the Norman Conquest

History

Gibson, Robert

Europe

Impress Books

Being Luis: A Chilean Life

A voice for those who were silenced. This is a powerful account of a life that reflects recent Chilean history from the 1960s to the present through the authors extraordinary personal experiences. It recounts his magical, sometimes harsh, childhood, his development as a left-wing activist, his arrest and torture by the military regime and eventual exile to England. It is a story of love and survival in a time when the young were prepared to sacrifice everything, including their lives, for a better future. When ordinary people did great things and dared to dream great dreams. Uplifting, at times devastating, this story will move everyone who reads it. It speaks for a lost generation who paid the ultimate price for their ideals.

Muñoz, Luis

Biographies & Memoirs

A voice for those who were silenced. This is a powerful account of a life that reflects recent Chilean history from the 1960s to the present through the author?s extraordinary personal experiences. It recounts his magical, sometimes harsh, childhood, his development as a left-wing activist, his arrest and torture by the military regime and eventual exile to England. It is a story of love and survival in a time when the young were prepared to sacrifice everything, including their lives, for a better future. When ordinary people did great things and dared to dream great dreams. Uplifting, at times devastating, this story will move everyone who reads it. It speaks for a lost generation who paid the ultimate price for their ideals.

The End of Youth: The Life and Work of Alain-Fournier

For over half a century, Robert Gibson has published extensively on Alain-Fournier's life and work and is now acknowledged as the leading authority on this subject in the English-speaking world. His previous book on Fournier, "The Land Without a Name", was widely praised. In the thirty years since this was published, much new material has come to light. This includes biographical and photographic material about the two great loves of Fournier's life, the hitherto elusive Yvonne de Quiévrecourt and "Simone", the leading boulevard actress of her day; a host of letters to and from Fournier's friends and fellow-writers; a substantial compilation of his work as a prolific literary gossip columnist; the complete drafts of his second novel and the plays left unfinished when he went off to the war in 1914; and, finally, his body, unearthed in the woods near Verdun where it had lain undetected for three-quarters of a century. In the light of all this, Gibson now provides a re-appraisal of Fournier's complex love-life, his undervalued career as a journalist, a re-examination of the long and complicated genesis of "Le Grand Mealnes", the fullest analysis in any language of all his poetry and prose together with an authoritative overview of the remarkable range of critical interpretations to which his haunting masterpiece has been subject. The result is a compelling piece of literary detective-work and a human story sensitively and movingly told. Lavishly illustrated, this is a book which will appeal both to the serious scholar and the general reader.

The End of Youth: The Life And Work of Alain-fournier

Arts & Literature

Peter Staines thinks God made rather a ham-fisted job of constructing the world, trying to shove millions of years' worth of work into just six days. Typical cowboy builder. And as a carpet salesman with over twenty years in the trade, he feels he's more than qualified to comment. So Peter's come up with some improvements. Shame his own tidy world is unravelling. You know, the usual stuff: murder, prostitution, gambling, infidelity, death and the Annual Carpet and Floor covering Exhibition to survive. Ultimately Peter is led to question everything he though he knew, believed in and understood. But, then maybe, just maybe, life isn't that bad after all.

100 Ways to Improve the World

Ward, Giles

Literature & Fiction

A comic portrayal of modern university life seen through the eyes of a Professor of Christian Ethics. Married to the daughter of a baronet, he is rich, successful and eminent. Yet, as he approaches retirement, he is caught up in a conspiracy involving sexual harassment, victimization and fraud. As he seeks to escape from the web of deceit that surrounds him, he uncovers the dark side of the modern university. Written anonymously by a prominent academic this comic novel exposes the petty jealousies, excitement and intrigue of campus life in the twenty-first century.

A Campus Conspiracy

Dan Cohn-Sherbok

Dawoud Sudqi El Alami

Humor & Satire

This is an extraordinary and moving account of a family coping with Friedreich's Ataxia, a debilitating genetic illness. It describes how Krystie and her family coped with the diagnosis, the intensive medical treatment that followed and her battle to receive mainstream education. Krystie's bravery and zest for life is an inspiration to us all, but especially to those facing a diagnosis of genetic illness. "My future's full of uncertainty. Sometimes I worry that because of my illness, I won't be able to do much for myself later on in life; that all my days of fun have been and gone. But I realise that actually that isn't true. There's always another happy day just around the corner. Life is for the living, and I refuse to sit back and allow everyone else to move on without me. . But I do know one thing, whatever happens, I won't waste a second of my life, not ever!" Krystie Maddox-Lue, 2006

Perfectly Flawed: Living With Genetic Illness

Maddox, Molvia

Parenting & Relationships

In this sequel to the best-selling "A Campus Conspiracy" there is more comic chaos on the campus of St Sebastian's University. St Sebastian's has been thrown into turmoil by the arrival of a new Vice-Chancellor. Larger than life, Professor Alf Flanigan is determined to bully his new institution into financial solvency, whatever the cost, including establishing a degree in Casino Management.

Degrees 'r' Us

ANONYMOUS

East Devon Pebblebed Heaths

Andrew-Cooper

Science & Math

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Best of Enemies: Anglo-french Relations Since the Norman Conquest

Being Luis: A Chilean Life

Being Luis: A Chilean Life

The End of Youth: The Life And Work of Alain-fournier

The End of Youth: The Life and Work of Alain-Fournier

100 Ways to Improve the World

A Campus Conspiracy

Perfectly Flawed: Living With Genetic Illness

Degrees 'r' Us

East Devon Pebblebed Heaths