A Study in Failure Kam

A Study in Failure KamEvery politician's rise to power is a story of success and failure, accompanied by tantalising what might have beens. The career of Winston Churchill was no exception, with his eight months prior to becoming Prime Minister as First Lord of the Admiralty marked by the loss of important warships, the planning of disastrous expeditions and the design of impractical weapons. Based on archival and biographical research, this account argues that Churchill's

François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol had changed the rules of film-making forever

The roots of many aspects of today's society which we take for granted lie in the 1970s and particularly in this

Almost everyone is familiar with Monte Carlo's association with gambling

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who in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s liberated screens around the world with a series of films that challenged our assumptions of what the medium could offer and how stories could be told - all of them snapping with style as much as they delivered on ideas

In late-twenty-first-century Australia

no-nonsense approach to what can be a minefield for many creatives

An undercover assignment for the Bow Street magistrate sees Lizzie Hardwicke trade Mrs Farley's Bawdy House in Soho for life as a seamstress at a theatre on Drury Lane

Over the following three decades

these bites of mundane madness mark the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and will leave you hungering for more

a financially desperate in-law

experience and downright cunning