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  | | How England Made the English From Hedgerows To Heathrow by Harry Mount Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2013 by Viking International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-670-91914-7, ISBN: 0-670-91914-4 "Harry Mount's How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours is packed with astonishing facts and wonderful stories. Q. Why are English train seats so narrow? A. It's all the Romans' fault. The first Victorian trains were built to the same width as horse-drawn wagons; and they were designed to fit the ruts left in the roads by Roman chariots. For readers of Paxman's The English, Br ..." |
 | | A Lust for Window Sills by Harry Mount, Marcia Muller Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2010 by Little, Brown Book Group ISBN-13: 978-0-349-12106-2, ISBN: 0-349-12106-0 "Ever wondered why the floors in terraced houses are different heights? Or what a landscape looked like before it was built on? And did you know you can date a building by its window sills? In A Lust for Window Sills, Harry Mount takes us on an engrossing tour of the UK's architecture, exploring the quirks, foibles, and tiny details that make their buildings unique, and revealing the fascinating stories and anecdotes behind them along th ..." |
 | | Et tu, Brute? The Best Latin Lines Ever (Hardback) by Harry Mount, John Davie Hardcover, Published 2023 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-399-40097-8, ISBN: 1-399-40097-5 |
 | | Summer Madness How Brexit Split the Tories, Destroyed Labour and Divided the Country (Paperback) by Harry Mount Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Biteback Publishing, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-78590-179-9, ISBN: 1-78590-179-6 "In a day-by-day account, Harry Mount gives an insider's tale of the three chilling weeks of mass blood-letting due to Brexit." |
 | | A LUST FOR WINDOW SILLS(1st Edition) A LOVER'S GUIDE TO BRITISH BUILDINGS FROM PORTCULLIS TO PEBBLE-DASH. (SIGNED) by Harry Mount Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2008 by Little, Brown ISBN-13: 978-1-4087-0090-7, ISBN: 1-4087-0090-5 "Meandering through garden suburbs and cathedral closes, discovering Moghul palaces in Gloucestershire and Egyptian sphinxes in Islington, A Lust for Window Sills is rich with anecdote, allusion and such inspired digressions as where to find ..." |
 | | Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That(1st Edition) How to Become a Latin Lover by Harry Mount Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Short Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-904977-54-4, ISBN: 1-904977-54-5 "Those endless afternoons where you struggled to remember the third person singular present indicative of volo (vult) may be a long time ago. But, if you have the vaguest memory of the ablative absolute, the locative and the gerund, you mastery of Latin will spring back to life with Amo, amas, amat...and all that. In his trip through the world's most influential language, Harry Mount uncorks its magic, drawing on Latin lovers from Kingsl ..." |
 | | My Brief Career(Updated) The Trials of a Young Lawyer by Harry Mount Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2005 by Short Books ISBN-13: 978-1-904977-07-0, ISBN: 1-904977-07-3 "Harry Mount's account of his hellish years as a "pupil"—a trainee barrister in The Temple—has all the horror of a Dickensian tragedy and all the charm of Bridget Jones' Diaries. An expose of what goes on behind the ancient walls of London's inns of court, this fascinating story dares to reveal the grim secrets of one of England's most archaic institutions. This is a book for everyone who has ever thought they might want to become a lawy ..." |
 | | My Brief Career The Trials of a Young Lawyer by Harry Mount Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2004 by Gardners Books ISBN-13: 978-1-904095-69-9, ISBN: 1-904095-69-0 "An expose of what goes on behind the ancient walls of London's inns of court, Harry Mount's account of his hellish year as a "pupil" - a trainee barrister in The Temple - dares to reveal the grim secrets of one of England's most archaic institutions. This is a book for everyone who has ever thought they might want to become a lawyer." |
 | | The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson 10 Downing Street Edition by Harry Mount, Charles Fitzroy Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2013 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-4081-8352-6, ISBN: 1-4081-8352-8 "Planet-brained, snortingly ambitious and given to comic one-liners that the public and press take equal delight in, Boris Johnson is the most talked-about politician in Britain. This collection of his wit and wisdom, edited and introduced by eminent journalist Harry Mount, covers his background, education, journalism, personal life and politics, as well as the Olympics and his time as Mayor of London and Foreign Secretary. It begins wit ..." |
 | | The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson by Harry Mount 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4729-7652-9, ISBN: 1-4729-7652-5 "First published in Great Britain 2013 Paperback, 2016 Revised edition, 2019 This electronic edition published in 2019 by ... 2007); Johnson's Life of London (Boris Johnson, HarperPress, 2011); The Rise of Boris Johnson (Andrew Gimson, ..." |
 | | The with and Wisdom of Boris Johnson by Harry Mount Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2016 by Bloomsbury Continuum ISBN-13: 978-1-4729-4465-8, ISBN: 1-4729-4465-8 |
 | | Carpe Diem Put a Little Latin in Your Life by Harry Mount 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Harper Collins ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-8992-5, ISBN: 1-4013-8992-9 "Pagan church plan—the Temple of Mithras, London ANDREW FINDEN The nave bit was where Romans, like us, gathered for services, although they tended to sit in the aisles on benches that ran alongside the walls. And the chancel area (from cancellus, -i, m.— the railing or screen before the altar) was where sacrifices were burned in Roman pagan rituals. The influences of Roman architecture on British and Western architecture are too dee ..." |
 | | The Best of The Oldie Cartoons 1992-2018 by Harry Mount Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2018 by Oldie Publications Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-901170-27-6, ISBN: 1-901170-27-6 |
 | | A Journey to Flanders and Holland(Updated) (Art Patrons and Public) by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Harry Mount Hardcover, 348 Pages, Published 1997 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-45129-1, ISBN: 0-521-45129-9 "A Journey to Flanders and Holland, first published in 1797 in the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, is his perceptive account of the pictures which he saw in the Austrian Netherlands, the United Provinces and the Rhineland in 1781. The Journey is here published separately for the first time, in a new edition which is also the first to include explanatory notes on the pictures mentioned by Reynolds and to illustrate all those which he discus ..." |
 | | The Best of the Oldie Cartoons(Updated) by Alexander Chancellor Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2015 by Oldie Publications Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-901170-24-5, ISBN: 1-901170-24-1 |
 | | The Very Best of The Oldie Cartoons by Harry Mount Softcover, Published 2021 ISBN-13: 978-1-901170-32-0, ISBN: 1-901170-32-2 |
 | | Et tu, Brute? The Best Latin Lines Ever by Harry Mount, John Davie 273 Pages, Published 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-399-40101-2, ISBN: 1-399-40101-7 "... Ed McLachlan Page 78: Flora, Goddess of Flowers © ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0 |
 | | The King and I How Elvis Shaped My Life by Harry Mount, Nicholas Camm Cd, Published 2017 by Audible Studios On Brilliance Audiobook, Mp3 Audio ISBN-13: 978-1-5366-3515-7, ISBN: 1-5366-3515-4 "The King and I tells the story of Harry Mount's fixation with Elvis over 35 years; how it changed from mild interest as a child, via self-mocking adolescent fandom to full-blown obsession at university, before settling into relatively sane reverence today. What happens to our teenage obsessions when we grow up? How do they help - or harm - us? In this moving, funny memoir, Harry Mount reveals how Elvis released him from the bookish shyn ..." |
 | | Summer Madness How Brexit Split the Tories, Destroyed Labour and Divided the Country by Harry Mount 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Biteback Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78590-187-4, ISBN: 1-78590-187-7 "Of all his fellow Brexiteers, Farage speaks most generously of Johnson and Kate Hoey. 'There was also a chronic misunderstanding, from a Leave perspective, of how few people could reach the electorate,' says Farage. The political figures that could reach a significant number of people were four or five. Me, Boris, Gove scraping it, Kate Hoey, who is far bigger than Gisela Stuart. Gisela was unknown. You can't just become known. Kat ..." |
 | | Meditations on a Heritage(1st Edition) Papers on the Work and Legacy of Sir Ernst Gombrich by Paul Taylor, Peter Burke, Harry Mount, Elizabeth Mcgrath, Veronika Kopecky, Charles Hope, Paul Crossley, Jeroen Stumpel, John Kulvicki, Roberto Casati, Martin Kemp, Paul Holberton Publishing Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2014 by Paul Holberton Publishing Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-907372-54-4, ISBN: 1-907372-54-7 "That Ernst Gombrich was one of the most important art historians of the 20th century would seem to go without saying. And so one might expect him to feature prominently in the numerous surveys, guides and introductions to the history and methods of art history produced during the past two decades. Precisely the opposite, however, is the case. One reason for this certainly was that Gombrich was an avowed enemy of ‘big ideas’, interested ..." |
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