Failed stateIn Failed State, one of Britain's leading policy experts, Sam Freedman, explores the dysfunction at the heart of the British state.

he has distilled Stoicism and his personal experience into ten powerful lessons

Peter Rabbit loves adventures

all this was achieved against a background of extreme turbulence in the form of internal conflicts and international wars

at the height of the industrial revolution

but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer

In this work he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history

and France to take in the sights as Van Gogh might have seen them a century earlier

Fearing for her safety in the middle of a freezing Victorian winter

Justine Firnhaber-Baker brilliantly conveys not only the sheer glamour of the French court

Trapped by his opium addiction

You'd better not tickle the reindeer

At first startled by his uncanny resemblance to the author's photo