The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 2This long awaited second volume of Russell's best letters reveals the inner workings of a philosophical genius and an impassioned campaigner for peace and social reform. The letters, only three of which have been published before, cover most of Russell's adult life, a period in which he wrote over thirty books, including his famous History of Western Philosophy. Richly illustrated with photographs from Russell's life, the collection includes letters

a yellowed wedding dress in a dusty trunk

She kept track of which resolutions worked and which didn’t

”—James Wood

compulsively readable

whatever the official term is for someone tasked with breaking the news to a prisoner that his girlfriend has been diagnosed with gonorrhoea

allowing them to have a portable ruler with which to measure and draw straight lines

Kim Il-sung

Big has been smuggling British pirate treasure to New York from a remote Jamaican island - and funneling the proceeds to Moscow

***************'Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation' Elizabeth Day'Steeped in furiously funny accounts of one-night stands

the four lives are irreparably torn apart

Ballard’s enduring novel of war and deprivation

he shows how all of us can achieve our full potential if we set about training our brains in the right way