Author:Chris Patten
Globalisation, energy, international crime, Weapons of Mass Destruction, nuclear proliferation, small arms proliferation, international drugs trafficking, climate change, water shortage, migration, epidemic disease, the fraying of the nation state: the list of challenges facing our world is itself proliferating rapidly, and nobody seems to have much of a grip on what is going on. Digesting vast amounts of information from a multiplicity of sources, and drawing on his experience at the highest levels of national and international politics, Chris Patten analyses what we know in each of these areas and argues how in each of them we could get somewhere we might want to be. Very little, he says, has turned out as we might have expected twenty years ago, but there is plenty we can still do.
Readers of Patten's previous books will know what a penetrating analyst and engaging writer he is. This is his most ambitious and impressive yet.
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practised now than three or four thousand years ago.
—— John AdamsIt's a fascinating walking tour of old Paris, studded with humour and sympathetic glimpses into several lives that have resisted the microscope of history
—— Tim Martin , TelegraphThe book's true strength lies in its writer's abiding, for-better-for-worse attachment to her city of the heart
—— Jonathan Keates , Sunday TelegraphTindall's alertness to detail and brimming intelligence are consistently engaging
—— Frances Spalding , The Independentdelightful book invites reflection, speculation, argument, and almost every page also summons memories
—— Allan Massie , Literary ReviewTindall... can create vivid portraits out of a few misty pixels
—— Graham Robb , Sunday TimesAn enterprise of formidable research and enviable lightness of touch
—— Anita Brookner , The SpectatorCharming disinterment of a lost 19th - and 20th -century Paris...An antidote to the history of great men and events
—— The Guardian Saturday Review, SUMMER READSThis book is a personal memoir, a history of the left bank of Paris and an endlessly compelling tale of a family who lived in and out of Paris through two centuries of war, conflict and great politics...Nostalgia is of course a key trope in Parisian history and this book, richly textured and beautifully written, is a wonderful addition to that canon
—— Andrew Hussey , History TodayAn entertaining, interesting and sometimes inspiring gallop through parts of the history of non-violent conflict
—— Buce Kent , History TodayHaslam is an intriguing man...[and] can write wonderfully well
—— The Spectator, Susan HillA baroque soufflé of names, faces, bitchy asides and put-downs, sprinkled with funny anecdotes.
—— Camilla Long , Sunday TimesThough full of as much gossip as you might expect from the inveterate socialite, this memoir is also interestingly clever
—— Daily TelegraphThe interior designer, journalist and socialite Nicky Haslam has met almost everyone who's anyone
—— Brandon Robshaw , Independent on SundayIt is...boisterously good company and proof that if Haslam knows one thing, it's that you can only get away with a life like his if you are never, ever boring.
—— Claire Allfree , Metroa terrifically entertaining read
—— Carla McKay , Daily Mailextremely diverting, essentially kind-hearted and well written
—— William Leith , Evening Standard
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