Speaking for Themselves : The Private Letters of Sir Winston and Lady Churchill ed. Mary Soames Tom Hodgkinson combines practical advice

Tom Hodgkinson combines practical advice with laugh-out-loud anecdote to create a refreshingly candid guidebook for all of us who aspire to a greater degree of freedom in our working lives

Marco Pierre White

Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear

lack of small talk was seen as a peculiarly English trait: “une conversation à l’Angloise” meant a long silence

Speaking for Themselves : The Private Letters of Sir Winston and Lady Churchill ed. Mary Soames Tom Hodgkinson combines practical adviceThe fascinating, insightful and often moving correspondence between Sir Winston and Lady Clementine Churchill extends from their early days of innocent courtship in 1908 to Winston Churchill's death in 1965. The letters serve not only as a chronicle of their personal achievements and tragedies over the years, but also as a political and social history. In their own words, Winston and Clementine recount some of the most momentous events of the