Nigel Cawthorne

Uncanny parallels DAILY MAILWho is more spare, Harry or Andrew? You decide! Spares Prince Harry and Prince Andrew have rarely been out of the news since 2019. They both have proved to have a rare knack for creating a royal soap opera and turning their humdrum lives into a major embarrassment to their family. Royal author Nigel Cawthorne unravels their princely lives in this dual portrait and asks. Join this frank and hilarious celebration of this royal double act. Covering all the stations of the cross for royal pain from wives, money, relatives, having to scrounge for millions, being turfed out of the HRH club.

Laugh out loud, a master class on grumbling Shock horror! Here is a little book on the art of Britains favourite pastime: grousing. It boasts the best and most amusing letters to the editor of British peeves from the time of Agatha Christie to P.G. Wodehouse and shows us why it is just so much fun to complain about everything! Never mind WWI and WWII, what about filthy streets, rubbish trams, yelling vendors, turf rage, death-trap trees and many more. These letter writers fix their glaring eye on the small things in life. Complaining has never been more entertaining!

A limpid biography at its finest... interesting and necessary Oliver Rhodes, ReactionWhen Keir Starmer won the Labour Party Leadership election in April 2020, the expectation was that he would quickly become a fierce Leader of the Opposition. Instead, his performance was not as sure-footed as his supporters had hoped for, or his opponents feared. Nigel Cawthorne attended Starmers grammar school a few years before him (and David Walliams). He goes in search of the man behind the headlines, the lawyer who was covered for almost three decades by a gown and horsehair wig in one of Britains most cloistered professions. Good on his legal career, and grammar school new to me. Andrew Sparrow, Senior Political Correspondent Guardian

Forensic Daily MailVirginia (Roberts) Giuffre had nothing. Her all-American childhood came to an abrupt end by sexual abuse when she was 7. Finally, aged 14, her luck seemed to turn with a summer job as spa attendant at Donald Trumps exclusive Mar-a-Lago in Florida. It was here that the young girl was hunted by elegant jet-setter Ghislaine Maxwell who said her millionaire partner Jeffrey Epstein would sponsor her to become a professional masseuse... This is the first book to tell Virginias own extraordinary and inspiring tale as a penniless high-school drop-out forced into sexual servitude and how she was able to outsmart her two rich underage-sex predators and forced an end to their crimes.

By far the funniest. Telegraph From Prince Philips blunt speech making, to his fearless mocking of officials and captains of industry, to his fond teasing of Her Majesty herself, here is a truly regal celebration of his unusual daily life in royal circles.

Perdedores es el emocionante relato en primera persona de unos cuantos de los millones de personas que combatieron contra los Aliados en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Recurre a las auténticas voces de los protagonistas, soldados y civiles alemanes y japoneses, para relatar sus experiencias. Sus palabras salen de diarios, cartas, informes de interrogatorios, entrevistas y memorias personales. Fascinante e instructivo, Perdedores revela como fue el conflicto para dos pueblos conducidos al desastre por unos lideres avidos de poder y fanaticos. Los testimonios del conflicto relatan en primera persona los horrores de la guerra y de los dias inmediatos posteriores al final de la contienda. Los estremecedores relatos de los supervivientes, soldados, civiles, mujeres y niños, revelan las terribles consecuencias de la guerra para una poblacion cuyos lideres, avidos de ambicion y poder, los llevaron al desastre.Con la lectura de los testimonios en primera persona de los protagonistas del libro, el lector se convertira en un espectador privilegiado de la fatalidad de la guerra a traves de los ojos de los perdedores. La guerra de los que la perdieron. En el aire, el mar, la selva, la arena y la nieve. Terribles y elocuentes testimonios de la derrota. Jacinto Anton, EL PAIS

CELTAS Y GERMANOS CONTRA ROMA FRANCISCO GRACIA EXPERTO EN LA GUERRA EN LA PROTOHISTORIA ANALIZA LOS ENFRENTA- MIENTO DESDE COMIEZOS DEL SIGLO. IV A.C. HASTA EL SIGLO I D.C. "Una obra, pues, que desgrana unos acontecimientos apasionantes y necesarias para comprender por qué Europa es lo que es, pero que , además, se lee como un entretenido libro de historia militar" No 9 DE LA REVISTA DESPERTA FERRO PERDEDORES «La guerra de los que la perdieron. En el aire, el mar, la selva, la arena y la nieve. Terribles y elocuen- tes testimonios de la derrota». JACINTO ANTÓN, EL PAÍS "¿Derrota superada? El libro sitúa en el punto de mira a los Perdedores de la segunda guerra mundial Pocas veces caemos en que el silencio de los vencidos no es tal. Naturalmente, alemanes y japone- ses, militares y civiles, hablaban y escribían sobre sus experiencias de guerra. Enva-lentonados, con- vencidos de su causa, vacilantes, cansados u horrorizados, sus testimonios existen.

On 8 March, 00:41, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. At 01:19, the pilot bid air traffic control good night. Two minutes later, the plane and its 227 passengers vanished from the skies. No trace has been found.The disappearance of flight MH370 has horrified people across the globe. In an age where a stolen smartphone can be pinpointed to any location on earth, the vanishing of a cruise liner and 227 passengers is the greatest mystery since the Mary Celeste.Experienced author and journalist Nigel Cawthorne has researched the case with incredible thoroughness, revealing the most compelling explanations behind the mystery gripping the world.

I no longer want to live someone elses idea of who and what I should be. Im going to be me.I just absolutely thought I was the luckiest girl in the world.Diana Spencers engagement to Prince Charles, announced in 1981, first cast the spotlight on the young girl who was to become one of the most intriguing and influential royals in modern history despite deep and exasperated resistance in traditional royal circles, not least from some of her in-laws.Until her tragic death in 1997 at the age of 36, Diana frequently gave interviews and shared her thoughts with many people. In this fresh portrait of Diana on her own life, Nigel Cawthorne gathers her most salient words from the very first till the very last - some known, some forgotten. They show a remarkable woman whose struggles, passion and compassion, continue to inspire two decades later.

Ghislaine Maxwell had everythingHer jetset world was not only made up of Presidents, top billionaires, Hollywood stars, Kennedys and Rockefellers, but also of princes, princesses, dukes and duchesses, all as regular friends - including university friend Prince Andrew, the favorite son of the Queen of England. Yet she still wanted more. Ghislaine met shadowy billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and amassed a fortune of almost $30 million over the course of their friendship. Her arrest by the FBI in July 2020 - almost a year to the day of Epsteins second arrest on sex charges - proved a stinging fall from grace as $30 million bail was refused. Having always strenuously denied all allegations, she contested the allegations in court after being held for a long-time in a Brooklyn facility pending what the press dubbed the trial of the century. GHISLAINE MAXWELL leaves no stone unturned and is the first investigation based on all new sources available. An explosive true story, GHISLAINE MAXWELL is a riveting tale of wealth, and the law, reaching deep into the highest levels of our society.

Sex scandals, some historical but many contemporary, involving political figures, celebrities, movie stars, sports stars, musicians and artists, from Julius Caesars affair with Cleopatra, which scandalized Rome and may have contributed to his murder, to what exactly IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn did or didnt get up to in that New York hotel room. Englands Edward II was put to death by having a red-hot poker shoved up those parts in which he had been wont to make his vicious pleasures and James Dean was known as the human ashtray for the pleasure he took in having cigarettes stubbed out on his body, but from Silvio Berlusconi to Tiger Woods, many have been more focused on pleasure than pain. Even Barack Obama gets a look in - did he have an affair with Vera Baker?

A comprehensive guide to P. G. Wodehouses two best-loved comic characters, Bertram Wilbeforce Wooster and his valet (Reggie) Jeeves, Berties friends and relatives and their world of sunshine, country houses and champagne. Although the stories may seem quintessentially English, they were for the most part written in the United States by a man who spent more than half his adult life there, eventually becoming a citizen in 1955. The first stories involving the two characters are even set in New York, while those that arent are set in an England that has never existed, contrived to appeal to an American audience. Cawthorne offers fascinating insights into Wodehouses world, his life - on Long Island and elsewhere - the wonderful short stories and novels and the many adaptations for stage and screen.

30 inside stories of the American Mafia, Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Camorra and NdranghetaImages of life in the Mob pervade our film and TV screens, some glamorous, some horrific - what is the reality? Investigative journalist Roger Wilkes has put together the largest ever collection of insider stories from prominent ex-mafiosi, infiltrators and award-winning writers. It contains tell-all accounts by the likes of:Richard The Iceman Kuklinski, the contract killer who claimed to have murdered over 200 people in a career lasting 43 years.Frankie Saggio, who freelanced for all five of New Yorks Mafia families, narrowly escaping assassination before being busted for a major scam.Joey Black, the Hitman, chillingly professional murderer of 38 victims and regarded by many as the original Soprano.Albert DeMeo, the son of a gangster, who later became a lawyer.Donnie Brasco, real name Joseph Pistone, the FBI agent, who worked undercover in the Bonanno and Colombo crime families in New York for six years.Tommaso Buscetta, the Sicilian mafioso, the first pentito, or informant, of real significance to break omerta. The two judges with whom he worked, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, were both later killed by the Mafia.This is the reality of the world of men you wouldnt want to cross.

London abounds with all manner of ludicrous laws, and not all of these curious statutes have been relegated to the past. Despite the efforts of the Law Commission there are medieval laws that are still in force, and the City of London and its livery companies have their own legal oddities. Laws are made in the capital because parliament is here; so are the Old Bailey, the Law Courts, the House of Lords and, now, the Supreme Court. The privy council, which sometimes has to decide cases, also sits in London, and there were other courts that used to sit in London, from prize courts concerning war booty to ecclesiastical courts. Having maintained its ancient rights and freedoms under Magna Carta, the City felt free to enact its own laws, many of which seem to have had to do with what people could wear. Until quite recently, for example, a man could be arrested for walking down the street wearing a wig, a robe and silk stockings - unless he was a judge. And all human folly has been paraded through the law courts of London, to the extent that it is difficult to know where the serious business of administering justice ends and where farce begins. As law is made in the courtroom as well as in parliament and elsewhere, judges like to keep a firm hand, but sometimes so-called jibbing juries will simply not do what they are told. All sorts of oddities get swept up into the law. Legislators particularly love to pass Acts about sex. If sexual services are being offered in a London massage parlour, for example, a police officer must then search the premises for school children. According to TheChildren and Young Persons Act of 1933 it is against the law for children and yowling persons between the age of four and sixteen to frequent a brothel. A writ was introduced under both Edward III and Henry IV to ban lawyers from parliament as there were too many of them, the reason being that it was easier for a lawyer to spend his time in London attending parliament that it was for a knight of the shires. But because parliament was already packed with lawyers it was difficult to make any such rule stick. Then an effective way of excluding them was found. They were denied the wages paid to members in those days. Sadly, these days, parliament and the government are packed with lawyers once again. And they are being paid.A law passed in 1540 - and still in force today - makes it illegal for barbers in the City of London to practise surgery; with impeccable impartiality, the Act also forbids surgeons to cut hair. Finally, never forget that under the Vagrancy Act of 1824, you can be convicted of being an idle and disorderly person, or a rogue, vagabond, or incorrigible rogue. The same act also outlaws people professing to tell fortunes, including palmistry. Under the Act, it is an offence merely to be suspected.