THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN'Patrick’s book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back to basics’ JOE LYCETTWe used to care a lot about our clothes. We didn’t have many but those we had were important to us. We’d cherish them, repair them and pass them on. And making them provided fulfilling work for mi...

“…aspirations to perfection awaken us to our actual imperfection.” It is in the space between these aspirations and our inability to achieve them that Grant reflects upon imperfection. Grant argues that an awareness of imperfection, defined as both suffering and the need for justice, drives us to an unrelenting search for perfection, freedom, and self-determination. The twenty-one brief chapters of Imperfection develop this governing idea as it relates to the present situation of ...

Art historians, biographers, and other researchers have long drawn on Van Gogh’s voluminous correspondence—more than eight hundred letters—for insights into both his personal struggles and his art. But the letters, while often admired for their literary quality, have rarely been approached as literature. In this volume, Patrick Grant sets out to explore the question, “By what criteria do we judge Van Gogh's letters to be, specifically, literary?” Drawing, especially, on Mikhail Bakhtin’s c...

Feelings of rootlessness, fragmentation and loneliness are endemic in today’s secular societies. In the late nineteenth century, Émile Durkheim described this kind of social malaise as anomie, a concept this book locates within a historical narrative of the emergence of Modernism from Modernity. The book focuses on two representative figures, Benedictus de Spinoza and Vincent van Gogh, on whose works it offers significant new perspectives. Spinoza drew up a blueprint for Modernity, which i...

A Straightforward Guide to Pensions and the Pensions Industry is a concise guide to the changing world of pensions and the pensions industry as a whole. People who are now confused by the many and varied pensions on offer and also bewildered by the sheer number of providers will be enlightened by this comprehensive guide. The book will also shed light on the current climate where uncertainty concerning pensions and annuities is prevalent. In particular changes to retirement ages will be hi...

Federal prosecutor Mickey Crane finds himself on the other side of the courtroom when he testifies as an alibi witness on behalf of his former girlfriend Darlene Turner. Turner is charged with the cold-case murder of magazine publisher Johnny Reed that occurred on July 4, 1976 in California. Crane testifies that he proposed to Turner in Michigan on that date. Despite Crane’s testimony, the evidence against Turner is overwhelming. The prosecution has an eye-witness, the murder weapon, and a...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN'Patrick’s book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back to basics’ JOE LYCETTWe used to care a lot about our clothes. We didn’t have many but those we had were important to us. We’d cherish them, repair them and pass them on. And making them provided fulfilling work for mi...

This Revised edition of A Straightforward Guide to Personal Pensions and The Pension Industry has been rewritten extensively and updates essential information and including relevant changes to law and practice to 2022. The book is a practical and informative guide for those who want to know more about their pension options, both state and private pensions, and also taxation. With the aid of this invaluable guide, the whole of the pensions maze should be rendered that much clearer.

Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh’s reputation grew and developed through the remarkably symbiotic relationship evident between his paintings and letters. However, the sheer bulk and complexity of Van Gogh’s complete surviving correspondence presents a formidable challenge to those who wish to read and analyze the whole text as a literary work.Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once an interpretive guide to Van Gogh’s letters and a distillation of the key themes that reoc...

A Straightforward Guide to Getting the Best Out of Your Retirement Revised Edition (2025) is a companion volume to Planning for Retirement and outlines all of the many possibilities and opportunities open to those people who have reached retirement age and beyond who need a clear picture of what they can obtain and access, including different levels of care, plus possible employment opportunities and also the role of different organisations.

A Straightforward Guide to Getting the Best Out of Your Retirement is a companion volume to Planning Retirement Finances. This book concentrates specifically on housing, health and leisure opportunities following retirement.

A Straightforward Guide to Planning for Retirement - Managing Retirement Finances, Revised Edition demonstrates clearly how those of retirement age and beyond can maximise their income and so Enjoy their retirement. Whilst it has always been important to plan for Retirement, it is now more crucial than ever, to ensure that people understand the opportunities available to them, particularly following problems caused by COVID 19. This book demonstrates clearly the growth areas and also the a...