A Study in Failure Kam François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol

François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol had changed the rules of film-making forever

these bites of mundane madness mark the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and will leave you hungering for more

a financially desperate in-law

Almost everyone is familiar with Monte Carlo's association with gambling

An undercover assignment for the Bow Street magistrate sees Lizzie Hardwicke trade Mrs Farley's Bawdy House in Soho for life as a seamstress at a theatre on Drury Lane

A Study in Failure Kam François Truffaut and Claude ChabrolEvery politician's rise to power is a story of success and failure, accompanied by tantalising what might have beens. The career of Winston Churchill was no exception, with his eight months prior to becoming Prime Minister as First Lord of the Admiralty marked by the loss of important warships, the planning of disastrous expeditions and the design of impractical weapons. Based on archival and biographical research, this account argues that Churchill's