It is always a source of great interest and pleasure for me when someone I am acquainted with, and have built up some degree of friendship with, surprises me by doing something remarkable and something that makes them stand out from the crowd for all the right reasons, as a person of substance, and it has therefore been with keen interest that I have recently devoured the kind of book that I would not normally…

By Max Musson: It is not often that a book written and first published decades ago suddenly rises to the top of the best seller lists without any marketing or promotional campaigns driving sales. It is even rarer when the author is nominally one of the most reviled and hated men in history and when the book in question has been almost universally panned by literary critics as unreadably turgid and the ‘rabid rantings’ of…