THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times, Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year''Shocking and moving'' Guardian''Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose’ The TimesAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England''s most England''s most exclusive boarding schools. Here he reveals the strange secrets of the school, and the culture of cruelty and abuse he experienced in his five years there as pupil.Spencer reflects on the misery, hopelessness and abandonment he felt aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the vicious brutality of a boys'' school in the 1970s. All these years later, Spencer''s bafflement at the teachers'' motivations to inflict such cruelty on young children in palpable. As is his fury that, even if somehow he had spoken up, he''d never have been believed.Charles Spencer''s book ''A Very Private School'' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 11-03-2024.

A WARREN OF WEIRD AND WONDERFUL FACTS AND TALES RESCUED FROM OBSCURITY Gift the first trivia book from the team behind the hit history podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives, investigating the provenance of historical objects, real and metaphorical, with intelligence and humour 'Compulsively dip-in-able' The Times----Ever fallen down a rabbit hole?Ever got lost chasing a fact, a hunch or a curious piece of cultural ephemera?Then the Rabbit Hole Detectives - Richard Coles, Cat Jarman and Charles Spencer - are here to do the burrowing for you.Why were eight WWII Hurricane fighter planes buried in Ukraine?What have chimpanzees to do with the invention of toilet paper?How many dynamite sticks should not be used to blow up a whale?Which ancient civilisation liked a short tongue and a shaved head?Written to accompany the unforgettable hit podcast, The Rabbit Hole Book follows Richard, Cat and Charles as they investigate and elucidate weird and wonderful curiosities from history, telling stories that are as often dumbfounding as they are gripping, as unexpected as they are hilarious or deeply moving.What are you waiting for?Welcome to the warren . . .Whatever you think you know, guess again.

Kniha "Osobní nasazení /prac.název" spadá do žánru Krimi, detektivky. Autorem je Spencer Charles. Kniha je brožovaná. Obsahuje 183 stran. Jedná se o počin nakladatelství "Olympia" z roku 2006. Přejeme příjemné čtení.