Strange Days Indeed, by Francis Wheen.

An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century.

A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it, wrote Karl Marx in 1845. This book tells the story of Marx's twenty-year fight to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Das Kapital was born in a two-room flat in Soho amid political squabbles and personal tragedy.

While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world.

Karl Marx (1818-1883) is arguably the most famous political philosopher of all time, but he was also one of the great foreign correspondents of the nineteenth century. During his eleven years writing for the New York Tribune , Marx tackled an abundance of topics, from issues of class and the state to world affairs.

The Bizarre Life of a Fraudulent Genius. 'The Irresistible Con' is the gloriously bizarre story of a conman extraordinaire, and one of Francis Wheen's funniest pieces of writing yet.

First published in 1867, Das Kapital was an original criticism of the capitalist world. Its ideas would alter the course of history.

A savagely witty account of the last quarter century, when despite a great leap forward in technology there has been a huge, regressive collapse in our ability to think straightso that everything has begun to stop making sense

Topics covered in this collection of Francis Wheen's articles include the follies of think-tanks, the future of swearing, the hypocrisy of New Labour and the madness of retired prime ministers, as well as shady business deals and scabrous gossip.