ClarissaClarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, wife of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, once famously said: 'For the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing room.' With her impressive intellect and acerbic wit, she was a highly influential muse to many leading figures over several decades. At Oxford in the 1940s she fascinated dons and undergraduates alike. She went on to work in the film world for Alexander Korda and for

In his dotage he handed over care of the family firm to his two eldest daughters

A hundred individual histories

Marlene Wegener is on the run

All of Europe is a battleground

Carly Simon has had a career that has spanned four decades

HIS TRUE IDENTITY IS SO SECRET

prizewinning author of 'How to Live' and 'At the Existentialist Café' explores 700 years of writers

For tens of thousands of years

In this hopeless place

would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box

logic and ethics

were we protect our beliefs aggressively and ignore any evidence that we might be wrong