Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay covers Tom Hodgkinson combines practical advice

Tom Hodgkinson combines practical advice with laugh-out-loud anecdote to create a refreshingly candid guidebook for all of us who aspire to a greater degree of freedom in our working lives

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has “never gone away”

from Almond Paste Croissants and Chocolate and Amaretti Custard to Tagliolini with Prawns

substituting abstractions such as “progress” and “humanity” for faith in God

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay covers Tom Hodgkinson combines practical adviceExtraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is the original guide to behavioural psychology and how manias, follies and superstitions begin, spread and (eventually) pass. A hugely entertaining tour through financial scams and stock market bubbles, alchemical quests and prophecy wars, duelling bouts and relic hunts, the book is as insightful and memorable today as when it was first published over 150 years ago. This edition comes with an