Some suggestions for holiday reading
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810
Hell’s Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Civilisation – The West and the Rest
The Spy Who Disappeared: Diary of a Secret Mission to Russian Central Asia in 1918
Gerald Ashley 
hi best of luck with the op next week
Have you read any of these ?
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Yes all of them – have had dinner with two of them (separately) Messrs McGilchrist and Ferguson
The book on Pepys is particularly good IMHO