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  • Life At The Botom

    On the street, which was ankle-deep in discarded fast-food wrappings, I saw a woman who had pulled down her trousers and tied a pair of plastic breasts to her bare buttocks, while a man crawled after her on the sidewalk, licking them. At midnight along this street – with the sound of rock music pounding insistently out of club doors presided over by steroid-inflated bouncers, among men vomiting ... Read more

    $7.49 CAD

  • Nothing but Wickedness

    The Delusions of Our Culture

    Nothing But Wickedness delves into society's subtle—and some not so subtle—transgressions that contribute to the decline of our culture. Theodore Dalrymple, drawing on his extensive experience as an inner-city GP and prison psychiatrist, examines the underlying factors that drive societal behaviours and self-deception. The book covers a range of thought-provoking topics, including what drives ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Life at the Bottom

    The Worldview that Makes the Underclass 25th Anniversary Edition

    Now in a 25th anniversary edition, featuring a foreword from bestselling author Rob Henderson of the Manhattan Institute and a new postscript from Theodore Dalrymple."A classic for our times. It is as fundamental for understanding the world we live in as the three R's." -Thomas SowellAs a British psychiatrist who treated the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, Theodore Dalrymple had ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

  • The Knife Went In

    Real-Life Murderers and Our Culture

    More than half a century ago, George Orwell wrote an essay about the decline of the English murder. Since the 1990s, Theodore Dalrymple has witnessed its modern variety in real life. For over a quarter of a century he has treated and examined many more murderers than most as a prison doctor, psychiatrist, and court expert in some of Britain's most deprived areas. Here, he delves deep into his life ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder

    The twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson chided Agatha Christie for her “mawkishness and banality” and declared her work “literally impossible to read.” Even if this were so, that Agatha Christie’s books were mere trash of no intellectual substance whatever, the fact that they were (and are) of such worldwide appeal might be worth investigating. How is it that books whose action takes ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • An Englishman's Home…

    … Is His Car Park - Indifference as a Way of Life

    How did Britain become a nation seemingly resigned to its own indifference? In this sharp and entertaining critique, Theodore Dalrymple dissects the cultural decline through a series of observations of everyday slovenliness. From the paved-over front gardens that become car parks to the carelessness toward civic beauty, Dalrymple argues that a collective affection for what is held in common is ... Read more

    $17.69 CAD

  • Neither Trumpets Nor Violins

    New English Review Press once again takes on the great ideas of our time in this sequel to The Terror of Existence by Theodore Dalrymple and Kenneth Francis. This volume adds another interesting mind to the mix: the philosopher Samuel Hux. Together these thinkers take on some of the most prominent philosophers influencing our age, pointing out strengths and weaknesses in their works, worldviews. ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ramses

    A Memoir

    Ramses was the best dog in the world, the cleverest, friendliest, most expressive, understanding, amusing dog that ever was, and it was only a happy coincidence that he happened to be ours. ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Litter

    The Remains of Our Culture

    'What a book.' Clive Aslet, Country Life 'Characteristically brilliant.' Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times 'A little oasis of sanity.' Daily Mail. Driving the four hundred miles from Glasgow to London, Theodore Dalrymple found practically every yard of roadside to be littered with rubbish flapping in the wind like Buddhist prayer flags. What does it say about a culture when a country tips its rubbish ... Read more

    $6.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Praise of Folly

    The Blind-spots of Our Mind

    Travelling to the hard-living Dylan Thomas's Boathouse in Laugharne, Wales, psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple considered along the way another foible – the folly of eminent people. Praised for their attainments in one area, high-achievers are more often than not prone to unexpected failings elsewhere. Enter a large cast of anti- and vivisectionists, surgeons, theologians, philosophers, admirals, ... Read more

    $12.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pleasure of Thinking

    A Journey through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas

    What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways thinking. In The Pleasure of Thinking he takes us on a witty and erudite voyage along the hidden ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spoilt Rotten

    The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality

    Not since Christopher Hitchens assault on Mother Theresa have so many sacred cows been slaughtered in such a short volume.' Spectator 'One of our most celebrated essayists.' Toby Young, Mail on Sunday '[A] cultural highlight.' Observer 'Surgical demolition.' Guardian In this perceptive and witty book, Theodore Dalrymple unmasks the hidden sentimentality that is suffocating public life. Under the ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus