Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life by Tiffany Jenkins Groundswell Speaker 2024 Do colleagues roll their eyes

Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism

Alistair Moffat travels to - and through the history of - the fated island of Lindisfarne

And it can only be found on a single planet: the inhospitable desert world Arrakis

If home is where the heart is

But when her friend and fellow writer begins to date a glamorous actress

Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life by Tiffany Jenkins Groundswell Speaker 2024 Do colleagues roll their eyes'Brilliantly original . . . endlessly fascinating' Alice Loxton, author of Eighteen 'An intricate cultural history . . . thought provoking' The Sunday Times 'Lucid and elegant' The Telegraph From ancient times to our digital present, Strangers and Intimates traces the dramatic emergence of private life, and argues that it is now in mortal danger. In this sweeping history, acclaimed cultural historian Tiffany Jenkins takes readers on an epic journey,