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Mr Wilder and Me

In the heady summer of 1977, a naive young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world.

On a Greek island film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she spends in this glamorous, unfamiliar new life will change her for good.

While Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself is living with the realisation that his star may be on the wane. Rebuffed by Hollywood, he has financed his new film with German money, and when Calista follows him to Munich for the shooting of further scenes, she finds herself joining him on a journey of memory into the dark heart of his family history.

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo

In this revolutionary book, prize-winning economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how economics can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems. From immigration to inequality, slowing growth to accelerating climate change, we have the resources to address the challenges we face but we are so often blinded by ideology.

Original, provocative and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times offers the new thinking that we need. It builds on cuttingedge research in economics and exploring the most effective solutions to alleviate extreme poverty to make a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect.