Nick Yapp: 2 books

This is a moving, thought-provoking, and at times hilarious account of the highs and lows of one teacher’s life in a pioneering inner-city school for damaged and difficult children in the 1970s.   Memoirs of a Maladjusted Teacher is the true account of one teacher’s struggle to...

"France is a country that eats, drinks and breathes philosophy. There is not a farmer, fisherman, waiter, car-worker, shop assistant or housewife who isn't a closet Diderot or Descartes, a Saint-Simon or a Sartre." "French politicians look smart because power itself is chic,...