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Francis Wheen is a writer, broadcaster and journalist with a weekly column in the Guardian. His first book, The Soul of Discretion: Tom Driberg, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. His second work, Karl Marx, was a bestseller and was nominated for the WH Smith Literary Award, the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Orwell Prize and the Silver Pen Award. From the reviews of Karl Marx: 'A magnificently lively, compulsively readable book' AN Wilson, Spectator 'Stunning... witty, subtle and beautifully written' Independent 'An unmitigated delight' Niall Ferguson, Mail on Sunday'A triumph' Financial Times