The untold story of Winston Churchill's precarious finances - and the most original and surprising book about Churchill to emerge for many years. The popular image of Churchill - grandson of a duke, drinking champagne and smoking a cigar - conjures up a man of wealth and substance. The reality is that Britain's most celebrated 20th-century statesman lived for most of his life on a financial cliff-edge. Only fragments of information about his finances, or their impact on his public life, have previously emerged. With the help of unprecedented access to Churchill's private records, David Lough creates the first fully researched narrative of Churchill's private finances and business affairs. As he reveals the scale of Churchill's financial risk-taking, combined with an ability to talk or write himself out of the tightest of corners, the links between the private man and public figure become clear.

Great poets love words and with this gift they provoke to life images and experiences stored in some deep closet of the readers consciousness that have the familiarity of smoothing ones cheek against the cool faux fur of a loved coat long forgotten but all at once remembered. Eric David Lough writes with a sensual honesty that provokes you to celebrate your humanity, to get up and live, to feel, to see the world, to relish the meandering of your soul. Poetry is about a love affair with words and the journey of courageous souls. Eric David Lough is alive, he has travelled the side roads of existence, he is frighteningly honest and is one of the great contemporary American poets of our age.

In a world where honesty and integrity have become the hallmarks of lying politicians and media dog packs mongrelize truth like a love letter to the hungry, Eric David Lough's poetry is like mana to the soul of anyone lost for honest words. Inspirational poetry is not the soul property of the learned and wise or the metaphysical pursuit of them privileged by birth, good fortune or status. Poetry belongs to those who have the courage to feel and to look at themselves with the compassion of a physician, and the mind of a comedian. "The Baritones Came in Strong Making the Knees Go Weak" is filled with passionate, excellent, raw writing. A must have.

Insane Earth is Eric David Lough's 3rd poetry book that is filled with raw and real poems worthy for any poetry lover of the modern world. Here we find the hallmark honesty of Lough, with words powerfully placed in a way that creates in the reader a sense of being on that same path, the communion of travellers at the end of a long day, the sharing of the cup of existence.

"Sidewalk Blues" is Eric David Lough's 5th poetry book. Sidewalk Blues is filled with new poems about booze, love, hate, sex, violence and the life of a very raw and bona fide man.