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Current bedside reading includes Jeremy Rosenblatt, How to Do your Own Divorce: A Step-By-Step Guide (buy it here). Oddly, the author claims that the 'British are reluctant to look too closely at themselves as individuals because this is regarded as unhealthy self-obsession' (p.15). If only! Admittedly it's the 2001 edition, but where's the author been hiding for the last 15 years?