Fantastic news: Theodore Zeldin's Hidden Pleasures of Life is the winner of the Transmission Prize. Now in its fourth year, Salon London's Transmission Prize rewards writers, speakers, scientists, philosophers and activists for their ideas and the way they communicate them. Of this year's prize, the judges said: "The philosopher’s work, using conversation to uncover the 'dark matter' of each other's minds, was voted the biggest, boldest and most interesting idea by the 2016 Transmission Prize panel. This year's prize centred on effective and personal ideas for change and no one captured this ethos as persuasively as Theodore." Zeldin has been named ‘one of the forty world figures whose ideas are likely to have a lasting relevance to the new millennium’ ( Independent on Sunday ). His books Conversations and An Intimate History of Humanity are international bestsellers. The Indian edition of The Hidden Pleasures is a lovely paperback