TY - BOOK AU - Knott,Matthew Hammett TI - A class of their own: adventures of a tutor to the super rich SN - 9781398701892 (hbk.) : AV - LC41 U1 - 920 KNO 23 PY - 2022/// CY - London PB - Trapeze KW - Knott, Matthew Hammett. KW - Knott, Matthew Hammett KW - Tutors and tutoring KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Children of the rich KW - Education KW - eflch KW - ukslc KW - Biography & non-fiction prose KW - thema KW - Biography: general KW - Autobiography: business & industry KW - Teaching skills & techniques KW - Humour N2 - A naked Russian oligarch is spanking me in his basement. His weapon is a birch branch, the setting his luxurious home sauna. Above us is 30,000 square feet of one of Moscow's most obscene private homes, an original Damien Hirst above the fireplace, a vacuum cleaning system built into the skirting boards. Invisible speakers serenade us with a desolate pan pipe cover of 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'. A light display rotates kaleidoscopically, illuminating the oligarch's genitals in a variety of unexpected hues. Everyone is silent. Then the oligarch's son Nikita looks at me with a mysterious smile. 'Now my mother will bring us honey.' Matt Knott spent over a decade traveling the globe as a private tutor. With brilliant honesty and wit, he takes us inside a world most of us only glimpse speeding past in a luxury SUV ER -