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Out of the Desert
My Journey From Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The extraordinary memoir of global oil's former central banker
Ali Al-Naimi is the former Saudi oil minister - and OPEC kingpin - a position he held for the two decades between August 1995 and May 2016. In this time, Al-Naimi's briefest utterances moved markets. But it wasn't always that way.
Al-Naimi...
by Fanny Trollope
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But what followed...
Any Ordinary Day
Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing...
Milligan's Meaning of Life
An Autobiography of Sorts
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British comedy, leaving a legacy of influence that stretches from Monty Python's Flying Circus to the work of self-confessed acolytes such as Eddie Izzard and Stephen Fry today.
Throughout his life,...
Fern
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
The much-loved TV star Fern Britten tells her story for the first time in her Sunday Times bestselling memoir.
For years now, Fern Britton has been widely loved as the presenter ofReady Steady Cook, and, more recently, co-presenter of This Morning with Philip Schofield. Never one to shy away...
Who Really Runs Ireland?
The story of the elite who led Ireland from bust to boom ... and back again
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The story of the elite who led Ireland from bust to boom ... and back to bust again
Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it ... this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs...
by Matt Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
The definitive account of the tumultuous events that led to Ireland going broke in 2010
From the night the Irish government guaranteed the debts of Irish banks in September 2008 Ireland was on a one-way road to ruin.
In How Ireland Really Went Bust Matt Cooper, journalist, broadcaster...
The Untouchables
The people who helped wreck Ireland - and are still running the show
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
A devastating new exposé from the bestselling authors of The Bankers and Wasters.
In March 2011, the Irish people elected a new government. But how much had really changed? In The Untouchables, Shane Ross and Nick Webb shine a light into dark corners of official Ireland to show that the blame...
The Bankers
How the Banks Brought Ireland to Its Knees
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
As recently as 2007, the Irish economy was still booming and the state coffers overflowing; by the end of 2008, the state faces an unprecedented crisis. The story of the Irish banking collapse is a tawdry tale of collusion, back-scratching and denial among bankers, developers, regulators and politicians.
This...
The Bank That Lived a Little
Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of boardroom intrigue at one of Britain's biggest financial institutions. In a tale of feuds, grandiose dreams and a struggle for supremacy between rival strategies...
The Builders
How a Small Group of Property Developers Fuelled the Building Boom and Transformed Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
In the past fifteen years, Ireland has gone from being one of the poorest countries in the EU to one of the richest in the world. Of all the factors in this extraordinary transformation, none has been more prominent than the astonishing boom in construction. In The Builders, Frank McDonald and Kathy...
by Shane Ross, Nick Webb
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
During the years when all seemed well with the Irish economy, a scandal bloomed in front of our faces but went mostly unnoticed: the scandal of public waste. Vast overspending on infrastructure (including a number of white elephants), extravagant use of overpriced consultants, the creation of dozens...
Bust
How the Courts Have Exposed the Rotten Heart of the Irish Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
When, after fifteen years of runaway growth based largely on property speculation, the Irish economy finally crashed, Ireland's bankers and developers tried to keep themselves out of sight. But they couldn't keep themselves out of court - and it is in the courtrooms that the full, sickening drama...
Rules for Modern Life
A Connoisseur's Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Do gentlemen wear shorts? What are the rules regarding interior decor in a high-security prison? Is it ever acceptable to send Valentine's cards to one's pets?
The twenty-first century is an age of innumerable social conundrums. Around every corner lies a potential faux pas waiting to happen....