Profile: 418 books
The Answers
All the office questions you never dared to ask
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Should I tell my boss what I think of him?"How can I be more political and still be myself?"I have to sack my friend or fire someone better."I am a foreigner and my views are ignoredTypical conundrums faced by many of us, and just a few of the hundreds sent every week to Lucy Kellaway's...
Decline & Fall
Diaries 2005-2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
On the backbenches but still in the thick of it, Decline and Fall runs from Chris Mullin's sacking as a minister by Tony ('The Man') Blair in 2005 to the fall of New Labour in May 2010. Here is politics as it really is: entertaining encounters with constituents and conspirators, tantalising glimpses...
Lessons from the Top
The three universal stories that all successful leaders tell
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Great leaders have always understood the power of stories. Through the stories they tell, the most successful leaders educate, persuade and bring about change, but we rarely have the background knowledge to explore how they do so. In this hugely insightful guide to getting to the top, leading journalist...
Events, Dear Boy, Events
A Political Diary of Britain 1921-2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Ruth Winstone retells Britain's history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it, showing the elation, anger, doubts, jealousy, joys and fears of...
A Walk-On Part
Diaries 1994-1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
The third and final volume of Chris Mullin's acclaimed diaries begins on the night John Smith died in May 1994, and continues until the moment of Mullin's assumption into government in July 1999. Together with the bestselling A View from the Foothills and Decline & Fall, the complete trilogy covers...
by Alan Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Alan Bennett's second story. This time, set in the 1970s, in classic Bennett country, Yorkshire. 'On the many occasions Midgley had killed his father, death had always come easily. He died promptly, painlessly and without a struggle. Looking back, Midgley could see that even in these imagined deaths...
The Age of Instability
The Global Financial Crisis and What Comes Next
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Bored with endless grandstanding and people being wise after the event? Then The Age of Instability is the one book you should read on the financial crisis. Setting the near collapse of the international financial markets and banking system in a global and historical context, Sunday Times economics...
Something Will Turn Up
Britain’s Economy, Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
As the prevailing winds of the global economy have changed, so Britain has been buffeted from boom to bust and back again. But how much is our country's economic landscape shaped by the huge forces of international capital - and the hope that 'something will turn up' - and how much by the individual...
by David Kynaston
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
An engaging account of the rise and dominance of the City of London, arguably the most important phenomenon of British history in the last 300 years. 'The City today is the most dynamic and world-beating sector of the British economy. Increasingly, it is the City that calls the shots. More than ever,...
Blue Eyed Salaryman
From world traveller to lifer at Mitsubishi
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Why on earth would anyone give up a life on the open road for the regimen of a vast Japanese conglomerate? And is it really so different in Japan from everywhere else? Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveller - hitchhiking to Istanbul, bussing to Kathmandu and crossing the Atlantic in a home-built...
Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtime
The Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtime
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Why do so many people go on about queuing? Have we always been obsessed with traffic? And why do so many of us now eat lunch at our computers - al desko? We spend our days catching buses and trains, writing emails, shopping, queuing...But we know almost nothing about these activities. Exploring the...
Africa: Crude Continent
The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Based on thirty years in the global oil game, intimate knowledge of African history and direct experience of over forty countries, this comprehensive book shows that Africa's flaws are not the whole story, when it comes to the continent's history. A definitive yet original account of the rush for...
Ambiguous Republic
Ireland in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Hard-nosed scholarship and moral passion underpin Diarmaid Ferriter's work. Now he turns to the key years of the 70s, when after half a century of independence, questions were being asked about the old ways of doing things. Ambiguous Republic considers the widespread social, cultural, economic and...
Flashes of Thought
Lessons in life and leadership from the man behind Dubai
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
If you thought it was worth hearing the insights of a man at the head of a major corporation or who has turned around a disaster-prone technology company, here's a new level. This book is packed with ideas for governance, leadership and life from the man behind the city that's home to the world's...