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My Dining Hell - Twenty Ways To Have A Lousy Night Out

by Jay Rayner

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 An ebook filled with accounts of twenty restaurants - their chefs, their owners, their poor benighted front of house staff.
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Books, Movies, Rhythm, Blues - Twenty Years Of Writing About Film, Music And Books

by Nick Hornby

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 Books, Movies, Rhythm, Blues by Nick Hornby - a collection of writing about film, music and books Books, Movies, Rhythm, Blues is the companion volume to Fan Mail, Nick Hornby''s collection of writings on football. This second collection brings together the best of his other non-fiction pieces, on film and tv, writers and painters and music, and including one exceptional fragment of autobiography. With subject matter ranging from the Sundance Festival to Abbey Road Studios, from P.G. Wodehouse to The West Wing, these are pieces that ''were written for fun, or because I felt I had things to say and time to say them, or because the commissions were unusual and imaginative, or because ... I was being asked to go somewhere I had never been before.'' This Penguin Special, available exclusively as an ebook, can be read in two hours or less. It will be loved by readers of High Fidelity and About a Boy, as well as fans of Hornby everywhere.
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Fan Mail - Twenty Years Of Writing About Football

by Nick Hornby

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 Fan Mail: Twenty Years of Writing about Football by Nick Hornby, the bestselling author of Fever Pitch After the phenomenal success of Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby tried to avoid writing about football, for fear that he''d be writing about it forever. But occasionally over the years he''s found it impossible to turn down a particularly enticing assignment or, in the case of the 2012-13 Premier League, just unable to resist writing about that most spectacular of seasons. Fortunately for those who love great writing about football, all these fugitive pieces are collected in Fan Mail. You can follow the fortunes, as Hornby did, of a hopelessly out-of-their-depth Cambridge United in the old Second Division, discover why Perry Groves was an unlikely hero among Arsenal fans, enjoy Hornby trying to explain the World Cup to Americans, and share with him the pain of watching our national team. This Penguin Special, available exclusively as an ebook, can be read in two hours or less. It will be loved by readers of The Secret Footballer and Inverting the Pyramid, as well as fans of Hornby everywhere. ''Fever Pitch is the best football book ever written'' Nick Lezard, GQ
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Drugs Don'T Work - A Global Threat

by Jonathan Grant, Mike Catchpole e Professor Dame Sally Davies

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 Antibiotics add, on average, twenty years to our lives. For over seventy years, since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, we have survived extraordinary operations and life-threatening infections. We are so familiar with these wonder drugs that we take them for granted. This book deals with this topic.
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Benjamin Britten

by Igor Toronyi-Lalic

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 Benjamin Britten was one of the most important and unusual figures in twentieth-century music. This is the perfect introduction to his many wonderful works and his fascinating, controversial life. Benjamin Britten single-handedly transformed the reputation of British classical music. The enormous popular appeal of his great works, such as Peter Grimes (1945) and the Young Person''s Guide to the Orchestra (1946), make him the most successful opera composer of any born in the twentieth century. But his success was not without controversy and pain: he was accused of fleeing Britain to avoid military service, he was widely known to be sexually obsessed with boys and he suffered an astonishing array of illnesses. This short book combines a colourful overview of his life with pithy descriptions of all of his major musical works, providing an intimate portrait of this highly unusual man and a persuasive account of his influences, reputation and importance. Each chapter tackles a key episode and theme in his life, from his first compositions at the age of 5, his early friendship and collaboration with W H Auden and the beginnings of his life-long relationship with the tenor Peter Pears, through to his great musical successes and the establishment of the influential, if tempestuous, Aldeburgh Festival, as well as his failures, such as his coronation opera Gloriana (known as ''Boriana'') and being satirised by Dudley Moore in Beyond the Fringe - and ending with frank discussions of his naïve politics, his troubling sexuality and his glorious musical legacy. Published to coincide with his 100th anniversary of his birth, this is the perfect introduction to a towering figure of British culture. Igor Toronyi-Lalic is a critic and curator. He writes regularly on music for, among others, The Times and Sunday Telegraph. He is a founder of theartsdesk.com, the author of What''s That Thing? (2012), a report on public art, and co-director of the London Contemporary Music Festival.
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The Drugs Don'T Work - A Global Threat

by Dr Jonathan Grant, Mike Catchpole e Professor Dame Sally Davies

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 Antibiotics add, on average, twenty years to our lives. For over seventy years, since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, we have survived extraordinary operations and life-threatening infections. We are so familiar with these wonder drugs that we take them for granted. This book deals with this topic.
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Abroad

by Penelope Lively

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 A brilliantly funny original short story from Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. ''Anyone artistic needed Abroad in the 1950s.'' Paul and his girlfriend are artists in need of subject matter. Arresting, evocative subject matter. So they decide to go Abroad, as much as possible, for as long as possible. Because Abroad is full of well furnished scenery. Particularly peasants. Real, earthy, traditional peasants. Except you shouldn''t really call them peasants should you? ''Country people''. Abroad is full of country people. In this funny, deftly written short story, Penelope Lively satirises an arty student of the 50s, a precursor of the gap year traveller, who hasn''t learnt as much from her time Abroad as she likes to think . . . Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra''s Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year''s Honours List, and DBE in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.
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Badlands - Decadent Playground Of Old Peking

by Paul French

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 The Badlands by Paul French - a gripping criminal portrait of pre-communist Peking, from the interntional bestselling author of Midnight in Peking The Badlands, a warren of narrow hutongs in the eastern district of pre-communist Peking, had its heyday in the 1930s. Home to the city''s drifters, misfits and the odd bohemian, it was a place of opium dens, divebars, brothels, flophouses and cabarets, and was infamous for its ability to satisfy every human desire from the exotically entertaining to the criminally depraved. These vignettes of eight non-Chinese residents of the precinct White Russians, Americans and Europeans bring the Badlands vividly back to life, providing a short but potent account of a place and a way of life until now largely forgotten, but here rendered unforgettable. Praise for Midnight in Peking: ''An instant true crime classic. Grips from the first page to the last'' David Peace, author of Red Riding and The Damned United ''Fascinating and irresistible. I couldn''t put it down'' John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ''Written in the style of a gripping murder mystery, but all the facts are true'' Kirsty Lang, BBC Radio 4 (Book of the Week) ''Engrossing true crime whodunnit... A terrific read'' Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times Born in London, Paul French has lived in China for more than 10 years. He is a widely published analyst and commentator on China; his books include a history of North Korea, a biography of Shanghai adman and adventurer Carl Crow, and a history of foreign correspondents in China.
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Roy Lichtenstein - How Modern Art Was Saved By Donald Duck

by Alastair Sooke

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 A Penguin Special on Roy Lichtenstein by Alastair Sooke - read in 2 hours or less ''Why, Brad darling, this painting is a masterpiece! My, soon you''ll have all of New York clamoring for your work!'' Roy Lichtenstein - architect of Pop art, connoisseur of the comic strip, master of irony and prophet of popular culture. From exhilarating images of ice-cool jet pilots in dog fights, to blue-haired Barbie dolls drowning in scenes of domestic heartache, Lichtenstein''s instantly recognisable paintings, with their Ben-Day dots and witty one-liners, defined the art of a generation. But how did a jobbing, unassuming painter of the Fifties become a world-famous Pop artist whose work today sells for millions? What do his paintings really tell us? And what is his legacy? This book, by art critic and broadcaster Alastair Sooke, is a perfect introduction to the artist and his work. Spanning Lichtenstein''s career, and explaining his unique style, it is a journey through the life of one of the twentieth century''s greatest artists. Published in time for a major new retrospective of the work of Roy Lichtenstein. ''Sooke is an immensely engaging character. He has none of the weighty self-regard that often afflicts art experts and critics; rather he approaches his subjects with a questioning, open, exploratory attitude'' Sarah Vine, The Times ''His shows are excellent - clever, lively, scholarly, but not too lecturey; he''s very good at linking his painters with the world outside the studio, and at how these artists have affected the world today'' Sam Wollaston reviewing ''Modern Masters'', Guardian Alastair Sooke is deputy art critic of the Daily Telegraph. He has written and presented documentaries on television and radio for the BBC, including Modern Masters, an acclaimed BBC One series that chronicled modern art in the twentieth century. Since 2009 he has reported regularly for The Culture Show on BBC Two. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
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Land Lubbers Lying Down Below

by Helen Dunmore

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 ''Tonight it is the concert. Two Prodigies of Nature are coming to play in my lady''s ball-room. As soon as the concert begins I understand why the whole world comes to stare and listen.'' Scipio is eleven years old and a lady''s page. He plays the harpsichord, speaks French and German, and sings in Italian. But what was appealing and remarkable in a small child is no longer so in a ''hobbledehoy''. And after he meets the two child prodigies, Wolfi and Nannerl, at a concert, Scipio''s fate will change forever.
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How To Exceed Your Expectations In The Leaving Cert

by Rory Crean

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 Where Rory Crean''s How to Exceed Your Expectations in the Leaving Cert is different from other study guides is that its ideas have been tested and refined through the eyes of someone who sat his exams just one year ago. Rory got straight As. In How to Exceed Your Expectations in the Leaving Cert Rory shares his detailed, structured and fail-safe blueprint to help students at every level get through that final crucial year of school. He does not come up with a rigid formula but instead a detailed set of guidelines that will allow each student to develop his or her customized approach. There is no getting away from it: the leaving cert is a challenge. But by adopting Rory Crean''s strategies, students will be rewarded with peace of mind, exam results that will exceed their current expectations, and self-management techniques that will be invaluable for the rest of their lives.
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Alzheimer'S - An Essential Guide To The Disease And Other Forms Of Dementia

by Andrew Lees

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 A short, easily understandable account of Alzheimer''s, by world expert Dr Andrew Lees Britain like the rest of the developed world is in the grip of a silent plague. Its thousands of victims can no longer make sense of the world and are contained for their own safety in fading Victorian piles and nondescript redbrick detention centres around the country. For them the present is a foreign country and the past a lost continent. There are now more people in the UK with Alzheimer''s than the population of Liverpool, and four million Americans are reported to have the disease. Longevity is a major factor in the increasing incidence of the disease, with the number of over 65s in the UK having trebled in the last 100 years, and forecast to double again in the next 25 years. With such an alarming background, the race to find the causes - and therefore potentially a cure - for Alzheimer''s is urgent. In this Penguin Special, Dr Andrew Lees, a world expert on the neurodegenerative diseases explains what we know, and don''t know, about Alzheimer''s and its amelioration. Dr Andrew Lees is Professor of Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, and Clinical Director of the Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders. His major scientific research has been carried out in the field of dementias and Parkinson''s disease. A native of St Helens, Lancashire, he lives in north London.
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Rise And Fall Of The House Of Bo - How A Murder Exposed The Cracks In China’S Leadership

by John Garnaut

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 The Rise and Fall of the House of Bo is a shocking and revelatory exposé of China''s most controversial ''statesman'' Bo Xilai, by journalist John Garnaut, available exclusively as a digital-only Penguin Special. When news of the murder trial of prominent Communist Party leader Bo Xilai''s wife reached Western attention, it was apparent that, as with many events in the secretive upper echelons of Chinese politics, there was more to the story. Now, as the Party''s 18th National Congress oversees the biggest leadership transition in decades, and installs the Bo family''s long-time rival Xi Jinping as president, China''s rulers are finding it increasingly difficult to keep their poisonous internal divisions behind closed doors. Bo Xilai''s breathtaking fall from grace is an extraordinary tale of excess, murder, defection, political purges and ideological clashes going back to Mao himself, as the princeling sons of the revolutionary heroes ascend to control of the Party. China watcher John Garnaut examines how Bo''s stellar rise through the ranks troubled his more reformist peers, as he revived anti-''capitalist roader'' sentiment, even while his family and associates enjoyed the more open economy''s opportunities. Amid fears his imminent elevation to the powerful Standing Committee was leading China towards another destructive Cultural Revolution, have his opponents seized their chance to destroy Bo and what he stood for? The trigger was his wife Gu Kailai''s apparently paranoid murder of an English family friend, which exposed the corruption and brutality of Bo''s outwardly successful administration of the massive city of Chongqing. It also led to the one of the highest-level attempted defections in Communist China''s history when Bo''s right-hand man, police chief Wang Lijun, tried to escape the ruins of his sponsor''s reputation. Garnaut explains how this incredible glimpse into the very personal power struggles within the CCP exposes the myth of the unified one-party state. With China approaching super-power status, today''s leadership shuffle may set the tone for international relations for decades. Here, Garnaut reveals a particularly Chinese spin on the old adage that the personal is political. ''His insight is unique and well applied to this extraordinary, intergenerational set of events that Hollywood couldn''t dream up if it tried'' ABC Sydney John Garnaut is China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, in the Fairfax Media stable, and also writes for Foreign Policy magazine. He joined Fairfax in 2002 as an economics journalist after working as a commercial lawyer. His work on China has been recognised with several awards, including the 2009 Walkley Award for Scoop of the Year, for reporting the detention of Australian Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu. John lived in Beijing for two years in the 1980s, while his father was posted as the Australian ambassador, and returned there with his wife and children in 2007.
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Everybody'S Hacked Off - Why We Don''T Have The Press We Deserve And What To Do About It

by Brian Cathcart e Hugh Grant

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 When most of the British press conspired to cover up the phone-hacking scandal at the "News of the World", what did that tell us? This title offers a summary of the Leveson inquiry and a convincing argument for why we need press reform. It paints a damning picture of press corruption and makes a case for journalism that doesn't bully and lie.
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Famous Trials: Lucky Escapes

by Alex Mcbride

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 From the legendary Famous Trials series of real-life courtroom dramas, two classic murder trials abridged and refreshed as Penguin Specials for modern readers, selected and introduced by Alex McBride, author of Defending the Guilty Nineteen year-old Madeleine Smith may have been charged in 1857 with poisoning her lover, Emile L''Angelier, but her real sin was having sex - a lot of sex - out of wedlock. Her mistake was to write him frank and passionate letters, described by the trial judge as ''without any sense of decency'', which L''Angelier threatened to send to her father when she cooled on the idea of marriage, having secretly engaged herself to someone else. Some fifty years later, the trial of Robert Wood, a respectable, hard-working illustrator by day, who frolicked with prostitutes by night, including the unfortunate Emily Dimmock, also hinged on a dangerous correspondence. Dimmock''s murderer had evidently ransacked her rooms for a postcard written by Wood. Was there something he was desperate to hide? The author of his trial is certain he was guilty. But both escaped conviction - in Wood''s case, thanks to the defence of the best defence barrister in the land. In Madeleine Smith''s, the three judges ruled two-to-one to exclude from evidence L''Angelier''s pocket book, which recorded her meetings with him on the day of the murder. These two salacious and controversial trials demonstrate how the dramatic difference between ''guilty'' and ''not guilty'' can sometimes be decided by a mere scrap of paper. The legendary Famous Trials series set the benchmark for historical crime writing with its accounts of the most notorious and intriguing criminal trials of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Expertly reconstructed from court transcripts, these often sensational narratives have gripped generations of readers since they first appeared in 1941. In this digital edition, two of the very best Famous Trials have been selected, introduced and further abridged by criminal barrister and author Alex McBride to provide modern readers with the most compelling versions yet of these court-room classics. Alex McBride is a criminal barrister. His book Defending the Guilty: Truth and Lies in the Criminal Courtroom was shortlisted for the 2010 Crime Writers'' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction and is available in Penguin. He has written for the Guardian, Independent, Prospect and New Statesman, and has contributed to various BBC programmes, including From Our Own Correspondent. ''Expert, authoritative, hilarious - an insider''s fearless account of life at the criminal bar'' Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year on Defending the Guilty
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Famous Trials: Thrill-Killers

by Alex Mcbride

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 From the legendary Famous Trials series of real-life courtroom dramas, two classic murder trials abridged and refreshed as Penguin Specials for modern readers, selected and introduced by Alex McBride, author of Defending the Guilty Thomas Cream, erstwhile Sunday school teacher and serial poisoner, has an unsettling air and wonky eye. He also happens to be a doctor, which provides him with ample means and an ideal cover for his murderous activities. His victims are vulnerable young women, whose trust he gains with drinks and trips to the music hall, before offering them pills or swigs from a medicine bottle. A few hours later, they are dying in agony. The Honourable Thomas Ley, meanwhile, has an even better disguise: he''s the former Justice Minister for New South Wales and a successful businessman, albeit with a shady past. Rumours abound when a political opponent disappears without trace and a business partner winds up at the bottom of a cliff. Neither killer can help themselves - and this, in the end, leads to their downfall - and both defy our comprehension. Brilliantly reconstructed here, their trials, in 1892 and 1947, reveal a deeply sinister conundrum: by the time you''ve discovered the secrets in their heart, it''s inevitably much too late. The legendary Famous Trials series set the benchmark for historical crime writing with its accounts of the most notorious and intriguing criminal trials of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Expertly reconstructed from court transcripts, these often sensational narratives have gripped generations of readers since they first appeared in 1941. In this digital edition, two of the very best Famous Trials have been selected, introduced and further abridged by criminal barrister and author Alex McBride to provide modern readers with the most compelling versions yet of these court-room classics. Alex McBride is a criminal barrister. His book Defending the Guilty: Truth and Lies in the Criminal Courtroom was shortlisted for the 2010 Crime Writers'' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction and is available in Penguin. He has written for the Guardian, Independent, Prospect and New Statesman, and has contributed to various BBC programmes, including From Our Own Correspondent. ''Expert, authoritative, hilarious - an insider''s fearless account of life at the criminal bar''Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year on Defending the Guilty
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Famous Trials: Unwanted Spouses

by Alex Mcbride

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 From the legendary Famous Trials series of real-life courtroom dramas, two classic murder trials abridged and refreshed as Penguin Specials for modern readers, selected and introduced by Alex McBride, author of Defending the Guilty A respectable solicitor in the town of Hay-on-Wye, harried by his troubled wife, slowly and carefully poisons her to death. Pleased with the results, he sees an opportunity for another quick-fix solution and turns his murderous attentions to his business rival... Trapped in a marriage of convenience to an aging man almost thirty years her senior, thirty-eight year-old Alma falls in love with seventeen year-old George, when he answers her advertisement for a ''willing lad'' to do the housework. It''s the perfect set up - a well-disposed husband and a passionate lover - until George destroys it all by trying to get the husband out of the way... These two classic cases of spousal murder - one chillingly domestic, the other bizarre and touching - took place in 1922 and 1935. In these brilliant reconstructions, they continue to confound our expectations of how murderers are meant to proceed. The legendary Famous Trials series set the benchmark for historical crime writing with its accounts of the most notorious and intriguing criminal trials of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Expertly reconstructed from court transcripts, these often sensational narratives have gripped generations of readers since they first appeared in 1941. In this digital edition, two of the very best Famous Trials have been selected, introduced and further abridged by criminal barrister and author Alex McBride to provide modern readers with the most compelling versions yet of these court-room classics. Alex McBride is a criminal barrister. His book Defending the Guilty: Truth and Lies in the Criminal Courtroom was shortlisted for the 2010 Crime Writers'' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction and is available in Penguin. He has written for the Guardian, Independent, Prospect and New Statesman, and has contributed to various BBC programmes, including From Our Own Correspondent. ''Expert, authoritative, hilarious - an insider''s fearless account of life at the criminal bar''Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year on Defending the Guilty
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House Of Cards - The Inside Story Of The Fall Of Custom House Capital

by Niall Brady

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 In the summer of 2011, investors with Custom House Capital - some of whom had all their pension savings tied up with the investment house - faced a nightmare: the possibility that their money was gone, and that they wouldn''t be getting it back. Finance journalist Niall Brady takes us behind the scenes for the first in-depth account of a disaster that has cost investors millions. He shows how clients'' funds were mis-allocated to cover losses, how the Financial Regulator, though aware of irregularities at CHC for years, failed to forestall the crisis, and how it remains unclear, over a year after the scandal was uncovered, whether people will get their money back. His account of the strange culture and practices of CHC makes House of Cards a must-read for fans of Too Big to Fail and The Big Short. Niall Brady is a chartered accountant and a journalist with the Sunday Times. ''Damning ... Brady tells the tale of how the rogues still run rings around the protectors'' Shane Ross, Sunday Independent ''One of the most shocking stories to have emerged in Ireland''s economic bust'' Cantillon, Irish Times ''Excellent concise read. Great story'' Tom Lyons, author of The FitzPatrick Tapes
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Pray - Notes On The 2011/2012 Football Season

by Nick Hornby

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 Pray is bestselling author Nick Hornby''s extraordinary account of an astonishing season ''That is why there is NOTHING better than sport'' Kevin Pietersen The 2011-12 Premier League season finished on an afternoon so extraordinary that it prompted Kevin Pietersen''s tweet. Yet this was just the climax of an incredible season. By May fans of most clubs had been enthralled, appalled, depressed, elated, shocked and enraged. Along the way football had somehow managed to encompass politics, high finance, the law and matters of life and death. Beginning with the weekend of 28 August when the Man Utd demolition of Arsenal 8-2 and the Man City demolition of Spurs 5-1 showed what was to come, he concentrates on a number of games whose significance went beyond the immediate result: the October games with alleged rascist incidents, the fairy-tale return of Thierry Henry, the collapse of Fabrice Muamba, the Carling Cup Final where Liverpool''s victory only served to point up the club''s problems, the unusual (but increasingly more common) 4-4 draw between Man Utd and Everton... It was a season of tumultuous incident and enormous entertainment, a season more glorious than most. Read all about it, and relive it, here, from the award-winning author of the football classic Fever Pitch.
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Being Sam Frears - A Life Less Ordinary

by Mary Mount

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 This is Sam Frears'' story. This is also the story of an actor, a rock-climber and a man born with an extremely rare genetic disorder only affecting Ashkenazi Jews. Sam was supposed to live to the age of 5. In February, he celebrated his 40th birthday. Challenged by blindness and a body under great stress, Sam Frears is trying to live an ordinary life under extraordinary circumstances His struggles and triumphs offer an illuminating look at the differences - and similarities - that make us human. For those who enjoyed My Left Foot and Stuart: A Life Backwards, this Penguin Special offers a fresh look at what it''s like to be Sam.
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Economist: International Banking - Retail Renaissance

by The Economist Publications (Puk Rights)

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 The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour. Retail banking is heading for a revival. With the financial crisis still hanging over Western economies, banks have rejuvenated the retail arm of the business. They are now seen as more stable sources of profit than the risky traders. Technology is both a help and a hindrance. On one hand, online banking is revolutionizing money management. But will this lead to the close of the high street bank? How can banks outstrip the developing tech companies who are offering rival services? This report will assess the challenges and opportunities that banks face in the rich world and the emerging markets. Sections include: Retail renaissance Withering away Dispatches from the hothouse Crunching the numbers A wealth of wallets Over the sea and far away Private pursuits World, here we come
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My Dining Hell - Twenty Ways To Have A Lousy Night Out

by Jay Rayner

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 I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that. They adore them, feast upon them like starving vultures who have spotted fly-blown carrion out in the bush. They claim otherwise, of course. Readers like to present themselves as private arbiters of taste; as people interested in the good stuff. I''m sure they are. I''m sure they really do care whether the steak was served au point as requested or whether the soufflé had achieved a certain ineffable lightness. And yet, when I compare dinner to bodily fluids, the room to an S & M chamber in Neasden (only without the glamour or class), and the bill to an act of grand larceny, why, then the baying crowd is truly happy. Don''t believe me? Then why, presented with the chance to buy this ebook filled with accounts of twenty restaurants - their chefs, their owners, their poor benighted front of house staff - getting a complete stiffing courtesy of the sort of vitriolic bloody-curdling review which would make the victims call for their mummies, did you seize it with both hands?
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Economist: Cuba - Revolution In Retreat

by The Economist Publications (Puk Rights)

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 The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour. Raúl Castro is changing Cuba. Recognising the limits that the Soviet style economy places upon the Cuban people, he is allowing the market greater freedoms. A new, private sector is emerging and is expected to employ around 25% of the labour force by 2015. What will these changes mean for foreign business and for Cuba''s position on the global stage? As there doesn''t seem to be a Castro successor and the party is pressured by the younger generation and the digital world, where will Cuba be in ten years time? This report will reflect on the likelihood and impact of political and economic change on the island - essential reading for anyone involved in the region. Sections include: Revolution in retreat The deal''s off - growing inequalities Hasta la vista, baby - a disappearing population Edging towards capitalism - slow reform Grandmother''s footsteps - political change The Miami mirror - Cuba and Miami The biological factor - what next for the Castro dynasty?
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Economist: State Capitalism - The Visible Hand

by The Economist Publications (Puk Rights)

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 The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour. As Western liberalist capitalism flounders in the wake of global recession, state backed companies are slowly taking over. The melding of the power of the state and the power of capitalism is on the rise. Prevalent in the emerging economies of China, Russia and Brazil, some of the world''s most powerful companies are state owned. The 13 biggest oil firms are government controlled. China Mobile has over 600million customers and the Emirates airlines is growing at 20% a year. However, despite the numerous successes, Adrian Wooldridge urges caution. He asks whether it could easily survive if confronted with difficulty, criticises the embedded corruption and cronyism and asks whether a fair trading system is possible to maintain with government favoured business. Slowly but surely, the invisible hand of the market is being usurped by the visible, often authoritarian, hand of state capitalism. Sections include: The visible hand Something old, something new - a brief history of state capitalism New masters of the universe - how state enterprise is spreading Theme and variations - state capitalism is not all the same Mixed bag - infrastructure and innovation The world in their hands - state capitalism looks outward and inward And the winner is - fatal flaws
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