Books
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Speed-reading
A while ago somebody posted a list of fifteen books they had liked on the Internet, the rule being that it had to be put together in fifteen minutes.
Dead End Gene Pool
There is a moment towards the end of Wendy Burden’s scintillating and sardonic memoir of her upbringing that should chill the most vigorous, conscience-salving super-rich philanthropist. Her elderly grandfather, William AM Burden II, suffering from the advanced stages of Parkinson’s disease and with several strokes to his account, finds himself in a hospital of which he has been a stalwart benefactor.
Gentlemen & Blackguards
The Queen Mother would’ve adored Nick Foulkes’ book, subtitled Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844.
Free the Markets!
State capitalism as practised by China, Russia and Saudi Arabia will bring free markets to ruin, says Ian Bremmer. It's lucky, say Josh Spero, that he has the ear of the West's most powerful politicians
Fail Again. Fail Better.
Andrew Ross Sorkin is the wunderkind behind Too Big to Fail, the second-by-second account of Wall Street's collapse in 2008 and winner of the Spear's Financial Book of the Year Award. Josh Spero discovers whether he'll be writing a sequel and who'll be starring in the movie
Chapter One
My lords, ladies and gentlemen: good afternoon, and welcome to the Criterion Restaurant for the second Spear’s Book Awards.
Book Awards Winners
Click here to see the winners of the Spear's Book Awards, in association with Citi Private Bank
What We're Reading
Spear's writers recommend what they're reading now and what they've loved in the past. All of these books are available in the Spear's/Amazon store
Spear's Book Awards 2010: Winners
The second Spear’s Book Awards, in association with Citi Private Bank, celebrating the very best writing talent and the books of the year – from finance to fiction – took place today (July 5th, 2010), at a glamorous literary lunch held at the legendary Criterion restaurant.
Books
Speed-reading
Anthony Haden-Guest
Dead End Gene Pool
Christopher Silvester
Gentlemen & Blackguards
Nicholas Foulkes
The Diary
Allan Shiach
04 Aug 2010
Lord Marland
25 Mar 2010
David Linley
17 Dec 2009
Anthony Haden-Guest
14 Sep 2009
Caroline Michel
13 May 2009
