He was the most celebrated and successful British investor of his generation - but it was all built on a lie.Neil Woodford spent years beating the market; betting against the dot com bubble and the banks before the financial crash in 2008, making blockbuster returns for investors and earning himself a reputation of 'the man who made Middle England rich'.But, in 2019, Woodford's asset management company collapsed, trapping hundreds of thousands of rainy-day ...

Activist investors have sent shockwaves through corporations in recent years, personally targeting directors and executives at some of the world’s largest companies. No longer satisfied with operating on the fringes of business, they are now a firm fixture in the boardroom.Up to a quarter of public companies could be targeted by activist campaigns in the coming years, with directors and executives at those corporations threatened with losing their jobs. The trend, which began in co...

Brought to you by Penguin.The proud owner of a sprawling £14m estate in the Cotswolds, boasting a stable of eventing horses, a fleet of supercars and neighbouring the royal family, Neil Woodford was the most celebrated and successful British investor of his generation.He spent years beating the market; betting against the dot com bubble in the 1990s and the banks before the financial crash in 2008, making blockbuster returns for his investo...

Brought to you by Penguin.In a quiet Surrey village sits Leventree, an architectural practice set up by idealistic couple Florence and Arthur Mayhood, offering apprenticeships to young offenders after their release. Motivated by his own memories of Borstal, Arthur aims to mentor young adults with a troubled upbringing and give them opportunities to succeed.Their first protégées are siblings, Joyce and Charlie Savigear, who quickly settle in; but when a dang...

‘Our greatest living satirist’ Sunday Times‘The most screamingly funny living writer’ Mail on SundayFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time.Haywire presents a survival guide to the 21st century.The acclaimed biographer of Princess Margaret and The Beatle...

Brought to you by Penguin.'Impeccably researched and sumptuous in its detail... It's a page-turner' The Economist'This book tells the story brilliantly... Well-paced and cleverly organised. It also draws some devastating conclusions' The Sunday Times'A riveting account of the intertwining of brilliance and greed' The Business StandardIn this compel...

Brought to you by Penguin.'Grab some popcorn and take a front row seat, because Robin Wigglesworth has an astonishing story to tell you**'**Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up'A terrific read'Gregory Zuckerman, author of The Man Who Solved the Market'A fascinating journey and a crucial book'Bradley Hope, author of Billion Dollar Whale

SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD 2023Today, there are more borders in the world than ever before in human history. In this book James Crawford argues that our enduring obsession with borders has brought us to a crisis point: that we are entering the endgame of a process that began thousands of years ago, when we first started dividing up the earth.Beginning with the earliest known marker which denoted the end of one land and the be...

***Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography**Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography**Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*"Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be it."--Walter Isaacson, The...

Brought to you by Penguin.Based on the No 1 hit podcast 'The Lazarus Heist''You'll never see North Korea the same way again' Oliver Bullough, Sunday Times bestselling author of Moneyland'One of the most incredible cyber-espionage stories I've ever heard, told by one of the UK's best tech journalists' Jamie Bartlett, author of The Missing Crypto Queen'Madly ...

Brought to you by Penguin.'I surprised myself the first time I fully articulated the words "I'm starting a bank"'BANKING ON IT is the first-hand account of one woman's quest to rebuild Britain's broken banking system.After a lengthy career at the top of some of Britain's leading banks Anne Boden had become disillusioned with the status quo - the financial crash had broken trust in the whole sector but there seemed to be little appetite to m...

’Not just a readable, pacey account of an extraordinary individual and his quixotic quest … but also a troubling exposé of the fragility of our entire financial system … I loved it’Oliver Bullough, author of MoneylandFor fans of Bad Blood and The Big Short, the story of how one reclusive trading prodigy manipulated Wall Street and amassed millions from his childhood bedroom – then short-circuited the global...