Books
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Rise and Fall of the City of Money: out now
A tale beginning and ending with financial disaster – who were the heroes and villains of this story? The Rise and Fall of the City of Money brings them to life.
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Hubris: How HBOS Wrecked the Best Bank in Britain
In 1995 Bank of Scotland celebrated 300 years as Britain’s oldest commercial bank. Voted ‘most admired bank’, respected by competitors, applauded by investors and trusted by customers, it looked forward to the next three hundred. Less than 15 years later it was bust, reviled as part of the spectacular collapse of HBOS, the conglomerate it…
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The Man Who Gave Away His Island
The Man Who Gave Away His Island by Ray Perman is the biography of a remarkable man, John Lorne Campbell, who bought the Hebridean island of Canna and, with his American musician wife Margaret Fay Shaw, made it an international centre of Gaelic culture. Ray fell in love with Canna on his first visit in…