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Any Other Business: Life in and Out of the City: Life in and Out of the City: Collected Writings from the Spectator and Elsewhere

Any Other Business: Life in and Out of the City: Life in and Out of the City: Collected Writings from the Spectator and Elsewhere

by Martin Vander Weyer (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

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Synopsis

Since 1992, the financial and business life of the UK and many other parts of the world has changed beyond all recognition; that change has been expertly and incisively charted in the writings of Martin Vander Weyer, business columnist of The Spectator. From 'Big Bang' of 1986, which irrevocably changed the culture of banking - and of the UK - through to the global crisis of 2008 and the subsequent financial scandals, the people, ideas and very existence of the City have been under scrutiny as never before. In this anthology of his very best writings from The Spectator and elsewhere, Martin Vander Weyer brings a sharp eye and a very personal style to bear on often controversial topics, alongside recollections of life in the City and dissections of the current state of play; deliciously evocative accounts of travel, culture, food and daily life; and, very occasionally, reflections on the travails of middle age. Beautifully written, this collection offers a warm, witty and insightful perspective on our changing times.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 224
 Edition: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.
 Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
Published: 02 Oct 2014
ISBN 10: 1783960167
ISBN 13: 9781783960163
Book Overview: * Martin Vander Weyer has a loyal readership in the Spectator, which will support publication of the book.; * In his popular columns he writes about business, economics and financial morality. This is a different view of the City - critical but affectionate.; * He is well connected in the media and we expect support from other publications, including the Telegraph.; * Includes previously unpublished material.; * Will appeal to all those with an interest in finance and the changing global business landscape.

Media Reviews
How refreshing then to find a book that is not only a fascinating read, but also one that is written as an edifying insight into the life, experience and opinions of a thoroughly interesting individual. This book is a glorious collection of personal postcards of the financial events and histories we have lived through over the past few decades. Included are a cast of characters from the unsavoury to the deeply worrying, but ones that we either know or can certainly picture. - Justin Urquhart Stewart, FT Adviser; Martin Vander Weyer, arguably the finest financial journalist of his generation, has three priceless gifts. He has the ability to describe the most complex economic conundrums in the simplest of prose; he has an exceptionally well-developed sense of humour; and he is a Yorkshireman, by nature, if not birth. All three gifts are amply and effortlessly displayed in this splendid collection of Martin's most memorable columns from the Spectator magazine and elsewhere. - Robert Beaumount, York Press; Just the thing for the dark days after Christmas when you may be suffering from SAD or merely excess ... It should cheer you up no end. - Allan Massie, The Spectator
Author Bio
Martin Vander Weyer is Business Editor and Any Other Business columnist of the Spectator and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and other national papers. He is the author of Falling Eagle: The Decline of Barclays Bank (2000), editor and principal author of Closing Balances: Business Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph (2006), and author of Fortune's Spear: The Story of the Blue-Blooded Rogue Behind the Most Notorious City Scandal of the 1920s (E&T, 2011).