The Anonymous Widower

Are Books Like Buses?

It’s funny, but it must have been some years, since an author sent me a copy of his new book. When I arrived back on Saturday, I didn’t have one new edition in my post, but two from separate authors! And people that I like to think of as friends.

Both look at a first glance to be interesting reads!

Life After Debt  is the personal story of Peter Phillips, who spent a working lifetime as an insolvency practitioner.  He started in the footsteps of his father and uncle and rose to the top of a profession, that we all hope we will have nothing to do with. There he dealt with some of the largest and most difficult insolvencies of the last few decades of the twentieth century including such as Polly Peck, Oz Magazine, British and Commonwealth and Robert Maxwell, to name just four of the many people and companies  discussed in the tales in the book.

We Are Not Manslaughterers is by Martin Knight and is the true story of the Epsom Riot and the murder of Station Sergeant Thomas Green. It all happened in 1919, when Canadian soldiers, who were stationed in the town, rioted to try to release one of their number who had been arrested.  But that is just the outline,as it was a scandal and conspiracy, that touched the leading politicians of the day and even the King and Queen. I shall add more when I have read the book.

They must be like buses!

September 12, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | World | Books