Tuesday
Mar152011

Get The Job You Really Want

This is Philip’s first writing venture with James Caan, the entrepreneur who in January 2011 vacated his chair after four series on Dragon’s Den. It’s the first title in a series of business-focused books by James which are being published by Penguin’s Portfolio business list.

Get The Job You Really Want draws on James’s thirty years of experience setting up and running recruitment companies

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Friday
Jul232010

The Last Matchmaker

This book represented something of a change of direction for Philip – not to mention a chance to spend time in Ireland – working with Willie Daly, a romantic matchmaker from Ballingaddy on the wild west coast of County Clare, whose father and grandfather were matchmakers before him. “I was born to be a matchmaker,” says Willie. “It’s in my blood.”

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Friday
Jul232010

Things Ain’t What They Used To Be

This book is a fun and affectionate romp through the landscape of the 1970s and 1980s in the generally cheerful, but often sardonic company of Philip Glenister, the actor best know as DCI Gene Hunt in the BBC’s hit series Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes – though let’s hear it as well for his performances in Cranford, State Of Play, Calendar Girls and Clocking Off. If you’re going on a nostalgia trip, you couldn’t ask for a better guide

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Tuesday
Jul202010

Into The Red

On its first release, in September 1998 by Virgin Publishing, Into The Red was hailed as one of the most exciting and most authentic car books ever published. Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and his co-author, test driver Mark Hales, had selected 21 of Nick’s personal collection of classic sports and racing cars – from a 1901 Panhard to a 1990 Le Mans Porsche – and pushed them all to the limit

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Tuesday
Sep302008

The Book of Islands

The companion volume to Philip and Ben’s Book Of Cities features 200 of the world’s most intriguing islands in an exhilarating journey from east to west, starting on the International Date Line in Tonga, the first place on earth to greet each new dawn.

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