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Has the West gone bust - economically, politically and socially? Or is there another way?We in the West appear to be at a year zero, with the seeming end of the relative peace and prosperity we took for granted. The pandemic, Putin's invasion of Ukraine, growing tension with China, a rolling back of globalisation, Brexit, the return of inflation and painful interest rates - all these have shattered the illusions of the world as we knew it.For ...

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But nobody wants to hear it: not the politicians taking credit for an end to boom and bust, not the bankers pocketing vast bonuses, not even Gil's bosses at the BBC, who think it's irrelevant. When Gil gets a tip-off that a small northern bank has run out of money, everything changes.

THE GRIPPING DEBUT THRILLER FROM THE UK'S TOP POLITICAL JOURNALIST, ROBERT PESTON. 1997. He thinks he knows the rules. But when Gil's estranged sister Clare dies in a hit-and-run, he begins to believe it was no accident.

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He thinks he knows the rules. But when Gil's estranged sister Clare dies in a hit-and-run, he begins to believe it was no accident. One of them might have got her killed. As election day approaches, Gil follows the story into the dark web of interests that link politics, finance and the media.

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It's been the worst financial and economic crisis since the 1930s and we're not through it yet. For banks, it's been a debacle like no other. To keep banks alive, $15 trillion of financial aid has been pledged to them by taxpayers - that's more than $2000 for every person on the planet. But believe it or not, it could all have been even worse, an economic Armageddon. If the old capitalism failed, have we really learned anything? Or are we fran...

A manual for our times that everyone should read.' Matthew d'Ancona

This is a book that will make sense of the significant events which shaped 2016. It has never been a scarier time and never has there been more uncertainty in every arena of public life. Robert Peston will go through it all, answering the questions everyone is asking around their breakfast tables. He will explain what happened, how it happened and where we might be going.

As the ITV's Political Editor, Peston makes sense of the significant events that took place in 2016 and answers the questions that everyone is asking - reflecting on what happened, how it happened and where we might be going.

Award-winning journalist and BBC Business Editor Robert Peston lifts the lid on the credit crunch and the rise of the super-rich. This No 1 bestseller weaves a story that's rich in extraordinary characters and outrageous feats of economic bravado and addresses the widening gap between the super-rich and the rest of us. It explores and explodes the myth that the financial creativity of those who are amassing these vast fortunes is good for the ...

In his characteristically straightforward way, Robert Peston explains how the world got itself into the current economic difficulties, and how we might get out of it. Robert is a regular contributor to all BBC News channels and is the author of "Who Runs Britain" which was the No.1 bestselling business book of 2008. 'Reads like a wildly implausible financial thriller' "Independent

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The award winning BBC business editor and author examines how the economic world has changed in recent months, and how we are all affected. To keep banks alive, more than � trillion of financial aid was pledged to them by taxpayers - that's more than �00 for every person on the planet - and according to many, things could have been a lot worse. But what have we learned from the failure of old capitalism, and what does it mean for the future?

In Brown's Britain, award-winning journalist Robert Peston explains for the first time the REAL nature of the relationship between Blair and Brown. With the ease of a born storyteller, he gives the first truly authoritative account of the extraordinary deal they did back in 1994, the subsequent collapse of trust between them, and the growing crisis as they almost came to blows in the run-up to the 2005 election. This book, for which Peston was...

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