A list after Mr B's own heart (and from Mr B's own keyboard for that matter). If you've just had a call to say that the "dead" project you were forced to "babysit" whilst your colleague went on holiday is in fact alive, kicking and completing in 3 days time, or if your boss has just asked you to thumb through 14 correspondence files to find a yellow post-it with a client's phone number on it (the one he later remembers throwing away after programming it into his phone a week earlier), then THIS is your list. Fictitious and real tales of escape plus some practical tips on taking a break or figuring out what you really want to do.
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| Authentic: How to Make a Living by Being Yourself Neil Crofts Self-help/lifestyle book written by the man who formed Authentic Business, a group of companies (and guides) offering PR, design and venture capital support to small businessess. Crofts is all about non-conformity in career choice, thinking about and seeking what you want from life and wor… |
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| Lost Horizon James Hilton The first ever paperback published (in 1939 - good job no-one had to worry about Easyjet luggage allowances before then). A novel focussing on four hijack victims rescued by the monks in Shangri-La. Hilton's Shangri-La is a place of peace, positivity and insulation from war (… |
£7.99 | ||
| Marching Powder Rusty Young If your office job is really getting you down, you could always follow the path of Thomas McFadden...although frankly I'd seriously think about sticking to the mouse and keyboard. He's the British drug smuggler who ended up in a Bolivian jail and his story is told by Rusty Young, who stayed … |
£7.99 | ||
| The Career Break Book Lonely Planet Want to keep your boss on his toes? Slap a copy of this on the corner of your desk. A great place to start if you can't face receiving another "exciting new project" that's going to keep you at your desk for 14 hours a day for the next 3 months. A mix of practical ad… |
£12.99 | ||
| This Book Will Save Your Life Homes Richard is a super-rich divorced trader in L.A. whose only regular human interaction is with his nutritionist, his trainer and his house-keeper. But a rush to hospital after sudden pains make him begin really living his life. He's soon trying his first donut in years, making new friends (incl… |
£7.99 | ||
| Utterly Monkey Nick Laird Apparently written by a disenchanted lawyer (although personally I can't imagine that such a creature exists) about a disenchanted lawyer whose move from Ireland to the excitement of London leaves him overworked and always uninspired by the office life that is doing serious damage… |
£7.99 | ||
| Where the Hell is Tuvalu Philip Ells An excellent piece of biographical travel writing by another lawyer dissatisfied with a life dominated by Starbucks, photocopiers and uncontrollable deadlines. Philip Ells jacks in the lifestyle but not his fledgling legal career as he becomes a people's lawyer in Tuvalu. Lots of self-… |
£7.99 |