Author: David O'Doherty
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241362245
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
*Winner of the Irish Children's Book Award* 'Funny, warm as toast and packed full of ideas that fill up your head and burst in your brain like fizzy magic!' Noel Fielding 'A totally fun, madcap adventure that ends up robbing your heart' Stewart Foster, award-winning author of The Bubble Boy There's a feeling of relief that comes just after you've robbed a bank... Rex's parents have split up and, to make matters worse, he has to spend his summer holiday on a remote and rainy Irish island - with only unruly sheep for company. The only upside: he'll be staying with his strange and brilliant Uncle Derm. Then Rex discovers Uncle Derm is about to execute his most hair-brained plan yet . . . To rob the island's travelling bank! Like the local legend of medieval Pirate Queen Grace O'Malley, Uncle Derm plans to redistribute the money to local needy causes on the island. And he needs Rex's help . . . A chaotic robbery, plenty of sheep and a summer of discoveries come together in this hilarious and heart-warming novel from comedian, actor and author of Danger is Everywhere, David O'Doherty. A perfect adventure for fans of Frank Cottrell Boyce, Ross Welford and David Walliams. ---------- Praise for David O'Doherty's Danger is Everywhere series: 'I dislocated my jaw laughing' Eoin Colfer 'Imagine the Mighty Boosh crashed into the Wimpy Kid' The Times 'Brilliantly funny' Gransnet
The Summer I Robbed A Bank
Author: David O'Doherty
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241362245
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
*Winner of the Irish Children's Book Award* 'Funny, warm as toast and packed full of ideas that fill up your head and burst in your brain like fizzy magic!' Noel Fielding 'A totally fun, madcap adventure that ends up robbing your heart' Stewart Foster, award-winning author of The Bubble Boy There's a feeling of relief that comes just after you've robbed a bank... Rex's parents have split up and, to make matters worse, he has to spend his summer holiday on a remote and rainy Irish island - with only unruly sheep for company. The only upside: he'll be staying with his strange and brilliant Uncle Derm. Then Rex discovers Uncle Derm is about to execute his most hair-brained plan yet . . . To rob the island's travelling bank! Like the local legend of medieval Pirate Queen Grace O'Malley, Uncle Derm plans to redistribute the money to local needy causes on the island. And he needs Rex's help . . . A chaotic robbery, plenty of sheep and a summer of discoveries come together in this hilarious and heart-warming novel from comedian, actor and author of Danger is Everywhere, David O'Doherty. A perfect adventure for fans of Frank Cottrell Boyce, Ross Welford and David Walliams. ---------- Praise for David O'Doherty's Danger is Everywhere series: 'I dislocated my jaw laughing' Eoin Colfer 'Imagine the Mighty Boosh crashed into the Wimpy Kid' The Times 'Brilliantly funny' Gransnet
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241362245
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
*Winner of the Irish Children's Book Award* 'Funny, warm as toast and packed full of ideas that fill up your head and burst in your brain like fizzy magic!' Noel Fielding 'A totally fun, madcap adventure that ends up robbing your heart' Stewart Foster, award-winning author of The Bubble Boy There's a feeling of relief that comes just after you've robbed a bank... Rex's parents have split up and, to make matters worse, he has to spend his summer holiday on a remote and rainy Irish island - with only unruly sheep for company. The only upside: he'll be staying with his strange and brilliant Uncle Derm. Then Rex discovers Uncle Derm is about to execute his most hair-brained plan yet . . . To rob the island's travelling bank! Like the local legend of medieval Pirate Queen Grace O'Malley, Uncle Derm plans to redistribute the money to local needy causes on the island. And he needs Rex's help . . . A chaotic robbery, plenty of sheep and a summer of discoveries come together in this hilarious and heart-warming novel from comedian, actor and author of Danger is Everywhere, David O'Doherty. A perfect adventure for fans of Frank Cottrell Boyce, Ross Welford and David Walliams. ---------- Praise for David O'Doherty's Danger is Everywhere series: 'I dislocated my jaw laughing' Eoin Colfer 'Imagine the Mighty Boosh crashed into the Wimpy Kid' The Times 'Brilliantly funny' Gransnet
Investigation of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Assassinations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Leonard Maltin's 2009 Movie Guide
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780452289789
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1668
Book Description
Offers readers a comprehensive reference to the world of film, including more than ten thousand DVD titles, along with information on performers, ratings, running times, plots, and helpful features.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780452289789
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1668
Book Description
Offers readers a comprehensive reference to the world of film, including more than ten thousand DVD titles, along with information on performers, ratings, running times, plots, and helpful features.
The Bank of England and the Government Debt
Author: William A. Allen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108584306
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The Bank of England and the Government Debt recounts the surprising history of the Bank of England's activities in the government securities market in the mid-twentieth century. The Bank's governor, Montagu Norman, had a decisive influence on government debt management policy until he retired in 1944, and established an auxiliary market in government securities outside the Stock Exchange during the Second World War. From the early 1950s, the Bank, concerned about inadequate market liquidity, became an increasingly active market-maker in government securities, rescuing the commercial market-makers in the Stock Exchange several times. The Bank's market-making activities often conflicted with its monetary policy objectives, and in 1971, it curtailed them substantially, while avoiding the damaging effects on liquidity in the government securities market that it had feared. Drawing heavily on archival research, William A. Allen sheds light on little-known aspects of central banking and monetary policy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108584306
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The Bank of England and the Government Debt recounts the surprising history of the Bank of England's activities in the government securities market in the mid-twentieth century. The Bank's governor, Montagu Norman, had a decisive influence on government debt management policy until he retired in 1944, and established an auxiliary market in government securities outside the Stock Exchange during the Second World War. From the early 1950s, the Bank, concerned about inadequate market liquidity, became an increasingly active market-maker in government securities, rescuing the commercial market-makers in the Stock Exchange several times. The Bank's market-making activities often conflicted with its monetary policy objectives, and in 1971, it curtailed them substantially, while avoiding the damaging effects on liquidity in the government securities market that it had feared. Drawing heavily on archival research, William A. Allen sheds light on little-known aspects of central banking and monetary policy.
McClure's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Thieves of Threadneedle Street
Author: Nicholas Booth
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
ISBN: 9781681775401
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The greatest untold crime saga of the Victorian Era: the extraordinary true story of four American forgers who tried to steal five million dollars from the Bank of England. In the summer of 1873, four American forgers went on trial at the Old Bailey for the greatest fraud the world had ever seen: the attempted theft of five million dollars from the Bank of England. In The Thieves of Threadneedle Street, Nicholas Booth tells the extraordinary true story of the forgers' earliest escapades, culminating in the heist at the world’s leading financial institution. At the heart of the story is the charming criminal genius Austin Bidwell who, on the brink of escaping with his fortune, saw his luck finally run out. There were double crosses and miraculous escapes. There were chases across rural Ireland, through Scottish cities, across the Atlantic on ships heading toward Manhattan and — most exotic of all — Cuba, where the most elusive thief would eventually be captured, only to escape again. Hot on their trail was William Pinkerton, "the greatest detective in America," scion of the famous detective agency. With its cast of improbable villains, curious coincidences, and extraordinary adventures, this is an astounding international caper with twists and turns that often defy belief. With access to previously unopened archives, Nicholas Booth has unearthed the greatest untold crime saga of the Victorian Era.
Publisher: Pegasus Crime
ISBN: 9781681775401
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The greatest untold crime saga of the Victorian Era: the extraordinary true story of four American forgers who tried to steal five million dollars from the Bank of England. In the summer of 1873, four American forgers went on trial at the Old Bailey for the greatest fraud the world had ever seen: the attempted theft of five million dollars from the Bank of England. In The Thieves of Threadneedle Street, Nicholas Booth tells the extraordinary true story of the forgers' earliest escapades, culminating in the heist at the world’s leading financial institution. At the heart of the story is the charming criminal genius Austin Bidwell who, on the brink of escaping with his fortune, saw his luck finally run out. There were double crosses and miraculous escapes. There were chases across rural Ireland, through Scottish cities, across the Atlantic on ships heading toward Manhattan and — most exotic of all — Cuba, where the most elusive thief would eventually be captured, only to escape again. Hot on their trail was William Pinkerton, "the greatest detective in America," scion of the famous detective agency. With its cast of improbable villains, curious coincidences, and extraordinary adventures, this is an astounding international caper with twists and turns that often defy belief. With access to previously unopened archives, Nicholas Booth has unearthed the greatest untold crime saga of the Victorian Era.
Bank Robbery
Author: Ivo Mosley
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 1911193651
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A clear and comprehensive examination of our financial system which supports unaccountable and destructive power. It points the way to the simple reforms that are necessary if we wish to create a more just and equitable world.
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 1911193651
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A clear and comprehensive examination of our financial system which supports unaccountable and destructive power. It points the way to the simple reforms that are necessary if we wish to create a more just and equitable world.
Jones Fatcat
Author: Max Brooks
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1805146343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
In rural Wales, a sheep-farmer named Jones Fatcat and his dependable sheepdog, Jones, live a content life. Jones Fatcat had been engaged and engrossed in the world of sheep-farming his entire life, spending his days looking after his flock of sheep, shearing them and selling their fleeces to a clothing manufacturer. Jones has strong bonds with his farm, his Land Rover, his flock of sheep and his sheepdog. He had never considered what life would be like without them, until one seemingly ordinary day, when there was a catastrophic calamity, capable of jeopardising his way of life and leaving him with no choice but to venture out into the unknown and take drastic action to salvage what he could of his former life. The pathway of this story follows Jones on his mishaps and adventures from the Welsh valleys to the bustling city. Jones, who is craving vengeance on the people responsible for this traumatic and perplexing plight, decides after much deliberation to transform himself from an unworldly sheep-farmer into a venturesome super villain, intent on saving people from suffering the same fate as he did and unmasking the so-called good guys, as a vehicle to reveal to the world their own unethical undoings.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1805146343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
In rural Wales, a sheep-farmer named Jones Fatcat and his dependable sheepdog, Jones, live a content life. Jones Fatcat had been engaged and engrossed in the world of sheep-farming his entire life, spending his days looking after his flock of sheep, shearing them and selling their fleeces to a clothing manufacturer. Jones has strong bonds with his farm, his Land Rover, his flock of sheep and his sheepdog. He had never considered what life would be like without them, until one seemingly ordinary day, when there was a catastrophic calamity, capable of jeopardising his way of life and leaving him with no choice but to venture out into the unknown and take drastic action to salvage what he could of his former life. The pathway of this story follows Jones on his mishaps and adventures from the Welsh valleys to the bustling city. Jones, who is craving vengeance on the people responsible for this traumatic and perplexing plight, decides after much deliberation to transform himself from an unworldly sheep-farmer into a venturesome super villain, intent on saving people from suffering the same fate as he did and unmasking the so-called good guys, as a vehicle to reveal to the world their own unethical undoings.
Lords of Finance
Author: Liaquat Ahamed
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594201820
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594201820
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard.
Baby's First Bank Heist
Author: Jim Whalley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547600632
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Meet Baby Frank, the world's most unlikely criminal, as he masterminds his very own bank heist. Perfect for fans of Boss Baby. Move over, Bonnie and Clyde, because there's a new criminal mastermind in town . . . Baby Frank! He's the world's most unlikely criminal, but he's about to pull off the most daring baby bank heist ever. Why? To get money for a fluffy new pet, of course. This baby is dangerously cute and desperate for a pet. You have been warned . . .
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1547600632
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Meet Baby Frank, the world's most unlikely criminal, as he masterminds his very own bank heist. Perfect for fans of Boss Baby. Move over, Bonnie and Clyde, because there's a new criminal mastermind in town . . . Baby Frank! He's the world's most unlikely criminal, but he's about to pull off the most daring baby bank heist ever. Why? To get money for a fluffy new pet, of course. This baby is dangerously cute and desperate for a pet. You have been warned . . .