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What not to spend
Alvin Hall shows us that while getting a grip on our purse strings is a challenge, it doesn't have to be a struggle. His advice will empower you to tackle money matters head on - children, housing, savings, debt - and take the first steps to financial security. Television's favourite money man is back, with the definitive guide to taking control of all aspects of your financial life. Money may make the world go round, but sometimes personal finance puts everyone's head in a spin. Now, Alvin Hall shows us that while getting a grip on our purse strings is a challenge, it doesn't have to be a struggle. Alvin's easy-to-follow advice will empower you to tackle money matters head on and take the first steps to financial security - today. Accessible and humorous this is the financial bible that no-one can afford to be without.
A girl's best friend is her money
This 'Motley Fool' investment guide is geared to real women's needs and written specifically by women. It presents an amusing but uplifting read for the financially challenged woman, with its positive message of control and makes extensive use of examples of real-life women. 'Replace worry with knowledge, and dependence with freedom.... the Motley Fool way!' David Gardner, co-founder of The Motley Fool Calling all women! Would you like to take more control of your life and your money, get out of debt, live a little and invest your savings more cleverly than any Porsche-driving broker? For many women, the need for financial control takes second place to juggling the demands of career and family - and the result means that most of us have neither the time nor the energy to take charge of our finances properly. But whoever you are, whatever stage you are at, you can take control of your money rather than it controlling you, you can live the good life without getting into debt and you can become your own financial adviser. If you're seeking an independent lifestyle, simply want to improve the family finances, or are worrying about your retirement (or all three), this book is written especially for you. And with the divorce rate running at 40%, its even more important for women to stand on their own two feet. Did you know: Women are twice as likely as their partners to give up their careers (and their money) to care for their children? On average women earn 80% of men's earnings? Less than 40% of women in the UK have any sort of pension provision? A Girl's Best Friend Is Her Money gives you the power to manage your own finances, from getting out of debt to saving for a fun-filled retirement. Jane Mack and Jasmine Birtles - the Thelma and Louise of personal finance - show you how to take control of your financial future whether you're single, married, divorced, with or without children. In A Girl's Best Friend Is Her Money they shoot from the hip, tell it like it is and have a laugh along the way. For the first time, here's a book that's aimed at you, written by women who understand a thing or two about busy, hectic lives. You can be financially independent. Jane and Jasmine will show you how.
Savvy!
'Crimewatch' presenters Fiona Bruce and Jacqui Hames provide us with their guide to negotiating the practical perils of the 21st century. All aspects of female safety are covered in the home, on your travels, in your finances, out on the town, in your workplace, in your relationships and in the intimidating world of technology. Do you know how to take care of yourself? Not just the pedicures and the organic museli but the real nitty gritty of looking out for yourself? Surrounded by a wealth of magazines, lifestyle books and makeover shows its easy to find out how to be more glamorous, more successful and more in control of our destinies. But its not so easy for us to find out how to keep ourselves safe. Our worlds now change so rapidly in terms of how we live, where we live and who we live with that there are no longer any guidelines for navigating our way through the everyday and, very occasionally, not-so-everyday dangers of modern living. Now, with Savvy!, all of that is set to change as Crimewatch presenters Fiona Bruce and Jacqui Hames provide us with their comprehensive and down-to-earth guide to negotiating the practical perils of the 21st Century. All aspects of female safety are covered in the home, on your travels, in your finances, out on the town, in your workplace, in your relationships and in the increasing intimidating world of technology. Never patronising and always realistic thankfully drinking more than 5 units of alcohol and staying out past midnight is still ok! and packed full of personal anecdotes from the authors themselves, this book is about doing it all and having it all, without risking it all.
The Desert Contract by John Lathrop
Steve Kemp, investment counsellor, trying to rebuild his finances & restore his integrity, returns after a decade to the Arabian Gulf. Reconnected by chance with his old flame Helen, their love affair re-ignites & together they stumble into a shared crisis. Steve Kemp, investment counselor, trying to rebuild his finances and restore his integrity, and steer clear of politics, returns after a decade to the Arabian Gulf. Reconnected by chance with his old flame Helen, their love affair re-ignites and together they stumble into a shared crisis. Now married to an older man, a diplomat in a punishment posting at the end of his career, Helen is conflicted between loyalty and desire. Kemp is focused on financing their escape: he needs a major sale. With her husband's unwitting help the perfect client appears. But time has run out. Jihadists seeping back across the desert shake the country. The regime cracks, everyone looks to their own escape plan, while Kemp chases his deal as far as he must. A gripping novel of love and loyalties, and the place where personal integrity and politics meet, The Desert Contract is a remarkable debut.
Your money or your life
Alvin Hall offers blunt but invaluable advice on putting one's finances in order. He beats a pathway through the financial maze of mortgages and pensions and provides a useful and practical guide to personal finance. The most popular question Alvin Hall is asked is 'Where does my money go?'. In this ideal complement to his successful TV series, Alvin helps everyone get their finances in order. Helping you to understand your money psychology, Alvin beats a clear pathway through the financial maze of mortgages, insurance and pensions, provides a practical understanding of credit card debt and interest rates, and advises how to set up balance sheets for budgeting personal finances. Here is the easy-to-follow advice for a brighter, sounder financial future.
The money diet
This title shows readers how to become canny with their finances and provides clear-cut advice on payment of bills, slashing spending, which banks to use and choosing the best deals on a range of products including: pensions, shares and insurance, mobile phones and package holidays. Do you want to cut your bills without cutting back? Are you fed up with being ripped off? Do you want more money in your pocket? The average person spends more money on their telephone bill than stocks and shares - so why do finance books always talk about the markets? Whether it's utilities, credit cards, DVDs or debt, The Money Diet holds the secret of how to save. With crash-diet tips for speedy savings, a healthy eating guide to debt management, case studies and a complete financial fitness for life programme to strengthen reader's money-saving muscles, Martin Lewis can save you -6000 a year with his fully-researched, easy to implement, cutting-edge advice!
Collins deal Account Book A6 Single Cash 120 Pages 60 Sheets
This Ideal A6 Single Cash Account Book is the perfect pocket sized solution to all your accounting needs. This wire bound cash book is perfect for logging expenditure, in and out payments or any other accounting needs for your personal finances or business expenses. * A6 * 120 pages * 148x105 mm * 80gsm
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Lady Annabel Goldsmith - daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry - has enjoyed an eventful life, notably giving her name to one of London's hippest nightspots. In this memoir she recalls the Birley and Goldsmith social circles, as well as the triumphs and tragedies that have touched her life. Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry. The family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her enthralling memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong liberal leanings, and a mother who died young from cancer. Her personal account of marrying Mark Birley at 20, the creation of Annabel's Club in Berkeley Square, and then her affair and later marriage to entrepreneur Sir James Goldsmith, enthralled many readers. The club was a huge success from the beginning and remains so into its fourth decade. Annabel had three children with Goldsmith, including Jemima, Zac and Ben, who married into the Rothschild family. But tragedy was never far away: Rupert, her eldest son, died in an accident, and Goldsmith died from cancer after financing a campaign of candidates opposed to the John Major line on the EU at the 1997 general election. This book elegantly describes, in intimate and perceptive essays, pen-portraits of some of the extraordinary figures that entered the Birley and Goldsmith circles - among them, Lord Lambton, Patrick Plunket, John Aspinall, Geoffrey Keating, Lord Lucan, Dominic Elwes and Claus von Bulow. The richness of the narrative is in the particular detail and observation which only a true insider can record.