The clearest picture of life according to the world's fourth-richest man.

Stuffed with nuggets and insights - a Christmas fruitcake for the investor.

A sweeping, detailed colourful account of the rise and fall of the king of the UK's High Street, complete with a Dickensian cast of grifters, charlatans, flunkies, the odd dogged hero, and an irresistibly obnoxious protagonist. Shah has written a hard-hitting, often funny, ultimately sobering tale of how fortunes were made and lost in late 20th and early 21st century Britain.

Meticulously researched... it's entertaining stuff, pacily written. Filled with colourful characters - and expletives.

Brilliantly researched and sensational. The book reads as though it is on speed: there are moments when Shah's narrative runs like a frantic James Bond script interspersed with moments of Shakespearean farce. There are times you have to prick yourself to remember that Green's wheeling and dealing is not fiction but what actually took place behind the closed doors of the High Street

A detailed and entertaining dismantling of the 'king of the high street'

A merciless, profanity-strewn dissection of the tumultuous career of UK retail tycoon Philip Green

A fantastic education on the surprising ways tax policies have shaped mankind's past and will impact our future

A brilliant book full of insights into how governments have fleeced us down the ages. This is a must read for anyone interested in how technology might at last tilt things back in favour of the citizen rather than the state

How when and where we pay tax affects everything - how and where we work, how we save, when we retire, whether we marry or not, whether we live in houses we own or not and sometimes even how many children we have. Few of us think properly about the way this shapes our lives and societies. With this well-written and hugely engaging book Dominic Frisby might be about to change that

A great read

Both amusing and informative, you'll come away with a much deeper understanding of what taxation is all about

Whether you think your taxes are fair or unfair, too high or too low, you need to read this book

Highly readable

A hugely readable, well-researched book about the history, reality and future of tax, which can draw the occasional chuckle! Also an informative tome, which raises important questions about how and why governments are funded

A book about tax, that is readable, fascinating - and fun! Sounds impossible, I know. But that's what Dominic Frisby has written

This entertaining, easily read book will make you laugh and arm you for debates

Frisby is a moonlighting phenomenon: a finance journalist by day and Edinburgh Fringe comedic star by night, he brings wit to the world of policy-wonkery in a way that is probably unique

Whatever your political leanings, you will find much to enjoy in this entertaining and educational romp through the history of taxation

Please let's let Dominic Frisby loose on the Treasury!

a fascinating book...educational and fun. You will enjoy it!

An utterly absorbing look at how Cohen pushed his traders to the limit—that “black edge”—and how he mostly insulated himself from the potential ramifications. This fast-paced, true-life thriller will leave readers enraptured—and troubled