Philip Coggan

Philip Coggan is a former Economist and Financial Times journalist. In 2009, he was voted Senior Financial Journalist of the Year in the Wincott awards and best communicator in the Business Journalist of the Year Awards. Among his books are The Money Machine</i>; The Economist Guide to Hedge Funds</i>; the highly acclaimed More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy and Surviving the Daily Grind.

Books by Philip Coggan

Economics: The Economist Guide

Philip Coggan

The definitive Economist guide to the world of economics

The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump

Philip Coggan

Why the Trump tax is a disaster for the US and the world – from award-winning journalist Philip Coggan

Surviving the Daily Grind

Philip Coggan

The esteemed Bartleby's one-stop guide to surviving the daily grind

More

Philip Coggan

A panoramic history of trade, industry and economic thought, from prehistoric times to the present.

Game Query

Philip Coggan

The non-trivial trivia quiz book that asks how well you really know your world

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‘A mini-masterpiece’ The Times

‘We have a choir and on special occasions a glass of dry sherry. It’s less of a home and more of a club and very much a community.’

Presided over by the lofty Mrs McBryde, Hill Topp House is a superior council home for the elderly. Among the unforgettable cast of staff and residents there’s Mr. Peckover the deluded archaeologist, Phyllis the knitter, Mr Cresswell the ex-cruise
ship hairdresser, the enterprising Mrs Foss and Mr Jimson the chiropodist. Covid is the cause of fatalities and the source of darkly comic confusion, but it’s also the key to liberation. As staff are hospitalised, protocol breaks down. Miss Rathbone reveals a lifelong secret, and the surviving residents seize their moment, arthritis allowing, to scamper freely in the warmth of the summer sun.

‘Violet? She’ll be having a little lie-down,’ said Mrs McBryde. ‘She likes to give her pacemaker a rest. I’ll rout her out.’

The Sunday Times bestseller, #KillingTime by Alan Bennett, is out today in paperback.

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✨ Discover the secret histories of Britain’s churches ✨

It’s less than a month to go until we publish #ChurchGoing in beautiful paperback. Author Andrew Ziminski has spent decades as a stonemason and church conservator, acting as an informal guide to curious visitors. Church Going is his handbook to the medieval churches of the British Isles, in which he reveals their fascinating histories, features and furnishings, from flying buttresses to rood screens, lichgates to chancels. Beautifully written and richly illustrated, it is a celebration of British architectural history.

Scroll through to see the book’s fantastic endorsements! Who wants a review copy?

#ChurchGoing #BritishChurches #Churches #AndrewZiminski #Bookstagram #BooksOfIG #Architecture #ChurchCrawling

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Two new paperbacks out now 🇮🇪⚓️

#TheRevelationOfIreland by Diarmaid Ferriter is a masterful history of a country transformed over the past 25 years, from Ireland’s most distinguished historian.

#TracksOnTheOcean by Sara Caputo is a trailblazing story of how the marks left on maps tell the story of our world, weaving together human history, cartography, literature and climate science.

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We like to think that we choose our words with care, but are we using them with any degree of accuracy - or should that be precision?

#DictionaryOfFineDistinctions by @eatpraylovestein publishes today!

For hair-splitters and language lovers, #DictionaryOfFineDistinctions explores the world of the vanishingly small, teasing apart the terms that we tend to collapse, conflate, or confuse.

An illustrated odyssey into minute differences in meaning, Eli Burnstein’s unputdownable guide will hone your wits, tickle your brain, and deepen your appreciation for the infinite (and infinitesimal) nuances all around us.

Order your copy through the link in our bio now!

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Unlock the secrets of the sleeping mind… 💤

Dreams slip away when we wake, their remnants jumbled and only half-recalled. Some leave behind surreal sensations or bursts of creativity. Others leave us shaken.

But why do we dream at all? How do our bodies interface with our brains while we sleep? Why do some dreams go bad? And how can we harness our sleeping minds to improve our waking lives?

Pioneering researcher in sleep medicine Dr Michelle Carr unlocks the science behind the sleeping body. Drawing on her expertise in nightmares, lucid dreaming and the cutting-edge field of dream engineering, she reveals how we can revolutionise our sleeping – and waking – health.

#IntoTheDreamLab by Michelle Carr publishes tomorrow ☁️

#Bookstagram #BooksOfIG #NonFiction #Dreams #Dreaming #Science

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Calling all word nerds!

To celebrate the publication of #DictionaryOfFineDistinctions tomorrow, we’re giving away a few copies signed by the author, @eatpraylovestein 📚

To enter, be sure to follow @profile.books and @eatpraylovestein and tag a friend in the comments by Monday 8th September. The winner will be chosen Tuesday 9th ✨

The giveaway is open to UK only, and the winner will be messaged from the @profile.books account.

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Faber and Faber and Profile Books are delighted to be publishing Alan Bennett’s Enough Said, his fourth collection of diaries and prose.

Taking up where Sunday Times bestseller Keeping On Keeping On left off, and covering the turbulent years 2016 to 2024, the diaries take us through lockdown, Brexit, the reign of Johnson, the rise of Trump, the death of the Queen and the author’s 90th birthday.

In between, Alan holidays in Paris and Venice, returns to favourite haunts in England, and visits churches, antique shops and the National Gallery. We take the train with him back and forth to Yorkshire, celebrate the herons, the newts and the street fairs, and lament the scarcity of curlews, the closure of the last local bank and the deteriorating welfare state. There is the premiere of Allelujah!, the revived Talking Heads, the publication of two Sunday Times bestsellers and the filming of The Choral.

Enough Said will be published on the 19 March.

Pre-order with @waterstones through the link in our bio.

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Jérémie Gallon paints an intriguing portrait of the ‘master of Realpolitik’, drawing lessons from Henry Kissinger’s life and actions to explore the creation of a more coherent and resilient foreign policy, particularly in Europe.

#HenryKissinger by Jérémie Gallon publishes today.

Chapters address themes, moments, and characters that shaped Kissinger’s career, such as the Harvard years, the centrality of Realpolitik, Jewishness, even football, and his relationships with figures such as Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, and Zhou Enlai - not to mention his mother Paula. This new English edition includes an additional chapter detailing the author’s meeting with Kissinger in Connecticut ten days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Gallon is as interested in the statesman as he is in the man himself, delving into the more glamorous and intimate aspects of his life, yet making no secret of Kissinger’s contradictions and the moral accusations levelled against him.

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