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  Fingers: The Man Who Brought...

  Richard Curran, Tom Lyons

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  Michael Fingleton was an Irish banking legend, the ultimate big money lender. He took Irish Nationwide Building Society from an obscure mortgage provider to a multi-billion euro property-lending casino, leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab for €5.4 billion when the society eventually went bust.
  Fingleton earned over €2 million per year and built up a pension fund worth €27 million. But it was his loans to a small group of property developers and the way the society was mismanaged, under the nose of the Financial Regulator that cost Irish citizens so dearly.
  In Fingers, Tom Lyons and Richard Curran use previously unpublished material to blow open the failings of the society's internal systems and controls, its culture and the dominance of one man.
  They get inside the organisation and bring startling new revelations about how money was really lent out to a small group of developers, how INBS failed, and what the Financial Regulators knew.
  Fingers explores:
  -  Fingleton's connections with politics, the media and the powerful
  - How the society wasn't just a lender but became a player, taking stakes and shares in the profits of the ventures it bankrolled
  - How Fingleton quaffed vintage wine in the finest restaurants, stayed in five-star hotels and put it all on the society's tab
  -  How ordinary borrowers in arrears were treated ruthlessly, while the mega-rich walked away owing billions to us.
  Fingers goes to the heart of the state's failure to hold anybody to account for the Irish financial crash. It highlights the need for a proper banking inquiry to explain to the public what went wrong, how, and who is to blame.

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  American Icon Henry Ford - The...

  Henry Ford

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  “If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” (Henry Ford) 
  The great Henry Ford was the unforgettable American captain of industry and unequalled business magnate who founded the Ford Motor Company and the unequalled force behind the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Here, in this unique and very accessible audiobook, Ford tells his own story. A must for businessmen everywhere and a lauded addition to all school and university systems. A true audio treasure! 
  GEOFFREY GIULIANO is the author of 32 internationally best-selling books published by the biggest publishers in the world from 1984 to today. He is also an acclaimed Hollywood film actor, director, designer, and is the voice on over 500 popular audiobooks. 
  Series producer Avalon Giuliano in New York Produced by Alex Franchi in Milan Edited and mixed by Macc Kay in BangkokICON intern Eden Garret GiulianoMusic by Audionautix

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  My Secret Life Vol 5 Chapter 9

  Dominic Crawford Collins

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  My Secret Life is the longest erotic autobiography ever written. Penned anonymously during the 1800s by a wealthy English gentleman called Walter, it offers an eye and thigh opening account of life behind closed doors in the Victorian era. Banned from publication for its extreme and explicit content for nearly a century, My Secret Life has now come to life in the 21st century as an immersive audio book, narrated and scored by film composer Dominic Crawford Collins.Five days' amusement at B***f**d. • The big chamber-maid. • A sovereign promised. • A pego produced. • The superintendent on the watch. • The corridor out of her sight. • The lamp closet. • The water closet. • An uprighter. • Fucking in fear. • The servants' staircase. • A baudy house sought. • At 5 o'clock a.m. • An hour's felicity with her. • Three hours' delight in a brothel. • The chamber-maid's antecedents. • I leave the town.

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  My Secret Life Vol 3 Chapter 1

  Dominic Crawford Collins

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  My Secret Life, the anonymously written erotic memoirs of a Victorian English gentleman who refers to himself simply as 'Walter' is one of the most idiosyncratic and sexually obsessed books ever written. In this vast autobiographical confessional the author recounts, in meticulous detail, his sexual exploits throughout the course of a life devoted entirely to the pursuit of carnal pleasure. Through this compelling exploration of the author's sexual behaviour we are left with a uniquely entertaining insight into life behind the closed doors of Victorian society. My Secret Life is evocative, provocative, sorrowful, suspenseful, obscene, exciting and highly erotic...in it we are privy to the thoughts, emotions and memories of one of the most unusual, unsung and colourful English eccentrics of the Victorian era.
  
  Now, for the first time, the complete unabridged version of this unique text is being narrated and scored by film composer Dominic Crawford Collins as an 'audiofilm' (an audiobook in which the emotional landscape is explored through the music score). Each chapter of My Secret Life will be released at monthly intervals over the next ten or so years culminating in what is likely to become the longest audio book ever to be produced.

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  De Profundis

  Oscar Wilde

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  This short work of Wilde's was written during his two year incarceration for "gross indecency". This work is a letter which sorts out his life, and his love toward Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde wrote this as a farewell letter to Douglas. (summary by Aaron Elliott)

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  Survived Endured and Beaten...

  Peter King

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  The story of how the author’s life with bowel cancer first began, after the diagnosis and operation, how he coped with many years of pain due to abdominal adhesions plus the twisted colon at a later stage, how he overcame it and eventually beat it altogether and became pain free. It is also a reminder to cancer survivors and sufferers that at any stage of cancer and in whatever pain they are in, they must not give in to it or become negative or pessimistic. It brings hope, positivity, encouragement, confidence, inspiration and optimism to all who are struggling to cope with cancer and the aftereffects. The author also explains how big the difference in being alive, living and having his life saved is compared to not having his life saved and being dead. The excitement of the author has been there right from the beginning because to him it is a miracle. This is also education as well and may help people when reacting to an initial diagnosis, how to exercise while in pain, how not to eat and drink certain things when given advice by a professional and how to adapt to living while in pain. It also says that anyone affected by cancer should be strong-willed, believe in themselves and try as hard as possible to find a solution when they are going through hard times. It may also be of a big help to medical professionals plus anyone studying cancer and similar related conditions.

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