Martin Vander Weyer
Mavericks of the money world fascinate me, but the books I want to read by and about them are often left aside while I tackle duller tomes for duty. So here's a couple of years' worth: if some are not new, that won't diminish their freshness to the first-time reader. Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing On The Edge by Tom Bower (HarperPress, 2006, £20) mercilessly uncovers our former proprietor, who's up for sentencing this month. Michael O'Leary: A Life in Full Flight by Alan Ruddock (Penguin, 2007, £14.99) does likewise for the strange, hard-driving Irishman behind Ryanair. How To Get Rich by publishing tycoon Felix Dennis (Ebury Press, 2006, £16.99) is engaging and occasionally poetic. The Maverick by Luke Johnson (Harriman House, 2007, £14.99) is a must-read collection of the outspoken entrepreneur's Sunday Telegraph columns. And I've only just caught up with Jabez by David McKie (Atlantic, 2005, £8.99), a life of Victorian MP and fraudster Jabez Spencer Balfour — the Maxwell of his day.
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