Historic, Educational, Biographical, Comic & Esoteric

The Deals of Warren Buffett – Volume 1: The First $100m

242 pages. £25, Amazon from £16.97, Kindle £15.60. The book covers the period from 1941, when the 11-year old Buffett bought 3 shares in Cities Service Preferred for himself and his sister with some $120 saved from paper rounds and reselling lost golf balls, up to 1978, by when the 48-year old Buffett had achieved personal net worth of $100m. After an initial scene-setting chapter, the book looks at some 22 of the deals that helped get him there, with the lessons ...

Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, from Jesse Livermore to Warren Buffett & beyond

243 pages. £24.99, Amazon from £14.17, Kindle £15.59. He writes with a light style so it’s an easy read – eight to ten pages on each of his chosen investors, some with familiar names (Warren Buffett, Anthony Bolton, Nick Train) but others much less so, to the UK reader at least – Georges Doriot (venture capital pioneer), Robert Wilson (early short seller), Edward Thorp (early quant), Jack Bogle (pioneer index investor). Each chapter has a brief biography which includes a note on ...