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  • We Aim to Live

    by John Budden ...
    We Aim to Live is a collection of fourteen powerful, dark and funny short stories, about ordinary people – mostly men – at moments of crisis, crossroads or revelation. The stories look unflinchingly at men’s behaviour and the moments when masculinity is on the edge of turning dangerous.Some stories portray the toxic world of professional football drawing upon the writer’s past in that world; while ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Boss

    The Life and Times of Horseracing Legend Gordon W. Richards

    by John Budden ...
    The sudden death of Gordon W. Richards in late September 1998 brought a premature end to a legendary training career which had seen him rise from obscurity to national fame as master of his profession.Consigned to racing's scrap-heap with a broken back at the age of 29, he scraped a living as a livery stable proprietor and horse-dealer in a remote part of Northumberland until, five years later, he ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Dog Bone Portfolio

    A Personal Odyssey into the First Kondratieff Winter of the Twenty-First Century

    by Margret Kopala, John Budden ...
    Like so many of us, Margret Kopala lost a significant portion of her life savings in the stock market crash of 2008. Unlike us, however, she went on a long and intense financial odyssey to find out what caused the losses and what she could do to protect herself in the future.Armed with her skills as a journalist and public policy analyst, fueled by equal measures of fear and determination, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    We Aim to Live

    by John Budden, John Budden ...
    Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    We Aim to Live is a collection of fourteen powerful, dark and funny short stories, about ordinary people – mostly men – at moments of crisis, crossroads or revelation. The stories look unflinchingly at men's behaviour and the moments when masculinity is on the edge of turning dangerous.Some stories portray the toxic world of professional football drawing upon the writer's past in that world; while ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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