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The Bucks Stop Here

By Jim Parton
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About the Author

Jim Parton

Born in Nairobi in 1959, Jim Parton was educated at Haileybury and St Andrews University, where he read French (but only for the two weeks before finals). After a short career in the City, he has been a freelance writer. For some years he ran the charity Families Need Fathers. His books include 'Unreasonable Behaviour', 'Let Me Entertain You' (for Robbie Williams) and 'Walking on Air' (for Trevor ... Read more on Jim Parton

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Updated edition of the City bestseller, with a brand new epilogue.

By most people's standards, Jim Parton was being paid vast sums of money for doing nothing very much in the City. That is until, right in the middle of the recession, he is unceremoniously fired by his ungrateful boss. Sound familiar? Of course. But this is not 2009 mid credit crunch, this is the early 1990s. This a story from the last crisis, telling how Jim survived the shock of losing his job, the fallout from it, and how, despite all of it, he went on to have a happier life (in the end).

This is Jim's story of 'before and after'; of Maseratis and designer clothes; of dim people earning disgusting salaries; of fashionable redundancy becoming feared unemployment - and of what really happens when you spend more time with your wife and family.

A tale from the previous crash then, but one offering hope to those in the City right now and to those outside the City providing an insight to what life is like for people who populate the Square Mile. Find out what happens when the money stops...

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Blogger News Network

The Buck Stops Here by Jim Parton

Money talks and mine said ?goodbye? reads the subtitle. And Parton, who is the subject of this autobiographical self-depricating comical money-logue really means ...

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The Mail on Sunday

Back in 1994, self-styled mediocre broker Jim Parton penned a hilarious memoir of his rise and fall in the markets - The Bucks Stop Here.

The ex-public schoolboy had lost everything - his job at ...

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Media Review

an hilarious memoir- Mail on Sunday17th May 2009

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