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James Timpson's Top Reads for Business Leaders
Posted on 31st August 2025 by Anna Orhanen In The Happy Index, one of our Non-Fiction Books of the Month for September, James Timpson shares his revolutionary approach to employee happiness through the power of ‘upside-down’ management. Here are his top five must-read books for business leaders. The Richer Way by Julian Richer The first business book to give me the confidence to run a business in a way that aligned with my values. A clear guide on how to motivate people through kindness and fun.
Erwin James on new year in prison
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‘Where a good book can take you’
In prison you exist on dreams, nightmares and fantasies. I found this out after I was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1984 and taken from the Old Bailey to Wandsworth prison in south London. A Cat ‘A’ prisoner, locked in my cell for 23 hours a day with few apparent skills or abilities, and almost insurmountable failings to overcome – my prospects were bleak. But at least I could read … Every Saturday morning we were taken six at a time to the prison library where we could choose six books.
Surviving ‘The Grass Arena’
Film of classic book chronicling the lives of people society forgot now released on DVD It’s a hell of a story. Brutal and vicious and funny – but mostly brutal and vicious. Told in the highly acclaimed book,’ The Grass Arena’, it is author John Healy’s account of survival against the most barbaric odds which broke new ground in bringing understanding and insight into the lives and times of London’s wino vagrant community in the 1960s.
The murderer who wrote himself out of 'the deepest, darkest hole'
Erwin James, a double murderer, served 20 years in prison – a spell that he decided he must make meaningful. Now working as a professional journalist, he urges other inmates to try to transform their lives to the benefit of themselves and society Erwin James served 20 years behind bars before being released in 2004. His mother died in a car crash when he was seven and his father was a violent alcoholic. James was taken into care.
Redeemable by Erwin James
Oh my word, this is quite simply an eye-opening must-read. Erwin James is a journalist and author, he is also a trustee of the Prison Reform Trust and patron of a number of offender rehabilitation schemes. He writes about his life, about the years of abuse and neglect and misguided love that led to him committing crime from the age of 11 through to 28 when convicted of two murders.
Review: Redeemable: A Memoir Of Darkness And Hope
Can a murderer be redeemed? Erwin James, author of Redeemable: A Memoir Of Darkness And Hope, believes so after turning his life around in prison.
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