Lucy Kellaway

Lucy Kellaway is my favourite caller out of bullsh*t business speak and has been doing it in the FT for more years than most. Her Sense and Nonsense in the Office book is a must but appears to have been allowed to go out of print by Pearson (?). Lucy’s new book is an autobiography of sorts with the snappy title Re-educated: How I Changed my Job, My Home, My Husband, & My Hair (Ebury). It takes us through different parts of her life but really covers what happened after she separated from her husband, bought a new house, became a teacher, and set up a new company - Now Teach - to encourage business people to become teachers later in life and share the benefit of their experience and knowledge. She is refreshingly honest about her experiences and how much she herself has learned throughout the process, and often hilarious in her self-deprecation. One reads with clenched teeth at times but can only admire her endeavour, determination, and the essential value of an excellent, omnipresent sense of humour.… (mais)

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Classic novel of corporate life in London, as expressed through the emails of Martin Lukes, both self-obsessed and utterly un-self-aware, working through hubris, nemesis, and just possibly catharsis. You can spot pretty early on what is going to happen - as soon as the attractive new PA comes on the scene, it basically writes itself (her surname is actually Tartt, in case you needed the obvious pointed out to you even more clearly) - but having said that I anticipated the middle part of the book, Kellaway brings in a couple of twists at the end that I admit I did not expect.… (mais)