Darren Allen: 3 books

You'll find hundreds of entertaining accounts of financial misadventure in "1001 Ridiculous Ways To Lose a Fortune" - the greatest collection of funny, crazy and mind-boggling stories of financial loss ever assembled. The trader who went on holiday with a stock trade open, and came back to discover he'd...

Encyclopaedias and dictionaries are often boring, of no help when it comes to secretly filling train carriages with subversive balloons and they rarely manage to offend everyone. Lexicographers assume that language is a big machine that you need an instruction manual to use, rather than a river of...

Looking back on a memorable career, Darren McCarty recounts his time as one of the most visible and beloved members of the Detroit Red Wings as well as his personal struggles with addiction, finances, and women and his daily battles to overcome them. As a member of four Red Wings’ Stanley Cup–winning...