Recently published, my book !....

Free Capital: How 12 Private Investors Made Millions in the Stock Market

"This book profiles 12 private investors. Each of them has accumulated 1m or more in most cases considerably more mainly from stock market investment. Six are ISA millionaires who have 1m or more in a tax-free Investment Savings Account (ISA), a result which is arithmetically impossible without exceptional investment returns."

First chapter available FREE Read the first chapter here.

Available from Moneyams linked bookshop Buy the book here.

Some early book reviews:

Investors Chronicle:

"...a compelling read...You could learn a lot from this dazzling dozen..."

"...definitely the best investment book that has crossed my desk for some time."


Full text: Read the IC review here

Stockopedia:

"At last,a true to life account of UK investing...highly recommended reading..."

Full text Read the Stockopedia review here

Motley Fool:

Something of a future investment classic in my view"

Full text Read the Motley Fool review here

How many shares should an investor hold?

http://guythomas.org.uk/blog/?o=1

freecap, congratulations on what seems to be a great book, it is on my list of books to buy.

Review by Richard Beddard:

"This book is the best of a small breed of books about investors because Thomas really understands investing, avoids hyperbole and tells it how it is.

The author says Free Capital is not a how to book, but I think thats because there can be no such thing. Investors are so different there can only really be how I books. This book, therefore, is twelve small books for the price of one. The benefit in reading it goes beyond inspiration, reading it invites comparison between the investors methodologies and your own."

Full text: here

I'm reading it at present. Very interesting, as you say, not a book about 'how to', more a book about the different states of mind and attitudes, proving that no one method is best. It's not too dry, and will keep you reading on.

Thomas, just out of curiosity, do any of your chosen investors post on this discussion board?

I am not aware that any of the investors post here. Quite likely some of them do, but they mainly mentioned TMF, AFN and greenenergyinvestors.com. Two of them have each made over 30,000 posts across these boards. Others never look at bulletin boards at all.

Review by UK-Analyst.com:

main similarity is that all of themwork very hardthey simply love the thrill of the chase

Full text: here .

SOME ALTERNATIVE SIMILAR BOOKS

A book based on the same concept as Free Capital, but about investors in the US not the UK:
The Warren Buffetts Next Door: The World's Greatest Investors You've Never Heard of and What You Can Learn from Them

by Matthew Schifrin http://amzn.to/akhKxg

I have linked to the amazon.com (not co.uk) site because there are more reviews on there

Same interview / biographical concept as Free Capital, but focusing on professional not private investors:

Market Wizards

by Jack Schwager http://amzn.to/kM2xMn

The original and still the best.

New Market Wizards

by Jack Schwager http://amzn.to/jAAL8p

Almost as good as the first.

Stock Market Wizards

by Jack Schwager http://amzn.to/kRUa3z

General consensus seems to be that this is a step down from the first two, but still well worth reading. I dont know, I havent read it.

All the above profile only USA professionals, and traders rather than investors.

For a UK focus, and more of a long term focus, there are two much less well known books.

Money Makers

by Jonathan Davis http://amzn.to/mFyKer

Profiles based on interviews of Anthony Bolton, Ian Rushbrooke (RIP), Jim Slater, Colin McLean, etc. Out of print, but worth getting 2nd hand from Amazon or similar.

Investing with the Grand Masters

by James Morton http://amzn.to/kzOeUU

Similar to Money Makers. Some overlap of subjects (eg Anthony Bolton & Colin McLean in both), but anything about these guys is well worth reading.

The quality and focus declines towards the end of the book, in a chapter which profiles the activities of Prince Charles (!) with his charity the Princes Trust. This was all very worthy but I thought the claimed connection to investing was a stretch.

Also out of print. Overall, less worthwhile than Money Masters.

I am signing copies of the book (10 each) at this event in London on Thursday evening...

http://boards.fool.co.uk/mello-central-is-this-thursday--12271467

Guy - mine arrived this morning, so I will be reading it over the week or so.

OK. Post a review here. Or on Amazon if it's good :)

Audio interview about Free Capital in Frisbys Bulls And Bears:

http://commoditywatch.podbean.com/2011/06/05/how-12-private-investors-made-millions/