Shares Made Simple: A beginner's guide to the stock market

Shares Made Simple, written by highly respected financial journalist Rodney Hobson, tears away the mystique and jargon that surrounds the stock market. It takes you step by step through the most basic concepts of stock market investing, carefully explaining issues such as:

What shares are and how they are bought and sold

Why share prices go up and down

Why some companies' shares look cheap while others appear to be expensive

The hidden traps for the unwary

This fully revised and updated second edition of this bestselling book sets out to create a level playing field between the stock market professionals and the small investor. As rising living standards and inherited cash provide assets for investment, no-one needs to suffer pitiful bank interest rates when there is real money to be made in sharing the nation's wealth.

Thousands of investors have already benefited from Rodney's clear explanation of the stock market - now you can too.

"A good introduction … a reference tool" BBC Working Lunch

"Definitely recommended" Shares magazine