August Books has signed How to Con Friends and Manipulate People, a "searingly funny" personal-development parody by Geraint Anderson, the author of Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile (John ...

This article previously ran on Nov. 15, 2016. What is this dark art of personal development you speak of Mr. Tim? Put simply; it’s the thing that will change your freaking life for real. No joke.

We consider personal development largely ‘personal’; something we do for ourselves in order to grow and develop. At first sight, this seems pretty obvious. But what if the seemingly self-explanatory ...