Gordon Brown's book will offer insight into the events that led to the fiscal downward

spiral and the reactions of world leaders as they took steps to avoid further disaster.

The book will also offer measures Brown believes the world should adopt to regain

fiscal stability. Long admired for his grasp of economic issues, Brown's book will be a work of paramount interest during these uncertain financial times and is sure to

attract intense media coverage.

The book offers a unique perspective on the financial crisis as well as innovative

ideas that will help create a sound economic future and will help readers understand

what really has happened to our economy.

Mr Brown has this to say:

'We now live in a world of global trade, global financial flows, global movements of

people and instant global communications. Our economies are connected as never

before, and I believe that global economic problems require global solutions and

global institutions. In writing my analysis of the financial crisis, I wanted to help

explain how we got here, but more importantly to offer some recommendations as to how the next stage of globalisation can be managed so that the economy works for people and not the other way around'