Well written and interesting non- fiction books

https://amzn.eu/d/e5b3ke6

Gates of Hell: Why Bill Gates Is the Most Dangerous Man in the World by Daniel Jupp.

And

https://amzn.eu/d/hshLBLM

F*ck the Planet: How to Resist the Great Reset in the Trump Era by Daniel Jupp

mine are books about hedge funds as i was influenced by the show billions with bobby axelrod

Unruly by David Mitchell. A history of the early King's of England. Interesting and often very witty.

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall. Absolutely fascinating and changes how you look at the world.

Also In Praise of Walking by Professor Shane O’Mara. The transition from crawling to walking via thousands of falls, missteps and all the minor adjustments required to find the ability to walk points to what learning effectively might be like in almost any sphere. It’s extremely readable but if you want the even quicker version, there’s a good interview on BBC Sounds Don’t tell me the Score.

Great Britain by Torsten Bell. Good analysis of legacy of underinvestment and regional and generational inequalities in the UK. Interesting to see some of the thinking around solutions creeping into the government’s policies. Sadly, I suspect they won’t get the three terms needed for change to really take root and bear fruit. Hope I’m wrong.

Lady in waiting - Anne Glenconner

• written by Lady Glenconner about her life including her friendship with the Royal family, particularly Princess Margaret.

Yes all his books are fascinating.

I also enjoyed Jonn Elledge's A History of the World in 47 borders and Lewis Baston wrote a similar one called Borderlines. I've read both of those twice.

Anything Luke o Neill has written (Siri’s h science expert), or Dara O Briain (comedian with an interest in science)

Anything by Christopher Hitchens: knowledgeable and funny.

It's All in Your Head: Stories from the Frontline of Psychosomatic Illness and The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness - both by Suzanne O'Sullivan. Fascinating and really changed how I thought about psychosomatic illness

I recently finished Number Go Up by Zeke Faux about cryptocurrencies and the massive amount of fraud based on them. It's centred on Sam Bankfman-Fried and his criminal behaviour around his FTX crypto exchange but it covers a lot of areas. It's really well written and entertaining but also infuriating at how such a bunch of blatant scam-artists, drug-addled "visionaries" and flat-out idiots managed to blag their way to riches at the expense of millions of gullible punters.

This is the opening line from the prologue that very much sets the scene for the rest of the book:

"I'm not going to lie," Sam Bankman-Fried told me.
This was a lie.

I've just started reading Dead in the Water by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel. It's about the very murky goings-on of the global shipping industry. It's been quite eye-opening.

Thanks, @BeverleyCleverley. If private equity is definitely an issue there, I will do a separate top-post about Plunder. I refrained because the focus is American - but the underlying issues would apply anywhere.

All That Remains by Sue Black. Brilliant book and so accessible for a nonscientific mind. Loved it.

Apologies if I'm repeating suggestions but I'm currently gripped by John Preston's book about Robert Maxwell called Fall. His book about the Jeremy Thorpe scandal (A Very English Scandal) is also good.

I also enjoyed Bringing Down the House by David Profumo about his father John and his mother Valerie Hobson.

Have just bought that it sounds just up my street thanks @westfacing

If war is your thing, then Stalingrad by Vasilly Grossman is mind boggling.

The Wager by David Grann. Non fiction, but as gripping as a novel.

Last year I attended a talk given by Nick Higham, former BBC correspondent titled 'The Mercenary River'. It was a fascinating talk that was really about the history of London's water... he joked that if the title was water & sewage then no one would come!

He has a book on the subject which I've finally got around to starting and so far so good, as I expected it would be.

Private Greed. Public Good. A History of London's Water

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-mercenary-river/nick-higham/9781472283863

To my utter astonishment, I'm suddenly drawn to books on economics.

I spent my early life reading almost exclusively novels. One days, I was desperately looking for something to read on the book-discard shelf at the office, and the only thing was something by the economist Robert Reich. I was pretty sure I wasn't gong to understand it, much less like it, so ... imagine my surprise.

One book that was mind-blowing was Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America, by Brendan Ballou, but I don't know if private equity is an issue in the U.K. I'm also collecting a list of titles I was to read about tech. I'm tech-averse, but like reading about it. I posted here about Nicholas Carr's The Shallows, and hope to now read his next. I also own, but haven't read yet, Patriot, by Alexei Navalny.

Reading about reading, via Nicholas Carr | Mumsnet

Patriot by Alexei Navalny: 9780593320969 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

I've just finished American Mania by Peter Whybrow. Thought provoking.
www.ryandelaney.co/book-notes/american-mania-summary

Not read it but I believe Prisioners Of Geography by Tim Marshall is well thought of. Would tick a few boxes of your brief @BeverleyCleverley