November 12, 2019 Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas Review by Anna Hollingsworth My immediate reaction was a desperately deep sigh when, pre-launch, Dana Thomas’s Fashionopolis was trumpeted as a must-read revelatory work…
December 6, 2017 Progress – Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future Johan Norberg Reviewed by Terence Jagger As Carly Simon sang in 1971, ‘These are the good old days’. This is a fascinating book, and one you…
March 16, 2017 Hit Makers by Derek Thompson Review by Annabel I came to read this book immediately after devouring UK journalist and presenter Tim Harford’s recent Messy: How to Be Creative…
August 22, 2016 But What If We’re Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman Reviewed by Simon How many non-fiction books do you come across which combine literature, music, television, sports, science, and aliens? Not that many, I’m…
October 29, 2014 Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Story of Huguette Clark and the Loss of one of the World’s Greatest Fortunes by Bill Dedman & Paul Clark Newell Jr. Reviewed by Frances Ambler Billionaires don’t just slip off the radar. Well, so you’d think. Huguette Clark, one of America’s wealthiest women, almost succeeded…