Stephen Bates

Embarrassment & Riches

Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe

Frances Cairncross

The New Masters of the Universe?

The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies

By Mariana Mazzucato & Rosie Collington

Peter Smith

An Expensive Way to Save Money

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm

By Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe

Martin Vander Weyer

It Lost Its Spark

Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of General Electric

By William D Cohan

Michael Burleigh

Pirates of the Aegean

Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry

By Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel

Frances Cairncross

Buddenbrooks of Bombay

The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty

By Joseph Sassoon

Jonathan Healey

For King & Capitalism

Merchants: The Community that Shaped England’s Trade and Empire, 1550–1650

By Edmond Smith

Vicky Pryce

The XX Factor

The Authority Gap: Why Women are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

By Mary Ann Sieghart

Adrian Furnham

Those Strange Tribes in Their Suits & Ties

Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life

By Gillian Tett

Joanna Walters

Pills & Patronage

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

By Patrick Radden Keefe

Stephen Bates

Stock Horror

Ultimate Folly: The Rises and Falls of Whitaker Wright, the World’s Most Shameless Swindler

By Henry Macrory

James Bloodworth

Terrible Work If You Can Get It

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By David Graeber

Jacob Cockcroft

Fair Share?

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

By Brad Stone

Wild Ride: Inside Uber’s Quest for World Domination

By Adam Lashinsky

Christopher Caldwell

More Money, More Problems

The Wealth of Humans: Work and Its Absence in the Twenty-First Century

By Ryan Avent

Martin Vander Weyer

Networking Opportunities

Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story

By John Bloom

Martin Vander Weyer

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Shadow State: Inside the Secret Companies that Run Britain

By Alan White

Ian Hislop

Get Rich Quick

Tactics: The Art and Science of Success

By Edward de Bono

Allister Heath

‘What Stock Do You Like, Warren?’

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

By Alice Schroeder