Book read: The Impossible Office by Anthony Seldon

 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57182603-the-impossible-office?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=rX3TMMEyXC&rank=1

Book read: Great Uncle Harry by Michael Palin

 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/123202712

Book Read: Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43868109-empire-of-pain?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=2lIpIjMR5i&rank=1

 

A simply staggering business book about the opiod based pain killers and the ruthless family business behind it.

Book Read: Operation Pedestal by Max Hastings

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55200686-operation-pedestal?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=9MWJs2e2WA&rank=1 

Book read: Into the Black by Rowland White

 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43103442-into-the-black

Book read: Harrier 809 by Rowland White

 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43159425-harrier-809

An interesting book that is focused around the air war in the Falklands, and loosely around the reformation of the 809 flight.

Book read: The Secret Barrister by unknown

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36620738-the-secret-barrister

A great book about the workings of the criminal justice system - and how a funding crisis has lead to a broken system.

Book read: Rebel Ideas by Matthew Syed

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47014225-rebel-ideas

Book read: Factfulness by Hans Rosling

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34890015-factfulness

Book read: Novacene by James Lovelock

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43706493-novacene?from_search=true&qid=iWcLvYVMMU&rank=1

Book read: Range by David Epstein

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41795733-range?from_search=true

Book read: Chernobyl The history of a nuclear catastrophy by Serhii Plokhy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204894-chernobyl

Book read: The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34757960-the-shortest-history-of-germany

Book read: The end of Alchemy by Mervyn King

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30231791-the-end-of-alchemy

Book read: The People vs Tech by Jamie Bartlett

A thought provoking read about where technology is taking us.   It sees the weakening and collapse of democracy unless we can do something about technology being used to control and influence people:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39403470-the-people-vs-tech

Book read: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto

Book read: The National Debt by Martin Slater

Not the most promising of titles, I got this book on the strength of a couple of reviews and my passing interest in British economics.

It presents a "how we got to now" analysis of British history told through the national debt.  Each major historical moment is analyzed (typically wars or times of trouble) and the debt we built up is presented.

It is written really clearly and explains some technicalities very well.

Book read: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

I watched the recent film and kept hearing that the book was great so I gave it a go - a very different story to the book, more detailed and more cultural references, a really good read:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9969571-ready-player-one

Book read: Being Mortal by Atual Gawande

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20696006-being-mortal

Book read: Better - A surgeons notes on perfomance by Atul Gawande

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213233.Better