Someone asked via a very nice email which books I could see round me right at that moment. Never one to disappoint my reader, I’ve sat down and looked around me. The books I can see from here, constituting about a tenth of the collection in my soon to be much tidier room:
- The Angry Island by A.A. Gill
- The Character of Physical Law by Richard P Feynman
- The Third Man by Peter Mandelson
- ‘Smiley’s People’, ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy’ and ‘The Honorable Schoolboy’ by John Le Carré
- Charlie Wilson’s War by George Crile
- ‘On The Wealth of Nations’, ‘Modern Manners’, ‘Don’t Vote, it Just Encourages the Bastards’ by P.J. O’Rourke
- Richard Dawkins by Alan Grfen and Mark Ridley (Eds)
- The Call of the Weird by Louis Theroux
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill
- Public Relations, A Practical Approach by Ellen Gunning
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Hitch 22, A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
- A Journey by Tony Blair
- Decision Points by George W Bush
- Krushchev by William Taubman
- Oppenheimer: American Prometheus by Kai Bird
- One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs
- The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
- The King James Bible (Two religions for the price of one, awesome)
- The Holy Qu’ran
