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The Club
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The Club

by Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg

The inside story of how the Premier League transformed from a scruffy national competition into the world's most valuable sports property. For anyone working in football today, this is essential context — a casebook in media strategy, ownership models, and the trade-offs of commercialisation told through the deals, personalities, and turning points that made it happen.

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Originals

Originals

by Adam Grant

Recommended

Adam Grant dismantles the myth that original thinkers are fearless risk-takers. The most successful non-conformists are cautious, strategic, and disciplined. Originality is not a personality trait — it is a set of habits you can learn, practise, and build into the way you lead.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

by Ben Horowitz

Essential

Ben Horowitz has built and sold companies, survived the dot-com crash, and made decisions that most business books pretend do not exist. This is the manual for the moments no one trains you for: layoffs, board revolts, product failures, and the private terror of leading through a crisis with no clear answer.

Meditations

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Essential

Written as a private journal during military campaigns, Meditations is the most intimate record of Stoic philosophy ever produced — a Roman emperor reminding himself, daily, how to live well amid power, plague, war, and the certainty of death.

The Pursuit of Italy

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The Pursuit of Italy

by David Gilmour

"A beautifully researched journey through the roads that built an empire — and the civilisations that came after. I picked this up because I live between London and Italy, and the history of Rome as a physical and political network feels more relevant than ever."

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Drive

Drive

by Daniel H. Pink

Daniel Pink's Drive makes a clear and persuasive case that the old model of motivation is incomplete. For much of modern management, the assumption has been simple: reward good performance and punish bad performance. Pink argues that this logic works for routine tasks, but breaks down when work requires judgment, creativity, and sustained commitment.

Hey Whipple, Squeeze This

Hey Whipple, Squeeze This

by Luke Sullivan

Hey Whipple, Squeeze This serves as advertising's irreverent field manual, teaching copywriters how to cut through clutter with simple, memorable ideas that sell. Luke Sullivan, veteran creative director, skewers bad ads while dissecting great ones, insisting timeless principles endure across every medium.

Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House

by Ben Mezrich

Bringing Down the House chronicles the real-life saga of MIT students who mastered blackjack card counting and systematically drained Las Vegas casinos of millions. Ben Mezrich tells the story through Kevin Lewis, a brilliant math major recruited into the clandestine MIT Blackjack Team.

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

by W. Bernard Carlson

Tesla presents Nikola Tesla not as a mad genius but as a systematic inventor who transformed electricity from laboratory curiosity to global infrastructure. W. Bernard Carlson examines Tesla's career through original patents, lab notebooks, and business records, placing him firmly within the late nineteenth-century technological culture.

The Alchemist

The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist tells the story of Santiago, a young Andalusian shepherd who dreams of treasure near the Egyptian pyramids. What starts as a simple quest becomes a profound journey of self-discovery, teaching lessons about destiny, courage, love, and the language of the universe.

Sapiens

Sapiens

by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens traces the improbable rise of Homo sapiens from an unremarkable East African primate to planetary master. Yuval Noah Harari argues that human dominance stems not from physical superiority but from collective imagination: the ability to create and believe in fictions like gods, nations, and money.

Marketing Outrageously Redux

Marketing Outrageously Redux

by Jon Spoelstra

Recommended

Jon Spoelstra, the veteran sports marketer who sold the Portland Trail Blazers for 10x his purchase price, makes the case that safe marketing is the real risk. Outrageous wins.

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

A portrait of the Lost Generation adrift. Hemingway's first novel follows Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley through 1920s Paris and Pamplona — a study in aimlessness, impossible love, and the search for authenticity amid post-war emptiness.

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The Club

The Club

by Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg

Recommended

The inside story of how the Premier League transformed from a scruffy national competition into the world's most valuable sports property. For anyone working in football today, this is essential context — a casebook in media strategy, ownership models, and the trade-offs of commercialisation told through the deals, personalities, and turning points that made it happen.

Originals

Originals

by Adam Grant

Recommended

Adam Grant dismantles the myth that original thinkers are fearless risk-takers. The most successful non-conformists are cautious, strategic, and disciplined. Originality is not a personality trait — it is a set of habits you can learn, practise, and build into the way you lead.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

by Ben Horowitz

Essential

Ben Horowitz has built and sold companies, survived the dot-com crash, and made decisions that most business books pretend do not exist. This is the manual for the moments no one trains you for: layoffs, board revolts, product failures, and the private terror of leading through a crisis with no clear answer.

Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

Recommended

A junior high science teacher wakes alone on a spacecraft with amnesia, 12 light years from Earth, carrying humanity's last hope against extinction. Andy Weir's most accomplished novel is a masterclass in problem-solving under pressure — and one of the most joyful reading experiences in recent science fiction.

A Briefer History of Time

A Briefer History of Time

by Stephen Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow

Worth Reading

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow take the original Brief History of Time and make it genuinely accessible — a tour of the universe's deepest mysteries, from the Big Bang to black holes to the search for a theory of everything, written for curious minds rather than physicists.

Meditations

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Essential

Written as a private journal during military campaigns, Meditations is the most intimate record of Stoic philosophy ever produced — a Roman emperor reminding himself, daily, how to live well amid power, plague, war, and the certainty of death.

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