The new novel from the author of the Patrick Melrose series. It looks like a piss-take of the Booker Prize. Which may, or may not be, shooting fish in a barrel.

I want to tell the world just how bloody good this book is. It’s a novel about teenagers in South London negotiating a world of gangs, school and danger and it burns with the kind of urgent street laughter that Martin Amis would sell his expensive eye teeth for.

‘Not suitable for younger readers’ it says on the back. Not suitable for quite a lot of older ones too, I suspect. It deserves to win prizes.

Frankly Mr Shankly.  Now in paperback.

New novel from the author of The Hundred-year Old Man.

Yet another staggering, beautifully written story and one which is causing huge waves in the US at the moment.

Lewis’s genius, as with his bestseller “The Big Short” which explained the sub-prime market crash, is to tell a complex and technical tale with real clarity through the eyes of a group of people you grow to like.

The book’s central premise is that high frequency trading (HFT – I’m not going to explain it here) has come to mean that the stock market that normal investors see doesn’t actually exist and, in fact, the reality is collusion by brokers, HFT firms and the “dark pool” trading rooms of big wall street banks to make billions from ordinary investors who are now playing a rigged game they are not equipped to win.

Corruption, greed, a total lack of morality and, of course, the twin risks of creating artificial turbulence in the markets, or even another crash, and removing the now old-fashioned concept of ordinary people investing in companies which use then the money to grow and provide jobs.

The book’s full of revelations, not least the staggering moment when Goldman Sachs, briefly, does the right thing.

Five stars, innit.

[Stolen, with his permission, from our friend James Clark’s Facebook page.]

Welcome to the fourth wave of feminism.

The People offers a clear, compelling, broadly persuasive narrative of a century of British history as seen through working-class eyes and from a working-class perspective. Todd avoids hectoring, but by the end one is left suitably angry: the people have been screwed. David Kynaston The Observer

If you ever thought OCD, was simply a matter of an over-tidy sock drawer this book will make you think again.