All very much desired books, which I went shopping for yesterday.
In no particular order:
Thomas M Disch (who unfortunately killed himself last month)- Camp Concentration. A very prescient view of the future, written in 1968 and still relevant today. (This is today’s read – superb writing)
Naomi Klein – The Shock Doctrine. Everybody should read this book (a cliche, I know) but it decodes the way the media manipulates your thoughts, and reactions – when those in power need you to!
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman – Long Way Down. An epic trip across Africa by motorcycle, currently being screened on Astro for Malaysian viewers – inspiring, and makes me want get on to Suzi and just “ride” across SE Asia, which I may yet do. Volunteers for passengers?
Haruki Murakami – After Dark, and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman – how I missed these I have no idea, as I am a *huge* Murakami fan, and have read everything up to these latest titles.
The Book of General Ignorance – John Lloyd and Stephen Fry – based on a TV quiz series that manages to rise above the crap usually shown on British TV. 
Answers so many of the questions that are frankly totally irrelevant, but hugely entertaining.
Hitomi Kanehara – Autofiction – one of the increasing wave of Japanese authors that manage to disturb, and yet send shock waves of modern living and depictions of an alternate culture into Western consciousness.
And finally, iWoz, the autobiography of Steve Wozniak – who needs no introduction to most computer users – which I think will prove to be amusing and maybe even enlightening in parts, despite knowing he history of Apple Computing in great depth. I am genuinely not sure if he is a spoilt billionaire, or a really fun guy, who made his own luck and now just enjoys it. I suspect the latter, but reading will reveal more.
So, there’s my next weeks reading material, LOL, suggestions always welcomed for anything else new and refreshingly different.
