In conversation with the longlist: why did you write this book?

Samsung Rising: Inside the Secretive Company Conquering Tech
by Geoffrey Cain
Virgin Books, Penguin Random House (UK); Currency, Random House Publishing Group (US)

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
by Anne Case & Angus Deaton
Princeton University Press (UK) & (US)

Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Win in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term
by David M. Cote
HarperCollins Leadership (UK) & (US)

No Filter: The inside story of how Instagram transformed business, celebrity and our culture
by Sarah Frier
Random House Business (UK); Simon & Schuster (US)

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
by Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
WH Allen, Penguin Random House (UK); Penguin Press (US)

Uncharted: How to Map the Future Together
by Margaret Heffernan
Simon & Schuster (UK); Simon & Schuster/Avid Reader Press (US)

Reimagining Capitalism: How Business Can Save the World
by Rebecca Henderson
Penguin Business, Penguin Random House (UK); PublicAffairs (US)

Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
by Bradley Hope & Justin Scheck
John Murray (UK); Hachette Books (US)

Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an unknowable future
by Mervyn King & John Kay
The Bridge Street Press/Little, Brown Book Group (UK); W.W. Norton & Company (US)

Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
by Matthew Klein & Michael Pettis
Yale University Press (UK) & (US)

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by Jill Lepore
John Murray Press (UK); W.W. Norton (US)

Money for Nothing: The South Sea Buble & the Invention of Modern Capitalism
by Thomas Levenson
Head of Zeus (UK); Penguin Random House (US)

The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women
by Linda Scott
Faber & Faber (UK); Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US)

A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond
by Daniel Susskind
Allen Lane (UK); Metropolitan Books (US)

Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
by Liam Vaughan
William Collins (UK); Doubleday (US)