Best (overlooked) books 2010 | Inside Story

My favourite book for 2010 was John Kay's Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly. John Kay is a great economics columnist and this little book is dedicated to the proposition that many of the most important things in life, ... The hotel in Cristina García's The Lady Matador's Hotel, the glamorous Miraflor, is in an unnamed Central American capital. The matadora is one of six guests we follow for seven days. She's Japanese-Mexican, brought up in Los Angeles, ...