1. Apple in China
Patrick McGee
Simon & Schuster
Pp 448, Rs 899
Investigative journalist Patrick McGee draws on 200 interviews with former Apple executives and engineers to reveal how Cupertino’s choice to anchor its supply chain in China has increasingly made it vulnerable to the regime’s whims. Apple in China is the first history of Apple to go beyond the biographies of its top executives and set the iPhone’s global domination within an increasingly fraught geopolitical context.
2. Reimagining India’s Economy
Arun Maira
Speaking Tiger Books
Pp 320, Rs 599
The Indian economy is in a crisis. The people know it is, but its leaders deny it. They believe more GDP will produce good lives for citizens and try to convince them that India is on the right path because the size of its economy is growing faster and becoming larger than that of other nations. Reimagining India’s Economy is a story of the evolution of the Indian economy after 1947. It provides ideas for leaders of change, among other things.
3. The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Gardiner Harris
Penguin Random House
Pp 464, Rs 899
Gardiner Harris takes us light years away from Johnson & Johnson’s image as the child-friendly ‘baby company’, uncovering reams of evidence showing decades of dangerous corporate practices. He explores multiple disasters— cover-ups regarding the linkage between Johnson’s Baby Powder to cancer, the surprising dangers of Tylenol, among others. It is filled with shocking and infuriating but utterly necessary revelations.
4. The Warrior
Christopher Clarey
Hachette
Pp 368, Rs 1,799
After his award-winning look at Roger Federer, Christopher Clarey focuses his lens on Rafael Nadal. Clarey, who has covered Nadal since he was 17, draws on interviews over 20 years with Nadal, his team and rivals like Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. Brimming with behind-the-scenes insight, The Warrior tells the story of a global sporting icon, interlacing man and place in a unique, must-read account of the evolution of excellence.
5. Matriarch
Tina Knowles
Hachette
Pp 352, Rs 799
Tina Knowles, the mother of icons Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, is known the world over as a Matriarch with a capital M—the woman who raised and inspired some of the great artistes of our time. For the first time ever, Tina Knowles shares her remarkable story in Matriarch—a life of grief and tragedy, love and heartbreak, the nurturing of her superstar daughters, and the perseverance and audacity it takes for a girl from Galveston, Texas to change the world.
