The Trick: Why Some People Can Make Money and Other People Can’t

The Trick: Why Some People Can Make Money and Other People Can’t by William Leith (Bloomsbury, £20)
In this entertaining, shaggy-dog yarn, William Leith delves into the question that has obsessed him for years: why some people make lots of money, and others (Leith) do not. As a journalist, he’s interviewed plenty of the rich ones, and, in The Trick, revisits, in a whizzing stream of consciousness, his run-ins with them. He meets Jordan Belfort, Matt Ridley, Leon Max and Nassim Taleb, quizzing them all about money and how to make it, alive to their quirks and eccentricities, all the while interspersing these meetings with amusing flashbacks, one-liners and hilariously detailed descriptions of his travel. Chummy, funny and genuinely interesting, The Trick has to be one of the best books about money around.