Shoe Dog by Phil Knight is next. It’s a memoir by the creator of Nike and it’s so inspiring, obviously now you see this monster company but you have to put a lot into your business to get a tiny bit out of it.

So far we’ve read The Color Purple [by Alice Walker], which is really good. There are lots of classics that I had to read in school but didn’t appreciate, like One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and The Picture Of Dorian Gray. I didn’t pay much attention to them and just read them for the sake of homework.

So far we’ve read The Color Purple [by Alice Walker], which is really good. There are lots of classics that I had to read in school but didn’t appreciate, like One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and The Picture Of Dorian Gray. I didn’t pay much attention to them and just read them for the sake of homework.

So far we’ve read The Color Purple [by Alice Walker], which is really good.

Lipa’s reading list is a little less dystopian, but equally contemporary. “Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams is brilliant. She sent it to me when it was on final draft because it mentioned New Rules,” she reveals. “I was so thrilled and I thought it was a brilliant coming of age book. It’s so honest and so raw. I’ve also been reading a poetry book with poems by Ahmed Rami, and The Girls by Emma Cline is brilliant.”

“I was so thrilled and I thought it was a brilliant coming of age book. It’s so honest and so raw. I’ve also been reading a poetry book with poems by Ahmed Rami, and The Girls by Emma Cline is brilliant.”

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams is brilliant.