Compton book club

The club meets regularly to talk about books, creative people, creativity and creative business. All are welcome. Email [email protected] for details.

The book we’re reading currently is Peter Biskind’s Pandora’s Box: the greed, lust and lies that broke television.

Here are some other books we’ve read:

Toby Walsh’s Faking It: artificial intelligence in a human world

Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: a brief history of humankind.

Tom Hanks’s The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece.

Sarah Lewis’s The Rise: creativity, the gift of failure, and the search for mastery.

Matthew Ball’s The Metaverse: and how it will revolutionise everything. See David Court’s Screenhub review.

Ben Fritz’s The Big Picture: the fight for the future of movies. See David Court’s Screenhub review.

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