Despite much progress in recent years, gay rights issues around the world remain a serious problem. The Glass Closet by John Browne is a brave and fascinating book that shows how businesses can lead the way in promoting gay rights and why being yourself is best for business and for you.

Personal and instructive, The Glass Closet provides a compelling roadmap to what, as a society and as individuals, we can achieve if LGBT men and women are completely free from prejudice and anxiety because of who they are.

Lord Browne has written a book of unfl inching honesty and lasting social value. In it he says, ‘You will do more to better the world when you can be authentic.’ It took much of his remarkable career for him to reach that conclusion; but in doing so, he makes it infi nitely easier for others to follow.

This is a brave book. It takes a subject hardly ever discussed in global business, gay rights, and blows apart misconceptions.

How many of your people are living a double life? How many are wasting energy and emotion keeping their closet closed? Business leaders are used to shaping their worlds, to making a diff erence. This is one place we can, and should.

A courageous and salutary reminder that despite huge progress we still have a long way to go to create the kind of tolerant and inclusive society of which business – as this book powerfully argues – must be a driving force.

This is essential reading for anybody interested in diversity in the workplace

Browne makes a strong case for companies to go on the front foot and promote openness

A leading spokesman for gay rights in the corporate world.

Seabrook takes us on a lucid and well-researched tour of the places where modern hits are created

Anyone who wants to understand how the clash of cultures has shaped what we listen to should read this important book. John Seabrook has a marvelous ear for language – and perfect pitch when it comes to music journalism.

His work is almost as easy to consume as the songs it discusses – and nearly as addictive.

Explains in fascinating detail how pop stars are utterly dependent on the beats and hooks provided by a handful of largely Swedish hitmakers.

In The Song Machine, John Seabrook tells of a cutthroat and fascinating industry, where readers discover the gifted musical maestros who orchestrate hit after hit but rarely get their name in print. The narrative shows not just how technology has upended the music business but of how - despite prattle about "the long tail" - just one per cent of artists generate 80 per cent of the industry's profits. This is a story with as many surprises as Game of Thrones.

A revelatory ear-opener, as the music business remains in a state of significant flux.

A sobering peak inside Stockholm’s Cheiron Studios.

Reveals the formula for modern pop.

An amazing story

· Lodge’s short stories are as witty and surprising as his novels.

He seems so perfectly suited to the form… [A] well-observed collection that one wishes was twice as long.

This is a superb analysis of modern pop music.

Seabrook has written an interesting book, smearing away some of the gloss and glamour from the music industry, to reveal details of its inner workings… An interesting book overall on a global industry that has as many secrets as glitterballs.