The unauthorised biographer of figures including Tony Blair, Robert Maxwell and Mohamed Al-Fayed, and former producer of Panorama, shares his top five books with Judith Spelman
Tom Bower writes unauthorised biographies of rich and powerful people. He delves deeply into their lives to find parts that have usually been left out of earlier biographies or deliberately concealed. ‘Whenever I find a detail which shows that a powerful and rich person can be exposed as dishonest or a liar, that is always a great pleasure,’ he says.