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INTERVIEW

My culture fix: Pete Tong

The DJ lets us into his cultural life

The Times

My favourite author or book
I don’t read that much fiction, but when I do I find myself returning to Jonathan Franzen, Haruki Murakami and Michel Houellebecq. On the nonfiction side, Yuval Noah Harari, Walter Isaacson and Ryan Holiday. If I was writing this as my 20-year-old self, I would probably have said George Orwell and Jack Kerouac.

The book I’m reading
I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. I just finished Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope (which I couldn’t put down), about Jho Low and the heist of the century on the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. An incredible fraud that touches the edges of my world via the Las Vegas club scene. I’m