Rachel Hayward is Managing Director of Ask the Chameleon Ltd.

What is your favourite business book? Starting your own business, the good, the bad and the unexpected by David Lester

What was the last business book you read?  Single Minded by Claude Littner

Is there a book you want to make time to read this year?  Game of thrones  – whole series (again, got half way through and got confused) and The Winning Bid by Emma Jacques

What book (business or otherwise) would you take to a desert island with you?  Mort or Shepherds Crown by Terry Pratchett

Nick Tooley is the Derby Connector for Business in the Community

What is your favourite business book?Transforming HR: creating value through people by Mark Withers

What was the last business book you read? see above

Is there a book you want to make time to read this year? afraid not

What book (business or otherwise) would you take to a desert island with you? Lord of the Rings, it may be a cliche book but it has enthralled me for over 40 years

Andrew Edmondson is the Managing Director of Purely Digital Ltd

What is your favourite business book? 21 great ways to manage your time, double your productivity by Bria Tracy – available as an audio download so great to listen to when driving in unproductive time

What was the last business book you read? I listen to snippets of audio books when in car

Is there a book you want to make time to read this year? no, unless there is a book to get me time to read a book

What book (business or otherwise) would you take to a desert island with you? I could never sit still to read a book if it’s hot so pointless taking one

Dawn Spendlove is the Managing Director of Love Marketing

What is your favourite business book?   Zero to One by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters , this is also  the last one I read

Is there a book you want to make time to read this year? Shoe Dog: a memoir by the creator of Nike by Phil Knight

What book (business or otherwise) would you take to a desert island with you? Lord of the rings: complete set

Richard Medley is a consultant with Asset House

What is your favourite business book?  Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Richard Kiyosaki

What was the last business book you read?  The Great Tax Robbery by Richard Brookes

Is there a book you want to make time to read this year? Winners by Alistair Campbell

What book (business or otherwise) would you take to a desert island with you? Boris Johnson’s autobiography, if there is one

Elouise Smith is the Business Manager at the Business Ignition Group

What is your favourite business book?  Here’s the shocker – I don’t have one. I’m not particularly well read in business books

What was the last business book you read? Single Minded – my life in business by Claude Littner after seeing him at the University of Derby last year

Is there a book you want to make time to read this year?  Lots

What book (business or otherwise) would you take to a desert island with you? Lord of the flies by William Golding – it would always remind me that things could be worse!

Rob Twells is the Managing Director of Frogspark Ltd.

What is your favourite business book? More balls than most by Lara Morgan – who also happens to be a client as well!

What was the last business book you read?  Business Punks by James Watt, CEO Brewdog

Is there a book you want to make time to read this year?  Shoe dog by Phil Knight

What book (business or otherwise) would you take to a desert island with you? A cook book by Bear Grylls, obviously!

Lesley Morrisey is the Reputation Marketing Specialist at Inside News Ltd.

What is your favourite business book?  The E-myth Revisited by Michael Gerber

What was the last business book you read?  Booked by Josh Turner

Is there a book you want to make time to read this year?  Invisible Selling Machine by Richard Deiss

What book (business or otherwise) would you take to a desert island with you?  The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Ed Hollands is the Founder of Driven Media

What is your favourite business book?  From acorns by Caspian Woods

What was the last business book you read?  no idea – Richard Bransons latest book?

Is there a book you want to make time to read this year? The E-myth revisited by Michael E Gerber

What book (business or otherwise) would you take to a desert island with you?  A fiction book, it would be hard to pick a favourite

Bev Crighton is the Employer Engagement Lead at the University of Derby

What is your favourite business book? Straight from the gut by Jack Welch

What was the last business book you read?  Bryman and Bell – Research methods

Is there a book you want to make time to read this year?  Many

What book (business or otherwise) would you take to a desert island with you?  Gone with the wind – I won it at school for being top at maths and have loved it ever since