Award-winning author Morgan Housel’s, The Psychology of Money, has 19 short stories which explores the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.

Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know, but it’s about how you behave, which is hard to teach, even to really smart people.

Money – Investing, personal finance and business decisions is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real-world people do not make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together.

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel, Harriet House, £14.99, 256 pages.