‘A powerful argument, and practical advice, on the importance of reclaiming your leisure time to live a happier and more fulfilling life’ – Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of Better Than Before and…
‘A powerful argument, and practical advice, on the importance of reclaiming your leisure time to live a happier and more fulfilling life’ – Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of Better Than Before and…
John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in…
Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that made him one of the most-read and influential theorists of the modern age find full expression in History…
The 1979 publication of Susan Gubar and Sandra M. Gilbert’s ground-breaking study The Madwoman in the Attic marked a founding moment in feminist literary history as much as feminist literary theory. In their extensive study…
In the late 1950s the psychiatrist R.D.Laing and psychoanalyst Aaron Esterson spent five years interviewing eleven families of female patients diagnosed as ‘schizophrenic’. Sanity, Madness and the Family is the result of their work. Eleven…
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM PABLO ESCOBAR’S SON Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of the most infamous drug lord of all time, Pablo Escobar – from books…
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom – and almost got away with it. In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old programmer named…
‘How I loved reading Liv Stroemquist’s Fruit of Knowledge. Mostly, this was down to its sheer, punchy brilliance … If her strips are clever, angry, funny and righteous, they’re also informative to an eye-popping degree…
A NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, AND ESQUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR. Love, desire, intimacy – we all know what these are meant to look like. But what happens when they descend into violence? Award-winning journalist…
A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. `I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a…
The International Bestseller Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has -…
Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales collects more than two hundred tales set down by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early decades of the nineteenth century, among them some of the best-loved and most famous fairy…
A former drug addict turned behavioural neuroscientist reveals how drugs work in the brain – and what we can do to fight addiction. Judith Grisel was a daily drug user when she began to consider…
Drawn from 3,000 years of the history of power, this is the definitive guide to help readers achieve for themselves what Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, Louis XIV and Machiavelli learnt the hard way. Law…
‘The foremost work on the key democratic task: helping people to identify and challenge the sources of their oppression … a transformative text’ George Monbiot, Guardian Arguing that ‘education is freedom’, Paulo Freire’s radical international…
