\nThe reissue of a brilliant, necessary manifesto for women everywhere.\n…

\'These [How to Read] books let you encounter thinkers eyeball to eyeball by analysing passages from their work\' Terry…

James Joyce is known most widely as a "difficult" writer, even if he is no longer thought of as a "dirty" one. Yet many…

\nAn extraordinary debut collection of stories, which reveal how the world looks when you\'re young, hip, wild and deaf.\n…

Modern life is full of minor but acute dilemmas: we get stuck at a gathering with someone unusually boring and wonder how to…

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This book is aimed at the reader who is serious about confronting the big issues in life but is turned-off by books which…

Originally published as The Duck that Won the Lottery, this companion volume to The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten provides…

At the root of Wittgenstein's thought, Monk argues, is a determination to resist the scientism characteristic of our age, a…

An exploration of transhumanism: the philosophical and technological movement that is working on an update of the human…

'Funny, touching and beautifully written - a fascinating insight into the closeness human beings can achieve with wild…

North Korea is Orwell's 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the…

'In this entertaining, educative and gracefully written book, Julian Baggini explores the questions of the nature of the…

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As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with the…

Since for Lacan psychoanalysis itself is a procedure of reading, each chapter uses a passage from Lacan as a tool to…

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Being wrong is an inescapable part of being alive. And yet, we go through life tacitly assuming (or loudly insisting) that…

\nThe bestselling expose of the bad science behind conventional weight loss advice, arguing for low-carb high-fat diets.\n…

Michel Foucault was a twentieth century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural…

This is an account of how an angry young man can cross the line that divides theoretical support for violence from a state…

David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and…

A magical exploration of the ancient landscape of forests and the ancient genre of fairytales, drawing fascinating and…

After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave…

In this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word, or action, however…

A rousing and inclusive call to arms for anyone who would identify themselves as 'English' to fight against the forces of…

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\nThe only book you need to read to understand the events of the past four years in Trump\'s America, from the prize-winning…

Niccolo Machiavelli (1459-1527) is one of the influential modern political thinkers. This work shows that Machiavaelli…

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A witty, brilliant treatise on reading Russian literature…

\nA brilliant, savagely funny attack on the cult of positive thinking - Ehrenreich\'s most compelling book since Nickel and…

A revised and updated edition of the landmark book about the miraculous continent by the finest living Africa correspondent…

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Following on from the success of MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME comes a new collection of essays in which Rebecca Solnit opens up…

\nNarrated by a woman to her new-born, meandering between her enchanted present and her memories of a more difficult past,…

In 1923, nearly 2 million citizens of Turkey or Greece were moved across the Aegean because they were the 'wrong' religion.…

Combining the history of East End London with personal quest, this book weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky -…

New edition of Morrison's insightful and brilliant account of the Bulger trial.…

The long overdue first UK publication of one of Sven Lindqvist's best-loved books - and the one for which he is most famous…

'Reading Chekhov is a literary pilgrimage, homage, travelogue, biography, literary criticism and a restrained love letter…

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The answer is hidden on a videotape, a tape which is en route to several news outlets, and about to go viral.A landmark…

A beautiful new edition of Edward Said's classic which argues that a beginning is different from (and preferable to) an…

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A compilation of 35 years' worth of critical essays from one of the boldest and most articulate cultural theorists of our…

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