The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy

Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee

A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist.Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stor...

How to Be a Lion

Ed Vere

"This witty, resonant picture book is a manual for anyone's life, young or old." Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week You don't have to ROAR to be heard... Meet Leonard - a lion like no other. Leonard's best friend is Marianne, a duck. But lions chomp ducks, don't they? What will the pair do when th...

Practicing Peace

Pema Chodron

With geopolitical tensions and the threat of violence flaring all over the world, people everywhere are experiencing a heightened sense of vulnerability and helplessness. But there ishope. Pema Chodron here shows us how to identify the underlying causes of these tensions and how we can really contribute...

Reflections on the Guillotine

Albert Camus

'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out' Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition'...