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One Hundred Years of Solitude: Popular Penguins
'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' ..... Gabriel García Márquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and unfor...
Inside the Now
For the first time Thich Nhat Hanh shares his inspiration and experience of living in stillness and timelessness. Written to pull you into the moment as he sees it, "Inside the Now" offers teachings inspired by the spirit of poetry. More personal than the majority of his writing, Inside the Now shares t...
Assurances
A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a period of vigilance and dread in the middle of the Cold War: the long stand-off between nuclear powers, where the only defence was the threat of mutually assured destruction. Using a mix of versed and unversed p...
Now You're Talking - Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence
The fascinating story of our ability to converse from the 'David Attenborough of the acoustic realm' (Observer) Being able to speak is what makes us human. If you've ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice, you realise how important your voice is to your personal identity. We...
Winners Take All - The Elite Charade of Changing the World
What explains the spreading backlash against the global elite? In this revelatory investigation, Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, showing how the elite follow a 'win-win' logic, fighting for equality and justice any way they can - except ways that threaten their p...
Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the wildly popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell'A truly brilliant introduction to the human body's vast system for fighting infections and other thr...
On Getting Better
To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from or come out of what we have already experienced. (We write th...
What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat
From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people. Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and socia...
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