The Courage To Be Disliked
Ichiro KishimiThe Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness.The Courage to be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power wit …
Genre: Philosophy, Religion & Ideas
Small Pieces
Joanne LimburgRRP: £8.99
My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it’s analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, it can never be disavowed… I remai …
Infinite Ground
Martin MacInnesRRP: £8.99
‘Some best-kept secrets are best not kept…’ Guardian, Books of 2016Carlos has disappeared. A retired inspector takes the case, but what should be a routine investigation becomes something strange, e …
From Fatwa to Jihad
Kenan MalikRRP: £10.99
Almost thirty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses held aloft by thousand-strong mobs of protesters became an internationally familiar symbol of anger and offe …
Beyond the High Blue Air
Lu SpinneyRRP: £8.99
Aged 29, Lu Spinney’s son Miles suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma. With unflinching honesty, Lu Spinney has written a passionate, urgent account of the years following her son …
And Yet…
Christopher HitchensRRP: £10.99
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist h …
St Paul
Karen ArmstrongRRP: £8.99
St Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St Paul: The Misunderstoo …
My Grandmother's Glass Eye
Craig Raine‘By poetry we – we the masses – mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn’t for everyday. The word “poetry” is up there with “soul” …
The Black Mirror
Raymond TallisRRP: £12.99
Inspired by E. M. Forster’s thought that ‘Death destroys a man but the idea of it saves him’, The Black Mirror takes death as an external viewpoint from which we may see our lives more clearly. Raymon …
The Book of the People
A. N. WilsonRRP: £9.99
From one of our leading social and cultural historians comes a dazzling and original exploration of how, and why, we should still be reading the Bible, even if we no longer believe.In The Book of the …
Brave Enough
Cheryl Strayed‘Everyone should have at least two copies of Brave Enough: one to keep near the bath, and one to give out, generously, to whoever needs the help.’ The PoolAcross the world, millions of people have fou …
The Great Reformer
Austen IvereighRRP: £9.99
Since his surprise appointment in March 2013, Pope Francis has emerged as the most talked-about and most revolutionary pope in living memory. He has become a subject of fascination, conversation, and …
Plato at the Googleplex
Rebecca Newberger GoldsteinRRP: £12.99
Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a ‘tiger mum’ on how to raise …
The Bible
Karen ArmstrongRRP: £9.99
The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last two hundred years …
The Quest for a Moral Compass
Kenan MalikRRP: £10.99
In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer’s Greece to Mao’s China, from ancient India to modern …
Moral Tribes
Joshua GreeneRRP: £10.99
Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world’s tribes into a shared s …
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