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The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy 9781529105100
RRP: £20.00£11.98A book for all ages, a book for all time. Adapted into the BAFTA and Oscar winning short animated film.Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons.The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse... -
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience by Lyndsey Stonebridge 9781787332522
RRP: £22.00£13.25This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty.'Compelling and original' OBSERVER'Invigorating and insightful' FINANCIAL TIMESBorn in the first decade of the last... -
Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It by Oliver Burkeman
RRP: £10.99£7.77**The instant Sunday Times bestseller**What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for... -
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn 9781526605184
RRP: £30.00£21.35A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and monumental account of the ancient world' THE TIMES 'A... -
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth by Kohei Saito 9781399612975
RRP: £22.00£14.56Will green capitalism save the planet? Is it even trying?Not when the very logic of the capitalist system pits it against Earth's life-support systems, as the Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito demonstrates in this astonishing international bestseller... -
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: The Animated Story by Charlie Mackesy
RRP: £20.00£9.77The companion book to the BAFTA and Oscar winning animated short film.A journey, in search of home...This beautifully made hardback celebrates the work of over 100 animators across two years of production - with Charlie's distinctive illustrations... -
Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead 9780029345702
RRP: £14.99£9.36One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead's influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy.Whitehead's master work in... -
A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: £8.99£6.45Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to various questions that preoccupied him in old age, such as... -
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER) by Jenny Odell 9781529924619
RRP: £10.99£7.77**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that 'time is money.' . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing' EsquireWe're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us... -
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray 9780008492847
RRP: £10.99£7.25SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers ... -
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty 9780674295469
RRP: £15.95£12.43A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year"A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it,... -
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson 9780141988511
RRP: £10.99£7.77The #1 Sunday Times bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times) - now in paperback.How should we live properly in a world of chaos and uncertainty?Jordan Peterson has helped millions of... -
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
RRP: £25.00£18.62The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times)What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson... -
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
RRP: £10.99£7.77An odyssey into life's challenging philosophical questions during an unforgettable summer motorcycle trip, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance transformed a generation and continues to inspire millions.One of the most influential books written in... -
The Journey by James Norbury
RRP: £18.99£13.61Take them on a journey this Christmas with the wise and heartfelt words of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon'James has a way to speak to your soul. This book is nothing short of comforting and heartwarming' VEX KING'While the drawings have the charm of... -
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
RRP: £10.99£7.77DEBUTED AT NO.1 ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LISTNO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL ANIMALAre you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our... -
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by John Gray
RRP: £20.00£14.29'One of the most important thinkers alive' The Times'Britain's best philosopher' The TelegraphEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new... -
How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking by Viv Groskop
RRP: £14.99£10.95A powerful book about what happens when women find their voice.INCLUDES A NEW INTRODUCTION AND BONUS CHAPTER ON 'HOW TO OWN THE ZOOM''The ultimate guide to public speaking. Inspirational.' Mary Portas'I recommend Viv Groskop's How to Own the Room to... -
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
RRP: £20.00£13.74SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world's foremost political writers ... -
Philosophy for Life: And other dangerous situations by Jules Evans
RRP: £12.99£9.09In his engaging book, Jules Evans explains how ancient philosophy saved his life, and how we can all use it to become happier, wiser and more resilient. Jules imagines a dream school, which includes 12 of the greatest and most colourful thinkers the... -
Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul by Ann Wroe 9781787334458
RRP: £18.99£13.61The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page***A FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***** SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT... -
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett 9780241637647
RRP: £25.00£18.02An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical... -
The Beauty Myth (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Naomi Wolf
RRP: £5.99£4.46Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOREvery day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on... -
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu 9781529083477
RRP: £10.99£7.71Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the source of Zen Buddhism, and is probably the most broadly influential spiritual text in human history.Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics... -
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns 9780241578193
RRP: £25.00£18.02'The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth' Richard Wilkinson'One of the most talked-about books to the moment ... Limitarianism floats the heretical idea that fixing society isn't just about saving the poorest from... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition) by Yuval Noah Harari 9781529913934
RRP: £25.00£16.53A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers,... -
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
RRP: £20.00£14.69The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing... -
Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good by Justin O'Connor 9781526171269
RRP: £14.99£11.12Culture is at the heart of what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a... -
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: £10.99£7.77From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibilityWhy should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why... -
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
RRP: £14.99£10.95THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Bristles with pure, crystalline intelligence, deep knowledge and human sympathy' Richard Dawkins Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you... -
The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism by Eleanor Drage 9781350399952
£23.63What is good technology? Is 'good' technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? The Good Robot addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists and technologists. Each thinker... -
Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There is No Future? by Slavoj Žižek 9780241651759
RRP: £20.00£14.29The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicamentWe hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only... -
On Violence by Hannah Arendt 9780241631645
RRP: £7.99£5.79From Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, her influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics'Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it'Why has violence played such a... -
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
RRP: £14.99£9.80How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in... -
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
RRP: £10.99£7.77The inspirational sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the world - now in paperbackIn 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our... -
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?In his... -
Timaeus and Critias by Plato
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.' Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result... -
Sacred Nature: How we can recover our bond with the natural world by Karen Armstrong 9781529114799
RRP: £10.99£7.12'A rich and subtle exploration of the sacredness of nature, filled with a timeless wisdom and deep humanity' Guardian In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental catastrophe -... -
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
RRP: £9.99£7.11What Money Can't Buy is the Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller from 'the superstar philosopher', Michael SandelShould we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our... -
The Aristos by John Fowles
RRP: £12.99£9.09Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. In...