Society & Essays

Sloane Crosley Paperback 208 pages For most of her adult life, Sloane and Russell worked together and played together as they navigated the corridors of office life, the literary world, and the ...

Andy Stanton Hardback 384 pages Is ChatGPT the end of creative industries as we know them? An ethical quagmire from which there is no return? A threat to all our jobs, as we keep hearing on t...

Ulises A. Mejias Paperback Your life online is their product. In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from countries around the w...

Lavinia Greenlaw Hardback 320 pages An expansive, wonder-filled collection exploring art, science and travel From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is a constellation o...

Brenna Hassett Paperback 384 pages Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced – c...

Nick Romeo Paperback A provocative debunking of accepted economic wisdom which offers a new pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy. Confronted by the devastating trends of the early twent...

Haruki Murakami Paperback 224 pages A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling. Readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas an...

Yuval Noah Harari Hardback 512 pages A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What m...

Akshat Rathi Paperback 260 pages Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. But contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold, the world has already begun deploying the solutions ne...

Rosamund Young Hardback 272 pages We talk about people behaving like sheep, which assumes that sheep all behave in the same way. That has not been my experience. Some are affectionate, others pro...

Hans Rosling (Author) , Ola Rosling (Author) , Anna Rosling Roennlund (Author) Paperback / softback 352 pages The international bestseller, inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes...

Dr. Sarah Brown Hardback 304 pages THIS BOOK TRANSLATES ALL THE MEOWS - IN CASE YOU MISSED ANYTHING Today, domestic cats live harmoniously with devoted owners all over the world. But how did the...

Nick Dearden Hardback 336 pages Big Pharma Puts Profits Over People. In Pharmanomics, investigative journalist Nick Dearden digs down into the way we produce our medicines and finds that Big Ph...

Maggie Nelson Paperback 224 pages Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian'Maggie Nelson's short, singular books feel pretty light in the hand... But in the head and the heart, they se...

Ha-Joon Chang Paperback 224 pages Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible formFor decades, a single fr...

Jeffrey Toobin Hardback 432 pages From New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin comes the definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of far-right terror...

William MacAskill Paperback 368 pages In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing the distant future is a m...

Barry Meier Paperback 240 pages EVERY CATASTROPHE HAS A BEGINNING. FOR THE OPIOID CRISIS IN AMERICA, THE SEED WAS A DRUG CALLED OXYCONTIN. First hailed as a miracle drug for severe pain in the...

Paperback 111 pages Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother's final days after she is hospitalize...

Tim Harford Softback 352 pages Based on the series produced for the BBC World ServiceWho thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was t...

Angela Y. Davis Paperback 464 pages Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully today. It is ...

Oded Galor Paperback 304 pages This breakthrough scientific masterwork - and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - reveals the underlying forces that have shaped human history and will secure our future......

Amy Bloom Paperback 240 pages A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships. In January 2020, Amy B...

Tara Westover Paperback 400 pages Tara Westover grew up preparing for the end of the world. She was never put in school, never taken to the doctor. She did not even have a birth certificate unti...