Philosophy & Ideas
In our Philosophy & Ideas list, multimillion-selling author Ryan Holiday (The Daily Stoic) makes Stoic philosophy accessible and actionable, while Robert Greene distils ancient wisdom into life lessons in The Law of the Sublime and the Venerable Bokyeong Sunim explores Zen wisdom in One Day a Cat Came to Me. Essential reading for anyone interested in Stoicism, ethics, existentialism and life’s big questions.
The Law of the Sublime
Robert Greene
From the author of the multimillion-copy bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature comes a life-changing guide to transcending our…
Wisdom Takes Work
Ryan Holiday
The final installment in the New York Times bestselling Stoic Virtues series: the essential, life-changing and hard-won virtue of wisdom
The Daily Stoic: 10th Anniversary Edition
Ryan Holiday
The multi-million-selling phenomenon – in a new luxury format with updated doses of practical, uplifting philosophy
How to Think Clearly
Tom Chatfield
The critical-thinking specialist and bestselling author shares proven habits and routines for clear thinking in the age of AI
What Happened to Liberal Democracy?
Daron Acemoglu
A new theory of liberal democracy from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Why Nations Fail
Augustine the African
Catherine Conybeare
A groundbreaking reassessment of one of Christianity's foundational thinkers from award-winning classicist Catherine Conybeare
Unequal
Eugenia Cheng
Award-winning mathematician Eugenia Cheng offers a perspective-shifting exploration of how maths can change your mind
No Ordinary Deaths
Molly Conisbee
A vibrant, compelling social history of death, dying, and how our ends shape our lives and societies
Holy Places
Kathryn Hurlock
An exploration of pilgrimage, through nineteen breath-taking sites across the globe
The Rules Book
Mikael Krogerus
Master the tried and tested, unwritten laws of life – from the bestselling team behind The Decision Book
On Mysticism
Simon Critchley
A provocative and personal examination, ranging from medieval mystics to T. S. Eliot and Krautrock, from Britain's most engaging and inventive ph…
50 Ideas that Changed the World of Work
Jonathan Besser
How to know your black swans from your blue ocean
My Head For A Tree
Martin Goodman
Meet the Bishnois, the world's oldest sustainable community – with a foreword from Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees
The Artist's Way Toolkit
Julia Cameron
A powerful complement to the multimillion-copy-bestselling The Artist's Way, drawing on Julia Cameron's decades of distilled wisdom
Right Thing, Right Now
Ryan Holiday
The latest in the New York Times bestselling series: the life-changing power of integrity
Democracy
Margaret Atwood
In collaboration with the Financial Times: powerful, urgent reflections on the value of democracy from eleven women writers and thought-leaders
A Terribly Serious Adventure
Nikhil Krishnan
An absorbing group biography of the Oxford thinkers who transformed philosophical thought in twentieth-century Britain
Living the Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
The essential Artist's Way programme on guiding ourselves back to creativity
The House Divided
Barnaby Rogerson
A fresh look at the past, present and future of a conflict that lies at the heart of the Middle East
Be Bad, Better
Rebecca Seal
What a powerful, freeing, thought-provoking read this is. I let out a breath I hadn't even realised I was holding. In finding fresh acceptance of…