The Grammar of Angels: The Life of a Renaissance Prodigy and his Search for a Philosophy of Everything
‘Ingenious… a glorious portrait of the great 15th-century prince of learning’ Daily Telegraph
Biography: philosophy and social sciences
Collins Classics – Letters from a Stoic (Collins Classics)
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Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Fail and Magpie
‘Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure’ Stylist
‘A beautiful timely and humane book’ Alain de Botton
What’s Your Type?: The Story of the Myers-Briggs, and How Personality Testing Took Over the World
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘History that reads like biography that reads like a novel – a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays against type’ New York Times
‘Brilliant and savage’ Philip Hensher
Memories, Dreams, Reflections: An Autobiography
‘I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals’ Carl Jung
Collins Classics – Walden and Civil Disobedience (Collins Classics)
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Collins Classics – The Prince (Collins Classics)
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Edmund Burke: The Visionary who Invented Modern Politics
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke’s beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains.
Adventures in the Orgasmatron: The Invention of Sex
The untold story of Wilhelm Reich and the dawn of the sexual revolution. An illuminating, startling, at times bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression.
Grand Pursuit: The Story of the People Who Made Modern Economics
From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind, a brilliant new approach to the story of modern economics and to understanding how we got into today’s financial mess.
Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Spiritual Beliefs and Universal Wisdom
Author of bestselling ‘Falling Leaves’ weaves together for the same audience her own personal experiences with the best of Chinese philosophy.
Churchill’s Black Dog
‘Extremely engaging… A book full of good moments and humane insights.’Alan Ryan, Observer