The Polyester Book of (Bad) Taste
A deep dive into the joy and power of personal pleasures, quirks, obsessions and bad taste, from zine royalty, Ione Gamble.
Consumerism
The Age Code: The New Science of Diet and Longevity
A revelatory and optimistic new book from health journalist Dr David Cox, examining the staggering impact of diet on ageing – and what we can do to reverse it.
Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER
‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN
‘Patrick’s book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back to basics’ JOE LYCETT
The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion
‘An amazing portrait of how grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind.’ Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit
The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and the company’s epic unravelling from the journalists who first broke the story wide open.
Collins Modern Classics – No Logo (Collins Modern Classics)
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come.
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, Con Artists and Influencers Are Taking Over the Internet – and Why We're Following
From Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age—and why we can’t stop falling for them.
“Scams are hot right now, and Bluestone covers the hottest here.” – Booklist
The Great Realisation: The post-pandemic poem that has captured the hearts of millions
We now call it The Great Realisationand, yes, since then there have been many.But that’s the story of how it started …and why hindsight’s 2020.
The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
Fortnum & Mason Food Book of the Year 2020
‘Addresses the paradox of our age: why as we become progressively wealthier, our diets become ever poorer . . . the villains of the piece are familiar and plentiful and Wilson lays them bare’ The Times
Selfish Whining Monkeys: How we Ended Up Greedy, Narcissistic and Unhappy
With a sharp eye for the magnificently absurd, Rod Liddle sets light to modern-day Britain.
‘One of Britain’s funniest, most daring columnists. If he weren’t so offensive you’d almost call him a national treasure’ Mail on Sunday
Consumed: How We Buy Class in Modern Britain
Does what we consume define who we are? Harry Wallop takes a fresh look at society and shows you to your place in today’s modern consumer world.
A Greedy Man in a Hungry World: Why (almost) everything you thought you knew about food is wrong
Now with a new epilogue, the UK’s most influential food and drink journalist shoots a few sacred cows of food culture.
Work! Consume! Die!
Brace yourself, Frankie’s back, and he’s more outspoken and brilliantly inappropriate than ever.