Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Maya Jordan

"A curse on being ordinary! Wrong is not her name. Her name is Maya Jordan. She is a noisy woman and we should fear her"--Michael SheenA sharply funny, furious and rousing account of a life lived in triumphant opposition to the limitations and systemic inequalities of a working-class woman's life. Underestimated and overlooked at each stage and age, Maya Jordan's ambition and r...

Robert Macfarlane

SHORTLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHERBORNE PRIZE FOR TRAVEL WRITING 2026 From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book - which answers a resounding yes to the ques...

Ahmed Alnaouq / Pam Bailey

THE NUMBER 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE IRISH BESTSELLER 'Meaningful and impactful ... A vital [read] ... Tell all your friends' BRITISH VOGUE 'A powerful collection' SERVICE95 'This book is a jailbreak and a miracle' NAOMI KLEIN 'Essential ... A project that insists on liberation' TA-NEHISI COATES 'Impossible to put down or forget' RIZ AHMED 'We Are Not Numbers is not just ...

Ash Sarkar

**The instant top 5 Sunday Times bestseller from political commentator Ash Sarkar, now available in paperback with a brand new afterword** 'One of the boldest and most exciting thinkers of her generation' NAOMI KLEIN 'Delivers its message with punch and panache ... a joy to read' GUARDIAN 'If leftists feel they have been stumbling around in the darkness, Minority Rule flicks o...

Gwen Adshead

'A wise, deep, nuanced and profoundly moving book' Siri Hustvedt 'Thoughtful, important and a reminder that hope belongs to everyone' Christie Watson The Sunday Times bestselling authors of The Devil You Know return with a life-affirming book, taking us into the consulting room with Dr Gwen Adshead to witness her work with patients and discover how we heal after trauma. Unspea...

Michael Pollan

When it comes to consciousness, there is one point scientists, philosophers and artists all agree on- that it feels like something to be ourselves. And yet, the fact that each and every one of us has a subjective experience of the world continues to be one of the greatest mysteries in nature. How is it that our mental operations are accompanied by feelings, thoughts and a sense...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics. Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche dem...

Friedrich Nietzsche

The book Nietzsche called "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influentialNietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends fr...

Friedrich Nietzsche

In this seminal 1886 text Nietzsche challenges the orthodox notions of good and evil, offering a radical value system that clashes with Christian tradition and democratic principles - an attack on the framework of Western thought. With concepts such as master-slave morality, Nietzsche casts the human condition in a fresh light, inviting readers to re-evaluate their understandin...

Friedrich Nietzsche

A new translation of Nietzsche's seminal work by a prize-winning translator of W. G. Sebald, Goethe, Rilke, Herta Mu¨ller, and Elfriede Jelinek.In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche's infamous protagonist sets off on a grand and noble quest to find meaning in a secular world and to live joyfully alongside the knowledge of death. In this new translation by Michael Hulse—the first...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Grounded in his famous notion that "God is dead," a selection from Nietzsche's most personal book, The Joyous ScienceNietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he envisages a brilliant future for humanity: one in which individuals would at last be responsible for their destinies.Throughout history, some ...