Transcendence For Beginners

Patti Smith

'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year' 'A triumph' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times, 'Books of the Year' 'Quietly sacred, utterly beautiful' Service95 'Smith has already issued a handful of memoirs over the decades. Bread of Angels feels like the big one' TLS A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith...

Gillian Anderson

THE DARING FOLLOW-UP TO THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WANT 'Am I a bad person? Or am I allowed to wonder "what if"?' 'Is this kind of desire simply something people feel but don't speak about?' 'What is a woman without fantasy?' More pleasure, more kink, more partners, more zest - this is desire turned all the way up. If Want sparked the fire of a quiet revolution, More ...

James Marriott

The world we knew is passing away and nothing will ever be the same again. Welcome to the post-literate society. Books are dying. Across the world the number of people reading is in free fall. Literacy is declining or stagnating in most developed countries. At universities, students are unable to read the books assigned to them. Addictive digital entertainment technologies ha...

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...

Mary Claire Haver

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The New Menopause explains everything a woman needs to know to thrive during the often-misdiagnosed and medically ignored perimenopausal years 'Don't tolerate shrugged shoulders from your doctor during your perimenopausal journey. Get ahead of the issues and your potential symptoms with this important, empowering and scientifically d...

Patrick Radden Keefe

'From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a stunning story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city.'A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you'll be turning pages for hours' Los Angeles Times'Patrick Radden Keefe [is] one of the top narrative nonfiction au...

Clare Carlisle

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza's Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting ...

Clare Carlisle

An exceptional new biography that shows how George Eliot wrestled with the question of marriage, in art and life When she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes - writer, philosopher and married fat...