In Utopia Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony, yet its title means '…
Utopian projects aspire to a better world but their forms may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by their failures as …
'Even if you can't eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established evils, there's no reason to turn your back on the body politic'. In Utopia , Thomas …
First published in 1516, Utopia depicts an imaginary society free of private property, sexual discrimination and religious intolerance. Its radical hu…
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration o…
Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the most insightful philo…
***A Great Read's Book of the Month for February 2021*** If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advan…
The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem …
'Beautifully written, movingly told and meticulously researched ... a convincing plea for a wilder, richer world' -- Isabella Tree, author of WildingT…
'The most vivid evocation of Bessie Smith I have ever read' - Ian Carr, BBC Music '[Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it ..…
'Stunningly written' Sunday Times'Richly absorbing' Guardian'Hooks you in from the start' Times'Masterful' Independent'Hugely compelling' Observer'Won…
In this stunningly designed book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers …
This volume contains some of Camus' most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. 'L…
Discover the beguiling history of witchcraft, magic, and superstition through the centuries in this stunningly illustrated title.A History of Magic, W…
