On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life
Ten brief essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
How do we live successfully?
How do we live fully?
Ten brief essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
How do we live successfully?
How do we live fully?
‘Mind blowingly brilliant’ PHILIPPA PERRY
‘Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and boundless curiosity’ THE TIMES
‘As suspenseful and pacy as an episode of peak-era ER’ GUARDIAN
‘Mind blowingly brilliant’ PHILIPPA PERRY
‘Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and boundless curiosity’ THE TIMES
‘As suspenseful and pacy as an episode of peak-era ER’ GUARDIAN
‘Mind blowingly brilliant’ PHILIPPA PERRY
‘Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and boundless curiosity’ THE TIMES
‘As suspenseful and pacy as an episode of peak-era ER’ GUARDIAN
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing to date—a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance and self-acceptance.
‘Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening’ GUARDIAN
‘Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘Trippy, incisive, riotously funny’ ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN
‘[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ‘ HALLE BUTLER
‘A stunner’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
‘Luminous … as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers’ room’ WASHINGTON POST
‘Trippy, incisive, riotously funny’ ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN
‘[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ‘ HALLE BUTLER
‘A stunner’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
‘Luminous … as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers’ room’ WASHINGTON POST
‘Trippy, incisive, riotously funny’ ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN
‘[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ‘ HALLE BUTLER
‘A stunner’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
‘Luminous … as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers’ room’ WASHINGTON POST
Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
A fascinating, enchanting and personal look at the meaning of luck, and the way in which it has shaped our shared history and continues to inflect our day to day lives.
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Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
‘This comforting memoir will help us all feel less alone as we navigate the emotional turmoil of midlife’ Davina McCall, author of Menopausing
From the bestselling author of ‘Mum, What’s Wrong With You?’ comes a witty, compelling, honest and reassuring guide to living a magnificent midlife.
‘This comforting memoir will help us all feel less alone as we navigate the emotional turmoil of midlife’ Davina McCall, author of Menopausing
From the bestselling author of ‘Mum, What’s Wrong With You?’ comes a witty, compelling, honest and reassuring guide to living a magnificent midlife.
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