On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life
Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
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?
On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life
Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life: Unabridged edition
Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life
Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense – economic and political, artistic and personal.
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War: Unabridged edition
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense – economic and political, artistic and personal.
What it Means to be Human: A philosophical memoir
What is the role of fate in our lives?
Why should we avoid repeating patterns?
And how can we identify our purpose?
The Slow Breath of Stone: A Romanesque Love Story
An absorbing travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art and the romance of physical decline, The Slow Breath of Stone throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages and its hold on us today.
Karl Marx
A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.
What Does China Think?
An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself – from democracy to the idea of a ‘peaceful rise’. It challenges all of our assumptions about China.
The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots’ Invention of the Modern World
‘Every Scot should read it. Scotland now has the lively, provocative and positive history it deserves.’ Irvine Welsh, Guardian
A dramatic and intriguing history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world.