Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World
‘Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening’ GUARDIAN
‘Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story’ NEW YORK TIMES
Social & political philosophy
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity
Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023
Nature’s Top 10 Books of 2023
A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023
A Waterstones Book of the Year for Politics 2023
Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World
‘If I had to choose just one book that I want everybody of any age to read at this moment in time, this would be it’ Brian Eno
‘Clear-eyed, frank, wise and joyous!’ Andrew Sean Greer
‘If you read only one book this year, then this must be it’ Sarah Winman
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 If We Stopped Pretending?
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn’t have to mean the world is ending.
The Female Eunuch
The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract.
‘The Female Eunuch retains that power of transformation; it asserts the possibility of creativity within female experience’ Guardian
Start Again: How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics
‘The bible for The Independent Group and many others’ Nick Robinson, Today Programme
Start Again is a life-raft for all those who find themselves politically adrift and a rallying cry for a better kind of politics
We Should All Be Feminists
A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
Raymond Williams’ seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language.
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.
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century
Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century sets out a vision for a century in which Europe will dominate, not America. This is the book that will make your mind up about Europe.
Writings on an Ethical Life
‘Peter Singer…has probably had a larger popular readership than any professional philosopher since Bertrand Russell, and more success in effecting changes in acceptable behaviour.’ The New England Journal of Medicine