For the festive season, we’re giving a lucky reader the chance to win William Sieghart’s Poetry Pharmacy collection as well as an online poetry prescription with the author himself. Sometimes only a ...

Hannah Arendt wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all about freedom. In place of the forces of darkness and tyranny, she pitched a politics of plurality, spontaneity and defiance.

This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic encounters From the ...

'When you want to sort medical fact from medical fiction, Dr Karan is your man. This is the only book that will have you laughing and learning in equal measure' Dr Julie Smith, bestselling author of ...

It’s the biggest weekend of the year and everything is about to change. In Ballina, the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer Cillian English and County Mayo’s enforcers, Gabe and Sketch ...

Every day, we are granted the power to travel at high speeds, fly, see in the dark, summon water from distant mountains and electricity from the sun. The systems that run our world are invisible to us ...

How do we determine what is beautiful? Whose standards are we trying to meet when we spend our hard-earned money on our haircare, skincare and makeup; where do they come from, and how can we learn to ...

An expert, empathetic guide to the science, psychology and physiology of breaking, from the acclaimed author of How We Are What happens when our minds and bodies are pushed beyond their limits?

World War One, and as shells fall in Northern France, a Canadian nurse searches for her brother believed dead in the trenches. January 1918. Laura Iven has been discharged from her nurse duties and ...

At a time when women are more vocal than ever about our lives, there's one last taboo. We need to talk about porn. ‘Briskly confronting...porn is an inescapable part of the environment we all share ...

Shouldn't we know what we're arguing about? From one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around ...