Fiction and Philosophy

Bence Nanay introduces aesthetics, a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste. Looking beyond traditional artistic experiences, he defends the topic from accusations of elitism, and shows how more everyday experiences such as the pleasure in a soft fabric or falling leaves can become the subject of aesthetics.

Bold, passionate and refreshing: a timely correction to the doctrine of our times and offers a radical redefinition of creativity

ANIMALIA retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an intensive pig farm.

An urgent and eye-opening examination of how technology is leaving society open to myriad catastrophic threats.

It is 1927 and Gereon Rath experiences a city in a state of ecstasy. Cocaine, illegal night clubs, street riots between the rising Nazis and the communists. The young and ambitious inspector, new in town and ordered to work for the vice squad, meddles with the investigations to a murder - and is not yet aware that he has stirred up a hornet's nest.

A groundbreaking book celebrating the words and phrases that by choice or by circumstance define the Black British experience.

A journey around the world by way of its best bookshops - the perfect present for book-lovers