The Goto Bartender’s Guide
£35.00The lauded bartender behind Bar Goto, reveals his unique creative process for making classic and iconic cocktails, showcasing the techniques and 100 recipes that make up the next wave in the cocktail movement.
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Epic: The Many Lives of Pelé
£25.00Pelé was one of the most iconic sports figures of the 20th century and along with Muhammad Ali its most beloved. His achievements speak for themselves: aged just 17, he led Brazil to its first world title, scoring six times in three games; he remains the only player to have won the World Cup three times; his astonishing record of more than 1,200 goals has never been surpassed. But numbers only tell half the story. In ‘Epic’, veteran football correspondent Andrew Downie delves deep into Pelé’s life. Through interviews with former teammates, coaches, business managers, close friends, and family members, Downie uncovers the man behind the myth.
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The Man Who Was Private Widdle
£14.99Charles Hawtrey, the skinny one with the granny glasses, was everybody’s favourite in the Carry Ons – but who exactly was he? Up to now the man has remained a mystery. Examining Hawtrey’s origins as a child star and as a performer in revue and the Will Hay films, this book also looks at his career in radio and television, and then to the sad and slow decline of a belligerent recluse in Deal, on the Kent coast. The high camp exuberance of his acting gave way to bitterness and alcoholism – if you asked Hawtrey for an autograph he’d be more likely to call the police instead. In this work, Roger Lewis conjures this sense of doom and acute melancholy which is at the same time hysterically funny. The book opens out like a Chinese box to address such issues as the nature of fame, neglect, loss, sexual confusion, Drambuie, betrayal, Royal Marines bandsmen, and fine cambric knickers trimmed with lace and blue ribbon.
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The Death of Socrates
£12.99Socrates is revered as a man who spoke truth to power. Yet his death in 399 BC was the first time in recorded history that a democratic government condemned a person to death for their beliefs. His death was a potent symbol of free speech, and Socrates’ fate has haunted Western thought ever since – a guiding influence on Plato, John Stuart Mills, Nietzsche and Martin Luther King. In this incisive survey of philosophy and politics, renowned classicist and translator Emily Wilson unravels ancient philosophy’s most enduring – and hardest – questions: why did ancient Athens execute its leading intellectual? How do democracies deal with dissent? And can our own society allow for total freedom of speech and thought?
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You Don’t Need a Smartphone
£12.99‘When I owned a smartphone, my life was bad. I knew this. What I did not know was that I had a choice.’ August Lamm knows how it feels to be glued to a screen. In her late twenties, burnt out as a social media influencer, she sold her smartphone and switched to a dumb phone. Immediately, her mental health improved, her attention span increased, and her curiosity returned. Since then, she has made it her mission to help others do the same. This title proves that living without a computer in your pocket is not only possible but ideal. Offering guidance on selecting a dumb phone, navigating without GPS, meeting people offline, and overcoming obstacles like digital tickets and two-step authentication, this book is a radical reawakening, and a new blueprint for a fulfilling life.
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Comfort Cooking
£35.00More than 180 home cooking recipes that feel like a hug. Comfort Cooking is your all-seasons invitation to slow down, dig in, and savor the simple joy of a home-cooked meal. With more than 180 delicious recipes from Jane Price, this book brings warmth and flavor to your table year-round. This comprehensive cookbook is separated into chapters on Soups, Vegetables, Fish & Seafood, Poultry, Pork, Beef, Lamb, Side Dishes, and Dessert and features recipes to comfort at any time of the day and in any season – from simple and warming traditional comfort foods like classic French onion soup, slowcooked beef stroganoff, chicken cacciatore, rich osso buco and a moreish tuna pasta bake, to impressive modern cold-weather dishes including Asian-style caramel pork, Panang chicken curry, roasted pumpkin risotto with browned butter and sage, and creamy calvados chicken, as well as a host of decadent desserts like dulche de leche and chocolate peanu
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The Riverford Cookbook
£26.00From Riverford Farm, one of the UK’s largest organic vegetable box schemes, Riverford: Easy Evenings delivers 100+ easy, adaptable recipes using fresh seasonal produce for effortless cooking.
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The Courage to Be Disliked
£14.99Millions have already benefited from the wisdom dispensed in ‘The Courage to Be Disliked’, its simple yet profound advice showing us how to harness our inner power to become the person we would like to be. A philosopher and a student have a discussion. Their conversation reveals a profoundly liberating way of thinking: by developing the courage to change, set healthy boundaries and resist the impulse to please others, it is possible to find genuine and lasting happiness.
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Stoicism Is Not What You Think
£20.00We all know what it means to be ‘stoical’: to have a stiff upper lip, to hide or suppress one’s emotions, to be indifferent to the outside world. Many people might reasonably think that this doesn’t sound like a good way to live. Who would want to feel nothing? But what exactly is the difference between being ‘stoic’ and being a ‘Stoic’? Are Stoics just naïve optimists? And is Stoicism really only for men? This book offers an invigorating corrective to one of philosophy’s most popular and most misunderstood traditions. Here philosopher John Sellars debunks all the major myths and misconceptions foisted on Stoicism by critics – and sometimes admirers too – and firmly puts them to rest. With vivid examples and fresh interpretations of ancient Stoics, from Marcus Aurelius to Epictetus to Seneca, Sellars shows why Stoicism is not only perennially relevant but essential for navigating the complexities of modern life.
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The Art of Organizing Thoughts
£14.99We live in an age defined by accelerating automation, polarized discourse, and constant cognitive overload. In ‘The Art of Organizing Thoughts’, first published in 1983 and newly resonant in the age of artificial intelligence, renowned scholar and teacher Shigehiko Toyama offers a humane and timeless reminder: thinking well is a distinctly human art, and one that must be cultivated, protected, and practiced. Toyama argues that knowledge alone is not wisdom – in fact, the more we accumulate, the easier it is to stop truly thinking.
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The Fall of the West
£25.00Almost everywhere we turn these days, there’s talk of a West in decline. Our jobs, our values, our past are all under attack, in the face of which we have become immersed in self-loathing, gone weak at the knees: the West needs to be Made Great Again. We know where this toxic narrative comes from: the nationalist, nativist Right. And now it’s gone mainstream. The thing is, the West is in decline, self-evidently so. But the truth is that it’s not migrants or Muslims or a woke mob which has brought the West to the edge of catastrophe. It’s good, old-fashioned hubris. In this book, Owen Jones explores how, amid the triumphalist sugar rush that came with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West came to believe that its rule, its economic order, its moral values, would endure for ever – and how, over a quarter-century, this brittle self-mythologising narrative collapsed in on itself.
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Phrased and Confused
£14.99Hell is other people. You are what you eat. Ignorance is bliss. Or is it? We read them, perhaps give a knowing chuckle, and move on with next to no thought. But what do these timeless and iconic quotations really mean? Thankfully, language and philosophy obsessive Eli Burnstein is on hand to unpack forty-five of humanity’s most iconic statements with lightness and wit. From Aristotle to Hannah Arendt, William Blake to Simone de Beauvoir, each delightfully illustrated entry will improve your grasp of the meaning behind their riddle some words, and deepen your appreciation for the big ideas they stand for.
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How to Build a Haunted House
£10.99What makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being particularly creepy, while others leave us unmoved? Barring the possibility of a looming afterlife, what are the particular features, contexts and histories that lend a building the dreaded identity of haunted house? This book tours some of the world’s most famously spine-chilling structures in search of answers.
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Wine
£30.00In the beginning, there was the vine. Wine: a drink, a medicine, a ritual and a commodity. Across millennia, it has been used to celebrate and commiserate, as a negotiating tool and a diplomatic gift. But where – and when – was it first discovered? And how did it become a worldwide phenomenon? From the planting of grape seeds in conquered territories across Ancient Rome, to the uprooting of vineyards during the Chinese Communist Revolution, this is the first truly global survey of wine from acclaimed historian Kathleen Burk. From a symbol of civilisation to the depths of debauchery, the formation of new trade routes to the consolidation of empires, Burk traces the story of our contemporary civilisation through one of the world’s most ancient – and sought-after – pleasures.
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