‘Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN
‘Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMES
‘Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN
‘Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMES
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023
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
‘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
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.
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 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 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
Raymond Williams’ seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language.
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