'Brenda Hale is a superhero' SHAMI CHAKRABARTI
‘Rowan Williams is brilliant and profound’ JONATHAN SACKS

As pressure grows to legalise assisted dying in the UK, this book illuminates the legal and ethical fault lines at the heart of the debate. Lady Hale, former president of the Supreme Court, argues that everyone should have the freedom to decide the time and manner of their own death. Drawing on real cases in real courts, she explores how the law might establish e-ffective safeguards while preserving an individual’s right to decide for themselves when their suffering becomes unbearable.

Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, sits in opposition, contending that no such right can ever be absolute, or unqualified. He raises moral and practical concerns about the protection of vulnerable communities – especially those living with disabilities – the pressures facing an already overstretched NHS and the risk that assisted dying could become a substitute for properly funded palliative care.

Both confront the decisions we all must face: who should be eligible for assisted dying; how should the programme be authorised; and what modern medicine could, and should, provide. Ultimately, they turn to a deeper challenge: how a public healthcare system can universally uphold dignity, and what it would truly mean to offer us all what we profoundly deserve – a good death.

Published in conjunction with Intelligence Squared, the world’s leading curator of debate, this book is part of the Think Again series: short books that present two contrasting but equally persuasive views in a single volume

'Full of warmth, wisdom and weirdness' JENNY MUSTARD

This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer.

Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.

Praise for Maggie Nelson

‘Always brilliant’ GEOFF DYER

‘Among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation’ OLIVIA LAING

Shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award

‘Extraordinary’ TELEGRAPH ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Delightful' GUARDIAN

'Bee Wilson is one of my favourite writers and this may be her best book' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN

This strikingly original account from award-winning food writer Bee Wilson charts how everyday objects take on deeply personal meanings in all our lives.

One ordinary day, the tin in which Bee Wilson baked her wedding cake fell to the ground at her feet. This should have been unremarkable, except that her marriage had just ended.

Unsettled by her own feelings about the heart-shaped tin, Wilson begins a search for others who have attached strong and even magical meanings to kitchen objects. She meets people who deal with grief or pain by projecting emotions onto certain objects, whether it is a beloved parent’s salt shaker, a cracked pasta bowl or an inherited china dinner service. Remembering her own mother, a dementia sufferer, she explores the ways that both of them have been haunted by deciding which kitchen utensils to hold on to and which to get rid of when you think you are losing your mind.

Looking to different continents, cultures and civilisations to investigate the full scope of this phenomenon, Wilson blends her own experiences with a series of touching personal stories that reflect the irrational and fundamentally human urge to keep mementos. Why would a man trapped in a concentration camp decide to make a spoon for himself? Why do some people hoard? What do gifts mean? How do we decide what is junk and what is treasure? We see firsthand how objects can contain hidden symbols, keep the past alive and even become powerful symbols of identity and resistance; from a child’s first plate to a refugee’s rescued vegetable corers.

Thoughtful, tender and beautifully written, The Heart-Shaped Tin is a moving examination of love, loss, broken cups and the legacy of things we all leave behind.

‘With candour and intelligence, Wilson highlights how the props of domestic life become markers of the progress of our lives, but more movingly she probes that it’s possible to recover from heartache with gusto’ The Times & Sunday Times Books of the Year 2025

‘Fascinating and also tender’ Diana Henry

‘This beautifully written book about the deep significance of certain objects in our kitchen – is nothing less than an intense, compassionate expression of the human condition … Both intimate and expansive, The Heart-Shaped Tin is a book I know I’ll give, urgently and importantly, to those I love’ Nigella Lawson

‘Very few food writers can do what Bee does. It made me think again – and with more tenderness – about the kitchen objects that I ordinarily take for granted. These are the human stories embedded in our material culture, and Bee brings them effortlessly to life’ Ruby Tandoh

'Heart-wrenching and heart-warming in equal measure. No one is so good at capturing the everyday magic of kitchens, cooking and life as Bee Wilson' Letitia Clark

‘Bee Wilson has changed the landscape of the kitchen by breathing life into ordinary objects. Through this remarkable book you will find yourself discovering meaning in plates, sadness in spoons, love in a measuring cup. I want to give this book to every cook I know’ Ruth Reichl

'A moving and fascinating exploration of the vital role played by household objects in our love of home and family' Sophie Hannah

‘A timely and balanced book that offers a unique insight into a debate whose relevance is only going to grow’ The Times

A memoir and investigation exploring loss, community and the climate crisis in the Shetland Islands by environmental journalist Marianne Brown.

‘Elegant’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Engrossing’ i News

‘Moving’ The Shetland Times

‘A remarkable and complex book about what makes us human’George McGavin

When environmental journalist Marianne Brown arrived in Voe, Shetland, to attend the funeral of her father, she discovered a community on the frontline of the climate crisis.

The construction of a huge windfarm, greenlit to export energy to mainland Scotland, had created rifts – with one side supporting the environmental benefits, and the other opposing the impact on local wildlife.

The Shetland Way is an extraordinary investigation into this story – of sustainability, grief, and a debate that mirrors global concerns about how we save the planet.

‘Please read this book. It may very well change how you live’ Rachel Clarke
‘Profound?compelling?beautiful’ Nina Stibbe
‘Filled with love?I was spellbound’ Kathryn Mannix
‘Brilliant?so special’ Guardian

An inspiring true story about life, love and letting go

Sarah Perry’s father-in-law David died in the autumn of 2022, only nine days after a cancer diagnosis. He was in some ways a very ordinary man: he loved stamp collecting, fish and chips, comic novels and his local church. Yet as Sarah and her husband Robert nursed David through his final days, they realised how extraordinary he really was.

This loving, clear-eyed and unforgettable book shows how death may be met and understood as a part of life – a universal experience that is terrible and beautiful, intimate and real, sometimes all at once.

A Book of the Year for The Times, Guardian, Financial Times and Observer

‘Beautiful and profound and completely gripping’ Mark Haddon
‘A must-read’ The Times
‘We cannot be but somewhat changed by this remarkable book’ Telegraph
‘This book will be a lifeline for so many people’ Seán Hewitt
‘Perry is in a league of her own’ Sara Collins

‘Dramatic and heart-warming’  The Times  

Dr Matt Morgan has met hundreds of people who’ve come back from the dead. They’re people like Ed, who had been hit by a bolt of lightning -enough volts to power a city for a day – and survived after receiving life-saving CPR.  

In this beautiful and life-affirming book, Morgan introduces us to patients who’ve experienced hypothermia, overdoses, heart attacks and transplants to see how their lives have been transformed by the second chances they’ve been given. He shares the important lessons they’ve learned, along with his own realisations about life and how to make the most of it.  

A Second Act is a powerful call to seize every opportunity and live life to the full.  

‘Morgan is a thoughtful and sensitive writer? [it] contains a lot of wisdom’ New Statesman

‘Beautiful and profound and completely gripping’ MARK HADDON

Sarah Perry’s father-in-law David died in the autumn of 2022, only nine days after a cancer diagnosis. Until then he’d been a healthy and happy man: he loved stamp collecting, fish and chips, comic novels, his local church, and the Antiques Roadshow. He was in some ways a very ordinary man, but as he began to die, it became clear how extraordinary he was.

Sarah and her husband Robert nursed David themselves at home, eventually with the help of carers and visiting nurses. They bathed and cleaned and dressed him, comforted him in pain, sat with him through waking and sleeping, talked to him, sang to him, prayed with him. Day by day and hour by hour, they witnessed what happens to the body and spirit as death approaches and finally arrives.

Death of an Ordinary Man is an unforgettable account of this universal aspect of life. It is not a book about grief: it is a book about dying, and it is a book about family, and care and love.

‘To read this book is a privilege, a gift on the craft of dying’ AMY KEY

Nobody gets through life free from the pain of loss.

However, we aren’t very good at processing what grief does to us. If left unchecked, it can seriously damage our mental health.

In this book, chartered psychologist and trauma counsellor Dr Chloe Paidoussis-Mitchell offers a roadmap for grief recovery. With guidance drawn from her decades of clinical experience and work with clients, plus a series of practical tools and exercises, she will help you work through your loss so you can embrace life with hope again.

This is an expert source of support for anyone seeking light in the dark after loss.