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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century
Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong
2025 || Paperback || John Kay || Profile Books Ltd
A radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business - what it is for and how it works
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Cezanne
A life
2024 || Paperback || Alex Danchev || Profile Books Ltd
Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not understand him or his work. This book tells the story of an artist who was never accepted into the official Salon: he was considered a revolutionary at best and a barbarian at worst, whose paintings were unfinished, distorted and strange.
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Emperor of Rome
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
2024 || Paperback || Professor Mary Beard || Profile Books Ltd
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by 'the world's most famous classicist' (Guardian)
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The Concise 48 Laws Of Power
THE CONDENSED EDITION OF THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
2024 || Paperback || Robert Greene || Profile Books Ltd
Suitable for those with an interest in conquest, self-defense, wealth, power or simply being an educated spectator, this book teaches you how to cheat, dissemble, feign, fight and advance your cause in the modern world.
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The Daily Stoic
366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
2024 || Paperback || Ryan Holiday e.a. || Profile Books Ltd
Beautifully packaged daily doses of Stoic wisdom, from the author of The Obstacle is the Way.
Moneyland (e-book)
Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back
2018 || E-book via Bookshelf || Oliver Bullough || Profile Books Ltd
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2019
SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
an ECONOMIST Politics and Current Affairs book of the year
and a DAILY MAIL and TIMES book of the year
'You cannot understand power, wealth and poverty without knowing about Moneyland.'
Simon Kuper, New Statesman
2019: democracy is eating itself, inequality is skyrocketing, the system is breaking apart. Why?
Because in 1962, some bankers in London had ...
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Sparta
The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower
2025 || Hardcover || Andrew Bayliss || Profile Books Ltd
From warrior queens and the 300 to the Peloponnesian war, a major new history of the world's first superpower
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Exhausted
An A–Z for the Weary
2025 || Paperback || Anna Katharina Schaffner || Profile Books Ltd
Transformative insights on exhaustion, from ancient wisdom to modern life, by a celebrated burnout coach
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Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants
Darwin's Botany Today
2024 || Paperback || Ken Thompson || Profile Books Ltd
A rediscovery of Darwin the botanist and his theories on insectivorous and climbing plants.
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Proof
The Uncertain Science of Certainty
2025 || Hardcover || Adam Kucharski || Profile Books Ltd
How do we know what's true? The author of the bestselling The Rules of Contagion searches over two thousand years of history and science to find out