Further Reading

An optimistic account of how the Nordic countries can teach us to live easier, healthier, happier lives: a Duckworth contemporary classic, beautifully repackaged for our 125th anniversary

A collection of short interludes, think pieces, and critical essays on landscape, utopia, philosophy, culture, and food, all written in a highly original style by Tim Waterman. Exploring power and democracy, the book provides a much-needed critical approach to landscape imaginaries.

A deeply informed, radically hopeful manifesto for regenerating our economies and societies through the power of nature and 'natural capital'.

Insights for anchor institutions and innovation districts to better integrate and support the cities they are based in.

Locations from TV shows, movies, books and computer games are plotted on maps of real-life cities, helping you pinpoint where these fictional worlds are set in real life.

Mark Gorman examines the key role played by popular protest in the mid-Victorian campaigns to preserve Epping Forest and other open spaces in and near London at risk of its unbridled growth. He shows how such places were venues for both radical politics and popular leisure, helping to create a sense of public right of access, even 'ownership'.

The Labyrinth of Rooms is a story with one character, Human, who is an allegorical representation of us all. Human suddenly awakes in a square room with no memory of a prior life.

In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh (known as Auld Reekie) came to be regarded as the Athens of the North. Why was this? How was the notion invented? What were its consequences? Topography, architectural development, literary and social history are all examined in a quest to give meaning to an epithet known by many but understood by few.

A psychoanalyst and violinmaker come together to discuss the nature of listening, drawing on references from across psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, contemporary politics, and culture.

Both a sweeping history and an intimate account of making a home, told through the prism of an English country house.

A vital and timely manifestol for a feminist post-work politics

This new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill's classic book offers an insight into the life and work of the world's bestselling author.