This was great fun: The Moomins, Thomas Hardy, Midsomer Murders… what’s not to love?! Many thanks to the fab @mathewlyons.bsky.social #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social

A week today, @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social, will be at the Wellcome Collection exploring the chequered history of psychiatry and the nature of mental health. Get your tickets below! 📍 Henry Wellcome Auditorium, @wellcomecollection.bsky.social 📅 Fri 13th Feb 🕡 6:30–8pm 🎟️ Via link

Out tomorrow #booksky #HARDSTREETS @profilebooks.bsky.social In the #Cotswolds ? Get your copy @borzoibookshop.bsky.social Author @jacriding.bsky.social with us 7.30pm 6 May Tickets online: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Welcome to the hard streets of Charlie Chaplin's London. #HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is out today, breathing life into the forgotten stories of suffering, survival and success in late 19th and early 20th century working-class London. profilebooks.com/work/hard-st...

How Greenland found itself on thin ice between Trump and NATO Read an excerpt of Kenneth R. Rosen's #PolarWar and watch a video interview with the author via @newsweek.com ⬇️

'A dazzling reassessment of the continent’s historic handicaps, and its potential for economic development' #HowAfricaWorks by Joe Studwell gets a glowing review in the FT. This ground-breaking new study of Africa's developmental history is out now. www.ft.com/content/a926...

Are we living through an anxiety and depression epidemic? GP and bestselling author @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social explores this question and more in this video introduction to his new book on mental health #TheUnfragileMind, out 12th February with @wellcomecollection.bsky.social.

‘A deeply researched and valuable book' #HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is the lead review in the Literary Review. A journey through the working-class London of Charlie Chaplin's childhood, out on Thursday. literaryreview.co.uk/arts-graft

#HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social is on the cover of the new @litreview.bsky.social “Riding comes out as a local herself whose great-­grandfather died in the Lambeth workhouse…I know these streets and I read this deeply researched and valuable book with passionate identification”. Many thanks 🎉

'Our current framework for thinking about mental health is really rigid ... But the truth is far more fluid and bendable and unfragile than that' A fascinating interview with #TheUnfragileMind author @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social in @thetimes.com.

'Fascinating ... the GP Gavin Francis addresses these questions with a winning combination of pragmatism and compassion' A winning review for #TheUnfragileMind by @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social, a deeply human re-evaluation of mental illness – out next week with the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social.

There's just one week to go to get your ✨ SIGNED & DEDICATED EDITION ✨ of GP and bestselling author @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social's new book on mental health #TheUnfragileMind. Preorder now via @portybooks.bsky.social for your exclusive copy and 10% off in Jan: tinyurl.com/TheUnfragileMindPortyBooks

Explore the landscapes of the mind with GP and bestselling author @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social in discussion with Micha Frazer-Carroll and @natashadevon.bsky.social next month. Details below! 📍 Henry Wellcome Auditorium, @wellcomecollection.bsky.social 📅 Fri 13th Feb 🕡 6:30–8pm 🎟️ Via link below

🎟️ EVENT 🎟️ Join @jacriding.bsky.social in conversation with @lucyworsley.bsky.social at Southwark Cathedral, discussing her new book #HardStreets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin's London. 📍Southwark Cathedral ⏰ Thursday 19th Feb, 7:15pm cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/har...

'Immersive and richly reported, with Mr Rosen speaking to military officials and ordinary citizens alike ... the book speaks to the moment' @economist.com #PolarWar – Kenneth R. Rosen's timely account of the race for power in the Arctic – is out now.

'A clear—and, crucially, clear-eyed—picture of those left behind, or run over, by the upheavals of empire, industry and science around the turn of the 20th century' #HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social, reviewed in Prospect Magazine. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/book...

An illuminating exploration of London's history, framed through the life of Charlie Chaplin, who rose to worldwide fame from the working-class streets of the city's East End. #HardStreets by acclaimed historian @jacriding.bsky.social is out next Thursday. profilebooks.com/work/hard-st...

What if the prevailing wisdom on what makes a successful and durable business is entirely wrong? The Corporation in the 21st Century by John Kay @profilebooks.bsky.social (UK) Yale University Press (US) reviewed by Hans Despain @uofmass.bsky.social on @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

Join #TheStorySolution author Anna Katharina Schaffner in conversation with Rebecca Seal next week as she explores how to rewrite your self-story and unlock a happier future ✨ 📍 Waterstones Finchley Road O2 Centre 📅 Thursday 5th February 🕡 6:30pm 🎟️ tinyurl.com/73pb94tz

⚡️ NEW DATES ADDED! ⚡️ Join @wmarybeard.bsky.social for her #TalkingClassics tour this spring 🏛️ Get your links via the tickets below!

'Timely, provocative ... Rosen gives us a series of gripping stories about a region that may be the next site of global conflict' A stellar review for #PolarWar by Kenneth R. Rosen in @thespectator1828.bsky.social this weekend ❄️

'In this powerful book, Riding is able to build a vivid picture of working-class life in the 19th and early 20th centuries' #HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social reviewed in The Times. Get your copy 5th February 📚 www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

'Synoptic and ­panoramic, with everything that occurred in any field between 1918 and 1939 crammed in' #AShellshockedNation by @alwynturner.bsky.social, reviewed in the Daily Mail. Get your copy now 📚 www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

'Another compelling, insightful book about a fascinating and critical period in British history' Read Chris Hallam's review of #AShellshockedNation by @alwynturner.bsky.social, out now in bookshops. chrishallamworldview.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/b...

A rich social history of Victorian London, told through the lens of Charlie Chaplin's early years in working-class Lambeth. Welcome to the hard streets. #HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is out 5th February. profilebooks.com/work/hard-st...

#NinettesWar author John Jay explores how French Christians confronted the Holocaust in this fascinating piece for the @churchtimes.bsky.social. Read more: tinyurl.com/nhaj8crt

#AShellshockedNation by @alwynturner.bsky.social is out today! A fresh and inventive social history of interwar Britain, from Armistice and the Spanish flu to the announcement of war. 'Alwyn Turner is the master of funny, engaging social history' Sunday Times profilebooks.com/work/a-shell...

Discover the heartwrenching true story of a young Jewish woman coming of age in wartime France. This is #NinettesWar by John Jay, out in paperback today. Find out more: tinyurl.com/4c26j384

'This is a proper piece of journalism. It's a fascinating book. I read it from start to finish in a single sitting' @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social, THE REST IS POLITICS Understand the context of Trump's bids for Greenland with #PolarWar by Kenneth R. Rosen, out now: bit.ly/3LrtZBT

Join #TheUnfragileMind author @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social, Micha Frazer-Carroll and @natashadevon.bsky.social as they discuss the social, medical and political nature of mental health. 📍 Henry Wellcome Auditorium, @wellcomecollection.bsky.social 📅 Fri 13th Feb 🕡 6:30–8:00pm 🎟️ Via link below

Charlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets of working-class Edwardian London to global fame. Framed through this iconic success story, Jacqueline Riding paints a striking portrait of a vanished city. #HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is out 5th February. profilebooks.com/work/hard-st...

Counteract the Blue Monday chat with our selection of uplifting and inspiring reads for the new year 💙 Take a look at the list here, feat. books from Julia Cameron, Ryan Holiday, Anna Katharina Schaffner, @neuranne.bsky.social and Betty Edwards: tinyurl.com/yc2uscu7

Start your week with some mathematical brainteasers from #ReachingForTheExtreme author Ian Stewart for @theguardian.com this weekend 🧩🧮

First book of 2026: Jeremie Gallon’s book on Kissinger (pub. @profilebooks.bsky.social)—not a traditional, chronological biography and the better for it: there are plenty of those already and they tend to be as prolix as the man himself. This is a short collection of essays on aspects of his life.

Great to see Ryan Holiday's #WisdomTakesWork included in Spotify's '5 Audiobooks to Help You Level Up in 2026'. Read the full piece here: newsroom.spotify.com/2026-01-15/a...

Take charge of your dreams with insight from Dream Scientist Dr Michelle Carr, in the latest episode of the @theguardian.com Science Weekly podcast ☁️

Get 10% off your ✨ SIGNED & DEDICATED EDITION ✨ of @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social's upcoming book #TheUnfragileMind: Making Sense of Mental Health, when you pre-order through @portybooks.bsky.social by 6th Feb 📖 Find out more here: tinyurl.com/TheUnfragile...

Step into the hard streets of Charlie Chaplin's London in this rich social history of the Edwardian working-class. #HardStreets by @jacriding.bksy.social is out 5th February. profilebooks.com/work/hard-st...

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social recommends #PolarWar by Kenneth R. Rosen in the latest episode of @therestpolitics.bsky.social ❄️ Watch now, and pre-order this incisive and timely account of the Arctic as the epicentre of a new Cold War.

'Indispensable in helping readers understand the region' Kenneth R. Rosen's #PolarWar is essential reading for understanding the context of Trump and Greenland. Check out this review in the @financialtimes.com.

'Anyone in the White House wanting to understand the context of the US president’s Greenland landgrab should buy Kenneth Rosen’s book Polar War' #PolarWar by Kenneth R. Rosen is a must-read for @thetimes.com – out 22nd January.

#AShellshockedNation by @alwynturner.bsky.social has been reviewed by the Times, who describe this social history of interwar Britain as a 'witty and wide-ranging account'. Out 22nd January. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Are you exhausted by your own mind? You might be living inside a hostile self-story that is stopping you from resting and feeling like you're enough. Anna Katharina Schaffner explains more in her video below, and in her new book #TheStorySolution: tinyurl.com/TheStorySolution

Charlie Chaplin rose from the streets of Edwardian London to worldwide fame. But his work and outlook were always shaped by the world he came from. Welcome to the hard streets. #HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is out 5th February. profilebooks.com/work/hard-st...

How do I know who to trust? Should I rely on my intuition? How can I use my knowledge and experience? In #JudgementAtWork, Andrew Likierman, former director of the Bank of England, has created an original framework for judgement, out now in paperback 📚 www.waterstones.com/book/judgeme...

Have you ever told yourself one of these? I'm stupid... I'm ugly... I'm bad... I'm the best... I'm a victim... I'm different... In #TheStorySolution, Anna Katharina Schaffner helps you to recognise and shed your toxic self-stories. OUT TODAY! Find out more: tinyurl.com/TheStorySolution

Listen back to author Kenneth Rosen discuss his upcoming book #PolarWar on the Today programme, in light of Trump's threats to take over Greenland. #PolarWar: Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic publishes on 22nd Jan. 🎧❄️: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002pdtf

We are delighted to have so many titles included in the FT's guide to reading in 2026. Find out more about #HowAfricaWorks, #Ausländer, #EnoughSaid, #TalkingClassics, #ChildrenOfAbraham, #NoKingInIsrael and #ANimbleHistoryOfShortland at the link below 📚 www.ft.com/content/5de2...

'Engaging ... A traditional political, military narrative, written in very readable prose, and informed by a sensitive reading of the ancient sources and a deep knowledge of modern scholarship' A stellar @telegraph.co.uk review for #Sparta by Andrew Bayliss.

'Our foremost classics scholar [...] casts new light on antiquity by finding parallels with the present day' #TalkingClassics by @wmarybeard.bsky.social is a @telegraph.co.uk best book of 2026 ✨