Books
Little escapades that transport your mind to another realm
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent
Wilkerson’s Caste doesn’t just talk about racism; it redraws the map of power itself—and once you see it, you can’t politely unsee it.
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
A candid, multi-faceted study of how overbreathing can fuel anxiety, why carbon dioxide matters, and simple breathing habits to calm your nervous system.
Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
A soulful self‑help book that swaps toxic positivity for radical emotional honesty and offers a surprisingly practical path to inner calm.
The Secret Lives of Color: A Love Letter to Every Shade You’ve Ever Ignored
Colours have always felt oddly personal to me. In a world that feels grey and hurried, take a deep dive into the history, culture, and emotion behind the vibrant stories of each shade.
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: The Final Book from Stephen Hawking
Hawking’s final book turns late‑night existential dread into sharp, witty cosmology, proving the universe is confusing—but never boring.
Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
A hilarious, hungover love letter to friendship, heartbreak and growing up messy. Dolly Alderton makes millennial chaos feel strangely comforting.
Just As I Am: A Memoir
A candid recollection of the legendary actress's remarkable life, a powerful, witty, and deeply human story of Black womanhood, fame, faith, and resilience.
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Part scientific biography, part existential detective story, Why Fish Don’t Exist traces David Starr Jordan’s rise from star ichthyologist to chilling eugenicist.
Many Lives, Many Masters
A psychiatrist, a patient and a few alleged past lives walk into a therapy room. Many Lives, Many Masters is bizarre, comforting and oddly convincing.
How to Do the Work: Recognise Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
A brutally gentle guide to trauma, patterns, and why “that’s just how I am” might be a lie you’ve lovingly told yourself for years.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Covey’s classic isn’t just productivity porn; it’s a grown-up guide to values, habits and leadership that still hits uncomfortably close to home.
The Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow Your Business Like Amazon
A buzzy business book on Bezos that feels more like a well-annotated textbook than a backstage pass. Insightful, but I’ll stick to the original letters.
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi asks a bold question: Are you truly enjoying your life, or just scrolling through it on autopilot?
The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book
The Four Agreements is a spiritual cult favourite, but did it change my life? I closed the book feeling unconvinced, a bit bemused, and oddly underwhelmed.
Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
The sequel to The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck crashes in like a neon‑lit therapy session: part pop philosophy, part existential crisis, all very sweary.
How to Win Friends and Influence People: The Only Book You Need to Lead You to Success
Dale Carnegie’s classic shouldn’t work in 2026—and yet it does. A surprisingly warm, savvy guide to social skills, influence, and not being accidentally rude.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
The man who never reads lives only one.”
— George R.R. Martin