Books for these trying times
By Station Books
Books for these trying times
By Station Books
People make terrible decisions. Unfortunately they've just made another one. There's no escaping it: things are bad. But, knowledge is the cure, and knowledge is contained in books. And failing that, escapism works too. Here are our books of the present moment (6th November 2024).
The Hobbit Classic Hardback
J. R. R. Tolkien
£22.00 £20.90No-one spins a story quite like Tolkien, and as you read his familiar words, things might start to feel just a little better—almost like there's an adult in the room.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C. S. Lewis
£7.99 £7.59Somewhere… beyond the sea… is the Jesus-Lion Aslan. The kids have some great adventures getting to him. Plus, it has the most savage introduction to a character (Eustace Scrubb) in literary history.
Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)
Terry Pratchett
£10.99 £10.44We need people with strong, imitable morals—people such as Sam Vimes. This book is his first outing. It's side-splittingly hilarious, silly, and it might just send you on a Discworld adventure. I'd love to live on the Disc, right now.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
£17.99 £17.09It would be great to have a real societal reset like they did on Panga, but for now, read this book and imagine the ways we could make bits of it reality today on our world.
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
£9.99 £9.49We might need a little perspective, and as perspective goes, what better than that of a group of astronauts slowly circling the Earth, being introspective. And extrospective too—is that a word?
Space Crone
Ursula K. Le Guin
£13.99 £13.29Sometimes I ask myself… WWUD? Here's a collection of her writings on activism, feminism, gender, and rebellion. Thank god she wrote all her thoughts down before leaving us.
Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There
Rutger Bregman
£10.99 £10.44Perhaps a bit too soon to start thinking about what we might be able to achieve over the next 4 years, but it's worth getting big ideas so we can hit the ground running at the next politically expedient moment.
But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It
Alastair Campbell
£10.99 £10.44One by podcast daddy Alastair Campbell. Remember we still have our own power. There is always something to be done.