Some of the hardest parts of modern life are the ones that do not show. You can be functioning, capable, even successful, and still carry a quiet weight that is difficult to name. These are clear, humane books about the private side of modern living. They will not try to fix you in five steps. They will help you understand what you are feeling, and remind you that you are not the only one feeling it.




The reading room opens soon. When it does, you will get a short book to begin with, then one email a week about one book from the catalogue.
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More than two hundred nonfiction books across ten shelves, in ebook, paperback, hardcover and audio. On 1 October two more things open. The reading room, with a free book to begin with. And the house itself, to a small number of outside authors.