'Here he is, Nietzsche's last man'
Read Francis Fukuyama's interview with @gwhittell.bsky.social for @theobserveruk.bsky.social, talking all things from #InTheRealmOfTheLastMan to Trump to motorbikes.
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@profilebooks.bsky.social@profilebooks.bsky.socialStart your weekend off with a BANG, with #TheAgeOfAlchemy author @kitchapman.bsky.social on the latest episode of the HistoryExtra podcast 💥
@profilebooks.bsky.social📣 Language lovers, learn the art of wordspotting with @weirdmedieval.bsky.social in her brilliant etymological extravaganza #TheWordspottersGuide!
Request the audiobook on NetGalley now: tinyurl.com/yfe9ncz3
@souvenirpress.bsky.socialReposted by @profilebooks.bsky.socialCalling all detectives! We have two, brand new #Murdle mysteries out today 🔍🕵️
Can you pull off the perfect crime with #MurdleHeist? Plus on-the-go winter fun for junior detectives in #MiniMurdleJuniorHolidayHijinx
Do you dare to Murdle? ✏️✔️❌
@profilebooks.bsky.socialToday we publish the 10th anniversary edition of @wmarybeard.bsky.social's Sunday Times bestseller #WomenAndPower.
This groundbreaking modern classic draws on examples from antiquity to contemporary politics to expose the enduring roots of misogyny.
Find out more: tinyurl.com/WomenPower10...
@profilebooks.bsky.socialWhat can supernatural beliefs reveal about our past?
From the bestselling author, Malcolm Gaskill, journey into our haunted past with #WorldsOfFearAndWonder – out today!
🪄 'Immensely enjoyable' Tom Holland
🪄 'Illuminating' Philippa Gregory
@profilebooks.bsky.social'Some of the feelings behind witchcraft accusations, feelings of great anxiety and danger, do still prey on us'
Listen to Malcolm Gaskill on Times Radio, talking to Hugo Rifkind about his book #WorldsOfFearAndWonder – interview begins at 51:55 🎧
@profilebooks.bsky.socialExplore three fascinating 18th-century hoaxes in this exciting evening with #HistoryHit presenter and author of Hoax @maddypelling.bsky.social. Ticket includes a tour of @drjohnsonshouse.bsky.social Museum! Details below
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📍 Dr Johnson's House, London
📅 Thurs 22nd Oct
🕡 6:30–8pm
🎟️ Via the link
@profilebooks.bsky.socialTen years. Millions of readers. One piece of timeless wisdom for every day of the year.
#TheDailyStoic10thAnniversaryEdition is out today, revised and expanded with a new introduction, two bonus chapters and so much more.
Get one for yourself or someone you love: tinyurl.com/Stoic10th
@profilebooks.bsky.socialJoin campaigners, lawyers, activists and journalists for a free evening of talks about Big Tech data centres. During the night, @parismarx.com will be reading from his new book #Hyperscale!
⏰ Monday 25th October, 5-8pm
📍The Art House by Acrylicize, London E2
@queenofpeat.bsky.socialReposted by @profilebooks.bsky.socialWhat if the ground beneath your feet remembers? Bogs aren’t wastelands. They're time capsules; beautiful living systems that preserve food, rituals, travel, climate, and human stories for thousands of years. Today, I wrote about the muck that keeps our history. The New York Times, October 5, 2026
@profilebooks.bsky.social'A tender, generous and unaffected account of his father’s time at the notorious Second World War prisoner-of-war camp is filled with such amusing anecdotes, and makes for a very enjoyable read … The author is a natural story-teller'
A fantastic review for David Lascelles' #OutOfColditz below!
@profilebooks.bsky.social'A splendid work of history, doing a huge amount within its modest 320 pages’
A brilliant @litreview.bsky.social review for @apettegree.bsky.social's new book #TheBookshop, perfect for history buffs and bibliophiles alike! 📚
@profilebooks.bsky.social'Bogs are messy and wild, places the human mind has difficulty understanding. Can we comprehend a place suspended between life and death? Do we want to?'
ICMYI: read this fascinating extract from @queenofpeat.bsky.social's #Boglands via @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social.
@profilebooks.bsky.socialWe are delighted to see #HowToBuildAHauntedHouse by Caitlin Blackwell Baines on the Katharine Briggs Award 2026 shortlist!
A grand tour of the art, architecture and ghost stories of the haunted house, out now in paperback 👻
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@profilebooks.bsky.socialIn the beginning, there was the vine...
Listen to Kathleen Burk's interview with Max Mitchell on the @engelsbergideas.bsky.social podcast – available wherever you get yours 🎧
Learn more about #Wine: tinyurl.com/WineAGlobalH...
@profilebooks.bsky.socialA 'magnificent history'
Read what the Literary Review thinks of Kathleen Burk's #Wine. 🍇
Trace the history of wine through the ages in #Wine, out now: tinyurl.com/WineAGlobalH...
@profilebooks.bsky.socialAn 'excellent book, rich in atmosphere'
A wonderful review of David Lascelles's #OutOfColditz in the @dailymail.co.uk.
Read the incredible story of his father in #OutOfColditz, out now: tinyurl.com/OutOfColditz
@profilebooks.bsky.social'An epic tale that Burk's book more than does justice to'
A brilliant piece in @engelsbergideas.bsky.social on Kathleen Burk's brilliant #Wine – out now.
Get your copy today: tinyurl.com/WineAGlobalH...
@profilebooks.bsky.social'Forget grappling with AI conceptually and think about it as an environmental issue'
#Hyperscale by @parismarx.com is one of the New Scientist's popular-science books of the month – an urgent exposé, tracing the physical footprints of our digital world.