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Idler 95 features a highly amusing chat with Giles and Mary from Gogglebox. Rowan Williams dispenses wise words on the positive uses of anger. We visit a commune in the…
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Tom Hodgkinson
Why can’t we just leave our kids alone? This title offers practical tips of what to do and (more importantly) what not to do, and helps kids be happier and…
The 4-Hour Work Week meets Monty Python-the ultimate, entertaining handbook for controlling your work destiny and enjoying yourself along the way
A pocket-sized seasonal guide to country life from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to be Idle, featuring a foreword by Dominic West
Here is issue 87 of Tom Hodgkinson's essential magazine for good living. Meet Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, discover why Socrates was cynical about politics, and learn about the idling academies…
Irvine Welsh reveals his writing secrets, Lewis Carroll on why he hates the sea, slow train to Stockholm, the busy world of Richard Scarry, lazy heroes of fairy tales plus…
Learn how to smash big tech with Cory Doctorow, plus why you don't need to worry about AI, Cath Kidston's new venture, Stewart Lee's music picks, Murray Lachlan Young and…
In which Will Hodgkinson meets Arthur Brown, the God of Hellfire; Stephen Bayley attacks the idea of fun; we look at the surprising history of the chaise longue, and visit…
The Idler is a literary and philosophical lifestyle periodical edited by Tom Hodgkinson. This instalment features an interview with Jarvis Cocker about his memoir Good Pop Bad Pop, a guide…
The inspiring life of punk priestess Gina Birch, shocking tales from the Cynics of ancient Athens, Arthur Smith's best benches, joys of the e-bike, astrology in Middle Ages, plus sheds…
The cheering journal of merry philosophy, featuring Richard Coles on his new life by the sea, plus Virginia Ironside, Stewart Lee, Ukrainian fashion, Modern Toss and more
As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. The Protestant work ethic has most of us in its thrall, and the idlers of this world have the odds stacked…
Issue 90 of Tom Hodgkinson's Idler magazine features an exclusive interview with Rachel Weisz, plus a lesiurely chat with Griff Rhys Jones. Learn how to take a sabbatical and read…
Looking to history, literature and philosophy for inspiration, this book provides a joyful blueprint for a simpler and freer way of life. Filled with practical tips as well as inspiring…
Idler 89 features pop's never-quite-made-it, the enigmatic Lawrence, in conversation with Will Hodgkinson. Plus David Graeber on pirate politics, world's best job survey, problems with Virginia Ironside, recipes with Lindey…
In 24 chapters representing each hour of the day, this book will coax out the loafer in even the most diligent and schedule-obsessed worker. Line drawings throughout.
In this delightfully irreverent follow-up to his acclaimed How to Be Idle, Hodgkinson shares his musings on what it means to have true independence and what it takes to achieve…
Meet Rupert Sheldrake, how to free your time, medieval carvings, Stewart Lee, sheds, beer and more
The author of The Freedom Manifesto applies his trademark left-of-center theories of idleness to what can be one of the thorniest aspects of adult life: parenthood. He explains why laid-back…
Edward Shanks,Tom Hodgkinson
Shanks’s post-apocalyptic novel is a pessimistic satire on Wellsian techno-utopian novels.
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Reflects on 75 simple pastimes and proves that the best things in life really are free: lighting fires, skimming stones, catching falling leaves, whittling, staring out of the window, dreaming…
Luba Goldberg-Kuznetsova
Die Konjunkturkurve der Themen innerhalb der popularen Sachbuchkultur spiegelt weitgehend die Sorgen und Noete der Zeit wider. Es ist deshalb nicht verwunderlich, dass in einer Zeit zunehmender Beschleunigung und Rationalisierung…
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