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***LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2026***'Full of gems - I'll never again look at a field and think: 'It's just a patch of grass'' SPECTATOR'A wonderful leap, with a wise guide, into the green we thought we knew' TRISTAN GOOLEY'Wright is a joyful companion' CAROLINE QUENTINA sparkling green field. A dull and scrubby patch of grass. One is the...

A brilliant gunslinger leaves a decimated Earth to pursue the promise of alien intelligence in this "highly impressive" sci-fi debut ( Kirkus Reviews).Hundreds of years in the future, after the collapse of the Western world, young Menelaus Illation Montrose grows up in what was once Texas as a gunslinging duelist for hire. But Montrose is also a mathematical genius—and a romantic who dreams of a future in which humanity rises from the ashes to take its plac...

"So much damned fun, so engagingly written, and so hugely imaginative" this alien invasion space opera is "science fiction in the grand tradition" ( Booklist ).The year is 10,515 AD. The Hyades Armada, traveling at near lightspeed, will reach Earth in just four centuries to assess humanity's value as slaves.For the last 8,000 years, two opposing factions have labored to meet the alien threat in very different ways....

Originally published in 1881, this is a'Practical treatise on the cultivation of the most profitable outdoor crop known'. Wonderfully detailed, it presents a complete system for the growing, cutivating and harvesting of all types of mushrooms.

"Those who like sophisticated fantasy with a mild erotic charge will be most rewarded" by this "intriguing" fantasy about teens held hostage by Greek gods ( Publishers Weekly).John C. Wright burst onto the SF scene with the Golden Age trilogy. His next project was the ambitious fantasy sequence, The Last Guardians of Everness.Wright's new fantasy is a tale about five orphans raised in a strict British boarding school who begin to discover that they m...

Count to Infinity is John C. Wright's spectacular conclusion to the thought-provoking hard science fiction Eschaton Sequence, exploring future history and human evolution.An epic space opera finale worthy of the scope and wonder of The Eschaton Sequence: Menelaus Montrose is locked in a final battle of wits, bullets, and posthuman intelligence with Ximen del Azarchel for the fate of humanity in the far future.The alien monstrosities of Ain at long la...

"If this is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer riff on Greek mythology, it is nonetheless a highly erudite version . . . a highly entertaining yarn." — SF SiteTitans of Chaos completes John Wright's The Chronicles of Chaos. Launched in Orphans of Chaos—a Nebula Award nominee and a Locus Year's Best Novel—and continued in Fugitives of Chaos, the trilogy is about five o...

David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) presents the most important account of skepticism in the history of modern philosophy. In this lucid and thorough introduction to the work, John P. Wright examines the development of Hume's ideas in the Treatise, their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the imagination and passions, and the reception they received when Hume published the Treatise. He explains Hume's arguments concerning the inability of reason to establish the basic...

"[With] bigger-than-life characters and far-future tech and terminology," this sci-fi space opera "will keep readers glued to the page" ( Booklist ).Continuing from Count to a Trillion, Menelaus Illation Montrose—Texas gunslinger, idealist, and posthuman genius—has gone into cryo-suspension following the discovery that, in 8,000 years, a powerful alien intelligence will reach Earth to assess humanity's value as sl...

In John Wright's life, cars take a close second place to family, simple as that. My Other Wife is a Car is his memoir of 30 years of automotive obsession - one man's life seen as a life-long test drive.A full-time freelance writer for Wheels, Modern Motor, Best Car magazine and many others, he's driven more than 3000 cars and owned more than 130 (at the last count), some of which involved him buying cars he simply intended to test. His shortest ownership was less than twenty four h...

It is difficult to think of a more quintessential symbol of the British countryside than the British Hedgerow, bursting with blackberries, hazelnuts and sloes, and home to oak and ash, field mice and butterflies. But as much as we might dream about foraging for mushrooms or collecting wayside nettles for soup, most of us are unaware of quite how profoundly hedgerows have shaped the history of our landscape and our fellow species.One of Britain's best known naturalists, John Wright ...

'Masks are empowering… They enable you to take risks. They provoke you into working with the reckless logic of a six-year-old or the enigmatic stillness of someone wiser than you'll ever be. But above all, masks let you be you without your habitual limitations.'In Playing the Mask, award-winning theatre-maker and teacher John Wright explores and demystifies mask-work: what masks do, how they do it, and, above all, what they can teach us about acting.This b...