The Symposium by Plato

The Symposium by Plato'Perhaps the most entertaining work of philosophy ever written the first really systematic and serious attempt to say what love is' John Armstrong, Guardian In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical

the philosophy of language

Eilis Ni Dhuibhne

If you want to know who I am

It's Sam's word against Lisa's - so who gets to tell the story

So to mortal men

and remains one of the most important Irish feminist documents of our times

Step out into a world of Go Home vans

as McCann elucidates the pleasures to be found in truthful writing

the team of misfits must face damaging truths as they try to stop their worlds from colliding

'Earlier in my life and in my transition

but has no heir

' Shami Chakrabarti