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A beautifully illustrated guide to medicinal plants across traditions — European herbalism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda. Catherine Whitlock examines historical uses and contemporary scientific evidence with appropriate scepticism and genuine curiosity: excellent for anyone interested in the healing power of plants.

A practical card set for yoga teachers and experienced practitioners — sequences, cues, themes, and teaching tools from experienced teacher Leonie Taylor. Immediately practical and endlessly reusable: an excellent professional resource and inspiring toolkit for developing a deeper personal practice.

The international phenomenon selling millions worldwide — Thomas Erikson’s accessible framework for understanding four fundamental behaviour types. Using red, yellow, green, and blue personalities, a practical guide to why people behave as they do, and how understanding them transforms every relationship.

Gabor and Daniel Maté’s sweeping examination of how modern culture systematically produces illness — and why healing requires addressing the social and emotional environments that generate it. Ambitious, compassionate, and essential: a fundamental challenge to what we call ‘normal’ in contemporary life.

Yoga and Pilates: Combined Techniques for Health and Vitality (Lorenz Books) — a systematic guide to combining yoga and Pilates into a single practice of extraordinary completeness: flexible and strong, centred and mobile, both energised and calm. Covers foundational poses and movements through more advanced sequences, with photographic instruction making each technique accessible to practitioners at every level. Published by Lorenz Books.

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie (Vermilion) — first published in 1948 and never out of print, because the problems it addresses — the paralysis produced by worry, the energy consumed by fear of what might happen rather than engagement with what is actually happening — are not historical but permanent. Carnegie’s practical philosophy draws on psychology, personal stories, and decades of teaching to produce principles and practices that genuinely reduce worry. Published by Vermilion.

How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way by DK — the practical guide to applying Montessori principles at home, covering how to prepare the child’s environment, support independence and self-directed learning, and encourage the cognitive and social skills Montessori education develops. Based on a century of evidence about how children actually learn — practical, respectful, and applicable from birth through early childhood. Published by DK.

Optimal: How to Sustain Personal Excellence Every Day by Daniel Goleman (Penguin) — the follow-up to the million-selling Emotional Intelligence, asking not what emotional intelligence is but how to apply it to sustain excellent performance day after day. Drawing on the latest neuroscience and decades of peak performance research, Goleman identifies the mental state he calls optimal and provides practical guidance for reaching and maintaining it. Published by Penguin.

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim (Penguin) — the million-selling mindfulness guide from a Korean Buddhist monk trained in the United States. Short, beautifully designed sections on rest, mindfulness, love, and self-compassion offer practical guidance for reducing mental noise and recovering the capacity to be present. A book to keep and return to. Published by Penguin.

Success: The Best of Napoleon Hill (Vermilion) — the definitive anthology of Hill’s most powerful ideas, drawn from Think and Grow Rich, The Law of Success, and beyond. His core principles on desire, persistence and achievement in their most compelling form. Ideal introduction and essential reference.