Working Identity

Bestselling author Herminia Ibarra presents a model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from "career experts"—and is tailor-made for changing careers in today's uncertain world. Career transition is not a linear path toward some predetermined identity, according to Ibarra, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become. Successful reinvention comes not from deciphering and analyzing our past, but from inventing and testing our possible futures.

In his remarkable debut collection, Jack Warren explores the quiet intimacy between labourers and their landscapes. From stonemasons to gardeners, bar staff to construction workers, The Winter’s Nail is filled with 'men for whom work was the word'. Warren’s England is not an idealised...