Stranger Than We Can Imagine

A breathtakingly lucid and coherent map of the tectonic shifts which drastically reshaped the human psyche, and the human world, within a hundred thrilling, terrifying years … An illuminating work of massive insight, in STRANGER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE John Higgs informs us of exactly where we’ve been and, by extension, where we are. I cannot recommend this magnificent work too highly

Hugely entertaining and thought-provoking

’… a brilliantly stimulating tale.’ - Financial Times

’… a challenging book that stimulates the reader to think radically.’ - Daily Mail

‘In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, [Higgs] broadens his intellectual reach to encompass modernism, situationism, chaos theory, indeterminacy and almost every other byway of that epoch. Higgs’s plate-spinning act is a fine example of learning worn lightly.’ - New Scientist

A beautiful, erudite, funny and enlightening tour of the widening boundaries of uncertainty revealed in the twentieth century, and who doesn’t need a book that explains quantum behaviour with a boxing bout between Putin and a kangaroo?

‘John Higgs takes a journey through some of the ‘curious backwaters’ of the last century in the excellent, and consistently intriguing STRANGER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE.’ - CHOICE magazine

‘To paraphrase Colonel Kurtz, reading John Higgs is like being shot with a diamond. Suddenly everything becomes terrifyingly clear’ - Mojo