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As a publisher I'm always trying to find that thing that has never been said before, a new use of language that fizzes and crackles on the page, to give a voice to people who haven't had a voice before - like London gang girls or a woman who sees angels all her waking hours. I'm fascinated by the new technology and the changes in consciousness that come with it. Because I work at the commercial end of the business, I always look for clarity. I also find ideas for books often to come to me as jokes. I think 'Wouldn't it be funny is someone published a book called this' - and then 'Why not?' If a book is going to annoy a lot of people, it is in my experience probably a good idea.In 2008 my book The Secret History of the World was published by Quercus - in the UK and Commonwealth under the pseudonym Jonathan Black - then in the US, where it was a NY Times bestseller and subsequently in translation is many territories, includuing France, where it was also a bestseller. It's an odd, ludic, slightly subversive book that I still find hard to encapsulate several years later, but my favourite description of it is 'doing for history what Gulliver's Travels did for geography'. Last year I was glad to be asked to lecture on philosophy at Maastricht University. My subject was trying to imagine what a wholehearted belief in idealism might feel like today.I have written articles in The Independent on Sunday on how publishing is changing, how consciousness is changing, on celebrity culture and why celebrity is bad for those who are celebrities.

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  University Of Oxford

  Philosophy And Theology