John Hunter – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers https://shepheardwalwyn.com Independent Publisher Book Seller UK Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:25:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Spirit of Self-Help https://shepheardwalwyn.com/product/the-spirit-of-self-help/ Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000 https://development.shepheardwalwyn.com/product/the-spirit-of-self-help/ Chosen for Spring 2017 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction When Dominic Sandbrook quoted Samuel Smiles extensively in his TV series on nineteenth-century work and leisure; when Ian Hislop flourished a copy of Smiles’s Self-Help (“the book that launched the genre”) in his programme on ‘Workers or Shirkers?’; when Andy Burnham reflected publicly on “lack of aspiration” as a…

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