B i o g r a p h y

Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

Heidegger's 'Being and Time' is my favorite work of philosophy, primarily because it changed my attitude towards life. For me, Heidegger's greatest insight was that death is a part of life, and that accepting this is an important part of living authentically.

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Shattered Sea Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie

Abercrombie's art is his ability to make the most awful characters likable, and to have me turning page after page hoping that they will decide to be better people.

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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

My love of reading started with 'The Hobbit', which probably still holds the record for the book I have read the most times.

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Other recommended readings

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Academic and philosophical literature

The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande

Pragmatism - William James

Thoughts on the Unthinkable - Lee Braver

Dilemmas in a general theory of planning - Rittel and Webber

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Policing and criminal justice

The Functions of the Police in Modern Society - Egon Bittner

Conflicts as Property - Nils Christie

Better Living Through Police Discretion - Harold E. Pepinsky

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Fiction

The Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone

Spellslinger - Sebastian de Castell

Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Checquy Files - Daniel O'Malley

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