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The Genius MythCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781787333253 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2025 Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK Description: From the acclaimed journalist and author of Difficult Women, a timely and entertaining take down of the genius myth, exploring the surprising history of invention, inspiration and distortion by which some lives are elevated to 'greatness' and the unexpected consequences for us all. **Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times and
Condition: BRAND NEWISBN: 9781787333253
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Description:
From the acclaimed journalist and author of Difficult Women, a timely and entertaining take-down of the genius myth, exploring the surprising history of invention, inspiration and distortion by which some lives are elevated to 'greatness' - and the unexpected consequences for us all.
**Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award**
*A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman and GQ Book for 2025 *
*From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Difficult Women*
'Brilliant, timely and compulsively readable. Helen Lewis shows how the idea of genius has warped our understanding of human creativity - and why people of vast accomplishment in one domain can prove so destructively clueless in others.' OLIVER BURKEMAN
The tortured poet. The rebellious scientist. The monstrous artist. The tech disruptor.
You can tell what a society values by who it labels as a genius. You can also tell who it excludes, who it enables, and what it is prepared to tolerate.
Taking us from the Renaissance Florence of Leonardo da Vinci to the Floridian rocket launches of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Helen Lewis unravels a word that we all use - without really questioning what it means.
Along the way, she uncovers the secret of the Beatles' success, asks how biographers should solve the Austen Problem, and reveals why Stephen Hawking thought IQ tests were for losers (before taking one herself). And she asks if the modern idea of genius - a class of special people - is dist
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Wowww! I read the reviews about how big it was and looked at the images people posted but that doesn’t do it justice .. this thing is HUGE. I almost wish it was a lil smaller for real..but it’s really comfy , the kid loves it , she uses it as a landing for jumping . Helped clean up so many of her stuffed animals and random extra blankets .. and there’s still so much room left. The only downside is the zipper is of really low quality, you gotta be really careful putting stuff in there cause the opening isn’t that big .
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Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Huge for adult sized
Size: L For Adult, Color: Rainbow (Cover Only)
wow is all I can say I should have gotten the child sized one because this one is HUGE ! my daughter loves it but it does take up a lot of room
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Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2026
★★★★★ 3
Fluffy and comfy
Size: L For Adult, Color: Pink (Cover Only)
Massive bean bag cover so it'll take a lot of stuffing to fill it. My daughter loves it so far.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Lifesaver!
Size: S For Kid, Color: Rainbow (Cover Only)
So far so good. I have two cute storage things I use to store my 5 year old’s stuffed animals in, but my daughter still had quite a few left and most of them are big. I found this bean bag stuffed storage cover and my daughter loved the rainbow colored one so I ordered it. It actually fits all of the remaining stuffed animals in it (mostly big ones) and looks like a normal bean bag. It’s cute and was a perfect solution for her huge stuffed animal collection.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2026
★★★★★ 5
This is a fabulous LIGHTWEIGHT blanket exactly as advertised!
This blanket is exactly as described, it is LIGHTWEIGHT meaning it is thinner and cooler than some of the other Berkshire lines of thicker heavier blankets.
I have purchased at least 20 Berkshire blankets/throws for myself and for gifts because they are the absolute best quality at a seriously reasonable price. They are so soft and comfy and they will survive years of regular use and washing.
This one is a gorgeous deep purple and is the perfect weight for our recent 85+ degree days in March with nights that still need more than a sheet but less than a comforter. It measures true to size after a thorough wash/dry cycle and I have had zero shedding issues so I’m not sure what other buyers are doing but please wash your blankets before using them.
The photos show this gorgeous purple in a twin size next to a twin “Ombré Burgundy classic heavyweight” (omg go check that one out) and you can see the purple one is just about half the thickness of the other one which is exactly what I wanted for the hotter summer months coming up.
If you want a thicker blanket, Berkshire makes a lot of them, just look for the ones marked “HEAVYWEIGHT” instead of going through the hassle of returning a blanket that is clearly advertised as a “lightweight soft fuzzy plush blanket or throw” and then getting mad because you got a lightweight soft fuzzy plush blanket or throw 🤣
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