Books by Martin Rothery

Books

Fiction, ideas, strange questions, human behaviour, alternative histories and the occasional attempt to work out what on earth we are doing here.

Sometimes the shortest route to a serious idea is through a story that makes you laugh first.
Ideas behave differently inside stories

Sometimes fiction tells the truth more accurately than explanation does.

There are things I can explain in a training programme that become much more interesting when I put them inside a bookshop, a museum, a marriage, a disaster or somebody else's thoroughly inconvenient life.

Fiction lets an idea breathe. You can watch somebody make the wrong decision for completely understandable reasons, laugh at them and then realise several pages later that you do exactly the same thing.

The non-fiction takes a more direct route, but the curiosity underneath it is the same. What makes people work? What do we believe because somebody told us? How much of life have we mistaken for inevitability? What happens if we look again?

The books sit alongside the training rather than underneath it. They have to work as books first.
Read before you buy

Every book has a free preview.

I would rather you read the writing and decide from that than buy a book because a sales page told you it was profound, hilarious or life-changing.

A preview gives you enough time to hear the voice, meet the idea and decide whether you actually want to spend another few hundred pages with it.

You do not need to have done any Nine Realms training first. The books stand on their own.

The catalogue

Browse the books.

Open anything that catches your eye. Read the preview. Start wherever your curiosity catches. There is no required reading order unless a book is clearly part of a series.

Responsible Success

Building an ethical, effective And profitable practice in Therapy and changework

7.99

A practical, no-nonsense guide for therapists and changework practitioners who want to build an ethical, effective, and profitable practice without becoming pushy, generic, or buried in business nonsense. Covers pricing, marketing, websites, AI, systems, boundaries, reputation, referrals, money, and the judgement behind running a practice well.

Strangers in Charge

Why the People Running Your World Have Never Lived in It

£14.99

Have you ever looked at the people in charge and thought — how did they get here? The psychological autopsy of the people running the world. Boris Johnson. Elon Musk. Vladimir Putin. Mark Zuckerberg. Donald Trump. Bill Gates. The House of Windsor and more.

Strangers Inside

Why the person running your life has never really been you

£14.99

Why do so many people feel like they are performing their own life rather than living it? You have been living your life as if the person making your decisions was actually you. The voice in your head that tells you what you deserve, where did that voice come from?

Strangers All Around

Why we became strangers to each other and what it is doing to us

£14.99

Do you know your neighbour? Not their name. Actually know them. When did we stop knowing the people around us, and what did it cost us when we did

The Aware Universe

What consciousness, cosmology, and the expanding void might be telling us about where we are

£14.99

The Strangers trilogy asked who is running your life, who is running your world, and what happened between all of us. This book asks the largest question left. What if consciousness is not what the brain produces, but what the universe is?

Escape the Self Help Reef

How Big-Stage Inspiration Keeps You Shallow, and the Architecture You Need for Real Change

£17

A complete guide to why self-help keeps you shallow — and the architecture of real change. For practitioners and serious seekers who are tired of shallow answers.

Ageless

Rewriting the Biology of Time

£14.99

You have been told that ageing is inevitable — written into your biology, a fixed programme running in every cell. That belief is itself a programme. And programmes can be changed. Sixteen chapters on the real mechanisms of ageing and how the mind is running them.

Reality Hacker

The Rebel's Guide to Manifestation Across Dimensions

£12.99

A multidimensional framework for consciously shifting your reality — integrating quantum mechanics, ancient wisdom, mythic patterning, and embodied practice.

The Hercules Quest

From Hapless to Hero

£12.99

The twelve labours of Hercules mapped to real human transformation — fear, chaos, power, vulnerability, responsibility, and mortality.

This is not mythology. It is a map for living. A philosophy of courage, wisdom, endurance, and acceptance for the challenges you face today.

The Consciousness Codex

A Field Guide to Reality, Intention, Transformation, and Manifestation

£12.99

What if consciousness isn't a byproduct of brain activity but something woven into the fabric of reality? This book proposes that consciousness is the synchronisation of strings — a framework grounded in string theory, mapping six experiential dimensions from Word and Thought through Will, Reason, Intention, and the Universal Field

The Dream Architect's Quest

Mapping Nonlocal Consciousness Through Dreams

£9.99

Dreams are not random noise. They are field-scanning — the mind navigating nonlocal consciousness while the body rests.

Sanomentology principles applied to deliberate dream architecture. Navigate, direct, and bring back genuine insight from the oneiric realm.

Beyond the Senses

A Nonlocal Consciousness Perspective

£12.99

From the familiar five senses through the hidden biology of perception, into the nonlocal territory of telepathy, clairvoyance, auras, and collective mind.

Approached seriously and practically — with experiments you can run yourself. No PhD required.

Life Is Blind

GABA, Consciousness, and the Gates of Perception

£9.99

GABA is the brain's master inhibitor — the brake system that keeps you calm and focused, and the same system that confines you to a narrow lane of perception.

Emotions cause chemistry — not the other way round. A paradigm flip that changes everything about inner work.

Glutamate

The Spark Plug of Your Neural Engine

£9.99

The brain's master excitatory neurotransmitter — hero and trickster. Ignites learning, fuels motivation, and drives every thought that lights up your consciousness.

Left unchecked, it drives anxiety, obsession, and burnout. Here's how to become an intentional conductor of these synaptic fireworks.

The Body Remembers

The Soul Reclaims — Understanding Fibromyalgia Through Trauma

£7.99

You're not broken. You're responding. To years of pressure, emotional suppression, trauma, and overdoing.

A profound reframe of fibromyalgia as signal rather than failure — and a gentle path toward healing rooted in safety, truth and self-respect.

Down here, everyone is right

A Journey Through the Nine Circles of the Modern Inferno

£12.99

Everyone in Hell has a reason. Most of them have paperwork.
Driving from Gdańsk to Chesterfield in a black Jaguar, Martin Rothery stops at a motorway service station outside Leicester. He wants coffee. What he finds is a door, a Porter, and a descent through nine circles built for the modern world.

There are spectators who film suffering rather than interrupt it. Trolls who have forgotten there is a person behind the screen. Football tribes who mistake hatred for belonging. Outrage merchants selling fury by the click. Courts where certainty has replaced justice. Ministries manufacturing truth, warmongers moving lives around maps, and clerks processing misery according to procedure.

At the bottom, there is no emperor of evil waiting on a throne.

There is a mirror.

Down Here, Everyone Is Right is a darkly funny, unsettling journey through the machinery that allows ordinary people to stop seeing one another. Drawing on thirty-eight years of work with human beings when the performance finally gives way, Martin Rothery follows cruelty back through fear, humiliation, tribalism, ambition and the small private permissions by which conscience is gradually outsourced.

This is not a tour of monsters.

It is a tour of us.

The Porter has the forms. The coffee is strong, black and sweet. The door has already closed.

Ageless

Rewriting the Biology of Time

£14.99

You have been told that ageing is inevitable — written into your biology, a fixed programme running in every cell. That belief is itself a programme. And programmes can be changed. Sixteen chapters on the real mechanisms of ageing and how the mind is running them.

Down here, everyone is right

A Journey Through the Nine Circles of the Modern Inferno

£12.99

Everyone in Hell has a reason. Most of them have paperwork.
Driving from Gdańsk to Chesterfield in a black Jaguar, Martin Rothery stops at a motorway service station outside Leicester. He wants coffee. What he finds is a door, a Porter, and a descent through nine circles built for the modern world.

There are spectators who film suffering rather than interrupt it. Trolls who have forgotten there is a person behind the screen. Football tribes who mistake hatred for belonging. Outrage merchants selling fury by the click. Courts where certainty has replaced justice. Ministries manufacturing truth, warmongers moving lives around maps, and clerks processing misery according to procedure.

At the bottom, there is no emperor of evil waiting on a throne.

There is a mirror.

Down Here, Everyone Is Right is a darkly funny, unsettling journey through the machinery that allows ordinary people to stop seeing one another. Drawing on thirty-eight years of work with human beings when the performance finally gives way, Martin Rothery follows cruelty back through fear, humiliation, tribalism, ambition and the small private permissions by which conscience is gradually outsourced.

This is not a tour of monsters.

It is a tour of us.

The Porter has the forms. The coffee is strong, black and sweet. The door has already closed.

The Gods We Made

A Novel of Power, Prayer and Very Poor Behaviour

9.99

Nobody noticed the gods returning because nobody was looking for them.

When Arthur Bell, a fifty-six-year-old refrigeration engineer from Coventry, is singled out by an intelligence that shouldn’t exist, his very ordinary life becomes tangled up with AI, ancient gods, modern power and a prophecy nobody quite understands.

The Gods We Made is a darkly funny speculative novel about what happens when humanity builds things powerful enough to answer our questions — and then starts treating the answers like truth.

Absurd, irreverent and deeply human, it asks a simple question: what if the gods we’re waiting for are the ones we’ve already made?
Books by Martin Rothery

Start with whichever one makes you curious.

That is usually a better reason to choose a book than trying to work out which one you are supposed to read first.