Priority Shots

These are the Shots we'd love to have you write as a priority, although we are willing to accept suggestions for other titles that you think would make good Shots. If you wish to submit an unlisted title, please check beforehand that it is not on the list of shots that we have already commisioned. Focus on titles that are out of copyright, i.e. where the author has been dead for over 70 years.

There are no deadlines, but apply as soon as possible to make sure the titles you particularly want to write are still available.

Science and Natural History

  • Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology
  • Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
  • Francis Bacon, New Atlantis
  • Isaac Newton, Principia Mathematica
    (Double Shot: £600 writer's fee)
  • Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Political Theory

  • Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
  • Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
  • Adam Smith, Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
    (Double Shot: £600 writer's fee)
  • John Stuart Mill, On Liberty & On the Subjection of Women

Classics

  • Virgil, Aeneid
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses
  • Plato, The Republic

Philosophy and Theology

  • Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good & Evil
  • The Gospels

Theory of Mind

  • Sigmund Freud, Introduction to Psychoanalysis

Literature

  • Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
  • Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    (Double Shot: £600 writer's fee)
  • William Shakespeare, King Lear
  • Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice