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I Eat the Stars
  • Published: 5 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761620775
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $36.99
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I Eat the Stars

How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World

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From New York Times bestselling author and journalist Sarah Wilson comes a deeply moving, wise guide to finding joy and meaning in a world that seems to be falling apart.

It’s hard to escape the feeling that something is deeply wrong . . . that life has become precariously off-balance. We are hit hourly with headlines about catastrophic wildfires, unprecedented flooding, record heat waves, collapsing democracies, AI and nuclear threat, rising economic inequality, widespread unrest and more. In I Eat the Stars, Sarah Wilson argues we are undergoing what every complex civilisation before us has – systemic collapse.

So how do we continue to live as sensitive humans amidst such a tumultuous shift? What does life look like when the systems we rely on deteriorate? Should we be having kids? How do we make financial decisions? Should we be prepping? And, most importantly, how do we avoid succumbing to doom and despair?

In I Eat the Stars, Sarah Wilson delves into these pressing questions. Drawing on many years of research and wisdom gained from more than 200 conversations with philosophers, poets, game theorists and spiritual leaders, Wilson takes readers on an intimate journey as she lays out a path for living fully, meaningfully and beautifully through these troubled times. Our predicament, she argues, is ultimately an urgent call to us all to relish what is valuable to us – to eat the stars – and to return to our humanity once again.

I Eat the Stars empowers readers to move beyond panic, doom and despair. With her warm, incisively intelligent, wise and down-to-earth voice, Wilson creates a space for readers to confront their fears and anxieties about an uncertain future, guiding them toward one rooted in truth, hope, justice, creativity, community, and to step up as ‘warriors’ and meet the moment.

We are in what we were warned about for decades. But from a crisis comes stunning possibility.

'A loving and uplifting book.' – LIAM NEESON

'I've met no one else with such insight – take this book seriously.' – JOSEPH A. TAINTER
  • Published: 5 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761620775
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $36.99
Categories:

About the author

Sarah Wilson

Sarah Wilson is a multi-New York Times and Amazon bestselling author, social philosopher, international keynote speaker, minimalist and philanthropist. She edited Cosmopolitan magazine Australia at 29, founded the global I Quit Sugar movement, hosted the most-watched TV series in the nation’s history – Masterchef Australia – and wrote the international bestseller First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, which Mark Manson described as 'the best book on living with anxiety that I’ve ever read.' Her most recent book, This One Wild and Precious Life, won the US Gold Nautilus Prize and her recent TEDx talk on civilisational collapse is an 'editor’s pick' on the global site. Sarah leads dynamic, global conversations about modern philosophy, creativity, existential risk and climate change via her keynote speaking, Wild podcast, and her Substack and social communities of half a million followers. She lives nomadically, but is based between Paris and Sydney, is a compulsive hiker and adventurer.
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Praise for I Eat the Stars

A book for dark times that is filled with light and hope. Thoughtful, sometimes unsettling, but always brave.

Peter Frankopan, international bestselling author of The Silk Roads

It is difficult to provide philosophical guidance through rupture while it is still tearing the fabric of the world apart. But this is what Sarah Wilson manages to do, with exactly the kind of tenderness and wild-spiritedness that we are going to need – and want – going forward.

Alain de Botton, philosopher, author and founder of The School of Life

Sarah Wilson is an insightful and fiercely intelligent leader. Her writing reminds me that truth might indeed be more important than hope.

Julia Zemiro, television presenter, actress and comedian

This book is like a raw conversation with the friend who can capture where we are as a collective. There are some people I do not want to ever leave this planet. If we can keep Sarah Wilson and David Attenborough forever, there will always be beacons of possibility to guide us.

Lena Headey, activist and star of Game of Thrones

A chilling and important book about the chaos and complexity of what’s happening in the world – and how to understand it at a human level.

Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Stolen Focus

Sarah Wilson uses her legacy to name what is now looking us squarely in the eye. She does the unglamorous, often unpopular work for us – and we should be paying attention to what she has to say.

Abbie Chatfield, media personality, television host, radio presenter and podcaster

I can’t put it down. It’s like having a rich and inspired conversation with Sarah, in which she links ideas and draws connections where most of us fail to see a dot, much less a connection! Read her. Be fed. And sated.

Virginia Haussegger AM, award-winning journalist

I Eat the Stars is a feisty, outspoken testament that devours wobbly beliefs and half-lived lies. It awakens our exasperation, but also our compassion. It is unlike any book you have ever read. Be warned: you may never see the world again as you do now.

Paul Hawken, New York Times bestselling author of Drawdown

A fascinating and jolting work – part scholarship, part memoir – searing in its honesty.

Nick Bryant, broadcaster and author of The Forever War

A deeply researched exploration of climate collapse, artificial intelligence, modern capitalism, and what it actually means to live fully when the future feels increasingly uncertain . . . feels less like a doomsday manifesto and more like a call to wake up.

Marie Claire Australia