Harper NonFiction to publish Piers Morgan's Woke is Dead

Harper NonFiction is set to publish Piers Morgan’s book "welcoming the return of a common sense world". HarperCollins acquired world all-language rights to Woke is Dead: How Common Sense Triumphed in an Age of Total Madness, set to publish in hardback, audiobook and e-book on 23rd October 2025 in the UK and on 28th October 2025 in the US.

The synopsis reads: "Woke is Dead explores the international rejection of being told how we should think, how we should act and what we should (or shouldn’t) say. Addressing combustible topics including the gender divide and the destruction of free speech, Morgan argues that woke’s empty discourse only created more division, confusion and mistrust, and makes the case for what our post-woke future can, and should, look like."

Morgan said: "Four years ago, in Wake Up I issued a clarion call to liberals around the world, warning them to abandon the woke ideology that was proving so destructive to free democratic society. They chose not to listen to me and have now reaped the inevitable consequence of that decision. This new book is about how and why the woke mind virus infected so many minds, to the point of widespread insanity, and why it ultimately got repudiated and defeated by Donald Trump’s emphatic 2024 election win, in a victory for common sense."

Sarah Emsley, MD and publisher for Harper NonFiction and HarperNorth, said: "Time and again, Piers Morgan has proven his rare ability to put pen to paper at exactly the right moment, not only to entertain us, but also to spark conversation and invite important debate. Woke is Dead is trademark Piers."