Among the books displayed by ARPress at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in Frankfurt, Germany, from October 15 to 19, 2025, A Global Invitation to a Thriving Worldwide Society: The Promise of the Great Turning by Queen Rev. Mutima Imani stood out quietly amid the buzz of the world’s largest publishing event. The fair, in its 77th edition, felt like a live pulse of the book-world: five days where ideas, culture, commerce, discovery and connection all collided in one place.
This year, the fair added several new layers of energy. For starters, the Guest of Honour was the Philippines, presenting under the theme “The imagination peoples the air.” That meant a special pavilion, a series of cultural and literary events highlighting Filipino voices and storytelling traditions.
Also, the fair leaned hard into cross-media formats: the newly emphasized “Book-to-Screen Day” on October 17 signalled that publishers and creatives are not just thinking print, but film, TV and streaming. For example, you could stroll from a rights negotiation meeting straight into a panel about turning a novel into a streaming series, then glance over to an audio zone where narrators and audiobook tech were on show.
The public programme (open to all from Friday onward) featured a dizzying range of stages: manga, comics, cosplay and games got serious space this year; there was a “Centre Stage” in Hall 4.1 for cultural and political talks (featuring big names like a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and ex-NATO Secretary General) and a “Reading Zone of Independent Publishers” where up-and-coming voices were amplified. Even the logistics showed how the fair is living up to its global claims: over 4,000 exhibitors from across the world, and the event framed as “the defining fair for the print and digital content business.”
The opening hours show the rhythm: trade visitors got access from 15-18 October, while the general public could join in on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. What this means in practical terms: imagine showing up early in the week for rights talks or author meet-ups; imagine a Saturday afternoon where the booths flood with families, manga fans in cosplay, readers browsing new titles, authors signing, coffee in hand. Meanwhile behind the scenes, deals are being made, translation contracts drawn up, creators from around the world comparing notes. The venue itself, Messe Frankfurt, becomes a micro-city of publishing, buzzing with voices, booths, panels, unexpected side-conversations in hallways.
For a book like A Global Invitation to a Thriving Worldwide Society: The Promise of the Great Turning by Queen Rev. Mutima Imani, this is fertile ground. In a setting where major genre titles can dominate the spotlights, the special, quieter books still find their nook, but now with the benefit of tremendous visibility. The broader themes of fair, cross-media adaptation, international rights, younger reader engagement, creative-tech intersections, mean that even a book whose focus is more contemplative, or niche can ride the wave of attention simply by showing up in the right context.
A Global Invitation to a Thriving Worldwide Society: The Promise of the Great Turning invites readers into a visionary framework for social, spiritual, and ecological transformation. The author frames today’s overlapping crises—climate, racial, economic, spiritual—as part of what she calls the Great Turning, a collective evolutionary shift toward a life-sustaining society. The book serves as both a call and a roadmap: it encourages people who feel overwhelmed by the scale of change to engage in meaningful regeneration, rather than despairing at fragmentation. Through this book, Imani seeks to help readers see their role not as passive observers of global decline, but as active participants in collective renewal.
The narrative begins by outlining the context of the Great Turning—the idea that humanity is transitioning from an industrial-growth mindset to one oriented around regeneration, equity, and connection. From there, the book maps how individuals and communities can engage in this shift: reclaiming ancestral wisdom, restoring broken relationships (with land, each other, and ourselves), embracing justice and inclusion, and embodying love as a driving force
Imani invites readers to transform today’s crises into tomorrow’s possibilities. She weaves together practices from the “Work That Reconnects” tradition (pioneered by Joanna Macy), deep ecology, collective healing, and decolonized spiritual frameworks to provide both inspiration and tangible direction. Ultimately, the book encourages each person to see themselves as part of a living web of interconnection and to step into that web with awareness, purpose, and hope.
Queen Rev. Mutima Imani is a spiritual author, facilitator, and activist whose work centers the sacredness of Blackness, Earth-based wisdom, and inclusive transformative justice.
Her background blends deep ecology, ancestral healing, racial justice, and community-based spirituality. As a narrator of change, she weaves personal experience with global vision, offering readers a distinctive voice grounded in both spiritual depth and social relevance.
A Global Invitation to a Thriving Worldwide Society: The Promise of the Great Turning is more than a book—it’s an invitation into a new way of being and acting in the world. Queen Rev. Mutima Imani offers both a compelling diagnosis of our time and a hopeful blueprint for a future rooted in love, inclusion, and regeneration.
If you are looking to understand how global change might become a personal journey, this book offers both vision and pathway. It encourages you to rise into your role in the unfolding story of transformation and to carry hope, connection, and resilience wherever you go.
This year’s Frankfurter Buchmesse felt alive with possibility. The cultural dimension (Philippines guest of honour), the expanded public access, the varied programming (from comics to film-industry panels), the global-rights stage, all of that created a backdrop where a book doesn’t just have to be good, it has to connect. And walking among the stalls, one could almost sense the collision of story and technology, tradition and innovation, local voices and global echo.
So, when someone notices A Global Invitation to a Thriving Worldwide Society: The Promise of the Great Turning by Queen Rev. Mutima Imani in ARPress’s display, maybe on a table near the broader non-fiction section, maybe in a quiet corner of a genre bay, they’re not just seeing a book. They’re seeing it in a moment: a moment of publishing’s future meeting its roots; a story offered amid thousands of others, inviting a reader to pause, to pick it up, to ask “what might this one say to me?” And perhaps that is why books like this matter even more in a fair like this, because among the big lights and big deals, there’s still space for the voice that whispers rather than shouts, for the reader who wanders, for the author who offers something earnest.
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