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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday Times 'You will not read a more important book about America this...
Paranoia: The 21st Century Fear
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The Trayvon Generation
*Named a Most Anticipated Title of 2022 by TIME magazine, New York Times , Bustle , and more* In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 and...
The High Girders: The gripping true story of a Victorian dream that ended in tragedy
'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES 'Graphically written with a sense of dramatic construction' SCOTSMAN On December 28th 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge...
How to Be a Patriot: Why love of country can end our very British culture war
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How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country's history? How to be a...
Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible
The long-awaited, inspirational guide to life for a generation of black British women inspired to make lemonade out of lemons, and find success in every area of their lives. 'Inspirational'...
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 'A marvellous book . . . I just loved it all,...
Gaffs: Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland's housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about...
Work. Love. Body.: Future Women
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Black and British: A Forgotten History
A Waterstones History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Orwell Prize Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark...
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook
A profound guide to existing on your own terms, the first trade book from renowned intersectional feminist scholar Sara Ahmed We have to keep saying it because they keep doing...
How to Survive a Crisis: Lessons in Resilience and Avoiding Disaster
From the former Director of GCHQ, an invaluable guide to surviving crises -- how to spot them early and lessen their devastating consequences -- using the latest intelligence strategies 'Sir...
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where - and how - we live We are facing a...
Flash Boys
The Master of the Big Story is back If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is...
Chosen: Lost and Found between Christianity and Judaism
A unique and moving memoir from the maverick former Canon of St Paul's Cathedral It was one of the most startling moments in the history of the City of London....
In/Out: A scandalous story of falling into love and out of the church
'Steph takes you into her world with refreshing honesty. Her voice is that rare combination of conviction and vulnerability' Kumi Taguchi 'With In/Out , Steph Lenz shows that if love...
Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home
'Brown Baby is a beautifully intimate and soul-searching memoir. It speaks to the heart and the mind and bears witness to our turbulent times.' - Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl,...
This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity
This book is the hard conversation we must have. In 2020 we have seen clearer than ever that Black people are still fighting for the right to be judged by...
Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The best of Joe Bageant
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year In this spectacular, newsmaking expose that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its...
America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES , USA TODAY , AND AMAZON BESTSELLER America's most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize* 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new...
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories
How do places make us, and how do we make them? At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century' Male entitlement takes many forms. To...
The Trading Game: A Confession
The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open 'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its...
The Sins of the Sheikh: Abduction, Intimidation and Intrigue Inside
The Sins of the Sheikh tells the dark story of abduction, cover-ups, brutality and intimidation within the mysterious royal family of Dubai, ruled by the iron fist of its patriarch,...
A Banquet of Consequences RELOADED: How we got into the mess we're in,
'A powerful book . . . highly readable and informative . . . Demands to be read.' - Lindsay Tanner, The Monthly Informed, impassioned, insightful and witty, Satyajit Das returns...
The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Of The Year Award
A murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times . . . Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with...
Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai
From Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one...
Leviathan
One of the great masterpieces of 17th century English prose, with a major new introduction Thomas Hobbes lived through the Thirty Years War and Britain's civil wars, and the trauma...
Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th
This 20th anniversary edition celebrates this important, ground-breaking book, which remains as relevant as ever. In this ground-breaking and timeless book, Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson undertakes a compelling analysis of...
Orwell's England
All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this comprehensive collection, is concerned with England,...
Orwell and the Dispossessed
An expansive collection of George Orwell's writing on the down and out The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in this powerful volume chronicle Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites much of the known narrative The Dead Are Arising is a...
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not...
Poor
Lyrical, heartbreaking and hopeful, the Peckham poet's debut collection exploring the lives of young Black boys, and the architecture that shapes them What is it like to grow up in...
Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There is No Future?
The 'most dangerous philosopher in the West' returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us,...
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
The origins, consequences and limitations of identity politics- an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious...
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schroedinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous...
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (The Sunday Times
The imperfect and unfinished story of the battles for women's rights, and of the complicated women who fought them Well-behaved women don't make history- difficult women do. 'This is the...
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
The #1 bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. In his boldest and most...
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why...
Poverty, by America
A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century' Male entitlement takes many forms. To...
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
This searing, heartbreaking book tells the story of poverty today, and the people who live it Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
A powerful history of one the most devastating episodes in the twentieth century, by 'the leading historian of Soviet crimes' (Sunday Times) In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of...