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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 27 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book How Westminster Works... and Why It Doesn by Ian Dunt
    How Westminster Works... and Why It Doesn - by Ian Dunt

    £10.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781399602747 | ISBN 10: 1399602748

    THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  Why do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a ‘special adviser’ and how did they take over British political life? And why is the House of Lords more functi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain by Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram
    Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain - by Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram

    £22.00   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781398719736 | ISBN 10: 1398719730

    Gordon Brown: ‘A path-breaking book by two dynamic leaders working to transform the North of England, and whose ideas on the future deserve all our attention.’  The Observer: ‘Not since Tony Blair 30 years ago have politicians advocated ... more

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  • Cover image of book Are You Really OK?: Understanding Britain’s Mental Health Emergency by Stacey Dooley
    Are You Really OK?: Understanding Britain’s Mental Health Emergency - by Stacey Dooley

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781785947032 | ISBN 10: 1785947036

    We are not OK...  I've been fortunate enough to meet many remarkable people over the last decade of making documentaries - sometimes in incredibly hostile environments, where they've been really up against it - and I've seen the devastating e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Can
    Can't Pay, Won't Pay: A Short History of the Anti-Poll Tax Struggle 1987-1993 - by Chris Robinson

    £10.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781739668143 | ISBN 10: 1739668146

    “Drop a pebble in a pool and the waves spread. We can be that pebble” – Gladys Shaw  The 30th ANNIVERSARY of the demise of the POLL TAX makes you think about a lot of things.  Justice. Fairness. Civility. How elites often carve ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fortress London: Why We Need to Save the Country from its Capital by Sam Bright
    Fortress London: Why We Need to Save the Country from its Capital - by Sam Bright

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008474256 | ISBN 10: 0008474257

    A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today.  ‘Intelligently written and powerfully argued.’ Paul Mason  ‘Witty, scathing, and entertaining.’ Danny Dorling  Journa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Britain in Fragments: Why Things are Falling Apart by Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever
    Britain in Fragments: Why Things are Falling Apart - by Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever

    £19.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526164599 | ISBN 10: 1526164590

    Britain today is falling apart. One of the most dominant states in world history finds itself confronted with growing demands for nationalist secessionism. Brexit has already secured its break from the European Union while looming Scottish independen ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain by Darren McGarvey
    The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain - by Darren McGarvey

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529103885 | ISBN 10: 1529103886

    *A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE*  'An Orwell for today's poor' - The Times 'The standout, authentic voice of a generation' Herald 'McGarvey is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
    Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK - by Simon Kuper

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781788167390 | ISBN 10: 1788167392

    Power. Privilege. Parties. It's a very small world at the top.   'A searing onslaught on the smirking Oxford insinuation that politics is all just a game. It isn't. It matters' Matthew Parris   Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, Georg ... more

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  • Cover image of book Borderland: Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England by Phil Hubbard
    Borderland: Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England - by Phil Hubbard

    £15.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526153876 | ISBN 10: 1526153874

    Over recent years, the issues of Brexit, COVID and the 'migrant crisis' put Kent in the headlines like never before. Images of asylum seekers on Kent beaches, lorries queued on motorways and the crumbling white cliffs of Dover all spoke to national a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
    Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain - by Sathnam Sanghera

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241445310 | ISBN 10: 0241445310

    In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past.   In prose that is, at once, both clear-eyed and full of acerbic wit, Sanghera sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diamonds in the Mud by Brian Reade
    Diamonds in the Mud - by Brian Reade

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913406639 | ISBN 10: 1913406636

    "Powerful, vital and visionary"(Jimmy McGovern) Something unusual happened in Britain during the spring of 2020. As the nation went into lockdown to fight a killer pandemic our view of what constituted a hero changed.  Suddenly celebrity busine ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save It by Stuart Maconie
    The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save It - by Stuart Maconie

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529102437 | ISBN 10: 152910243x

    It was the spirit of our finest hour, the backbone of our post-war greatness, and it promoted some of the boldest and most brilliant schemes this isle has ever produced: it was the Welfare State, and it made you and I. But now it's under threat, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares by Phil Tinline
    The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares - by Phil Tinline

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787386907 | ISBN 10: 1787386902

    From the Great Depression to the pandemic, a new history of British democracy, revealing how politics is transformed through fear.  The Times Politics Book of the Year 2022  Selected as one of the New Statesman’s ‘Best Books of 2022’  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan
    Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics - by Peter Geoghegan

    £14.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781789546033 | ISBN 10: 1789546036

    Democracy is in crisis, and unaccountable and untraceable flows of money are helping to destroy it. Politicians lie gleefully, making wild claims that can be shared instantly with millions of people on social media. Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Jair ... more

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  • Cover image of book Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain by Robert Verkaik
    Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain - by Robert Verkaik

    £10.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786076120 | ISBN 10: 1786076128

    In Britain today, the government, judiciary and military are all led by an elite who attended private school. Under their watch, our society has become increasingly divided and the gap between rich and poor is now greater than ever before. Is this th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Now We Have Your Attention: The New Politics of the People by Jack Shenker
    Now We Have Your Attention: The New Politics of the People - by Jack Shenker

    £16.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781847925404 | ISBN 10: 1847925405

    "One of the most important and compelling books I've ever read, by one of Britain's most gifted writers. If you want to understand why we are in this crisis, listen to the voices all too often airbrushed from the political conversation"(Owen Jones) ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by James Bloodworth
    Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain - by James Bloodworth

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786490162 | ISBN 10: 1786490161

    We all define ourselves by our profession. But what if our job was demeaning, poorly paid, and tedious? Cracking open Britain’s divisions journalist James Bloodworth spends six months living and working across Britain, taking on the country’s mos ... more

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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms - by Harry Leslie Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472123473 | ISBN 10: 1472123476

    Don't Let My Past Be Your Future, Harry Leslie Smith's follow-up to Harry's Last Stand, is both a survival guide for today's generations and a memoir about persevering through difficult times with one's dignity and optimism intact.  THIS A CA ... more

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  • Cover image of book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch
    Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging - by Afua Hirsch

    £10.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784705039 | ISBN 10: 1784705039

    Where are you really from?   You’re British. Your parents are British. You were raised in Britain. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British.   So why do people keep asking you where you are from?   Brit(ish) is abou ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Extreme Centre: A Second Warning by Tariq Ali
    The Extreme Centre: A Second Warning - by Tariq Ali

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786637062 | ISBN 10: 1786637065

    Since 1989, politics has been a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the market. In this urgent and wideranging case for the prosecution, Tariq Ali looks at the people and events that have informed this development across the world. It is a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation by Ian Cobain
    The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation - by Ian Cobain

    £20.00   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846275838 | ISBN 10: 1846275830

    In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed, creating offences of 'disclosure of information' and 'breach of official trust'. It limited and monitored what the public could, and should, be told. Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Alternative: Towards a New Progressive Politics by Lisa Nandy, Caroline Lucas and Chris Bowers (Editors)
    The Alternative: Towards a New Progressive Politics - by Lisa Nandy, Caroline Lucas and Chris Bowers (Editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785900495 | ISBN 10: 1785900498

    The 2015 election result was a disaster for progressives in British politics, delivering a majority Conservative government at Westminster. And the outlook for the next election is not auspicious either, particularly amid the aftershocks of the momen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else by James Meek
    Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else - by James Meek

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784782061 | ISBN 10: 1784782068

    How the British government packaged and sold its people to the world. In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing have been sold to remote, unaccountable pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Get it Together: Why We Deserve Better Politics by Zoe Williams
    Get it Together: Why We Deserve Better Politics - by Zoe Williams

    £14.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780091959012 | ISBN 10: 0091959012

    Whether we have children or not we all want the future to be fairer and happier; and Zoe Williams believes that we need to make that happen collectively.   Get it Together is a rousing call to arms for us all to play our part in creating a mo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy by Kerry-Anne Mendoza
    Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy - by Kerry-Anne Mendoza

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780262468 | ISBN 10: 1780262469

    Wages have been frozen, benefits have been slashed and public spending squeezed. The pain of a financial crisis caused by bankers and speculators has been borne by ordinary people all over the country and by the poor and disabled most of all.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain by Owen Hatherley
    A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain - by Owen Hatherley

    £25.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781680759 | ISBN 10: 1781680752

    The urban state of the nationfrom Olympic dreams to broken Britain This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call the progressive nonsense of the Big Society agenda.   In a journey ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unjust Rewards: Ending the Greed That is Bankrupting Britain by Polly Toynbee and David Walker
    Unjust Rewards: Ending the Greed That is Bankrupting Britain - by Polly Toynbee and David Walker

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847080967 | ISBN 10: 1847080960

    In the boom years, the rich got richer while the poor got poorer. Bankers pocketed millions while the low paid fell ever further behind. Brazen greed had led us into a global economic crisis and the widening gap between rich and poor has damaged the ... more

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