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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero by Gregor Gall
    Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero - by Gregor Gall

    £20.00   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781526173096 | ISBN 10: 1526173093

    In the summer of 2022, the little-known leader of a small union became a 'working-class hero'. Facing down media pundits who thought they could walk all over him, he offered a robust critique of the government and provided workers with an authentic v ... more

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  • Cover image of book No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson
    No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader - by Mark Hodkinson

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838850012 | ISBN 10: 1838850015

    This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lens.  Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Working-Class Queers: Time, Place and Politics by Yvette Taylor
    Working-Class Queers: Time, Place and Politics - by Yvette Taylor

    £19.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780745341026 | ISBN 10: 0745341020

    Who cares about working-class queers in Britain today? Are queers marginal to the study of class, and are the working-classes marginal to queer studies? Yvette Taylor critically engages with the experience of working-class queers through cycles of cr ... 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 Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival by Cash Carraway
    Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival - by Cash Carraway

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529103380 | ISBN 10: 152910338x

    “Everyone has their price. It’s just not always monetary. Mine is though. 20 quid.”  Single mum. ‘Stain on society’. Caught in a poverty trap. It’s a luxury to afford morals and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survi ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Together Now? One Man
    All Together Now? One Man's Walk in Search of a Lost England - by Mike Carter

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783351572 | ISBN 10: 1783351578

    When Mike Carter's father died, he decided to follow the route of a march against unemployment his dad had organised 35 years before. Mike had a troubled relationship with his dad, and hoped the walk, undertaken a month before the Brexit vote, would ... more

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  • Cover image of book Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers by Kit de Waal (Editor)
    Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers - by Kit de Waal (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783527458 | ISBN 10: 1783527455

    Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed.  Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the dep ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
    Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class - by Owen Jones

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784783778 | ISBN 10: 1784783773

    A compelling investigation into the myth and reality of working-class life in contemporary Britain. In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Yorkshire Family by Richard Benson
    The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Yorkshire Family - by Richard Benson

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408831632 | ISBN 10: 1408831635

    The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson's great-grandmother Winnie's ninety-two years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research, interviews and an ... more

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