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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 21 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Always Red by Len McCluskey
    Always Red - by Len McCluskey

    £12.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781682193396 | ISBN 10: 168219339x

    Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more than a decade, he is a unique and powerful figure on the political stage.  In this major autobiography, McCluskey throws back the curtains on life ... more

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  • Cover image of book Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
    Free: Coming of Age at the End of History - by Lea Ypi

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241481851 | ISBN 10: 0241481856

    WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE  THE SUNDAY TIMES MEMOIR OF THE YEAR  'Wonderfully funny and poignant...a tale of family secrets and political awakening amid a crumbling regime. One of the nonfiction titles of the year' Luke Harding, Observer  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Orwell
    Orwell's Roses - by Rebecca Solnit

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783785520 | ISBN 10: 1783785527

    ‘Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening’ wrote George Orwell in 1940.  Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses that Orwell planted in his cottage in Hertfordshire, Rebecca Solnit explores how his involvement with pla ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change by Magid Magid
    The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change - by Magid Magid

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788702904 | ISBN 10: 1788702905

    A guide to being courageous and community-minded, and to disrupting and dismantling age-old power structures in work, life and politics, written by someone who has done exactly that.  Let's be honest. Magid Magid's story seems an unlikely one.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists by David Aaronovitch
    Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists - by David Aaronovitch

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099478973 | ISBN 10: 0099478978

    In July 1961, just before David Aaronovitch's seventh birthday, Yuri Gagarin came to London. The Russian cosmonaut was everything the Aaronovitch family wished for - a popular and handsome embodiment of modern communism.  But who were they, these ... more

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  • Cover image of book Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics by Richard Seymour
    Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics - by Richard Seymour

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786632999 | ISBN 10: 1786632993

    Demolishing the Blairite opposition in 2015, Jeremy Corbyn saw off an attempted coup against his leadership under the banner of the "soft left" one year on. This unassuming antiwar socialist now leads Labour with a huge mandate. For the first time in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hinterland by Chris Mullin
    Hinterland - by Chris Mullin

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781256060 | ISBN 10: 1781256063

    All serious politicians are supposed to possess a hinterland, but not all do. Chris Mullin was one who did. By the time he entered parliament he had reported from the wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and tracked down the survivors of the CIA operat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jo Cox: More in Common by Brendan Cox
    Jo Cox: More in Common - by Brendan Cox

    £16.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473659186 | ISBN 10: 1473659183

    A touching and very human portrait of Jo Cox: daughter, mother, wife, sister, MP and aidworker. "Jo Cox's selfless service to others made the world a better place"(Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States) THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES B ... more

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  • Cover image of book King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia by Asfa-Wossen Asserate
    King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia - by Asfa-Wossen Asserate

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910376645 | ISBN 10: 1910376647

    He was the scion of a dynasty that was reputed to descend from King Solomon, a pioneer of African unity and independence, a staunch confederate of the Allies in their fight against the fascist Axis powers and the messiah of the Jamaican Rastafarian m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Che, My Brother by Juan Martin Guevara and Armelle Vincent
    Che, My Brother - by Juan Martin Guevara and Armelle Vincent

    £20.00   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509517756 | ISBN 10: 1509517758

    On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the front pages that Che was dead, they decided to say nothing. Fift ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trump This! The Life and Times of Donald Trump: An Unauthorized Biography by Marc Shapiro
    Trump This! The Life and Times of Donald Trump: An Unauthorized Biography - by Marc Shapiro

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781626012646 | ISBN 10: 1626012644

    Who is Donald Trump?   Even after a yearlong presidential campaign, andconstant media coverage, many Americans don’t know if he’s for real or just abusinessman turned showman turned politician who has become President of the United States. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long and Winding Road by Alan Johnson
    The Long and Winding Road - by Alan Johnson

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780593076033 | ISBN 10: 0593076036

    From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson’s multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost unimaginable in today’s Britain.  This third volume ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eamon de Valera: A Will to Power by Ronan Fanning
    Eamon de Valera: A Will to Power - by Ronan Fanning

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571312061 | ISBN 10: 0571312063

    Éamon de Valera is the most remarkable man in the history of modern Ireland. Much as Churchill personified British resistance to Hitler and de Gaulle personified the freedom of France, de Valera personified Irish independence.  From his emerg ... more

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  • Cover image of book De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow by Tim Pat Coogan
    De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow - by Tim Pat Coogan

    £11.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784753276 | ISBN 10: 1784753270

    The history of Ireland for much of the Twentieth century is the history of Eamon De Valera.   From the 1916 Rising, the troubled Treaty negotiations and the Civil War, right through to his retirement after longer in power than any other twent ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dream Shall Never Die: 100 Days That Changed Scotland Forever by Alex Salmond
    The Dream Shall Never Die: 100 Days That Changed Scotland Forever - by Alex Salmond

    £12.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780008139766 | ISBN 10: 0008139768

    Alex Salmond has been a passionate supporter of Scottish independence his whole life. In September 2014, he came close to realising that dream.   In a riveting daily diary, written with his trademark wit and charm, Salmond takes us into the he ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine: The Last Diaries by Tony Benn
    A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine: The Last Diaries - by Tony Benn

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099564959 | ISBN 10: 0099564955

    In this final volume of diaries, Tony Benn reflects on the compensations and the disadvantages of old age.   With the support of a small circle of friends and his extended family, he continues his activities on behalf of social justice, peace and ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Walk-On Part: Diaries 1994-1999 by Chris Mullin
    A Walk-On Part: Diaries 1994-1999 - by Chris Mullin

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846685248 | ISBN 10: 1846685249

    In this title, Yes Minister meets Alan Clark. The third and final volume of Chris Mullin's acclaimed diaries begins on the night John Smith died in May 1994, and continues until the moment of Mullin's assumption into government in July 1999. Together ... more

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  • Cover image of book You Can
    You Can't Say That: Memoirs - by Ken Livingstone

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571280414 | ISBN 10: 0571280412

    A frank, gripping and moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic and effective politicians of the last fifty years. His political convictions, his distance from New Labour, and his direct, plain-speaking style and p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mandela: The Authorised Biography by Anthony Sampson
    Mandela: The Authorised Biography - by Anthony Sampson

    £16.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007437979 | ISBN 10: 0007437978

    Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson’s remarkable book has now been updated by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby.  Over a decade after his presidency of South Africa, Nels ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tony Benn: A Biography by Jad Adams
    Tony Benn: A Biography - by Jad Adams

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849540964 | ISBN 10: 1849540969

    Tony Benn has been portrayed as both hero and villain, as a creative and as a destructive force. This comprehensively revised edition of Jad Adams’ classic biography, is written with unparalleled access to Benn’s private records, and describes the lo ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Life by Fidel Castro, edited by Ignacio Ramonet
    My Life - by Fidel Castro, edited by Ignacio Ramonet

    £14.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141026268 | ISBN 10: 014102626x

    For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, has succeeded.  For the first time, in a series of prob ... more

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