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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 10 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 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 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 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 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 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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