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My Life's Battles - by Will Thorne - £9.99
My Life’s Battles is one of the first true working-class autobiographies, the story of Will Thorne, who helped to make a better world for ordinary people. Thorne’s life story is a journey from tenements and factories to the corridors of power and the ... more
Long Time No See - by Hannah Lowe - £9.99
Hannah Lowe's father "Chick", a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family - except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he would vanish into the shadows of East London to win at c ... more
Bento's Sketchbook - by John Berger - £12.99
A meditation, in words and images, on the practice of drawing, by the author of Ways of Seeing.
The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza — also known as Benedict or Bento de Spinoza — spent the most intense years of his short life w ... more
The Year of the Runaways - by Sunjeev Sahota - £14.99
The heart-stopping new book from one of Granta's Best of British Novelists 2013
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015
The Year of the Runaways tells of the bold dreams and daily struggles of an unlikely family thrown together by ci ... more
The Secret Footballer's Guide to the Modern Game - by The Secret Footballer - £7.99
The outspoken anonymous author is back with the ultimate book to challenge conventional footballing wisdom.
With his trademark wit, intelligence and candour, the Secret Footballer will guide you through formations, tactics, mind games and ever ... more
The Moor's Account - by Laila Lalami - £9.99
In 1527 the Spanish conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida with hundreds of settlers, and claimed the region for Spain. Almost immediately, the expedition was decimated by a combination of navigational errors, dise ... more
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past - by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair - £8.99
An international bestseller, this is the extraordinary and moving memoir of a woman who learns that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List.
When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happ ... more
The Moth: This Is a True Story - by Various writers, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman - £8.99
Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read.
Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, ... more
Eureka! Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask - by Peter Jones - £9.99
The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy; and debat ... more
The Secret History of Wonder Woman - by Jill Lepore - £9.99
A riveting work of historical detection, revealing that the origins of one of the world’s most iconic Superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story — and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism.
Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is ... more
A Rough Ride to the Future - by James Lovelock - £9.99
In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system
James Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who concei ... more
Pitch Black: The Story of Black British Footballers - by Emy Onuora - £16.99
When Paul Canoville took to the pitch for Chelsea in 1982, he was prepared for abuse. When the monkey chanting and the banana throwing started, he wasn't surprised. He wasn't prepared, however, for the abuse to be coming from his own side.
C ... more
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies - by Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud - £9.99
Are you weary in Brain and Body? Do you desire a Positive Cure for your Pessimism? Do you require Brontë to re-boot your Broken Heart? Do you despair of your Nose? Can Fielding open your Flood Gates? Or Pynchon purge your Paranoia? May we administer ... more
If It Fits, I Sits - by Various authors - £9.99
A photographic celebration of cats in awkward places ... and being awkward.
Anyone who has met a cat knows how much they enjoy squeezing themselves into weird places and uncomfortable-looking positions.
Will we ever know why?
... more
Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance - by Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby - £16.99
Popular Protest in Palestine provides an overview and analysis of the role and significance of unarmed civil (popular) resistance in the Palestinian national movement. The main focus is on the contemporary popular resistance movement in the Occupied ... more
Amnesia - by Peter Carey - £8.99
When Gaby Bailleux released the Angel Worm into Australia's prison system, allowing hundreds of asylum seekers to walk free, she also let the cat out of the bag. The Americans ran the prisons, like so many parts of her country, and so the doors of so ... more
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - by Haruki Murakami - £8.99
A mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestseller author of Norwegian Wood.
Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’ ... more
Poems for Palestine - by Maher J. Massis (Editor) - £9.99
I looked at his thin, aged face / Each line represented a massacre / Each wrinkle, a dead son / Each groove, a year of occupation.
Poems for Palestine was launched as a project aiming to collect together verse written by the people of Palestine, ... more
Every Day is for the Thief - by Teju Cole - £8.99
A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. Like him, his childhood country has grown up quickly: found fast-food restaurants, email cafés, contempt for authority; the all-consuming draw of money for nothing.
From the consul ... more
Philosophy for Militants - by Alain Badiou, translated by Bruno Bosteels - £5.99
A philosophical guidebook for the struggles to come.
An urgent and provocative account of the modern “militant,” a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, recent events have seen the creation of a ra ... more
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field - by John Lewis-Stempel - £8.99
What really goes on in the long grass?
Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an English meadow’s life from January to December, together with its biography. In exquisite prose, John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seaso ... more
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