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A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World - by Julian Baggini - £8.99
The thinking person's tonic for our troubling times.
How did we find ourselves in a "post-truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A Short History of Truth sets out to answer these questions by looking at the complex histor ... more
Repeal the 8th - by Una Mullally (Editor) - £9.99
Abortion is illegal in almost every circumstance in Ireland, making it the only democracy in the western world to have such a constitutional ban. This anthology, a national bestseller, is the definitive collection of the writing and art inspired by t ... more
Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago - by Patrick Barkham - £9.99
Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2018
Shortlisted for the BBC Countryfile Magazine Country Book of the Year 2018
The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like ... more
Things Can Only Get Worse? Twenty Confusing Years in the Life of a Labour Supporter - by John O'Farrell - £8.99
"Hilarious, insightful and has that rare quality of making politics fun. A brilliant book everyone should read, whoever you vote for."(Owen Jones, author of The Establishment)
From the giddy heights of New Labour's landslide victory in 1997 to the ... more
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging - by Afua Hirsch - £10.99
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
50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Legends - by Will Larnach-Jones - £10.00
Featuring beautifully illustrated portraits and profiles, 50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World is a tribute to queer ground breakers who changed the face of music and popular culture.
LGBTQ+ musicians have been pushing for change sinc ... more
My Teenage Diary: Adolescent Musings from the Hit BBC Radio 4 Series - by Harriet Jaine - £12.99
Ever wanted to pick the lock of a celebrity’s teenage diary?
My Teenage Diary is a Radio 4 comedy show hosted by Rufus Hound featuring celebrities reading and discussing extracts from their teenage diaries. Collected together for the first ... more
Springwatch: The 2019 Almanac - by Michael Bright and Karen Farrington - £12.99
‘Beautiful, fun, a great book… the best book ever written!’ - Chris Evans
‘It is a brilliant book, a toolkit, packed full of information – even I learnt a few new things!’ - Chris Packham
Explore the world outside your window.
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Stick it to the Man - by Stickerbomb - £12.99
This timely sticker book brings together around 200 of the best protest stickers created by artists and activists around the world. Funny, irreverent, bold and poignant, the stickers tackle the range of key issues of acute concern today, including fe ... more
Puzzle Ninja: Pit Your Wits Against The Japanese Puzzle Masters - by Alex Bellos - £8.99
From the Guardian’s very own puzzle master, Puzzle Ninja is a new collection following the bestselling Can You Solve My Problems?
The puzzle masters of Japan create the world’s most satisfying puzzles. Each has a distinctive style but wh ... more
Economics for the Many - by John McDonnell (Editor) - £12.99
Our economy is rigged in favour of a wealthy elite. We need a new approach: an economics for the many.
Big challenges lie ahead for our society: the rise of automation and the threat of catastrophic climate change. But so, too, do the huge p ... more
Private Eye Annual 2018 - by Ian Hislop - £9.99
The Private Eye Annual 2018 present's the year's best cartoons, jokes and spoofs from the UK's best selling satirical magazine. Illustrated in colour throughout with cartoons, sketches and photo-bubbles.
The Private Eye Annual remains both ... more
War to Windrush: Black Women in Britain 1939-1948 - by Stephen Bourne - £12.99
From the author of Black Poppies, Fighting Proud and Evelyn Dove comes a timely new account exploring Britain’s diverse history from the Second World War to the Empire Windrush and beyond, told through the experiences of black British women.
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Leeds Postcards - by Christine Hankinson & Craig Oldham - £12.00
For the past four decades, independent postcard press Leeds Postcards has been making oppositional, inspiring images; activism by design. The cards are not of Leeds; the name represents a defiant rejection of the hegemony of London. The images cover ... more
How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women - by Sarah Cooper - £10.00
The unspoken rules for how women should behave in the workplace are as numerous as they are confusing.
Ask for a pay rise? Pushy.
Take credit for an idea? Arrogant.
Admit a mistake? Weak.
Successfully juggle work and family? Unpromotable.
... more
A Treasury of British Folklore: Maypoles, Mandrakes and Mistletoe - by Dee Dee Chainey - £12.99
An entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present.
Did you know, in Cumbria it was believed a person lying on a pillow stuffed with pigeon’s feathers could not die? Or that green ... more
The Unofficial Jeremy Corbyn Annual 2019 - by Adam G. Goodwin, Dicken Goodwin and Jonathan Parkyn - £9.99
Hot on the heels of last year’s surprise Christmas bestseller comes a second helping of festive Corbyn fun.
The success of Christmas 2017’s Unofficial Jeremy Corbyn Annual 2018 proved two things: that the annual is a great format ripe f ... more
Zen Pencils - Creative Struggle: Illustrated Advice from Masters of Creativity - by Gavin Aung Than - £8.99
Gavin Aung Than, creator of the innovative Zen Pencils, shares his passion for creativity and reveals how you, too, can live a creative life.
Zen Pencils: Creative Struggle is a call to wake up the creative spirit inside you. Through Zen Penci ... more
Attack of the 50 Ft. Women: How Gender Equality Can Save the World! - by Catherine Mayer - £9.99
Cometh the hour,
Cometh the women.
In this inspirational book, the co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party sets out compelling evidence for the social and economic benefits of gender equality and lays bare the mechanisms holding wome ... more
Why Dylan Matters - by Richard F. Thomas - £9.99
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, the literary world was up in arms. How could the world’s most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter in his Seventies, who wouldn’t even deign t ... more
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World - by Haemin Sunim - £8.99
The Times Top 10 Bestseller
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WITH OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD
'Is it the world that's busy, or my mind?'
The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this timely guide to m ... more
Imagine John Yoko - by John Lennon and Yoko Ono - £35.00
In 1971, John Lennon & Yoko Ono conceived and recorded the critically acclaimed album Imagine at their Georgian country home, Tittenhurst Park, in Berkshire, England, in the state-of-the-art studio they built in the grounds, and at the Record Plant i ... more
The Secret Life of Cows - by Rosamund Young - £7.99
****A Sunday Times bestseller***
***A Times Book of the Year 2017***
WITH A FOREWORD BY ALAN BENNETT
"A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows."(James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life)
Cows are as varied as ... more
I Can't Breathe: The Killing that Started a Movement - by Matt Taibbi - £9.99
The incredible story of the death of Eric Garner, the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement and the new fault lines of race, protest, policing and the power of the people.
On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner d ... more
Piggy Goes To University - by Miriam Elia and Ezra Elia - £9.99
Piggy goes to Uni is the story of a precocious young pig, and his rise to the forefront of the Anti-Piggest socialist Justice Movement. When he leaves his rural community for Central State University, he learns of the terrible legacy of Pig-Imperiali ... more
Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism - by Naoki Higashida - £8.99
Following his ground-breaking international bestseller The Reason I Jump, written when he was only thirteen, Naoki Higashida offers equally illuminating and practical insights into autism from his current perspective as a young man.
Naoki Higash ... more
Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love - by Fergal Keane - £9.99
A family story of blood and memory and the haunting power of the past.
2018 WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE
2017 WINNER OF THE NON-FICTION IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
After nearly three de ... more
Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Sicknesses - by Stephen McGann - £8.99
His family survived famine-ravaged Ireland in the 1850s. His ancestors settled in poverty-rife Victorian Liverpool, working to survive and thrive. Some of them became soldiers serving on the Western Front. One would be the last man to step off ... more
Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible - by Simon Barnes - £14.99
We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing.
But we can make hidden things visible, and this book features 23 spellbinding ways ... more
Women in Battle - by Marta Breen & Jenny Jordahl - £9.99
Freedom. Equality. Sisterhood. Women in Battle is the book for anyone who wants to learn as much as possible about the history of feminism in as short a time as possible.
Presented as a graphic novel and spanning 150 years of recent history, Women ... more
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - by Roxane Gay - £8.99
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.
'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, ... more
The Battle For Paradise Puerto Rico: Takes on the Disaster Capitalists - by Naomi Klein - £8.99
"We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a path forward to equality and sustainability, a path ... more
Eat Up! Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want - by Ruby Tandoh - £8.99
TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Think about that first tickle of hunger in your stomach. A moment ago, you could have been thinking about anything, but now it's thickly buttered marmite toast, a frosty scoop of ice cream straight from the tu ... more
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress - by David Olusoga - £15.00
A companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama
Oscar Wilde said 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Civilisations, David Olusoga tr ... more
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