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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist
£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141395456 | ISBN 10: 0141395451
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact ... more
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