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Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World - by Jason Hickel - £9.99
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause.
Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that wi ... more
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain - by Anita Sethi - £16.99
One of Waterstones Best Books to Look Forward to in 2021
The Bookseller's Book of the Month
A Guardian 2021 Literary Highlight
"I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being, that I had to report what had happened, not only for m ... more
Featherhood - by Charlie Gilmour - £8.99
This is a story about birds and fathers.
About the young magpie that fell from its nest in a Bermondsey junkyard into Charlie Gilmour's life - and swiftly changed it. Demanding worms around the clock, riffling through his wallet, sharing hi ... more
Black and British: A Forgotten History - by David Olusoga - £12.99
Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize
A Waterstones.com History Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize
Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize
In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga off ... more
Period. - by Emma Barnett - £9.99
'Don't be revolted, lead the revolt - preferably with a grin on your face and a tampon tucked proudly behind your ear.'
Emma loathes her period. Really, she does. But there's something she loathes even more: not being able to talk about it. Free ... more
Handstands In The Dark: A True Story of Growing Up and Survival - by Janey Godley - £9.99
Born in the tough East End of Glasgow and married into one of the city's most notorious criminal families, Janey Godley's young life was far from ordinary. From the grim and far-from-swinging 60s, to the discos of the 70s, to the tidal wave of ... more
This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto - by Suketu Mehta - £9.99
An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City.
Drawing on his family's own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and years of reporting around the world, Suketu Mehta subjects the ... more
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto - by Michaela Coel - £9.99
From the brilliant mind of the creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum comes a passionate declaration against fitting in.
Michaela Coel's MacTaggart Lecture touched a lot of people with her striking revelations about race, class a ... more
I Am Not Your Baby Mother - by Candice Brathwaite - £8.99
It's about time we made motherhood more diverse...
When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience bore little resemblance to the glossy magazine photos of women in horizontal stripe tops and ... more
The Literary Almanac: A Year of Seasonal Reading - by Francesca Beauman - £14.99
Spanning the dreary, cold days of January to the first flushes of spring and then the blazing August heat, bibliophile Francesca Beauman offers up a wealth of book recommendations.
From The Count of Monte Cristo to Elena Ferrante’s Neapol ... more
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History - by Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole and Yony Leyser (Editors) - £15.99
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History is the very first comprehensive overview of a movement that defied both the music underground and the LGBT mainstream community.
Through exclusive interviews with protagonists like Bruce L ... more
A Farewell to Calm: The New Normal Survival Guide - by John Crace - £9.99
'It's now becoming easier and easier to predict government policy. Just listen to what the prime minister said in the morning and the opposite is likely to be true come the middle of the afternoon.'
Throughout another year of bluster and bed ... more
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveals the Future of Our World - by Tim Marshall - £16.99
Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed. But the world has.
In this revelatory new book, Marshall ... more
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights - by Helen Lewis - £10.99
** A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week **
** A Sunday Times bestseller **
Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. Feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting ... more
The Other Mother: A Wickedly Honest Parenting Tale for Every Kind of Family - by Jen Brister - £8.99
I'm Jen Brister, stand-up comedian, middle-aged adolescent and, more recently, a mum. But not that mum – I'm the other one. Confused? Let’s back up a bit. Two years ago, my partner (a woman – we're not solicitors) gave birth to twins. Yes. Yes. ... more
More Than a Woman - by Caitlin Moran - £8.99
A decade ago, Caitlin Moran thought she had it all figured out.
Her instant bestseller How to Be a Woman was a game-changing take on feminism, the patriarchy, and the general 'hoo-ha' of becoming a woman. Back then, she firmly believed 'the diff ... more
No Modernism Without Lesbians - by Diana Souhami - £9.99
The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, Between the Wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.
Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher; a ... more
How to Spot a Fascist - by Umberto Eco - £3.99
We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that 'they' must never do it again. But who are 'they'?
How to Spot a Fascist is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - ... more
Pride: The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement - by Matthew Todd - £20.00
In June 1969, police raided New York gay bar the Stonewall Inn. Pride charts the events of that night, the days and nights of rioting that followed, the ensuing organization of local members of the community - and the 50 years since in which activist ... more
The Guardian Cryptic Crosswords 1 - by The Guardian - £7.99
As addictively enjoyable as they are compulsively difficult, get ready for hours of fun with these high-quality puzzles. The Guardian's cryptic crosswords are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people every day. Test your powers of linguistic ... more
The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties - by Darryl W. Bullock - £20.00
In the fifties and sixties, in the period leading up to the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality and the founding of the Gay Liberation movement, a group of gay men behind the scenes of rock'n'roll was changing pop, politics and society for goo ... more
In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life - by Jamie Windust - £12.99
Combining light-hearted anecdotes with their own hard-won wisdom, Jamie Windust explores everything from fashion, dating, relationships and family, through to mental health, work and future key debates.
From trying on clothes in secret to i ... more
Treasured Islands: The explorer's guide to over 200 of the most beautiful and intriguing islands... - by Peter Naldrett - £18.99
Islands represent adventure, mystery, wilderness and escapism. Surrounded by water, they're somewhere to run away to, to be marooned on, to find a paradise...
The British Isles includes some 194 inhabited islands (out of a total of over 6,000), ra ... more
Free to Be Me: Refugee Stories from the Lesbian Immigration Support Group - by Jane Traies (Editor) - £11.99
A new collection of interviews with lesbian and bi women seeking asylum in the UK and the campaigners working with them. Here in their own words are their stories of love, trauma, struggle and friendship, courage and solidarity.
Profits fro ... more
The Shortest History of China - by Linda Jaivin - £12.99
China contains a multitude. Its unruly complexity is part of its grandeur.
Modern China is at once an economic powerhouse and authoritarian state, an increasingly assertive superpower and an icon of modernity. Chinese history is no less cont ... more
A Radical Practice in Liverpool: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Princes Park Health Centre - by Katy Gardner and Susanna Graham-Jones - £9.99
"At its best Princes Park Health Centre was Nye Bevan’s dream fulfilled: health care, free for all at their point of need, from the cradle to the grave."(Chas Clegg, district nurse)
Princes Park Health Centre, in Liverpool 8, was founded b ... more
This is Your Time - by Ruby Bridges - £8.99
On November 14, 1960, at the age of six, Ruby Bridges became the first black child to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans. Escorted by federal marshals past angry segregationist protesters, young Ruby attended William Frantz Elementary and e ... more
The Chagos Betrayal: How Britain Robbed an Island and Made Its People Disappear - by Florian Grosset - £16.99
During the cold war, the US government sought to establish an overseas military presence in the Indian Ocean. This graphic novel is a shocking account of British complicity in the forced exodus of the Chagos Islanders from their homeland to make that ... more
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures - by Mark Fisher - £12.99
Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element - the classroom - outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly unf ... more
Football's Black Pioneers: The Stories of the First Black Players to Represent the 92 League Clubs - by Bill Hern and David Gleave - £16.00
A new perspective on the lives, careers and experiences of groundbreaking black footballers in England.
Ninety-two chapters tell the unique stories of the first black footballers to play for each of the English Football League clubs. Four years ... more
A Library of Misremembered Books: When We're Searching for a Book but Have Forgotten the Title - by Marina Luz - £9.99
How do you find a book when you can't recall the title... or the author? This homage to a common reader's dilemma is a gift the booklover in your life won't soon forget.
Readers know all too well the comedy and tragedy of forgetting the name of ... more
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women - by Kate Manne - £9.99
Male entitlement takes many forms. To sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, bodily autonomy, knowledge, power, even care. In this urgent intervention, philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny.
... more
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - by Resmaa Menakem - £9.99
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking, inspiring work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical consequences of dis ... more
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition - by Emma Dabiri - £7.99
An incisive - and deeply practical - essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair.
Stop the denial
Abandon guilt
Interrogate capitalism
When it comes to racial justice, how do we transform demonstrations of support into ... more
The Wild Silence - by Raynor Winn - £9.99
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path.
Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her ... more
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X - by Les Payne and Tamara Payne - £12.99
**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY**
**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)**
Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award
Finalist, LA Times Book Prize
A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelli ... more
The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained - by DK, with a Foreword by David Olusoga - £19.99
Which were the most powerful African empires? Who were the pioneers of jazz? What sparked the Black Lives Matter movement?
This book answers these questions and many more, exploring the rich history of the peoples of Africa and the African diasp ... more
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture - by Sudhir Hazareesingh - £10.99
The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture.
The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culmina ... more
A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen - by David Hockney and Martin Gayford - £19.95
Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with the art critic Martin Gayford, explores how and why pictures have been made across the millennia. What makes marks on a fla ... more
Who Am I, Again? - by Lenny Henry - £9.99
***BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week***
Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time.
You might think you know Lenny Henry. Think a ... more
Lyra McKee: In Her Own Words: Lost, Found, Remembered - by Lyra McKee - £8.99
A memorial collection of writings by the murdered young journalist Lyra McKee - from viral articles to unpublished material - that celebrates her life, work and creative legacy: one that will live on.
When Northern Irish writer Lyra McKee w ... more
Bessie Smith - by Jackie Kay - £10.99
Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer.
Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.
Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, sh ... more
The Crying Book - by Heather Christle - £8.99
In this symphonic work of non-fiction, Heather Christle explores the most human of behaviours: crying. What are tears made of? Why do people cry? And why is this common, crucial act so rarely discussed? Christle unpacks the biological reasons for tea ... more
Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas - by Gerry Smyth, illustrated by Jonny Hannah - £14.99
From the earliest of voyages seafarers have sung, be they homeward bound or rolling in a merciless sea to an unknown horizon. The shouts and cries of these sailors’ shanties provided a musical rhythm to their work and such ‘concerted’ efforts i ... more
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism - by Amelia Horgan - £9.99
'Work hard, get paid.'
It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us.
For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from ... more
Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance - by Sara Roy - £19.99
Gaza, the centre of Palestinian nationalism and resistance to the occupation, is the linchpin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the key to its resolution. Since 2005, Israel has deepened the isolation of the territory, severing it almost comple ... more
Renegade: Darcus Howe and the Fight for Civil Rights - by Robin Bunce and Paul Field - £12.99
Renegade examines the struggle for racial justice in the UK, through the lens of one of Britain's most influential, and controversial, journalists and campaigners.
Born in Trinidad during the dying days of colonialism, Howe became an uncompromis ... more
Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981-2000 - by Kate Kerrow and Rebecca Mordan - £20.00
In 1981, a group of women marched from Cardiff to the Greenham Common RAF base in Newbury to protest the siting of US nuclear missiles on British soil. They formed what became the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp and stayed there for almost twenty ... more
The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan.... - by Erika Fatland - £14.99
Erika Fatland travels along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way.
The Border is a book ... more
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers - by Emily Levesque - £10.99
FINALIST FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
The story of the people who see beyond the stars...
To be an astronomer is to journey to some of the most inaccessible parts of the globe, braving mountain passes, sub-zero tem ... more
Vesper Flights - by Helen Macdonald - £9.99
*A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.
From the bestselling author o ... more
The Ordnance Survey Journey Through Time - by Ordnance Survey - £16.99
Join the nation's favourite puzzle brand as we take a journey through landscape and history.
In this brand new puzzle book in the bestselling Ordnance Survery series, take a trip through time - from the earliest recorded footsteps of humans ... more
The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War - by Giles Tremlett - £14.99
The first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism.
The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 3 ... more
All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying - by Ruth Coker Burks and Kevin Carr O'Leary - £8.99
'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant r ... more
Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood - by Jasper Rees - £9.99
'I was born with a warped sense of humour and when I was carried home from being born it was Coronation Day and so I was called Victoria but you are not supposed to know who wrote this anyway it is about time I unleashed my pent-up emotions in a bitt ... more
Chauvo-Feminism: On Sex, Power and #MeToo - by Sam Mills - £7.99
The 2017 #MeToo movement was a flagship moment, a time which empowered women to share their stories of sexual harassment and abuse in a spirit of solidarity and in demand of change. But have some men simply changed tactics?
Acclaimed author ... more
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain - by Sathnam Sanghera - £9.99
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past.
In prose that is, at once, both clear-eyed and full of acerbic wit, Sanghera sh ... more
Nomadland - by Jessica Bruder - £8.99
Now a major motion picture. Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy - one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilienc ... more
Cut from the Same Cloth? Muslim Women on Life in Britain - by Sabeena Akhtar (Editor) - £9.99
Do you wear that at home? Where are you really from? Does he make you wear that? Do you support acts of terror? Do you believe in 'British values'? Can I see your hair? Do you have equality? Are you hot in that? Can you be a feminist? Why don't you j ... more
Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel - by Rachel Holmes - £16.99
Born into one of Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel. A free spirit and radical visionary, history placed her in the shadow of her famous mother, Emmeline, and elder sister, Christabel.
Yet artist Sylvia P ... more
The Welsh in Liverpool: A Remarkable History - by D.Ben Rees - £19.99
The Welsh in Liverpool: A Remarkable Story by D. Ben Rees is the culmination of decades worth of research into the unique history of the contribution made by the Welsh in Liverpool and Merseyside.
D. Ben Rees said:
“I’m glad to be able ... more
Dinosaurs: 10 Things You Should Know - by Dr Dean Lomax - £9.99
Travel back to the prehistoric world and discover the most fascinating parts of the lives of Earth's most awe-inspiring creatures - the dinosaurs.
Dr Dean Lomax brings these prehistoric creatures to life in ten bite-sized essays, written ... more
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: Travels Among the Collectors of Iceland - by Kendra Greene - £9.99
Welcome to Iceland, a very small nation with a very large number (two hundred and sixty five) of (mostly) very small museums. Founded in the backyards of houses, begun as jokes or bets or memorials to lost friends, these museums tell the story of an ... more
Diary of a Young Naturalist - by Dara McAnulty - £10.99
Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries about his c ... more
Five Rules for Rebellion: Let's Change the World Ourselves - by Sophie Walker - £7.99
Had enough? Feeling hopeless? Don't give up - join the rebellion.
Activist, journalist, founding leader of the Women's Equality Party and 'modern-day suffragette' (Evening Standard) Sophie Walker presents an inspiring, five-step journey to inco ... more
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy - by Jane McAlevey - £12.99
From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy.
For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and ... more
Broken Greek: A Story of Chip Shops and Pop Songs - by Pete Paphides - £9.99
*AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'*
'Do you sometimes feel like the music you're hearing is explaining your life to you?'
When Pete's parents moved from Cyprus to Birmingham in the 1960s in the hope of a better life, they had no mon ... more
Just Ignore Him - by Alan Davies - £9.99
"A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies’s story-telling take the breath away."(Stephen Fry)
"This hugely affecting book is brave, insightful and, at times, funny about things i ... more
Klopp: My Liverpool Romance - by Anthony Quinn - £8.99
As featured in the Guardian's Biggest Books of Autumn 2020
In the first book by a British writer about this extraordinary football manager, lifelong Liverpool fan Anthony Quinn has crafted a uniquely revealing love-letter to Jurgen Klopp. In e ... more
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