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Recommended books for Yuletide 2015!
The best of 2015 - over three hundred of our top recommendations for seasonal gifts!
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Socialism ... Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation - by Danny Katch - £9.99
Opinion polls show that many people in the U.S. prefer socialism to capitalism. But after being declared dead and buried for decades, socialism has come to mean little more than something vaguely less cruel and stupid than what we have now. That's no ... more
Prejudice and Pride: LGBT Activist Stories from Manchester and Beyond - by Various authors - £12.00
LGBT activist and civil rights history from the 1960s to the 2000s has had a huge impact on our social and political landscape in the UK, yet much of this history remains hidden.
Prejudice and Pride: LGBT Activist Stories from Manchester and ... 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
Fly Away Home - by Marina Warner - £8.99
A long-awaited new collection of Marina Warner’s short stories. Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, ... more
A History of Loneliness - by John Boyne - £7.99
Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends.
Forty years later, Odran’s devotion ... more
Blueprint for Revolution - by Srdja Popovic - £9.99
how to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanise communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world
How do ordinary people become revolutionaries?
In 2000, too-cool-to-care Belgrade rock kid ... more
I Never Knew That About Wales - by Christopher Winn - £8.99
The inspiration for the primetime ITV series on Great Britain, this is a spellbinding journey around Wales by bestselling author Christopher Winn. Packed full of legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures, I Never Knew That About Wales v ... more
So, Anyway... The Autobiography - by John Cleese - £7.99
Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter’s Preparatory School at ... more
How to be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much - by Samantha Ellis - £9.99
Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre?
Petrova or Posy?
Scarlett or Melanie?
Lace or Valley of the Dolls?
On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Ea ... more
The Strength to Say No: One Girl's Fight Against Forced Marriage - by Rekha Kalindi with Mouhssine Ennaimi - £10.99
An inspiring true-life story that will resonate among those who decry the oppression of women, Rekha Kalindi’s book has been a publishing sensation in France and is now published in English for the first time. Kalindi’s story and her advocacy of the ... more
One Year Wiser: 365 Illustrated Meditations - by Mike Medaglia - £12.99
In One Year Wiser, the wisdom of the world's great thinkers is brought to life in the beautiful hand-drawn illustrations of Huffington Post blogger and Zen Buddhist practitioner Mike Medaglia.
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From Rumi to Roosevelt, the Buddha to Martin Luther ... more
The Rosie Effect - by Graeme Simsion - £7.99
The Rosie Effect is the wonderfully charming and hilarious sequel to Graeme Simsion's bestselling debut novel The Rosie Project.
Until a year ago, forty-one-year-old geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date. Until he met Rosie, 'the wo ... more
News from the Clouds - by Robert Llewellyn - £16.99
In the final book of the News from trilogy, Gavin Meckler faces the biggest challenge of all on his journey through time.
He enters the world of the clouds, where the earth's inhabitants have had to adapt to a planet ravaged by a climate mor ... more
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism - by Slavoj Zizek - £10.99
In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.Â
There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist ... more
The House of Hidden Mothers - by Meera Syal - £14.99
Little India, East London: Shyama, aged forty-four, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together.
Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams of escape.
When Shyama and M ... more
Dissident Gardens - by Jonathan Lethem - £8.99
A dazzling novel from one of America's finest writers – the story of three generations of a radical New York family
Longlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize
Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
In 1955, Rose Zimmer got sc ... more
Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians - by Richard Kerridge - £9.99
Can we know what it feels like to be a toad? Or a lizard? Join Richard Kerridge on the hunt for Britain’s reptiles and amphibians and realise the potential of puddles and ditches everywhere.
As a boy, Richard Kerridge loved to encounter wild c ... more
The Magic and Mystery of Birds: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human - by Noah Strycker - £12.00
Why do birds do what they do, and how do they offer a glimpse into the nature of humanity?
From the life-long relationships of the albatross, the remarkable memory of the nutcracker and other avian mysteries Noah Strycker illuminates the startlin ... more
F in Exams Joke Book: The Best (and Worst) Jokes and Test Paper Blunders - by Richard Benson - £5.99
Getting up at the crack of dawn, wearing school uniform, squabbles in the schoolyard, endless homework... those were the best days of your life! It’s time to relive them with this new collection of side-splitting jokes and ridiculous exam answe ... more
Dusty: An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend - by Karen Bartlett - £9.99
Known the world over for her unique musical style, distinctive look and a voice that propelled her into the charts time and time again, Dusty Springfield was undoubtedly one of the biggest and brightest musical stars of the twentieth century.
... more
Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe - by Michael Löwy - £10.99
Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative. In this new collection of essays, long time revolutionary and environmental activist Michael Löwy offers a v ... more
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary - by Anita Anand - £14.99
In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the mighty cities ... more
I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies - by Yaron Matras - £9.99
In I Met Lucky People, Yaron Matras, the world's leading authority on the Romani, explains why we need to reconsider how we view their culture.
Who are the Romani people? As one of the last remaining societies in the Western hemisphere with a str ... 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
Rose Gold - by Walter Mosely - £8.99
Easy Rawlins is back - and this time its personal...
When four armed policemen turn up at Easy Rawlins's door, he thinks he's in trouble. He is. They want him to find Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a millionaire arms dealer. And Easy can't a ... more
Alice and the Fly - by James Rice - £7.99
A spellbinding debut novel by an exceptional new young British talent.
This is a book about phobias and obsessions, isolation and dark corners. It's about families, friendships, and carefully preserved secrets. But above everything else it's about ... more
A Spool of Blue Thread - by Anne Tyler - £7.99
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2015
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize
‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...’
This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins th ... more
The Book of Memory - by Petina Gappah - £14.99
The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd's death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. I say my fa ... more
Surviving Ireland - by Colm Tobin - £9.99
It’s exhausting, being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast.
Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the post-colonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign ... more
The Muslims are Coming! - by Arun Kundnani - £20.99
The new front in the War on Terror is the “homegrown enemy,” domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States and across Europe. Domestic surveillance has mushroo ... more
Off the Mic: The World's Best Stand-up Comedians Get Serious About Comedy - by Deborah Frances-White and Marsha Shandur - £14.99
What is it to be a stand-up comedian? To be funny, solo? You have no character-role, no double-act partner, and nowhere to look but out into the darkness, with just a microphone, an audience and your imagination.
This is a job without an annual app ... more
Nora Webster - by Colm Tóibín - £9.99
* * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards * * *
Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today.
It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her ... more
Some Luck - by Jane Smiley - £7.99
The first novel in a dazzling new epic trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize; a literary adventure that will span a century in America.
1920. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin ... more
Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty - by Joanna Mack and Stewart Lansley - £9.99
Over the last thirty years national income has doubled. So has poverty. Where did it all go wrong?
Poverty in Britain is at crisis levels. Food bank queues, poor housing and insecure jobs are on the rise, leaving increasing numbers of people ... more
Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else - by James Meek - £8.99
How the British government packaged and sold its people to the world.
In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy – rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing – have been sold to remote, unaccountable pr ... more
Yes Please - by Amy Poehler - £8.99
The New York Times Number One Bestseller
A memoir in essays in the bestselling tradition of Tina Fey's Bossypants and Caitlin Moran's How To Be a Woman
In Amy Poehler's highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew ... more
Look Who's Back - by Timur Vermes, translated by Jamie Bulloch - £8.99
Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed – no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman.
Peop ... more
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction - by Terry Pratchett - £8.99
Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series – but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer’s research ... more
The Rhythm and the Tide: Liverpool, The La's and Ever After - by Mike Badger and Tim Peacock - £16.45
Liverpool in the 1980s. With prospects for the city's youth bleak, a scheme for unemployed musicians commenced, inadvertently shaping the future for members of Cast, Space, the Lightning Seeds and giving fresh impetus to the idea of song as a saviour ... more
The Temporary Gentleman - by Sebastian Barry - £7.99
A stunning return from the prize-winning and bestselling author of The Secret Scripture.
Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in hi ... more
Dancing in the Dark: My Struggle, Book 4 - by Karl Ove Knausgaard - £8.99
The fourth part of a sensational literary cycle that has been hailed as ‘perhaps the most important literary enterprise of our times’ (Guardian)
18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman’s village fa ... more
The Heart Goes Last - by Margaret Atwood - £18.99
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar, they're increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs, and in a rather de ... more
The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution - by Patrick Cockburn - £9.99
The essential “on the ground” report on the fastest-growing new threat in the Middle East from the Winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of The Year Award
Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new ... more
Children of the Jacaranda Tree - by Sahar Delijani - £8.99
Iran. Amidst one country's tragedy, three mothers are united by love. Includes reading group notes.
Tehran, 1983. A city paralysed by fear, its people silenced. And the beating heart of the regime is Evin prison. Yet even within its wall ... more
101 Things to Do Instead of Playing on Your Phone - by Ilka Heinemann - £5.99
Our phones have become a constant distraction; it’s time we put them down and rediscovered the simple art of taking a few minutes out.
This book offers an imaginative list of games and tips aimed at curing us of our portable tech addiction.
... more
The Scatter Here is Too Great - by Bilal Tanweer - £8.99
A love letter to Karachi, told by the people linked together by one devastating event.
Shortlisted for the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
Winner of the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2014
The Scatter Here is Too Great he ... more
Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good - by Christian Felber - £12.99
Is it possible for businesses to have a bottom line that is not profit and endless growth, but human dignity, justice, sustainability and democracy? Or an alternative economic model that is untainted by the greed and crises of current financial syste ... more
Atmosphere of Hope: Solutions to the Climate Crisis - by Tim Flannery - £7.99
Is there anything we can really do about climate change? Have we left it too late? Or is there still hope?
Internationally acclaimed scientist and world-renowned climate expert Professor Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers, shows that ... more
Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998 - by Michael Palin - £12.99
The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries.
Travelling to Work is a roller-coaster ride driven by the Palin hallmarks of curiosity and sense of adventure. Michael was not the BBC's first choice for the travel series Around the World i ... more
The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales - by Kirsty Logan - £9.99
Winner of the Scott Prize
Winner for the 2015 Polari First Book Prize
Winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection
The Herald: Book of the Year 2014
Shortlisted for the 2014 Green Carnation Prize
Twenty tales of l ... more
The Forward Book of Poetry 2016 - by Various authors - £8.99
The Forward Book of Poetry 2016 showcases the best of contemporary poetry published in the British Isles over the year, including the winners of 2015's Forward Prizes for Poetry. This anthology is the 24th in a series that offers an invaluable ... more
The Wren Boys - by Carol Ann Duffy - £6.99
Following Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday, The Christmas Truce and Another Night Before Christmas, Carol Ann Duffy continues her annual tradition of writing a delightful and original Christmas poem. This festive poem is about the Wren Boys of ... more
Outsider in the White House - by Bernie Sanders, with Huck Gutman - £9.99
The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidate.
Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, ... more
Women in Dark Times - by Jacqueline Rose - £9.99
Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German–Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe.
Together t ... more
100 Acts of Minor Dissent - by Mark Thomas - £9.99
Comedian Mark Thomas has been campaigning for over nearly three decades. He has remained uniquely relevant and agitated where others have mellowed and capitulated. One Hundred Acts of Minor Dissent is the brilliantly funny account of a year spe ... more
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat - by Philip Lymbery - £9.99
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating – as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reachi ... more
Lobster is the Best Medicine: A Collection of Comics About Friendship - by Liz Climo - £9.99
Fans have fallen in love with Liz Climo’s charmingly quirky animal kingdom, which was first featured in The Little World of Liz Climo — a place where porcupines, anteaters, and grizzly bears all grapple with everyday life with wit and humor.
... more
Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis - by Theodoros Chiotis - £10.99
"the gouged marble, the graffiti scrawls,
the statue standing like something outraged
remind you, you who yearned to live beyond this,
that hope marked you too."(From 'This City', by Adrianne Kalfopoulou)
Futures features some of the most darin ... more
Alice's Puzzles in Wonderland - by Richard Wolfrik Galland - £7.99
Take a trip down the rabbit hole into a wondrous world of riddles and enigmas. In this fabulous collection you will discover a host of challenging puzzles, some will be familiar, while others are curiouser... and curiouser. ... 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
Social Class in the 21st Century - by Mike Savage - £10.99
A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.
Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?
How has the meaning of class changed?
What does this mean for social mobility and in ... 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 Kurds of Syria: Political Parties and Identity in the Middle East - by Harriet Allsopp - £14.99
In September 2014, the Kurdish Syrian city of Kobane was subjected to a massive attack by fighters of the movement Islamic State (IS). As a result, the plight of the Kurds of Syria became known around the world. Less well-known, however, is their str ... more
Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales - by Margaret Atwood - £9.99
A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy.
A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome ... more
Falling into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis - by Christine Montross - £8.99
A woman habitually commits self-injury, ingesting light bulbs, a box of nails, zippers and a steak knife. A new mother is admitted with incessant visions of harming her child. A recent graduate, dressed in a tunic and declaring that love emanates fro ... 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
Life in Strangeways: From Riots to Redemption, My Thirty-Two Years Behind Bars - by Alan Lord and Anita Armstrong - £7.99
A key player in the worst prison riot in British history at Strangeways Prison in April 1990, Alan Lord was always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was drawn to trouble like water to a sponge. After experiencing a troubled childhood during wh ... more
Sons + Fathers: An Anthology of Words and Images - by Kathy Gilfillan (Editor), with an Introduction by Colm Toibin - £14.99
Sons + Fathers brings together a remarkable array of politicians and world leaders, writers and musicians, cultural icons and actors in this collection dedicated to fathers. A moving, fascinating and often funny collection of portraits, this antholog ... more
How to Speak Money - by John Lanchester - £9.99
Money is our global language. Yet so few of us can speak it. The language of the economic elite can be complex, jargon-filled and completely baffling. Above all, the language of money is the language of power - power in the hands of the same economic ... more
Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth - by Kevin Ovenden - £12.99
The world’s eyes are on Greece. Elected in January 2015 under the leadership of Alexis Tsipras, the radical Syriza party sought to challenge the European economic status-quo and secure a better future for the Greek people. The fierce confrontation wi ... 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
A Literary Christmas: An Anthology - by Various authors - £10.00
For as long as Christmas has been celebrated, poets and writers have sought to explore every aspect of it, whether the story of the Nativity or the festive traditions that have grown up over the centuries. A Literary Christmas is a seasonal anthology ... more
Economics After Capitalism: A Guide to the Ruins and a Road to the Future - by Derek Wall - £14.99
‘There is no alternative’ has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. As Derek Wall argues in Economics After Capitalism, there is in fact an alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerit ... more
The Sandman: Overture - by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by JH Williams III - £18.99
Twenty-five years since The Sandman first changed the landscape of modern comics, Neil Gaiman's legendary series is back in a deluxe hardcover edition!
The Sandman: Overture heralds New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman's return to ... more
Lady Screever - Alice Colman: The World's First Female Pavement Artist - by Philip Battle - £12.99
Lady Screever is the story of Alice Coleman, the world's first female pavement artist. At the end of the 19th century, Alice endured inclement weather, overzealous policing, sexism, physical threats and marriage proposals to support her family by ill ... more
Dead Funny: Encore - by Johnny Mains and Robin Ince (Editors) - £8.99
What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny: Encore is the second helping of monstrous tales from the brightest lights in UK comedy.
Award winners Robin Ince and Johnny Mains ... more
The Establishment: And How They Get Away with it - by Owen Jones - £9.99
In The Establishment Owen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting critique of the British Establishment and a passionate plea for democracy. Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wi ... more
Season of the Rainbirds - by Nadeem Aslam - £8.99
The highly acclaimed and Betty Trask Award winning debut from the author of Maps for Lost Lovers.
A sack of letters lost in a train crash nineteen years previously has mysteriously reappeared, and the inhabitants of a small town in Pakistan ... more
Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art - by Carlo McCormick, Marc & Sara Schiller and Ethel Seno - £17.99
Follow the story of street art, from local origins to global phenomenon of urban reclamation. This comprehensive survey features an exclusive preface by Banksy. Made in collaboration with featured artists, the book examines the rise and global ... more
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - by Elizabeth Kolbert - £8.99
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth.
Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that ... more
A Socialist History of the French Revolution - by Jean Jaurès - £25.00
"Every revolutionary party, every oppressed people, every oppressed working class can claim Jaurès, his memory, his example, and his person, for our own"(Leon Trotsky)
Jean Jaurès was the celebrated French Socialist Party leader, assassinated in 1 ... more
Austerity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK - by Mary O'Hara - £9.99
After coming to power in May 2010, the Coalition government in the United Kingdom embarked on a drastic programme of cuts to public spending and introduced a raft of austerity measures that had profoundly damaging effects on much of the population. T ... more
What's Your Granby Story? - by Various authors - £2.99
"These memories of Granby Street chronicle the passion and importance of Liverpool's diverse cultural heritage. From stories of poverty, hardship, displacement and isolation, to those of entrepreneurialism, settlement and community, the overall tone ... more
I Think I Can See Where You're Going Wrong: And Other Wise and Witty Comments from Guardian Readers - by Marc Burrows - £7.99
The Guardian publishes over forty thousand reader comments a day below the line. This is a miscellany of the best and most baffling thoughts from their witty, well-meaning readers.
In the book,Guardian readers ponder the big questions ('Am ... more
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism - by David Harvey - £9.99
Following on from The Enigma of Capital, the world's leading Marxist thinker explores the hidden workings of capital and reveals the forces that will lead inexorably to the demise of our system.
You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. ... more
The Clown Manifesto - by P. Nalle Laanela and Stacey Sacks - £12.99
Part clown manual, part storytelling and part rant – The Clown Manifesto covers the experiences, philosophies and methods of the clown performer/director/teacher Nalleslavski.
A book for clowns, physical comedians, actors, musicians, jugglers, pu ... 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
How Corrupt is Britain? - by David Whyte - £19.99
Banks accused of rate-fixing. Members of Parliament cooking the books. Major defense contractors investigated over suspect arms deals. Police accused of being paid off by tabloids. The headlines are unrelenting these days. Perhaps it’s high time we a ... 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
The Best of Benn - by Tony Benn, compiled by Ruth Winstone - £9.99
Tony Benn was one of the twentieth century's most charismatic politicians. The Best of Benn showcases his powers of original thinking and communication over seven decades.
From 'the baby of the house' to a retired widower, he was a consistently rad ... more
Thatcher's Secret War - by Clive Bloom - £20.00
Margaret Thatcher remains one of the United Kingdom's most polarising prime ministers. This provocative investigation sheds new light on the secret, internal 'cold war' that the Iron Lady and her government waged against 'the enemy within': anti-nucl ... 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 Walrus and the Elephants: John Lennon's Years of Revolution - by James A. Mitchell - £12.99
In late 1971 John Lennon left London and pop stardom behind and moved to New York City, eager to join a youth movement rallying for social justice and an end to the Vietnam War. Lennon was embraced by radicals and revolutionaries, the hippies and Yip ... 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
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin - An Anthology by Alan Bennett - by Alan Bennett (Editor) - £8.99
Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions.
In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen over seventy poems ... more
Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power - by Susan George - £12.99
Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape. But in recent years links between big business and government have become stronger and more far-reaching than ever. Global corporations now demand control over decisions affecting labour laws, f ... more
1000 Lashes Because I Say What I Think - by Raif Badawi - £5.99
"Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear, mild, nuanced, but clear. His examination of his culture is perceptive and rigorous. Of course he must be saved from the dreadful sentence against him and the appalling conditions of his imp ... more
On Liberty - by Shami Chakrabarti - £9.99
On 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of exception. Governments have decided that the rule of law and human rights are often too costly. In On Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti - who joined Liberty, ... more
The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy - by Yanis Varoufakis - £8.99
In this remarkable and provocative book, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of both the Eurozone crisis and the global economi ... 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 What the Frock! Book of Funny Women: Celebrating a Century of Fantastically Funny Women - by Jane Duffus - £7.99
The The What the Frock! Book of Funny Women will neither ask nor answer the question, 'Are women funny?' because of course women are funny. To suggest otherwise is plain silly. This book presumes you know women are funny and simply seeks to confirm t ... more
Between the World and Me - by Ta-Nehisi Coates - £10.99
Winner, Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction, United States, 2015
Shortlisted, National Book Award for Non-Fiction, United States, 2015Â
In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race ... more
Thinking About it Only Makes it Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life - by David Mitchell - £8.99
What's wrong with calling a burglar brave? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping t ... more
The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media - by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter - £9.99
A funny, hard-hitting examination of women and the media, for anyone who has ever had niggling doubts about the sidebar of shame.
As students, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter spent a lot of time laughing at magazine pieces entitled t ... more
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism - by Slavoj Žižek - £12.99
Philosophical materialism in all its forms – from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism – has failed to meet the key theoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s argument in t ... more
Love: The Song of the Universe - by Jason Martineau - £5.99
Jason Martineau takes us on a journey through the landscape of love, combining themes from traditional psychology and the modern sciences to explore life's most prominent and provocative theme. ... more
Just Your Average Muslim - by Zia Chaudhry - £8.99
This fascinating and original book provides a better insight into the life of "just your average Muslim" than you will find anywhere else. A powerful antidote to common but exhausted stereotypes, it challenges non-Muslims to reexamine their per ... more
You are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes - by Chris Hadfield - £14.99
The international bestseller: a visually stunning photographic tour of Earth, from the astronaut who made us fall in love with our planet all over again.
In You Are Here, celebrated astronaut Chris Hadfield gives us the really big picture: this i ... more
The Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women - by Joyce Marlow - £8.99
A comprehensive anthology of the long and bloody history of women's struggle to get the vote. Here is the story in the voices of the women themselves.
'Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in check ... more
England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381 - by Juliet Barker - £10.99
A fascinating and evocative account of the Peasants' Revolt from the acclaimed author of Agincourt.
The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what ever ... 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
The Bees - by Laline Paull - £8.99
Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen.
But Flora is not ... more
The BBC National Short Story Award 2015 - by Allan Little (Editor) - £7.99
Featuring Jeremy Page, Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Buckley, Frances Leviston & Mark Haddon
FEATURING THE WINNING STORY, JONATHAN BUCKLEY'S 'BRIAR ROAD', AND RUNNER-UP MARK HADDON'S 'BUNNY'.
‘I often ask myself what makes a story work,’ ... more
Laughing All the Way to the Mosque: The Misadventures of a Muslim Woman - by Zarqa Nawaz - £12.99
A brilliantly funny memoir about what it's really like to be Muslim in Western society.
Being a practicing Muslim in the West is sometimes challenging, sometimes rewarding and sometimes downright absurd. How do you explain why Eid never fall ... more
The Underground Girls of Kabul: The Hidden Lives of Afghan Girls Disguised as Boys - by Jenny Nordberg - £8.99
Uncovers the hidden true story of the age-old tradition of 'Bacha Posh' - girls masquerading as boys - in a society that does not value females.
An Afghan woman's life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle often begins and ends in disappo ... more
Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 - by Various authors - £8.99
The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 brings together the five shortlisted authors' stories along with 12 other stories from the best new writers. Insightful, arresting and entertaining - this collection reflects the richness and range of current ... more
The Lives of Others - by Neel Mukherjee - £8.99
An epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in Calcutta – exploring a family that is decaying as the society around it fractures, and one young man who tries to reimagine his place in the world.
***Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014*** ... more
Humans: An A-Z - by Matt Haig - £5.00
DO YOU
A) Know a human?
B) Love a human?
C) Have trouble dealing with humans?
IF YOU'VE ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THE ABOVE, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU
Whether you are planning a high level of human interaction or just a casual visit to the planet ... more
Cat Walk - by Jackie Morris - £9.99
Author, illustrator and photographer Jackie Morris explores her native Pembrokeshire in the company of her feline friends. Or rather, they explore the countryside while she tags along taking pictures.
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Over 100 images with accompanying text tell ... more
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher - by Hilary Mantel - £8.99
Hilary Mantel is one of Britain’s most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday fa ... more
The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, Book 9) - by Armistead Maupin - £7.99
The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin’s bestselling “Tales of the City” series, follows one of modern literature’s most unforgettable and enduring characters—Anna Madrigal, the legendary trans ... more
Good Ideas: How to be Your Child's (and Your Own) Best Teacher - by Michael Rosen - £10.99
We live in a world surrounded by all the stuff that education is supposed to be about: machines, bodies, languages, cities, votes, mountains, energy, movement, plays, food, liquids, collisions, protests, stones, windows. But the way we've been taught ... more
Dust - by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor - £8.99
Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His sister, Ajany, and their father bring his body back home, to a crumbling colonial house in northern Kenya. But the peace they seek is hard to find: the mur ... 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
More Fool Me - by Stephen Fry - £8.99
Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me.
'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing dow ... more
On Palestine - by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe - £8.99
On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe's indispensable update on a suffering region.
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Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab.
... more
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
Great Irish Reportage - by John Horgan - £9.99
Reports and dispatches from Ireland's finest writers: the first-ever anthology of Irish reportage.
Alongside its world-famous tradition of great fiction, Ireland has a less well known but thrilling tradition of reportage: journalism, dispatc ... more
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances - by Neil Gaiman - £7.99
A collection of short stories from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.
Global phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of sho ... more
If... The Graphic Novel - by Steve Bell - £18.99
A new collection by Britain’s finest political cartoonist, covering the less than glorious days of the Cameron-Clegg coalition government.
In his daily cartoon for the Guardian and his long-running strip, IF, in the same paper, Steve Bell ha ... more
Through the Woods - by Emily Carroll - £10.99
A fantastically dark and timeless graphic debut, for fans of Grimm Tales, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and the works of Neil Gaiman.
Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss.
These chill ... more
The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help - by Amanda Palmer - £13.99
"When we really see each other, we want to help each other"~ Amanda Palmer
Imagine standing on a box in the middle of a busy city, dressed as a white-faced bride, and silently using your eyes to ask people for money. Or touring Europe in a punk ca ... more
Frog - by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt - £8.99
Frog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.
Gugu is beautiful, charismatic and of an unimpeachable political background. A respected midwife, she combines modern ... more
The Republic of Imagination - by Azar Nafisi - £8.99
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today.
Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran ... more
Too Much Information: Or: Can Everyone Just Shut Up for a Moment, Some of Us are Trying to Think - by Dave Gorman - £7.99
Nowadays, the world is full of people trying to tell us things. So much so that we have taught our brains not to pay much attention. After all, click the mouse, tap the screen, flick the channel and it’s on to the next thing. But Dave Gorman thinks i ... more
I, Migrant: A Comedian's Journey from Karachi to the Outback - by Sami Shah - £12.99
Despite nearly being killed by a kangaroo and almost lynched and run out of town after his comedy was taken far too seriously, Sami Shah is very happy to be living in Australia. He has fronted his own satirical show on TV in Karachi, worked as a jour ... more
The Death's Head Chess Club - by John Donoghue - £7.99
Can you ever forgive the unforgivable?
In 1962, Emil Clément comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in Holland. They haven't seen one another in almost two decades. Clément, once known only as The Watchmaker, is a Jewish f ... more
The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling - by Ben Okri - £3.99
‘In every moment, we are part of the infinite stories that the universe is telling us and that we are telling the universe.’
Packed with ideas and inspiration, The Mystery Feast offers numerous pathways into the magical world of storytelling ... more
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design - by Charles Montgomery - £9.99
Why are some cities a joy to live in, and others chronically miserable? As award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery reveals, the answers lie in the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness. Journeying to dozens of ci ... more
How to be Both - by Ali Smith - £8.99
How to be both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith. It is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014.
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else.
How to be Both is a nov ... more
Living with a Wild God: A Non-Believer's Search for the Truth About Everything - by Barbara Ehrenreich - £9.99
Barbara Ehrenreich is an acclaimed social critic on both sides of the Atlantic, renowned for her trenchant, witty polemics, her pieces of journalism, and her trademark intelligence. She writes with unparalleled precision, insight and a rationalist's ... more
The Silent History - by Eli Horowitz, Kevin Moffett and Matthew Derby - £9.99
A generation of children are born without speech, without comprehension, without language entirely.
At first, they are just medical curiosities. But their numbers swell, and soon they grow into an established underclass, occupying squats and com ... more
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran - by Ramita Navai - £8.99
Lying in Tehran is about survival.
Welcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of subterfuge. Here is a place where mullahs visit prostitutes, drug kingpins run crystal meth kitchens, surgeons restore girls' virginity and h ... more
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 - by Seamus Heaney - £14.99
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career.
Shortly before his ... more
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