The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
By: Dan Hicks
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind …
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1. The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
By: Lynn H. Nicholas
3.92
Format: 498 pages, Paperback
The story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on… read more
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2. Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood, #1)
By: Robert Holdstock
3.77
Format: 341 pages,
The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's en… read more
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3. Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum
By: Jason Felch , Ralph Frammolino
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Hardcover
In recent years, several of America's leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pi… read more
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- art
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4. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
By: Kory Stamper
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Do you have strong feelings about the word "irregardless"? Have you ever tried to define the word "… read more
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5. The Descent of Man
By: Grayson Perry
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys ar… read more
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6. We Are All Made Of Glue
By: Marina Lewycka
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Georgie Sinclair's life is coming unstuck. Her husband's left her. Her son's obsessed with the End … read more
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7. Playing to the Gallery
By: Grayson Perry
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Grayson Perry's book will overturn everything you thought you knew about "art" Now Grayson Perry is… read more
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8. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
9. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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10. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more
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11. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
12. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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13. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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- politics
- art
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"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
14. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.17
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
"Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current… read more
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- history
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"Slavery didn’t end in 1865, it just evolved. The North won the Civil War, but the South won the narrative war"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
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15. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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16. The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
By: Dan Hicks
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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- politics
- museums
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- museology
- anthropology
17. A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective
By: Françoise Vergès
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN… read more
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18. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
By: Isabel Waidner
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more
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19. Experienced
By: Kate Young
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“A fizzing, lip-chewing, collar-bone biting, palm-sweating roller-coaster of a rom-com that is both… read more
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20. Delicacy
By: Katy Wix
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-one snapshots of a life - some staccato, raw and shocking, some expansive, meditative, and p… read more
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"Everyone has the right to own a doll that looks like them."-Katy Wix, Delicacy
"If I lived in a village now, which I don't, I'd probably be the witch."-Katy Wix, Delicacy
"My mother's hopes for me were that I would always be happy and thin. My hope for her was that she would never leave me."-Katy Wix, Delicacy
"I find myself absorbing your traits. I eat the foods you like and I use your favourite words. I say our jokes to myself. And I've come up with some new ones for us too."-Katy Wix, Delicacy
21. Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
By: Nick Bano
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A radical new intervention into the housing debate in the UK, and what we can do about it Why do l… read more
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22. The Disenchantment
By: Celia Bell
3.36
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This radiant and thrilling debut follows a passionate love affair between two noblewomen who wish t… read more
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23. The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it
By: Alice Procter
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again. Should museums be made to g… read more
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- art history
- history
- politics
- museums
- nonfiction
"I do not believe guilt is inherited, but responsibility is, and there is nobody alive today whose existence has not been shaped by colonialist, racist forces. That is a legacy we all live with, and w…"-Alice Procter, The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it
24. Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes
By: Barnaby Phillips
4.31
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A tragic story of the British empire run amok and the plunder of great works of art A Prospect Bes… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire
By: Kojo Koram
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing Longlisted for the British Academy Book Pri… read more
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26. Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
By: Bénédicte Savoy
4.13
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted… read more
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- art
- art history
- africa
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- nonfiction
- anthropology
27. England on Fire: A Visual Journey through Albion's Psychic Landscape
By: Stephen Ellcock
4.50
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and online curator Stephen Ellcock selects pivotal images to chart the fiery and… read more
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28. The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
By: Michael Waters
4.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today’s culture… read more
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29. Restitution: The Return of Cultural Artefacts (Hot Topics in the Art World)
By: Alexander Herman
4.06
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
Debates about the restitution of cultural objects have been ongoing for many decades, but have acqu… read more
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30. Zurückgeben. Über die Restitution afrikanischer Kulturgüter
By: Felwine Sarr
4.17
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"Mit der Veröffentlichung des von Präsident Macron beauftragten Berichtes zur Rückgabe des in franz… read more
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