Prison: A Survival Guide
By: Carl Cattermole
4.23
Format: None pages, ebook
The cult guide to UK prisons by Carl Cattermole – now fully updated and featuring contributions fro…
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1. The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
By: Richard G. Wilkinson , Kate E. Pickett
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think. W… read more
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"... When infectious diseases lost their hold as the major causes of death, the industrialised world underwent a shift, known as the 'epidemiological transition' and chronic diseases, such as heart di…"-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
"So why do people tend to have mental health problems in more unequal places? Psycholigst and journalist Oliver James uses an analogy with infectious disease to explain the link. The 'affluenza' virus…"-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
"So why do people tend to have mental health problems in more unequal places? Psychologist and journalist Oliver James uses an analogy with infectious disease to explain the link. The 'affluenza' viru…"-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better
2. A Kestrel for a Knave
By: Barry Hines
3.60
Format: 253 pages,
With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hin… read more
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3. Cold Comfort Farm
By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more
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4. NW
By: Zadie Smith
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals--Leah, Natali… read more
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5. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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6. Coffin Road
By: Peter May
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
The master of crime brings murder back to the Outer Hebrides. A man is washed up on a deserted beac… read more
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7. 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
8. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
By: Greta Thunberg
3.86
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice … read more
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"The real power belongs to the people."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
"Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it."-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
9. A Bit of a Stretch
By: Chris Atkins
4.21
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A shocking and darkly funny account of the reality of Britain's prisons. Where can a tin of tun… read more
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10. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
11. Topographia Hibernica
By: Blindboy Boatclub
4.33
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The … read more
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12. You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here
By: Benji Waterhouse
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Humane, hilarious, and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and… read more
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13. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
14. The Prison Doctor
By: Amanda Brown
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ i… read more
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15. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
By: Angela Hui
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more
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16. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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17. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
18. Sex Power Money
By: Sara Pascoe
4.04
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Part comedy, part anthropological study, here is everything Sara Pascoe has learned from scientists… read more
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19. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
By: Dan Charnas
4.56
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more
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"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
20. Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
By: Michaela Coel
4.15
Format: 128 pages, ebook
A powerful manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your life… read more
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21. Boulevard Wren and Other Stories
By: Blindboy Boatclub
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Ireland's most acclaimed satirist is back with a second collection of short stories to provoke, uns… read more
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22. The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.
By: Amanda Brown
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown. Insights into the world of a Prison Doct… read more
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23. What it Feels Like for a Girl
By: Paris Lees
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads fo… read more
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"I know it sounds stupid, but I've just realized I'm not actually the centre o' the fuckin' universe."-Paris Lees, What it Feels Like for a Girl
24. The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography
By: Benjamin Zephaniah
4.33
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the … read more
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25. Philosophy for Polar Explorers
By: Erling Kagge
3.77
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What’s better? A bird in your hand or two in the bush? Jump the fence at the lowest or highest poin… read more
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26. Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison
By: Alex South
4.52
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
'The men I have worked with and the staff I've worked alongside over the last ten years in prison h… read more
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27. Inside Parkhurst - The Final Stretch: More stories from behind the bars of Britain’s most violent prison
By: David Berridge
3.83
Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition
Return to HMP Parkhurst in this raw and fascinating account of life as a prison officer. David Berr… read more
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28. Journey To Hell : Inside the World's Most Violent Prison System
By: Donald MacNeil
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Banged up for drug smuggling, Donald MacNeil found himself surrounded by torture, murder and full-… read more
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29. Prison: A Survival Guide
By: Carl Cattermole
4.23
Format: None pages, ebook
The cult guide to UK prisons by Carl Cattermole – now fully updated and featuring contributions fro… read more
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30. The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands
By: Alex Niven
3.64
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
"Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, cultur… read more
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31. Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer's
By: Han Yu
4.07
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Alzheimer’s disease, a haunting and harrowing ailment, is one of the world’s most common causes of … read more
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