East Side Voices: Essays Celebrating East and Southeast Asian Identity in Britain
By: Helena Lee
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Essays celebrating East and Southeast Asian identity in Britain. A strong, compelling, and quiet…
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1. The Good Immigrant
By: Nikesh Shukla
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? … read more
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- race
- memoir
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"You cannot have meaning without knowledge of the environment from which it stems."-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"If cultures were to survive in England it would be on the shoulders of bastardisation"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised – until people worry that you’re doing too well, and then they remember that you’re foreign." (from "The Good Immigrant" by Nikesh Shukla)"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
"It is there in the white men and women who do not understand, to the point of frustration, why we still walk with the noose of our ancestors around our necks, as we cannot comprehend how they do not …"-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant
2. Fix the System, Not the Women
By: Laura Bates
4.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more
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- nonfiction
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women
3. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
By: Rafia Zakaria
4.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided… read more
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"Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America."-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriar…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into mean…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
4. 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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- nonfiction
"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
5. 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
By: Weiwei Ai
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In Ai Weiwei's widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world … read more
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- asia
- nonfiction
- memoir
6. 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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- asian literature
- nonfiction
- memoir
7. 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
8. Small Bodies of Water
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.14
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Nina Mingya Powles first l… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
9. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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- asian literature
- asia
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
10. In Black and White
By: Alexandra Wilson
4.18
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'I glanced around the courtroom, quickly at first and then repeated it. Slower this time, taking in… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
11. Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
By: Lola Olufemi
4.43
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
More than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structur… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Feminist work is justice work"-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"Legality does not equal access."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"A feminism that seeks power instead of questioning it does not care about justice."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"If feminism means freedom, it means the right to self-determination and the right to be multi-dimensional, disorganised and even incoherent."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
12. Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
By: Simon Kuper
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel H… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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- race
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
14. If You Still Recognise Me
By: Cynthia So
4.05
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Elsie has a crush on Ada, the only person in the world who truly understands her. Unfortunately, th… read more
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"I wonder if Ada would be able to feel the sapphic vibes if she could see the things she and I wrote to each other through the eyes of someone who was an outsider to our friendship."-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me
"And I lie down and look at the ceiling, and I wonder how adults learn to love with this feeling that the past is always growing bigger, that you're always losing mroe of yourself to it."-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me
"I didn't truly believe it back then. That I deserved to be seen. I do now, though. I do. And being seen requires being open about myself. Joan looks at me, soft, patient. I want to be seen."-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me
"There's nothing like meeting someone and feeling comfortable with them instantly. That to me is the closest thing we have to magic in the world. The inexplicable connection that we just feel, right a…"-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me
15. Flèche
By: Mary Jean Chan
4.23
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of… read more
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"What does three years of famine teach a person? Nothing."-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
"if the legislators of our world looked to their trees for guidance would they reconsider everything?"-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
16. Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.23
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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"Home sickness comes in waves, sometimes leaving me reeling."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is June. I am in Shanghai and I am not tired. June in Shanghai is for cold bubble tea, for kissing, for three-yuan ice creams and misty rain mixing with sweat on skin."-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"I often end up biking home with a paper bag in my basket, a warm boluo bao inside. Whatever the time of year, they remind me of sun, tropical heat, being with family. Mooncakes, the little cakes eate…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
"It is tiring to be a woman who loves to eat in a society where hunger is something not to be satisfied but controlled. Where a long history of female hunger is associated with shame and madness. The …"-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
17. It's Not That Radical
By: Mikaela Loach
4.47
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, gre… read more
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18. Manorism
By: Yomi Sode
4.30
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
Manorism is a poetic examination of the lives of Black British men and boys: propped up and hemmed … read more
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19. East Side Voices: Essays Celebrating East and Southeast Asian Identity in Britain
By: Helena Lee
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Essays celebrating East and Southeast Asian identity in Britain. A strong, compelling, and quiet… read more
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20. A Hakka Woman
By: Di Lebowitz
4.83
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Everyone who knew her as Ah Ping is now dead. I know her only as Paupau – Cantonese for ‘maternal … read more
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