Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London
By: Owen Hatherley
4.37
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
A polemical history of municipal socialism in London and an argument for turning this capitalist ca…
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1. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
2. And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
By: Yanis Varoufakis
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A #1 Sunday Timesbestseller [UK] A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, w… read more
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- politics
- history
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3. Estates: An Intimate History
By: Lynsey Hanley
2.50
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Britain's council estates have become a media shorthand for poverty, social mayhem, drugs, drink, a… read more
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- architecture
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- urbanism
4. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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5. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
By: Robert Graves
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more
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6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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7. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
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9. The Lonely Londoners
By: Sam Selvon
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more
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10. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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11. The Noise of Time
By: Julian Barnes
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes's first … read more
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12. The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In The Light Fantasticonly one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortuna… read more
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13. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
14. The Last Children of Tokyo
By: Yōko Tawada
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old… read more
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"Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"งานหลักของพวกสมาชิกสภาคือ การปรับเปลี่ยกฎหมาย กฎหมายนั้นเปลี่ยนตลอดเวลา จึงแน่นอนว่าถูกปรับเปลี่ยน . แต่ใครเปลี่ยนเพื่ออะไร เปลี่ยนอย่างไรนั้น ไม่มีการสื่อให้รู้เลย ประชาชนใช้ชีวิตจัดระเบียบตัวเองในสภาพมองไม่เห็นกฎหมาย …"-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
15. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
16. Milkman
By: Anna Burns
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attem… read more
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"how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man"-Anna Burns, Milkman
"It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so."-Anna Burns, Milkman
17. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
18. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape
By: Henry Dimbleby
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more
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19. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
By: Katherine Angel
4.08
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of Me… read more
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"The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare."-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation."-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Why not aim for sex itself as being deeply mutually pleasurable? Why not aim for a culture that embraces and enables women’s sexual pleasure, in all its complexity, and admits the complexity of male …"-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norm…"-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
20. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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- history
- british literature
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
21. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
22. The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
By: Philippe Sands
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determ… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"I appeared as counsel in the first case, in a barrister’s wig and gown at a hearing in a makeshift courtroom in Hamburg’s Town Hall; years later, Judge Mensah told me, with a big grin, that he wonder…"-Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
23. 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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"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
24. 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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"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
25. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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26. The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain's First Labour Government
By: David Torrance
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The incredible story of the first Labour administration and the 'wild men' who shook up the British… read more
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27. The Starmer Project: A journey to the Right
By: Oliver Eagleton
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The Labour Party has virtually disappeared from view under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Hailed a… read more
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28. The Twittering Machine
By: Richard Seymour
4.00
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with so… read more
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"The Luddites were also excellent trolls. They were, like the movement that was massacred at Peterloo a few years later, a prototypical class insurrection: but they carried it off with tremendous elan…"-Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine
"Addiction occurs through choices, but somehow it also happens behind our backs. No one consciously sets out to devote themselves to the machine, to become its addict. Its veto power over all other po…"-Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine
29. Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
By: John Boughton
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Municipal Dreams presents an alternative history of the United Kingdom. This history begins in the… read more
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- history
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- urbanism
30. The Rise and Fall of the British Nation
By: David Edgerton
4.04
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old , a bold reassessment o… read more
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31. Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London
By: Owen Hatherley
4.37
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
A polemical history of municipal socialism in London and an argument for turning this capitalist ca… read more
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