5 Top autobiography books like Always Red by Len McCluskey

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Always Red

By: Len McCluskey

4.16

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more tha…

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1. Star Struck (Kate Brannigan, #6)

By: Val McDermid

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bodyguarding had never made it to Manchester PI Kate Brannigan's wish list. But somebody's got to p… read more

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  • audiobook
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2. Poverty Safari

By: Darren McGarvey

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

By: Owen Jones

4.09

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"High Priestess of the Slagocracy"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear thi…"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

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4. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It

By: Owen Jones

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

In The EstablishmentOwen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting criti… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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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7. A Life in Questions

By: Jeremy Paxman

4.08

Format: 320 pages,

The witty, incisive and frank memoirs from the legend of Newsnight and long-standing quiz master of… read more

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8. The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power

By: Alex Nunns

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In September of last year an earthquake shook the foundations of British politics. Jeremy Corbyn, a… read more

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9. Parky: My Autobiography

By: Michael Parkinson

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

From prize-winning journalist to chat show king on a show voted one of the top 10 British TV progra… read more

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10. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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11. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

By: Bernie Sanders

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"

-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

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12. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • autobiography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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13. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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14. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. For the Record

By: David Cameron

3.73

Format: 744 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The political memoir of the decade’ Sunday TimesThe referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU i… read more

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  • autobiography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism

By: John Gray

3.54

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we un… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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18. Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain

By: Andy Burnham

4.37

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Picked as one of Waterstones' Non-Fiction 'Books You Need to Read in 2024' Gordon 'A path-bre… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking

By: Matthew Syed

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Rebel Ideas examines the power of 'cognitive diversity' - the ability to think differently about th… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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20. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Keir Starmer: The Biography

By: Tom Baldwin

4.06

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. I Wanna Be Yours

By: John Cooper Clarke

4.17

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Poet Laureate of Punk, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. A… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. How to Be a Rock Star

By: Shaun Ryder

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Shaun Ryder is a 1990s rock 'n' roll legend. Now, for the first time, comes his hilarious, swaggeri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. British Rail

By: Christian Wolmar

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail, from "the greatest expert on British trains" Chr… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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25. The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail

By: Nick Wallis

4.64

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

This “factual thriller” from the journalist Nick Wallis details a scandal which has been described … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. This Land: The Struggle for the Left

By: Owen Jones

3.94

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A whodunnit political page-turner' Meliss… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"That summer, Corbyn and his supporters pushed against a door they thought was made of reinforced steel; as things proved, it was made of cardboard."

-Owen Jones, This Land: The Struggle for the Left

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27. Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

By: Yanis Varoufakis

3.81

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestsellin… read more

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  • politics
"BEWARE THE POWER TO CREATE MONEY FOR IT DOES TO ETHICS THAT WHICH WATER DOES TO SALT"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

"The dirtier the industry, the richer and more despised, the more it's captains have been able to tap into the rivers of debt derived money to purchase influence and to blunt opposition."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

"All capitalism proved itself capable of after 2020 — just as after 2008 — was a fascinating reversal of natural selection: the larger an institution's failure and the steeper it's financial losses, t…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

"What does it mean to be a proletarian, really? [...] It means you are a cog in a process of production that relies on what you do and think, while excluding you from being anything but its product. I…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

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28. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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29. Weaponising Anti-Semitism

By: Asa Winstanley

4.57

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

“For five years Jeremy Corbyn was portrayed as a bigot leading an anti-Semitic Labour Party. This i… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Paddy Mayne: Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment by Hamish Ross

30. Paddy Mayne: Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment

By: Hamish Ross

4.26

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

An Irish solicitor and international rugby player, Blair 'Paddy' Mayne became one of the most outst… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Always Red

By: Len McCluskey

4.16

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more tha… read more

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  • autobiography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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4.09

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