This is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain
By: William Davies
3.67
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What just happened and how did we get into this mess? Since 2016, the UK has been in a crisis of…
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1. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
2. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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3. KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money
By: J.M.R. Higgs , John Higgs
3.32
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
They were the best-selling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial succ… read more
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4. Elements of the Philosophy of Right
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more
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5. The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
By: Jean Baudrillard , None
5.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this, his most important collection of essays since Le systeme des objets, Jean Baudrillard cont… read more
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6. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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7. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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8. 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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"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
9. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
10. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
11. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
12. Women & Power: A Manifesto
By: Mary Beard
4.03
Format: 115 pages, Hardcover
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly att… read more
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"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
13. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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14. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
By: Alan Partridge
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more
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15. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.54
Format: 535 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, b… read more
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"The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
16. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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17. Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television
By: Louis Theroux
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, pr… read more
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18. The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene
By: The Salvage Collective
3.59
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Facing irreversible climate change, the planet is en route to apocalypse To understand the scale o… read more
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19. Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well
By: Tim Spector
4.27
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new scien… read more
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20. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
By: Sarah Kendzior
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see… read more
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"The word “conspire"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
21. Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
By: Garth Marenghi
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dar… read more
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"Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know."-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"Thanks for the warning about leaving the car door open, by the way,’ Capello said, his manner towards Nick softening. ‘You know it makes sense, amigo. I guess we’re both learning something out here.’…"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, iron…"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
22. Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021
By: Thomas Piketty
3.44
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A chronicle of events that shook the world from the author of Capital in the Twenty‑First Century O… read more
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23. How to Stand Up to a Dictator
By: Maria Ressa
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. Bu… read more
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24. Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror
By: John Sweeney
4.24
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, e… read more
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25. The Pirate
By: Harold Schechter
3.60
Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1860, a sloop drifted into New York Harbor. Not a soul on board—just blood from cabin to deck. L… read more
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26. The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism
By: Peter Oborne
4.01
Format: None pages, Audiobook
* THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER * 'A clinical and merciless account of Johnson's mendacity...… read more
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27. Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
By: Quinn Slobodian
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the Summer Neoliberals hate the state. Or do… read more
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"Scaling national government up to the planet, creating a global government, was no solution. The puzzle of the neoliberal century was to find the right institutions to sustain the often strained bal…"-Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
28. Blue Murder: The Rise and Fall of the Conservative Government, 2010–2024
By: Ben Riley-Smith
4.01
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The explosive full story of the past dozen years of Tory rule, from coalition to self-destruction. … read more
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29. Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.23
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple q… read more
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30. Panic (Bloodlands collection)
By: Harold Schechter
3.54
Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition
During the Depression, economic anxieties found an outlet in a series of child murders that trigger… read more
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31. This is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain
By: William Davies
3.67
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What just happened and how did we get into this mess? Since 2016, the UK has been in a crisis of… read more
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