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From Putin to Trump, and from the state of democracy to threats of cyber warfare, here you’ll find our vast selection of bestselling politics books, including the biographies of world leaders and great political thinkers. Explore the ideas that shape our world and the people and movements behind them and find the perfect gift for those who want to understand our turbulent times and where we’re headed next.

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Our Bestselling Politics Books

The Trading Game
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The Trading Game
Gary Stevenson
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£10.99 £8.99
Unleashed
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Unleashed
Boris Johnson
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£30.00 £24.99
Politics On the Edge
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Politics On the Edge
Rory Stewart
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£10.99 £8.99
How They Broke Britain
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How They Broke Britain
James O'Brien
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£10.99 £8.99
PATRIOT
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PATRIOT
Alexei Navalny
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£25.00 £19.99
The Nazi Mind
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The Nazi Mind
Laurence Rees
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£25.00 £19.99
Killing Thatcher
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Killing Thatcher
Rory Carroll
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£10.99 £8.99
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
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How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
Ian Dunt
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£10.99 £8.99
Get In
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Get In
Patrick Maguire
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£25.00 £20.99
Prisoners of Geography
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Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
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£10.99
Doppelganger
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Doppelganger
Naomi Klein
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£10.99 £8.99
Beyond the Wall
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Beyond the Wall
Katja Hoyer
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£12.99 £10.99
Technofeudalism
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Technofeudalism
Yanis Varoufakis
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£10.99
Supremacy
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Supremacy
Parmy Olson
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£22.00 £17.99
The Peepshow
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The Peepshow
Kate Summerscale
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£22.00 £18.99
Led By Donkeys
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Led By Donkeys
Led by Donkeys
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£18.99
The Message
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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£18.99 £15.99
Nuclear War
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Nuclear War
Annie Jacobsen
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£20.00 £17.99
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Our Best New Politics Hardbacks

The DOSE Effect
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The DOSE Effect
TJ Power
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£20.00 £14.99
The Nazi Mind
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The Nazi Mind
Laurence Rees
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£25.00 £19.99
Get In
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Get In
Patrick Maguire
Hardback
£25.00 £20.99
Love in Exile
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Love in Exile
Shon Faye
Hardback
£20.00 £15.99
The Challenges of Democracy
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The Challenges of Democracy
Jonathan Sumption
Hardback
£18.99 £14.99
Alt Reich
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Alt Reich
Nafeez Ahmed
Paperback
£14.99
Bad Education
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Bad Education
Matt Goodwin
Hardback
£20.00 £15.99
The World After Gaza
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The World After Gaza
Pankaj Mishra
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£20.00 £15.99
The Extinction of Experience
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The Extinction of Experience
Christine Rosen
Hardback
£22.00 £17.99
The Science of Racism
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The Science of Racism
Keon West
Hardback
£20.00
House of Huawei
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House of Huawei
Eva Dou
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£25.00 £20.99
Equality
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Equality
Thomas Piketty
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£12.00
Looking at Women, Looking at War
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Looking at Women, Looking at War
Victoria Amelina
Hardback
£20.00 £15.99
Waste Land
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Waste Land
Robert D. Kaplan
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£20.00
Resistance
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Resistance
Steve McQueen
Hardback
£25.00 £20.99
A Different Kind of Power
A Different Kind of Power: Signed Edition (Hardback)
Jacinda Ardern
£25.00
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The hugely respected former Prime Minister of New Zealand reflects on six tumultuous years governing through a mosque shooting, volcanic eruption and pandemic, and outlines her vision for a new kind of leadership based on compassion and empathy.
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Our Best New Politics Paperbacks

The Trading Game
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The Trading Game
Gary Stevenson
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£10.99 £8.99
The Anxious Generation
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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
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£10.99 £8.99
The Coming Wave
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The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman
Paperback
£10.99 £8.99
Prisoners of Geography The Quiz Book
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Prisoners of Geography The Quiz Book
Elliott & Thompson Limited
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£16.99 £13.99
Feel-Good Productivity
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Feel-Good Productivity
Ali Abdaal
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£10.99 £9.49
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets
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Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets
Clair Wills
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£10.99 £9.49
The Wild Men
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The Wild Men
David Torrance
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£10.99 £9.49
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
Kate Mosse
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£10.99 £8.99
Judgement at Tokyo
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Judgement at Tokyo
Gary J. Bass
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£12.99 £10.49
Surrounded by Liars
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Surrounded by Liars
Thomas Erikson
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£10.99 £8.99
Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors
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Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors
Matt Chorley
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£10.99 £8.99
Great Britain?
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Great Britain?
Torsten Bell
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£10.99 £9.49
The Question of Palestine
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The Question of Palestine
Edward W. Said
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£14.99
Between Britain
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Between Britain
Alistair Moffat
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£10.99 £8.99
How We Break
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How We Break
Vincent Deary
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£10.99 £8.99
Uncivilised
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Uncivilised
Subhadra Das
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£10.99
Hardy Women
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Hardy Women
Paula Byrne
Paperback
£12.99

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A Different Kind of Power
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A Different Kind of Power
Jacinda Ardern
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£25.00
A Training School for Elephants
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A Training School for Elephants
Sophy Roberts
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£22.00
On Democracies and Death Cults
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On Democracies and Death Cults
Douglas Murray
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£25.00
The Prosecutor
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The Prosecutor
Jack Fairweather
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£22.00 £17.99
Story of a Murder
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Story of a Murder
Hallie Rubenhold
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£25.00 £20.99
Queen James
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Queen James
Gareth Russell
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£25.00 £20.99
The Illegals
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The Illegals
Shaun Walker
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£22.00
The New Age of Sexism
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The New Age of Sexism
Laura Bates
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£20.00
Logging Off
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Logging Off
Adele Zeynep Walton
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£20.00
HOW TO KILL A WITCH
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HOW TO KILL A WITCH
Claire Mitchell
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£20.00
Yes, Ma'am
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Yes, Ma'am
Tom Quinn
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£20.00
Food Fight
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Food Fight
Stuart Gillespie
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£20.00
When We Ruled
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When We Ruled
Paula Akpan
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£22.00 £18.99
Anywhere But Here
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Anywhere But Here
Nicola Kelly
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£20.00
The World After Ukraine
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The World After Ukraine
Garry Kasparov
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£25.00
These Strange New Minds
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These Strange New Minds
Christopher Summerfield
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£22.00
Adaptable
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Adaptable
Herman Pontzer
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£25.00
38 Londres Street
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia: Signed Edition (Hardback)
Philippe Sands
£25.00
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Through this captivating blend of memoir, travelogue, detective story, and courtroom drama, the award-winning author of East West Street and The Last Colony chronicles the entwining stories of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and senior SS officer Walther Rauff in a powerful examination of historical atrocities and the search for justice.
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The Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Putin's People
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Putin's People
Catherine Belton
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£10.99
Goodbye to Russia
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Goodbye to Russia
Sarah Rainsford
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£22.00
The Gates of Europe
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The Gates of Europe
Serhii Plokhy
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£10.99
A Nasty Little War
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A Nasty Little War
Anna Reid
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£12.99
The Showman
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The Showman
Simon Shuster
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£10.99
I Love Russia
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I Love Russia
Elena Kostyuchenko
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£10.99
The Russo-Ukrainian War
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
Serhii Plokhy
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£10.99
In Wartime
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In Wartime
Tim Judah
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£10.99 £5.50
Punishing Putin
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Punishing Putin
Stephanie Baker
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£25.00
Diary of an Invasion
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Diary of an Invasion
Andrey Kurkov
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£9.99
Invasion
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Invasion
Luke Harding
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£10.99
A Message from Ukraine
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A Message from Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky
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£7.99
You Don't Know What War Is
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You Don't Know What War Is
Yeva Skalietska
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£9.99
Overreach
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Overreach
Owen Matthews
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£10.99
Putin
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Putin
Philip Short
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£16.99
A Small Town in Ukraine
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A Small Town in Ukraine
Bernard Wasserstein
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£12.99
A Small, Stubborn Town
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A Small, Stubborn Town
Andrew Harding
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£10.99
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Our Bestselling UK Politics Books

Unleashed
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Unleashed
Boris Johnson
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£30.00 £24.99
How They Broke Britain
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How They Broke Britain
James O'Brien
Paperback
£10.99 £8.99
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
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How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
Ian Dunt
Paperback
£10.99 £8.99
Led By Donkeys
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Led By Donkeys
Led by Donkeys
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£18.99
Kingmaker
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Kingmaker
Sir Graham Brady
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£25.00 £19.99
Kingmaker
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Kingmaker
Sonia Purnell
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£25.00 £20.99
Strangeland
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Strangeland
Jon Sopel
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£22.00 £17.99
Out
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Out
Tim Shipman
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£30.00 £24.99
Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors
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Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors
Matt Chorley
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£10.99 £8.99
Downfall
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Downfall
Nadine Dorries
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£25.00 £18.99
Who Owns England?
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Who Owns England?
Guy Shrubsole
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£10.99
Chums
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Chums
Simon Kuper
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£9.99
Taking the Lead
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Taking the Lead
John Crace
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£18.99 £15.99
Moneyland
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Moneyland
Oliver Bullough
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£10.99
Chavs
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Chavs
Owen Jones
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£9.99
How Not To Be Wrong
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How Not To Be Wrong
James O'Brien
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£12.99
The Prime Ministers
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The Prime Ministers
Steve Richards
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£12.99
The Border
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The Border
Diarmaid Ferriter
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£9.99

Our Bestselling American Politics Books 

Imminent
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Imminent
Luis Elizondo
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£22.00 £17.99
The Truths We Hold
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The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris
Paperback
£10.99
Becoming
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Becoming
Michelle Obama
Paperback
£12.99
Ask Not
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Ask Not
Maureen Callahan
Hardback
£25.00 £20.99
Citizen
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Citizen
President Bill Clinton
Hardback
£30.00 £24.99
Confidence Man
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Confidence Man
Maggie Haberman
Paperback
£12.99
The Coming Storm
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The Coming Storm
Gabriel Gatehouse
Hardback
£25.00
All in the Family
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All in the Family
Fred C. Trump
Hardback
£25.00
The Art of Power
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The Art of Power
Nancy Pelosi
Hardback
£25.00
A Year At The Circus
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A Year At The Circus
Jon Sopel
Paperback
£14.99
Gimson's Presidents
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Gimson's Presidents
Andrew Gimson
Hardback
£10.99
Rage
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Rage
Bob Woodward
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£9.99
UnPresidented
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UnPresidented
Jon Sopel
Paperback
£12.99
When America Stopped Being Great
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When America Stopped Being Great
Nick Bryant
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£12.99
On the Road
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On the Road
James Naughtie
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£9.99
The Cancel Culture Panic
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The Cancel Culture Panic
Adrian Daub
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£13.99
Promises to Keep
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Promises to Keep
Joe Biden
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£9.99

Our Bestselling World Politics Books

PATRIOT
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PATRIOT
Alexei Navalny
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£25.00 £19.99
Beyond the Wall
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Beyond the Wall
Katja Hoyer
Paperback
£12.99 £10.99
Technofeudalism
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Technofeudalism
Yanis Varoufakis
Paperback
£10.99
Supremacy
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Supremacy
Parmy Olson
Hardback
£22.00 £17.99
Not the End of the World
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Not the End of the World
Hannah Ritchie
Paperback
£10.99
Autocracy, Inc
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Autocracy, Inc
Anne Applebaum
Hardback
£20.00 £15.99
Nuclear War
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Nuclear War
Annie Jacobsen
Hardback
£20.00 £17.99
War
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War
Bob Woodward
Hardback
£25.00 £20.99
The Power of Geography
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The Power of Geography
Tim Marshall
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£10.99
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
Nathan Thrall
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£10.99
In Search Of Berlin
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In Search Of Berlin
John Kampfner
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£10.99
The Invisible Doctrine
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The Invisible Doctrine
George Monbiot
Hardback
£12.99 £10.99
Lower than the Angels
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Lower than the Angels
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Hardback
£35.00 £30.99
On Freedom
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On Freedom
Timothy Snyder
Hardback
£25.00 £20.99
France on Trial
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France on Trial
Julian Jackson
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£12.99
Divided
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Divided
Tim Marshall
Paperback
£10.99
Ask Not
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Ask Not
Maureen Callahan
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£25.00 £20.99

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#Choosetochallenge

Our bestselling books on feminist politics and activism

The Five
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The Five
Hallie Rubenhold
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£10.99
Femina
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Femina
Dr Janina Ramirez
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£12.99
Red Memory
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Red Memory
Tania Branigan
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£9.99
Women & Power
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Women & Power
Mary Beard
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£7.99
Bloody Brilliant Women
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Bloody Brilliant Women
Cathy Newman
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£10.99
All That She Carried
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All That She Carried
Tiya Miles
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£12.99
The Story of Art without Men
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The Story of Art without Men
Katy Hessel
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£30.00
'Unsuitable for Females'
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'Unsuitable for Females'
Carrie Dunn
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£9.99
The Wife of Bath
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The Wife of Bath
Marion Turner
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£14.99
Women in Intelligence
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Women in Intelligence
Helen Fry
Hardback
£25.00
The Walnut Tree
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The Walnut Tree
Kate Morgan
Hardback
£20.00
Divine Might
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Divine Might
Natalie Haynes
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£20.00
Bluestockings
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Bluestockings
Susannah Gibson
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£25.00
Great Women Painters
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Great Women Painters
Phaidon Editors
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£49.95
Witchcraft
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Witchcraft
Marion Gibson
Hardback
£20.00
A Dirty, Filthy Book
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A Dirty, Filthy Book
Michael Meyer
Hardback
£25.00
How to be a Renaissance Woman
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How to be a Renaissance Woman
Jill Burke
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Voices For Change

With the gathering momentum of the #blacklivesmatter movement, there has never been a more essential time to discover these groundbreaking works.

Black and British
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Black and British
David Olusoga
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£12.99
Natives
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Natives
Akala
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£10.99
Brit(ish)
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Brit(ish)
Afua Hirsch
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£12.99
The Good Immigrant
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The Good Immigrant
Nikesh Shukla
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£8.99
This is Not America
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This is Not America
Tomiwa Owolade
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£10.99
Tribes
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Tribes
David Lammy
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£12.99
African and Caribbean People in Britain
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African and Caribbean People in Britain
Hakim Adi
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£18.99
Settlers
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Settlers
Jimi Famurewa
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£10.99
The Mixed-Race Experience
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The Mixed-Race Experience
Natalie Evans
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£10.99
One of Them
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One of Them
Musa Okwonga
Paperback
£8.99
Black Voices on Britain
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Black Voices on Britain
Hakim Adi
Hardback
£10.99
100 Great Black Britons
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100 Great Black Britons
Patrick Vernon
Paperback
£12.99
Safe
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Safe
Derek Owusu
Paperback
£9.99
Musical Truth
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Musical Truth
Jeffrey Boakye
Paperback
£7.99
Black London
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Black London
Avril Nanton
Paperback
£10.99
Black Victorians
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Black Victorians
Keshia N. Abraham
Paperback
£12.99
Black Teacher
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Black Teacher
Beryl Gilroy
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£10.99
Biracial Britain
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Biracial Britain
Remi Adekoya
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£10.99
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