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From Trump to Brexit and from the state of democracy to Black Lives Matter, 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 Best Politics Books

Prisoners of Geography
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Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
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We Are Bellingcat
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We Are Bellingcat
Eliot Higgins
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Putin's People
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Putin's People
Catherine Belton
£10.99
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The Transgender Issue
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The Transgender Issue
Shon Faye
£10.99
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It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism
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It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism
Bernie Sanders
£22.00   £18.99
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Colonialism
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Colonialism
Nigel Biggar
£25.00
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Jews Don't Count
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Jews Don't Count
David Baddiel
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Chums
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Chums
Simon Kuper
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Values
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Values
Mark Carney
£10.99   £9.49
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Personality and Power
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Personality and Power
Ian Kershaw
£30.00   £26.99
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Overreach
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Overreach
Owen Matthews
£25.00   £22.99
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Invasion
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Invasion
Luke Harding
£20.00
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Utopia for Realists
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Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman
£9.99
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The Fall of Boris Johnson
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The Fall of Boris Johnson
Sebastian Payne
£22.00
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How To Be Right
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How To Be Right
James O'Brien
£10.99
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The Social Distance Between Us
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The Social Distance Between Us
Darren McGarvey
£20.00   £17.99
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Out of the Blue
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Out of the Blue
Harry Cole
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Our Best New Politics Hardbacks

The Climate Book
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The Climate Book
Greta Thunberg
£25.00   £21.99
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Colonialism
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Colonialism
Nigel Biggar
£25.00
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
David Graeber
£18.99   £16.99
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Have I Got News For You: The Quiz of 2022
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Have I Got News For You: The Quiz of 2022
Have I Got News For You
£14.99   £10.99
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Invasion
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Invasion
Luke Harding
£20.00
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Nobody Asked For This
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Nobody Asked For This
Charly Cox
£14.99
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Maria Ressa
£20.00   £17.99
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The Fall of Boris Johnson
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The Fall of Boris Johnson
Sebastian Payne
£22.00
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How Many More Women?
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How Many More Women?
Jennifer Robinson
£20.00
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Out of the Blue
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Out of the Blue
Harry Cole
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A Message from Ukraine
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A Message from Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky
£9.99
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Martin Wolf
£30.00
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All In
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All In
Lisa Nandy
£16.99
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A Revolution Betrayed
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A Revolution Betrayed
Peter Hitchens
£20.00
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Pandemic Diaries
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Pandemic Diaries
Matt Hancock
£25.00
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What Lies Beneath
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What Lies Beneath
Peter Faulding
£18.99
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Migrants
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Migrants
Sam Miller
£25.00
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The Museum of Other People
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The Museum of Other People
Adam Kuper
£25.00
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It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism
Bernie Sanders
£22.00 £18.99
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Shedding stark light on the threats that capitalism poses to democracy, this perspicacious, angry and vital manifesto from the iconic American Senator calls for fundamental political change to create a society where economic rights are recognised as human rights.
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Our Best New Politics Paperbacks

Stolen Focus
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Stolen Focus
Johann Hari
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We Are Bellingcat
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We Are Bellingcat
Eliot Higgins
£9.99   £8.49
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The Transgender Issue
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The Transgender Issue
Shon Faye
£10.99
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Jews Don't Count
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Jews Don't Count
David Baddiel
£7.99
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Ai Weiwei
£10.99   £9.49
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Corruptible
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Corruptible
Dr Brian Klaas
£10.99
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Capitalism and Slavery
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Capitalism and Slavery
Eric Williams
£9.99
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The Prime Ministers We Never Had
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The Prime Ministers We Never Had
Steve Richards
£10.99
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The Prime Ministers
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The Prime Ministers
Iain Dale
£14.99
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Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
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Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
Angela Y. Davis
£9.99
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Me and White Supremacy
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Me and White Supremacy
Layla Saad
£9.99
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Maybe I Don't Belong Here
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Maybe I Don't Belong Here
David Harewood
£9.99
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Seven Ways to Change the World
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Seven Ways to Change the World
Gordon Brown
£12.99
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Broken Heartlands
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Broken Heartlands
Sebastian Payne
£9.99
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The Life of an MP
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The Life of an MP
Jess Phillips
£9.99
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Border Wars
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Border Wars
Professor Klaus Dodds
£12.99
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
Niall Ferguson
£10.99
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The New Age of Empire
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The New Age of Empire
Kehinde Andrews
£10.99
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The State of Us
The State of Us
Jon Snow
£20.00 £17.99
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Arguing with passion, eloquence and unrivalled insight, the veteran broadcast journalist delivers a trenchant critique of the pernicious effect of inequality in society through the pivotal stories that he has covered.
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It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism
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It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism
Bernie Sanders
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How Westminster Works... and Why It Doesn't
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How Westminster Works... and Why It Doesn't
Ian Dunt
£18.99   £16.99
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Caste
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Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
£12.99   £10.99
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The Snakehead
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The Snakehead
Patrick Radden Keefe
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The Key Man
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The Key Man
Simon Clark
£10.99
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Men at War
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Men at War
Luke Turner
£18.99
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The Patriarchs
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The Patriarchs
Angela Saini
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This Won't Hurt
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This Won't Hurt
Marieke Bigg
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What Women Want
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What Women Want
Maxine Mei-Fung Chung
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Ravenous
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Ravenous
Henry Dimbleby
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The Origins of You
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The Origins of You
Vienna Pharaon
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On Being Unreasonable
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On Being Unreasonable
Kirsty Sedgman
£16.99
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Foolproof
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Foolproof
Sander van der Linden
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Politics, Poverty and Belief
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Politics, Poverty and Belief
The Rt Hon Frank Field
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Out
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Out
Tim Shipman
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The State of Us
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The State of Us
Jon Snow
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Transitional
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Transitional
Munroe Bergdorf
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Beyond the Wall
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Beyond the Wall
Katja Hoyer
£25.00   £22.99
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Russia and Ukraine

A Message from Ukraine
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A Message from Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky
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Diary of an Invasion
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Diary of an Invasion
Andrey Kurkov
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The Gates of Europe
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The Gates of Europe
Serhii Plokhy
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You Don't Know What War Is
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You Don't Know What War Is
Yeva Skalietska
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Putin's People
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Putin's People
Catherine Belton
£10.99
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Everything is Possible
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Everything is Possible
Mary Wood
£10.99
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Gorbachev
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Gorbachev
Prof. William Taubman
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The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
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The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
Sheila Fitzpatrick
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Putin
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Putin
Philip Short
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Ukraine Diaries
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Ukraine Diaries
Andrey Kurkov
£12.99
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Zelensky
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Zelensky
Steven Derix
£16.99
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In Wartime
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In Wartime
Tim Judah
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Kleptopia
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Kleptopia
Tom Burgis
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The Road to Unfreedom
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The Road to Unfreedom
Timothy Snyder
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Borderland
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Borderland
Anna Reid
£10.99
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Red Notice
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Red Notice
Bill Browder
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Lost Kingdom
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Lost Kingdom
Serhii Plokhy
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Our Best UK Politics Books

Moneyland
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Moneyland
Oliver Bullough
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Chavs
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Chavs
Owen Jones
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Who Owns England?
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Who Owns England?
Guy Shrubsole
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How Not To Be Wrong
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How Not To Be Wrong
James O'Brien
£10.99
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The Prime Ministers
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The Prime Ministers
Steve Richards
£10.99
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The Border
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The Border
Diarmaid Ferriter
£8.99
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How Britain Really Works
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How Britain Really Works
Stig Abell
£10.99
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Posh Boys
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Posh Boys
Robert Verkaik
£10.99
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Brit(ish)
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Brit(ish)
Afua Hirsch
£10.99
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Left Out
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Left Out
Gabriel Pogrund
£9.99
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What Does Jeremy Think?
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What Does Jeremy Think?
Suzanne Heywood
£10.99
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Boris Johnson
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Boris Johnson
Tom Bower
£12.99
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People Like Us
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People Like Us
Hashi Mohamed
£9.99
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Why We Get the Wrong Politicians
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Why We Get the Wrong Politicians
Isabel Hardman
£10.99
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The Ministry of Nostalgia
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The Ministry of Nostalgia
Owen Hatherley
£15.99
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Collateral Damage
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Collateral Damage
Kim Darroch
£9.99
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Broken Heartlands
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Broken Heartlands
Sebastian Payne
£20.00
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The Secret Life of Special Advisers
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The Secret Life of Special Advisers
Peter Cardwell
£20.00
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Our Best World Politics Books

The Power of Geography
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The Power of Geography
Tim Marshall
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Putin's People
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Putin's People
Catherine Belton
£10.99
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Utopia for Realists
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Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman
£9.99
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Nothing To Envy
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Nothing To Envy
Barbara Demick
£9.99
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The New Silk Roads
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The New Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
£12.99
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Divided
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Divided
Tim Marshall
£9.99
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Who Rules the World?
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Who Rules the World?
Noam Chomsky
£9.99
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The Pink Line
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The Pink Line
Mark Gevisser
£10.99
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Twilight of Democracy
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Twilight of Democracy
Anne Applebaum
£10.99
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Between Two Fires
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Between Two Fires
Joshua Yaffa
£9.99
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How Did We Get Into This Mess?
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How Did We Get Into This Mess?
George Monbiot
£11.99
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Fareed Zakaria
£9.99
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Our best books on feminist politics and activism

Men Who Hate Women
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Men Who Hate Women
Laura Bates
£9.99
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Becoming
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Becoming
Michelle Obama
£12.99
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Women, Race & Class
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Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
£9.99
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Jacinda Ardern
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Jacinda Ardern
Madeleine Chapman
£12.99
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We Should All Be Feminists
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We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
£5.99
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Unwell Women
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Unwell Women
Elinor Cleghorn
£16.99
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Difficult Women
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Difficult Women
Helen Lewis
£9.99
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Feminism, Interrupted
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Feminism, Interrupted
Lola Olufemi
£9.99
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Superior
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Superior
Angela Saini
£9.99
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The Truths We Hold
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The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris
£9.99
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White Feminism
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White Feminism
Koa Beck
£16.99
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The Sex Lives of African Women
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The Sex Lives of African Women
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
£18.99
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Truth to Power
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Truth to Power
Jess Phillips
£8.99
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Nasty Women
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Nasty Women
Heather McDaid
£8.99
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The Moment of Lift
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The Moment of Lift
Melinda Gates
£9.99
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Taking Up Space
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Taking Up Space
Chelsea Kwakye
£10.99
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Fight Like A Girl
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Fight Like A Girl
Clementine Ford
£9.99
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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.

Women, Race & Class
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Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
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How to Argue With a Racist
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How to Argue With a Racist
Adam Rutherford
£8.99
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What White People Can Do Next
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What White People Can Do Next
Emma Dabiri
£7.99
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Whites
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Whites
Otegha Uwagba
£6.99
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Why We Kneel How We Rise
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Why We Kneel How We Rise
Michael Holding
£20.00
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The Good Ally
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The Good Ally
Nova Reid
£16.99
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Everyone Versus Racism
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Everyone Versus Racism
Patrick Hutchinson
£7.99
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Slay In Your Lane
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Slay In Your Lane
Yomi Adegoke
£9.99
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Loud Black Girls
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Loud Black Girls
Yomi Adegoke
£9.99
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When They Call You a Terrorist
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When They Call You a Terrorist
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
£7.99
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The Power of Privilege
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The Power of Privilege
June Sarpong
£5.00
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Living While Black
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Living While Black
Guilaine Kinouani
£12.99
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Access All Areas
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Access All Areas
Lenny Henry
£7.99
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Me and White Supremacy
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Me and White Supremacy
Layla Saad
£14.99
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Do Better
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Do Better
Rachel Ricketts
£16.99
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The Sum of Us
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The Sum of Us
Heather McGhee
£20.00
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Our Best American Politics Books 

Gimson's Presidents
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Gimson's Presidents
Andrew Gimson
£10.99
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UnPresidented
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UnPresidented
Jon Sopel
£9.99
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A Promised Land
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A Promised Land
President Barack Obama
£35.00
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There Is Nothing For You Here
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There Is Nothing For You Here
Fiona Hill
£22.00
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A Year At The Circus
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A Year At The Circus
Jon Sopel
£9.99
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The Presidents
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The Presidents
Iain Dale
£25.00
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The Truths We Hold
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The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris
£9.99
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Rage
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Rage
Bob Woodward
£9.99
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Saving Justice
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Saving Justice
James Comey
£20.00
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On the Road
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On the Road
James Naughtie
£9.99
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Promises to Keep
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Promises to Keep
Joe Biden
£9.99
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Joe Biden
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Joe Biden
Evan Osnos
£18.99
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Too Much and Never Enough
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Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump
£20.00
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The Reckoning
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The Reckoning
Mary L Trump
£18.99
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When America Stopped Being Great
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When America Stopped Being Great
Nick Bryant
£25.00
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Landslide
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Landslide
Michael Wolff
£20.00
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The Second
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The Second
Carol Anderson
£18.99
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The Plague Year
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The Plague Year
Lawrence Wright
£20.00
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