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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

The Power of Geography
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The Power of Geography
Tim Marshall
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Why the Germans Do it Better
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Why the Germans Do it Better
John Kampfner
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Landslide
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Landslide
Michael Wolff
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Corruptible
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Corruptible
Dr Brian Klaas
£20.00
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Posh Boys
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Posh Boys
Robert Verkaik
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Outraged
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Outraged
Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
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The Communist Manifesto
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The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Engels
£5.99
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Women, Race & Class
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Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
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Chavs
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Chavs
Owen Jones
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Utopia for Realists
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Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman
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The Transgender Issue
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The Transgender Issue
Shon Faye
£20.00   £17.99
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How Civil Wars Start
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How Civil Wars Start
Barbara F. Walter
£18.99
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Another Now
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Another Now
Yanis Varoufakis
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Jews Don't Count
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Jews Don't Count
David Baddiel
£9.99
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On Anarchism
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On Anarchism
Noam Chomsky
£6.00
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The Right to Sex
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The Right to Sex
Amia Srinivasan
£20.00   £17.99
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Corruptible
Corruptible
Dr Brian Klaas
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An accessible and compelling investigation into the corrupting influence of power, Klaas' meticulously researched volume draws on testimony from over 500 leaders ranging from presidents to yoghurt kingpins.
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Our Best Politics in Hardback

Empire of Pain
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Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
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The Transgender Issue
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The Transgender Issue
Shon Faye
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The Right to Sex
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The Right to Sex
Amia Srinivasan
£20.00   £17.99
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How to Stop Fascism
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How to Stop Fascism
Paul Mason
£20.00   £10.00
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Chief of Staff
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Chief of Staff
Gavin Barwell
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The Prime Ministers We Never Had
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The Prime Ministers We Never Had
Steve Richards
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Jews Don't Count
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Jews Don't Count
David Baddiel
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Why We Kneel How We Rise
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Why We Kneel How We Rise
Michael Holding
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Peril
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Peril
Bob Woodward
£20.00   £10.00
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Sad Little Men
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Sad Little Men
Richard Beard
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Failures of State
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Failures of State
Jonathan Calvert
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Spike
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Spike
Jeremy Farrar
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Broken Heartlands
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Broken Heartlands
Sebastian Payne
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Strong Female Lead
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Strong Female Lead
Arwa Mahdawi
£18.99   £9.49
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Churchill's Shadow
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Churchill's Shadow
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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Landslide
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Landslide
Michael Wolff
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The Assault on Truth
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The Assault on Truth
Peter Oborne
£12.99
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Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics
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Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics
Jess Phillips
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Our Best Politics Books in Paperback

Empireland
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Empireland
Sathnam Sanghera
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Another Now
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Another Now
Yanis Varoufakis
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Outraged
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Outraged
Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
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How To Be A Liberal
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How To Be A Liberal
Ian Dunt
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JFK
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JFK
Fredrik Logevall
£14.99
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Breathtaking
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Breathtaking
Rachel Clarke
£9.99
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Twilight of Democracy
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Twilight of Democracy
Anne Applebaum
£9.99
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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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Going Dark
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Going Dark
Julia Ebner
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This is Not Normal
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This is Not Normal
William Davies
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This Land
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This Land
Owen Jones
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Russians Among Us
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Russians Among Us
Gordon Corera
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How To Do Nothing
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How To Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
£12.99
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Lost in Work
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Lost in Work
Amelia Horgan
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Democracy For Sale
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Democracy For Sale
Peter Geoghegan
£9.99
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Collateral Damage
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Collateral Damage
Kim Darroch
£9.99
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The Gatekeeper
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The Gatekeeper
Kate Fall
£9.99
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Three Years In Hell
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Three Years In Hell
Fintan O'Toole
£9.99
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This Is Vegan Propaganda
This Is Vegan Propaganda
Ed Winters
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Ranging across farming, health and economics, animal rights activist Winters delivers an uncompromising manifesto for a vegan lifestyle perfect for engaging in debate with doubters.

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Dirty Work
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Dirty Work
Eyal Press
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The Social Distance Between Us
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The Social Distance Between Us
Darren McGarvey
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Buy Better, Consume Less
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Buy Better, Consume Less
Sian Conway-Wood
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Fix the System, Not the Women
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Fix the System, Not the Women
Laura Bates
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Divide
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Divide
Anna Jones
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We Are Bellingcat
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We Are Bellingcat
Eliot Higgins
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Butler to the World
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Butler to the World
Oliver Bullough
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Outrageous!
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Outrageous!
Paul Baker
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The Last Colony
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The Last Colony
Philippe Sands
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The Age of The Strongman
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The Age of The Strongman
Gideon Rachman
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A Duty of Care
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A Duty of Care
Peter Hennessy
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Chums
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Chums
Simon Kuper
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Money in One Lesson
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Money in One Lesson
Gavin Jackson
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One Party After Another
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One Party After Another
Michael Crick
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Freedom to Think
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Freedom to Think
Susie Alegre
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Citizens
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Citizens
Jon Alexander
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Uncommon Wealth
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Kojo Koram
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Our Best UK Politics Books

How Not To Be Wrong
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How Not To Be Wrong
James O'Brien
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The Prime Ministers
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The Prime Ministers
Steve Richards
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Chavs
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Chavs
Owen Jones
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Why We Get the Wrong Politicians
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Why We Get the Wrong Politicians
Isabel Hardman
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Posh Boys
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Posh Boys
Robert Verkaik
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Left Out
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Left Out
Gabriel Pogrund
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Who Owns England?
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Who Owns England?
Guy Shrubsole
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Broken Heartlands
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Broken Heartlands
Sebastian Payne
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How Britain Really Works
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How Britain Really Works
Stig Abell
£10.99
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Boris Johnson
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Boris Johnson
Tom Bower
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The Border
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The Border
Diarmaid Ferriter
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Trials of the State
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Trials of the State
Jonathan Sumption
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Brit(ish)
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Brit(ish)
Afua Hirsch
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Collateral Damage
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Collateral Damage
Kim Darroch
£9.99
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People Like Us
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People Like Us
Hashi Mohamed
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The Secret Life of Special Advisers
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The Secret Life of Special Advisers
Peter Cardwell
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The Ministry of Nostalgia
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The Ministry of Nostalgia
Owen Hatherley
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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
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Utopia for Realists
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Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman
£9.99
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The New Silk Roads
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The New Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
£10.99
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Twilight of Democracy
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Twilight of Democracy
Anne Applebaum
£9.99
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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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Nothing To Envy
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Nothing To Envy
Barbara Demick
£9.99
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The Pink Line
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The Pink Line
Mark Gevisser
£10.99
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Fareed Zakaria
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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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Between Two Fires
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Between Two Fires
Joshua Yaffa
£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
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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
£8.99
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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
£8.99
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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.

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
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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
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Why We Kneel How We Rise
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Why We Kneel How We Rise
Michael Holding
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What White People Can Do Next
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What White People Can Do Next
Emma Dabiri
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The Good Ally
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The Good Ally
Nova Reid
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Everyone Versus Racism
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Everyone Versus Racism
Patrick Hutchinson
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Slay In Your Lane
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Slay In Your Lane
Yomi Adegoke
£9.99
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Access All Areas
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Access All Areas
Lenny Henry
£7.99
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Living While Black
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Living While Black
Guilaine Kinouani
£12.99
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When They Call You a Terrorist
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When They Call You a Terrorist
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
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The Power of Privilege
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The Power of Privilege
June Sarpong
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Loud Black Girls
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Loud Black Girls
Yomi Adegoke
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The Sum of Us
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The Sum of Us
Heather McGhee
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Do Better
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Do Better
Rachel Ricketts
£16.99
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Whites
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Otegha Uwagba
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Me and White Supremacy
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Me and White Supremacy
Layla Saad
£14.99
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Our Best American Politics Books 

A Promised Land
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President Barack Obama
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UnPresidented
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UnPresidented
Jon Sopel
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The Presidents
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The Presidents
Iain Dale
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Landslide
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Landslide
Michael Wolff
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A Year At The Circus
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A Year At The Circus
Jon Sopel
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Gimson's Presidents
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Gimson's Presidents
Andrew Gimson
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The Reckoning
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The Reckoning
Mary L Trump
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The Truths We Hold
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The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris
£9.99
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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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Rage
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Rage
Bob Woodward
£9.99
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On the Road
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On the Road
James Naughtie
£9.99
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There is Nothing for You Here
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There is Nothing for You Here
Fiona Hill
£28.99
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Promises to Keep
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Promises to Keep
Joe Biden
£9.99
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After the Fall
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After the Fall
Ben Rhodes
£20.00
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Saving Justice
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Saving Justice
James Comey
£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
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Too Much and Never Enough
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Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump
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The Non-Fiction You Need to Read in 2022

The Non-Fiction You Need to Read in 2022

From Margaret Atwood to Joe Wicks, this is where you'll find the hottest non-fiction titles coming your way in the next twelve months.

Tim Marshall's Favourite Reads of 2021

Tim Marshall's Favourite Reads of 2021

The bestselling author of The Power of Geography recommends his favourite books published this year, plus one title he would like to receive for Christmas.

Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder on Racism and Black British Lives

Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder on Racism and Black British Lives

Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder, co-authors of Black British Lives Matter, discuss what can be done to combat widespread racism in the UK.