Society & Essays

Suzanne Joinson Paperback 304 pages Suzanne Joinson grew up in a 1980s council estate in Crewe, where her parents were followers of The Divine Light Mission cult. This clash of class and count...

Annie Ernaux Edited by: Tanya Leslie Paperback 80 pages Annie Ernaux’s father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since c...

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Virginia Bovell Hardback 320 pages Virginia’s son Danny has a way of lighting up a room. He’s warm, personable and has an infectious laugh. He forms lasting relationships and has known his b...

Amber Husain Paperback In an era of climate catastrophe and corporate agribusiness, meat has been decisively made over. Urbanites across the West are called upon to look at the animals we eat, and...

Justinien Tribillon Hardback 208 pages In The Zone, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a tour of an eponymous Parisian hinterland. The site of dreams and nightmares, from Van Gogh's painting...

Layal Liverpool Paperback Racism is a public health crisis - and we can do something about it. A ground-breaking investigation into how racism corrodes science and medicine – leading to worse...

Dana Mattioli Paperback From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating expose of Amazon's endless strategic greed, its pursuit of tot...

Paperback Chris van Tulleken An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food. It's not you, it's the food. We have entered a new 'age of ea...

Paperback 256 pages In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-five years. There she began the process of forging a voice in a society that pr...

Martin Wolf Paperback 496 pages From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democrac...

Kirsty Loehr Paperback 208 pages No, they weren't 'just friends'!Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. 'But historians famously care about women!', said no one. Fro...

Paperback 111 pages Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother's final days after she is hospitalize...

Julia Shaw Paperback 272 pages Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality explores all that we know about the world's largest sexual minority. It is a personal journey that starts...

Eric Williams Paperback 304 pages Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism ...

Yascha Mounk Paperback 368 pages One of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our time: how to live together equally and peacefully in diverse democracies. It'...

Isabel Wilkerson Paperback 528 pages From one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary livesIn...

Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton Paperback 464 pages Now an eight-part docuseries on Apple TV+ featuring Kim Kardashian, Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson, Wanda Sykes, Megan Thee Sta...

Annie Ernaux Paperback 232 pages Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impres...

Elizabeth Hinton Paperback 416 pages A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America's past and present, by one of the country's leading scholars of policing and mass incarceration Bet...

Mikki Kendall Paperback 288 pages All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. Meeting basic needs is a feminist ...