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Bestsellers

Forest of Noise

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Fascist Yoga : Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness

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Enemy Feminisms : TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation

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Who’s Afraid of Gender?

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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Pink-Pilled : Women and the Far Right

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Pirate Care : Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity

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The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth

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Perfect Victims : And The Politics Of Appeal

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Steering the Craft : A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

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Autism Is Not A Disease : The Politics of Neurodiversity

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Recognising the Stranger : On Palestine and Narrative

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Minor Detail

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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine : A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance

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The Care Manifesto : The Politics of Compassion by The Care Collective

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The Once and Future Riot

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The Slicks : On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift

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Words Are My Matter : Writings on Life and Books

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The Fraud : Keir Starmer, Labour Together, and the Crisis of British Democracy

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Motherland : A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

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INK! : From the Age of Empire to Black Power, the Journalists who Transformed Britain

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Hate : The Uses of a Powerful Emotion

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A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness : Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine

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Patchwork : A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen

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Solidarity with Children : An Essay Against Adult Supremacy

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Up the Youth Club : Illuminating a Hidden History

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Mother Mary Comes To Me

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Folklore : A Journey Through the Past and Present

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After Savagery : Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization

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Eviction : A Social History of Rent

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Comrades in Art : Artists Against Fascism 1933-1943

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No Is Not a Lonely Utterance : The Art and Activism of Complaining

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Staff Picks

Hijab Butch Blues : A Memoir

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Estates : An Intimate History

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I Could Be So Good for You : A Portrait of the North London Working Class

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The Divide : A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions

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Who Owns England? : How We Lost Our Land and How to Take it Back by Guy Shrubsole

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New Fiction & Poetry

Maryville

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Girlbeast

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The Grand Scheme of Things : the bold new novel about prejudice in the theatre world

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Migraine

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Ghostroots : The most ‘thrilling and disturbing’ (Financial Times) literary horror of 2024

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Gunk : By the multi-award-winning author of SEND NUDES

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WITCH : An Anthology

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Universality : ‘Utterly phenomenal.’ ELIZABETH DAY

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Stag Dance : From the bestselling author of Detransition, Baby

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No One Will Know You Tomorrow : Selected Poems, 2014-2024

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Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons : New Chinese Writing

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Needy Little Things : The new YA thriller with a twist that will leave you speechless

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Caledonian Road : The Sunday Times bestseller

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We Do Not Part

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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution : ‘as good as journalism gets’

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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

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Queer as Folklore : The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

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Crude Capitalism : Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market

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Tokens : The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform

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Hotel Lux : An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals

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Health Communism

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Our Country in Crisis : Britain’s Housing Emergency and How We Rebuild

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Rebel Girl : My Life as a Feminist Punk

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A Place of Our Own : Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture – ‘A cracking read’ (Val McDermid)

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The Strangers : Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them

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Like Love : Essays and Conversations

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The Lie of the Land : How a Tiny Group of Landowners Wrecked the Countryside, and How the Public Can Restore it

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A Short History of Trans Misogyny

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Ghosts of the British Museum : A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects

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Bluestockings : The First Women’s Movement

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Moving Mountains : Writing Nature through Illness and Disability

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The Intersectional Environmentalist : How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

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A Bookshop of One’s Own : How a Group of Women Set out to Change the World

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Shoulder to Shoulder : The Best Queer History Book You’ll Read This Year: ‘Enticing and nuanced’ Travis Alabanza

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Featured Mags & Zines

fieldnotes #6

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BUTT 37

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Weird Walk #7

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Pilot Press: Responses to “Forbidden Colors” (1988) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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Curb Culture, Issue 3 – Paris

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The Boy is Beautiful

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BUTT 33

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Gutter 27

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STIR – Issue #40 Winter 2023: 10th Anniversary

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The Funambulist #59: Black Indigeneities

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Anarchist Studies 30.2

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Catalyst 6.3

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Lumin Journal 4

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