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Feminist Book Fortnight! From Saturday 14th to Saturday 28th May, we’re celebrating the best in intersectional, abolitionist, anti-capitalist feminist publishing and writing.
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New In
Find new and featured books below, or visit our webshop to browse our full catalogue by category. Drop us an email if you’d like to order anything specific.
Winston Churchill : His Times, His Crimes
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The Starmer Project : A Journey to the Right
£12.99by Eagleton, Oliver Biography & True Stories Paperback
The Starmer Project : A Journey to the Right
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Girl Online : A User Manual
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Revolutionary Berlin : A Walking Guide
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The Trespasser’s Companion
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This Woman’s Work : Essays on Music
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A Brief History of Equality
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C.L.R. James : A Life Beyond the Boundaries
£25.00by Williams, John L. Biography & True Stories Hardback
C.L.R. James : A Life Beyond the Boundaries
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Brigadistes : Lives for Liberty
£12.99by Marti-Rueda, Jordi, Borras, Jordi, Newman, Mary Ann Inter-war period, 1918-1939 Paperback
Brigadistes : Lives for Liberty
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New Fiction
Tomorrow I Become a Woman
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Assembly
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People Person
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Young Mungo
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Glory
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Easy Beauty
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Concerning My Daughter
£14.99by Hye-jin, Kim, Chang, Jamie Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest Paperback
Concerning My Daughter
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Bolla
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The Best of World SF : Volume 1
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We Move
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Vagabonds!
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Nettles
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Woman, Eating
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Easy Reading
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Booth
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How Beautiful We Were
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Book Bundles


Children’s Picture Book Bundle
£45.00UK only. Order before the 15th December for your bundle to arrive in time for Christmas. This will make a great gift for the little one in your life. Our […]
Children’s Picture Book Bundle
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Feminism Book Bundle
£55.00UK only. Order before the 15th December for your bundle to arrive in time for Christmas. This will make a great gift for yourself or someone you know. Our top […]
Feminism Book Bundle
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Decolonisation Book Bundle
£55.00UK only. Order before the 15th December for your bundle to arrive in time for Christmas. This will make a great gift for yourself or someone you know. Our top […]
Decolonisation Book Bundle
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LGBTQIA+ Book Bundle
£55.00UK only. Order before the 15th December for your bundle to arrive in time for Christmas. This will make a great gift for yourself or someone you know. Our top […]
LGBTQIA+ Book Bundle
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Black Politics Book Bundle
£55.00UK only. Order before the 15th December for your bundle to arrive in time for Christmas. This will make a great gift for yourself or someone you know. Our top […]
Black Politics Book Bundle
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Recent and Upcoming Book Launches and Events


The Starmer Project : A Journey to the Right
£12.99by Eagleton, Oliver Biography & True Stories Paperback
The Starmer Project : A Journey to the Right
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Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations
£14.99by Ambler, Lucy, Earle, Joe, Scott, Nicola Economics, finance, business & management Paperback
Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations
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Suburban Socialism
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A Normal Life by Vassilis Palaiokostas
£15.00ISBN: 978-1-904491-40-8 Paperback: 352pp A Normal Life is the autobiography of Vassilis Palaiokostas, known to the public as the “Greek Robin Hood,” to police as “The Uncatchable.” His is an illegalist […]
A Normal Life by Vassilis Palaiokostas
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Post Internet Far Right
£8.00Post Internet Far Right Dog Section Press, 2021 pp.227 The far right has changed. Since the rise of the internet, it has scattered, diversified, and stuck itself back together. The […]
Post Internet Far Right
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Claudia Jones : A Life in Exile : 1
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Always Red
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Bestsellers


The Starmer Project : A Journey to the Right
£12.99by Eagleton, Oliver Biography & True Stories Paperback
The Starmer Project : A Journey to the Right
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Capitalism and Slavery
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I Hate Men
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Post Internet Far Right
£8.00Post Internet Far Right Dog Section Press, 2021 pp.227 The far right has changed. Since the rise of the internet, it has scattered, diversified, and stuck itself back together. The […]
Post Internet Far Right
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Abolition. Feminism. Now.
£14.99by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie / Gender Published January 2022 by Hamish Hamilton Hardback / 256 pages In this landmark work, four of the world’s […]
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
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Abolishing the Police
£8.00Dog Section Press, 2021 / paperback, 247 pages Join Koshka Duff, the editor of Abolishing the Police, and some of the book’s contributors for an exploration of anti-police theory and […]
Abolishing the Police
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All About Love : New Visions by bell hooks
£10.99Harper Collins, 2016 (paperback, 272 pages) “The word “love” is most often defined as a noun, yet…we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes […]
All About Love : New Visions by bell hooks
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Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
£9.99Penguin Books Be honest: if your job didn’t exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren’t […]
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
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Featured Mags & Zines


ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST REVIEW #85
£4.00ASR 85 – Spring/2022 Content: Editorial The War in Ukraine Wobbles Organizing Amazon, ‘Green Capitalism’… Syndicalist News Myanmar, Turkish Strike Wave… Articles Support the Trucker Convoys? by John Kalwaic South […]
ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST REVIEW #85
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New Left Review #133/134
£13.00A 160-page journal published every two months from London, New Left Review analyses world politics, the global economy, state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory, history and philosophy; cinema, […]
New Left Review #133/134
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Lucent Dreaming
£14.00Lucent Dreaming: Issue 10 Lucent Dreaming is an independent magazine & publisher for beautiful & surreal fiction, poetry and art from new & emerging authors/artists. This issue features writing from […]
Lucent Dreaming
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Capital & Class 46.1
£5.00About Capital & Class Since 1977 Capital & Class has been the main independent source for a Marxist critique of global capitalism. Pioneering key debates on value theory, domestic labour, and the […]
Capital & Class 46.1
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The Baffler #63 – Proletarians
£9.95The Baffler is America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems and art. We publish six print issues annually, as well as online […]
The Baffler #63 – Proletarians
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Salvage Magazine #11: Already, Not
£15.00Salvage is a bi-annual journal of revolutionary arts and letters. Salvage, recognising that the catastrophe is already upon us, and that the decisive struggle is over what to do with the […]
Salvage Magazine #11: Already, Not
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Louche issue 2
£12.00The second instalment of Louche, the drag magazine, is here! The theme of this issue focuses on the material culture of drag; the objects, the things, the ephemera, that serve […]
Louche issue 2
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An Phoblacht #1 – 2022
£4.00This An Phoblacht has an exclusive article by Palestinian Ambassador to Ireland Jilan Wahba. Mairead Farrell and Joe Guinan unwrap the potential of Community Wealth Building policies. We have extensive […]
An Phoblacht #1 – 2022
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Adbusters 160: The Plus/Minus issue
£7.50We’re an international collective of activists, artists, writers, designers, musicians, philosophers, poets, punks and wild hearts. Join us as we take down Big Tech. Clean up the toxic areas of […]
Adbusters 160: The Plus/Minus issue
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Tribune – The Cost of Living
£9.95About Tribune Magazine “The cause of labour is the hope of the world” – Walter Crane, 1894 Tribune was established in 1937 as a socialist magazine that would give voice to […]
Tribune – The Cost of Living
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Anarchist Studies 30.1
£18.00Anarchist Studies: An inter-and multi-disciplinary journal of anarchism research Anarchist Studies is an inter- and multi-disciplinary journal of anarchism research, which has been publishing novel, refreshing and provocative arguments for […]
Anarchist Studies 30.1
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Monthly Review – Volume 73, Number 11
£4.00Volume 73, Number 11 Contents “Notes from the Editors, April 2022” by The Editors REVIEW OF THE MONTH: “The Defense of Nature: Resisting the Financializaton of the Earth” by John Bellamy Foster “The Political Economy […]
Monthly Review – Volume 73, Number 11
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Worms #4 – The Flaneuse
£15.00Worms is a bi-annual literary style magazine that celebrates female and non-binary writer culture. Worms #4 looks at psychogeography and the Situationists from a non-male perspective. Taking flâneuserie and the […]
Worms #4 – The Flaneuse
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Jacobin #44 – The Left in Purgatory
£9.95Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. Contents of issue 44 The Left in Purgatory BY BHASKAR SUNKARA Socialists in the […]
Jacobin #44 – The Left in Purgatory
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Catalyst 5.4
£9.95Discussion of capitalism is not off the table any longer. Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy launches with the aim of doing everything it can to promote and deepen this conversation. […]
Catalyst 5.4
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Hope not hate #45: Radicalisation – How do you come back from the brink?
£7.00HOPE not hate magazine is a quarterly publication providing detailed analysis, major interviews, incisive investigations, reportage and other exclusives, it’s essential reading for all those committed to the fight against […]
Staff Picks
Assembly
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The Mercies
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Abolishing the Police
£8.00Dog Section Press, 2021 / paperback, 247 pages Join Koshka Duff, the editor of Abolishing the Police, and some of the book’s contributors for an exploration of anti-police theory and […]
Abolishing the Police
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Terminal Boredom : Stories
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Postcapitalist Desire : The Final Lectures
£12.99by Fisher, Mark, Colquhoun, Matt Humanities Hardback
Postcapitalist Desire : The Final Lectures
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
£14.99by Rickard, Scarlett, Rickard, Sophie, Tressell, Robert Fiction & related items Paperback
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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Anarchy In Action
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The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
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Chav Solidarity by D. Hunter
£10.00The Class Work Project (3rd edition 2021, paperback) To the political left Hunter’s people are the ignorant and the ill informed, to the victorious right they are the unwashed and […]
Chav Solidarity by D. Hunter
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