Category:Politics and Society

F

• Falling Off The Edge: Globalization, World Peace and Other Lies by Alex Perry
• Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen
• Farewell To The East End by Jennifer Worth
• Feeding Frenzy: The New Politics of Food by Paul McMahon
• A Field Guide To The British by Sarah Lyall
• Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
• Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
• Flashes of Thought: Lessons in life and leadership from the man behind Dubai by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
• Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies
• Food Bank Britain by Ray Barron Woolford
• The Food We Eat by Joanna Blythman
• Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
• Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia by Francis O'Gorman
• Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936 by Jeremy Treglown
• Freedom Next Time by John Pilger
• From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp
• From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generation by Allan Metcalf
• From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami
• Frontline by David Loyn
• The Future History of the Arctic: How climate, resources and geopolitics are reshaping the north, and why it matters to the world by Charles Emmerson
• Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America by Walid Phares
• The Future of Violence - Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones: Confronting the New Age of Threat by Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum

G

• The Games We Played by Susan Kelleher
• Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
• Geek Wisdom by Stephen H Segal
• Generation Z: Their Voices, Their Lives by Chloe Combi
• Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche for our times by Patrick West
• Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
• Global Modernity and Other Essays by Tom Rubens
• The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny by Shirin Ebadi
• A Good African Story: How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee Brand by Andrew Rugasira
• Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay Britain by Paul Flynn
• Goodbye Mr Socialism by Antonio Negri and Raf Scelsi
• The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union by T J Coles
• Guernica and Total War by Ian Patterson
• Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus by Tim Hindle
• Guilt About the Past by Bernhard Schlink
• Guilt Trip: From Fear to Guilt on the Green Bandwagon by Alex Hesz and Bambos Neophytou

H

• Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report by Iain Sinclair
• Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story by Leah Hazard
• Harry's Last Stand by Harry Leslie Smith
• Heart of Darfur by Lisa French Blaker
• Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning by George Monbiot
• High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze by Jill Stark
• Himglish and Femalese: Why Women Don't Get Why Men Don't Get Them by Jean Hannah Edelstein
• The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah
• House of Fun: 20 glorious years in parliament by Simon Hoggart
• How Could She? by Dana Fowley
• How Much have Global Problems Cost the World?: A Scorecard from 1900 to 2050 by Bjorn Lomborg (Editor)
• How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser
• How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly And the Stark Choices Ahead by Dambisa Moyo
• How To Be A Conservative by Roger Scruton
• How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran
• HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes

I

• I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
• I Count by icount.org.uk
• I Should Know That - Great Britain by Emma Marriott
• I Used to Know That: History by Emma Marriott
• Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticisms 1981 - 1991 by Salman Rushdie
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• In the Name of the People: Pseudo-Democracy and the Spoiling of Our World by Ivo Mosley
• Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America by Clive Stafford-Smith
• The Insider by Piers Morgan
• Interventions by Noam Chomsky
• Inventing the Enemy: Essays on Everything by Umberto Eco
• Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery by Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur
• An Island in Time: The Biography of a Village by Geert Mak

I cont.

• It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable things by Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby

J

• Japan Through The Looking Glass by Alan Macfarlane
• Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World by Tina Rosenberg
• A Journey Through Ruins: The Last Days of London by Patrick Wright

K

• The Kid: A True Story by Kevin Lewis
• Kidnapped And Other Dispatches by Alan Johnston
• The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America by Mike McIntyre and Chris Brinkley (narrator)
• Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly

L

• The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom by Peter Popham
• Language: The Cultural Tool by Daniel Everett
• The Last Diaries: A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine by Tony Benn
• The Last Resort by Douglas Rogers
• Learning to Scream by Beate Teresa Hanika
• The Library Book by Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others
• Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back by Douglas Rushkoff
• Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy
• The Little Book of Prison by Frankie Owens
• Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City by Jonny Steinberg
• Living, Thinking, Looking by Siri Hustvedt
• The Locked Ward by Dennis O'Donnell
• The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the Industry by John Kay
• Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie
• Lost Voices: Memories of a Vanished Way of Life by Gilda O'Neill
• Lotteries in Public Life by Peter Stone (editor)
• Luxury Fashion Branding: Trends, Tactics, Techniques by Uche Okonkwo

M

• Mafia State by Luke Harding
• Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
• Man Up by Rebecca Asher
• The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch by Michael Wolff
• Massacre in Norway: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and the Utoya Youth Camp by Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)
• The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Meaning Inc.: The Rise of the 21st Century Company by Gurnek Bains et al
• The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday by Neil MacFarquhar
• Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran
• Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia by David Greene
• Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea by Donovan Hohn
• More from Our Own Correspondent by Tony Grant (Editor)
• Morse Code Wrens of Station X by Anne Glyn-Jones
• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
• Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
• Murder in the High Himalaya by Jonathan Green
• The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling by Ben Okri

N

• The Naked Man by Desmond Morris
• The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement by Jean M Twenge and W Keith Campbell
• Neither Nowt Nor Summat: In search of the meaning of Yorkshire by Ian McMillan
• The New Rulers Of The World by John Pilger
• The New Threat From Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke
• The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton
• Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: The True Story by Valerie Benaim and Yves Azeroual
• Night Games: A Journey to the Dark Side of Sport by Anna Krien
• No Expenses Spared by Robert Winnett and Gordon Rayner
• The Nolympics: One Man's Struggle Against Sporting Hysteria by Nicholas Lezard
• The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about danger by Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter
• Notebooks, 1922-86 by Michael Oakeshott
• Nothing but the Truth: Selected Dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein

O

• Of the People, By the People: A New History of Democracy by Roger Osborne
• Off Message: The Complete Antidote to Political Humbug by Bob Marshall-Andrews
• On Balance by Adam Phillips
• On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries by Richard Reynolds
• On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
• On Tolerance: The Life Style Wars: A Defence of Moral Independence by Frank Furedi
• The Open Road by Pico Iyer
• An Otter on the Aga by Rex Harper
• Out Of Africa by Karen Blixen
• Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age by George Brock

O cont.

• Out of the Ashes: Britain After the Riots by David Lammy
• Outraged of Tunbridge Wells: Original Complaints from Middle England by Nigel Cawthorne
• Outskirts by John Grindrod

P

• Palestinian Walks: Notes from a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
• Panicology by Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams
• Peas and Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners by Sandi Toksvig
• People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's Shadows by Richard Parry
• Pill City by Kevin Deutsch
• Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown by John Campbell
• A Place In My Country: In Search Of A Rural Dream by Ian Walthew
• Play It Again: An Amateur Against The Impossible by Alan Rusbridger
• Pocket World in Figures 2015 by The Economist
• Politics of Fear: Beyond Left and Right by Frank Furedi
• Politics: Between the Extremes by Nick Clegg
• Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back by Matthew d'Ancona
• Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches by John Prescott
• The Progressive Patriot by Billy Bragg
• Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain by Kate Harrad

Q

• Quicksand by Henning Mankell

R

• Radical Hope by Carolina de Robertis
• A Rainbow in the Night by Dominique Lapierre
• Raising My Voice: The Extraordinary Story of the Afghan Woman Who Dares to Speak Out by Malalai Joya
• Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
• The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight From Tyranny by Jeremy Seabrook
• Reversing Global Warming For Profit by Bill Butterworth
• Richi$tan: A Journey Through the 21st Century Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert Frank
• The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
• Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear by Dan Gardner
• The Romantic Economist by Richard Bronk
• Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life by John Campbell
• The Royal Enigma by Krishna Bhatt
• Rush Hour by Iain Gately

S

• The Sarkozy Phenomenon by Nick Hewlett
• School Blues by Daniel Pennac
• School Daze: Searching for a Decent State Education by Andrew Penman
• Schott's Almanac 2008 by Ben Schott
• Screwing Up by Mark Oaten
• The Second Plane by Martin Amis
• The Secret Life of France by Lucy Wadham
• The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict by Peter Beaumont
• The Secrets of Happiness by Richard Schoch
• Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
• Sex, Science and Profits by Terence Kealey
• Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London by Jennifer Worth
• Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts Advertisement by Francesca Beauman
• The Shock of the Old by David Edgerton
• Shopped by Joanna Blythman
• Signing Their Rights Away by Denise Kiernan
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• Skeptoid 2: More Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena by Brian Dunning
• The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski
• The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to be Brave by Polly Morland
• Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
• The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better For Everyone by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
• Stand and Deliver: A Design for Successful Government by Ed Straw
• The Strategy Of Antelopes: Rwanda After the Genocide by Jean Hatzfeld
• Stripped: The Bare Reality of Lap Dancing by Jennifer Hayashi Danns and Leveque Sandrine
• Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster by Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill
• Struggle or Starve by Carole White and Sian Williams
• The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
• Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You About Diet, Thrift and Going Green by Patricia Nicol
• Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants: Letters from a doctor abroad by Saqib Noor
• Swell by Jenny Landreth
• Sylvia Pankhurst: The Rebellious Suffragette by Shirley Harrison

T

• The Tail by Paul Marshall
• Take Me to the Source: In Search of Water by Rupert Wright