Human rights, civil rights

  • Patriot

    £10.99

    Alexei Navalny began writing ‘Patriot’ shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total conviction that change cannot be resisted – and will come. In vivid, page-turning detail, including never-before-seen correspondence from prison, Navalny recounts, among other things, his political career, the many attempts on his life, and the lives of the people closest to him, and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly dictatorial regime.

  • Human rights

    £10.99

    After the devastation of World War Two, the international community came together to enshrine fundamental rights to refuge, health, education and living standards, for privacy, fair trials and free speech, and outlawing torture, slavery and discrimination. Their goal was greater global justice, equality, and peace. That settlement is now in danger, attacked by opponents from across the political spectrum and populist and authoritarian movements worldwide. This book provides a powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedoms.

  • The fire next time

    £5.99

    Told in the form of two intensely personal ‘letters’, ‘The Fire Next Time’ is an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice, drawn from Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and his experience as a prominent cultural figure of the civil rights movement.

  • Engulfed

    £22.00

    In forensic detail, ‘Engulfed’ uncovers how the House of Saud zeroed in on the political power of sport to save itself from the PR damage caused by one of the most infamous assassinations in history. It examines how they have bet on sport’s, and especially football’s, extreme polarisation, using it to radicalise whole cities and fanbases, and subvert democratic institutions for faraway political ends. It’s the story of a plot to use sport to wash away the stains of a crime and how a compliant west was easily bought, and sold, in the process.

  • The incarcerations

    £12.99

    A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE

    A FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZE

    A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

    ‘A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy, exposing an arsenal of lethal weapons, some wielded on the streets, others in the courts and press’ NAOMI KLEIN

    ‘Essential reading’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS

  • The prosecutor

    £22.00

    Returning to Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, Fritz Bauer – a gay Jewish lawyer and outspoken critic of Hitler – was determined to reclaim the Germany he had once loved. But he soon saw that the perpetrators of the Holocaust had largely got away with their crimes. Top Nazi officers – mass-murders and cruel sadists – had been given plum jobs at major German companies; held prestigious offices in top universities; were in positions of power as lawyers, judges and political advisors. The war was over and many were keen to forget and move on. Thus began Bauer’s dogged fight for justice and a reckoning with the past. Drawing on recently released CIA files, unpublished family papers and secret diaries, this is the story of one man’s battle to bring down the perpetrators of the greatest crime in human history, and to make sure the world never forgets what happened.

  • Equality

    £14.99

    Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don’t understand it? As much as we have struggled for equality, we have always been profoundly sceptical about it. How much do we want, and for whom? Darrin McMahon’s ‘Equality’ is the definitive intellectual history, tracing equality’s global origins and spread from the dawn of humanity through the Enlightenment to today.

  • The science of racism

    £20.00

    How do we know if racism really exists? And, if it does, how big a problem is it for the outcomes of people of colour? Only science has the answers to some of society’s most pressing questions.

  • Unfortunately, she was a nymphomaniac

    £22.00

    ‘Pacy, witty and authoritative’ Jonathan Freedland

    ‘In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern? a powerful and important book’ Daily Telegraph

  • Crimes against humanity

    £20.00

    Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder. He shows how human rights standards can be enforced against cruel governments, armies and multi-national corporations. This seminal work contains a critical perspective on events such as the invasion of Iraq, the abuses at Abu Ghraib, the killings in Darfur, the death of Milosevic and the trial of Saddam Hussein. Cautiously optimistic about ending impunity, but unsparingly critical of diplomats, politicians, Bush lawyers and others who evade international rules, this book will provide further guidance to a movement which aims to make justice predominant in world affairs.

  • Patriot

    £25.00

    Alexei Navalny began writing ‘Patriot’ shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total conviction that change cannot be resisted – and will come. In vivid, page-turning detail, including never-before-seen correspondence from prison, Navalny recounts, among other things, his political career, the many attempts on his life, and the lives of the people closest to him, and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly dictatorial regime.

  • Recognising the stranger

    £9.99

    Award-winning author of ‘The Parisian’ and ‘Enter Ghost’ Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Lecture at Columbia University nine days before 7 October 2023. The text of Hammad’s seminal speech and her afterword written in the early weeks of 2024 together make up a searing appraisal of the war on Palestine during what feels like a turning point in the narrative of human history. Moving and erudite, Hammad writes from within the moment, giving voice to the Palestinian struggle for freedom.

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