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WATERSTONES BEST POLITICAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021

LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL


'I am absurdly excited for this book' Caroline Criado Perez

Who was the first woman elected to run a country? I bet you don't know. But if you think it's high time you knew her name, then this is the book for you. WOMEN WHO WON will profile 70 amazing elected women from the last 100 years and every single one will leave you wondering why you didn't know her story ...

Who was the first woman elected to run a country? I bet you don't know. But if you think it's high time you knew her name, then this is the book for you. WOMEN WHO WON will profile 70 amazing elected women from the last 100 years and every single one will leave you wondering why you didn't know her story ...

Award-winning campaigner and founder of the global Craftivist Collective Sarah Corbett shows how to respond to injustice not with apathy or aggression, but with gentle, effective protest. This is a manifesto - for a more respectful and contemplative activism; for conversation and collaboration where ...

Online romance fraud is a growing problem across the globe, and it's something that causes both financial and emotional devastation, yet many people refuse t o take it seriously. This is the story of one cardiganed crusader who is determined to understand how and why online romance fraud is becoming ...

An important book about the challenges and opportunities facing environmental policy in the European Union.

The most comprehensive examination to date of the claim that Islam, as a system of scripture, law and spirituality, is antiblack

Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisons

New updated edition includes the impact of COVID on Britain's 14 million disabled people

Few subjects invoke such passion as the history and current situation of Jews in Western societies. The author, a progressive Rabbi with many years' experience of dealing with other faiths and other Jews, takes the most difficult issues of this fraught relationship and confronts them head on.

David Runciman grapples with how character defines and limits the holders of the highest offices in the UK and America.

The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler–it does.

Towards the end of 2021, Britain had been frogmarched into an escalating series of surreal calamities. Brexit was a disaster, the NHS was in crisis, the government was bathed head-to-toe in impropriety, ...

A blistering, galvanising essay from Eimear McBride, award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.

The urgent story of this country's biggest crisis, told through the lives of those it most affects.

The heartbreaking, liberating truth about what racism has cost all of us.

A testimony of how our government has undermined our democratic principles from a barrister who took the Prime Minister to court

A Sunday Times bestseller and Financial Times Book of the Year.

The unmissable inside story of the race against the virus.

Catapulted into an international crisis, Kate Bingham knew the odds were heavily stacked against a workable Covid-19 vaccine.

From a remote cottage, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, ...