Politics/Current Affairs

An urgent exploration of the challenges facing democracy today

Part of Virago's Five Gold Reads: Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's history, from the 1970s to today. Representing the 2000s, Natasha Walter's highly acclaimed, controversial and much needed look at our highly sexualised culture

How did we get from the end of the Cold War to Trump and Putin?

A shocking compendium of what happens when outsourcing goes wrong - the horrifying stories, damning statistics and what we do now

We are not entering a new era of fake news - we are finally facing up to the world we live in.

An extraordinary, evocative investigation into the legacy of the controversial one-child policy across all of Chinese society

Has political correctness gone too far?

How I became an abolitionist: a memoir of Black Lives Matter

An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China-told through the microcosm of one small town

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

Essential reading for students of African-American history

An investigation into what makes the consistency of political groupings

A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle
Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history's most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common ground, ...

The environment is collapsing at a rapid rate, and in increasingly unpredictable ways. How should the left respond? Building on the debates surrounding the Green New Deal, Lawrence and Laybourn-Langton argue that it is not enough merely to spend our way out of the crisis. Instead we need to rapidly change ...

When capitalism doesn't fight climate change but rather tries to make a buck out of it

An impassioned exploration of the ways in which social media has manipulated us all

The first book from a former intelligence community insider

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. “A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say . . . hope?”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS ...

For much of the world, Iran's 2009 summer of upheaval was an epic piece of theatre distantly observed. This title tells the story of these historic months, from the mass marches that greeted the disputed election results to their brutal suppression by the hated Basij militia - and a dark aftermath of imprisonment.

The Times bestseller

FT Book of the Year

On 3 April 2020, Kate Bingham was told that the likelihood of any Covid-19 vaccine working was 15% at best. But on 8 December 2020, the first NHS patient received a vaccine. Now nearly every adult in Britain has had a jab, lockdowns have ended and we can finally ...