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Poor: The No. 1 bestseller – ‘Moving, uplifting, brave heroic’ BBC Woman’s Hour by Katriona O'Sullivan 9780241996768
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.51The No. 1 BestsellerBiography of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023The Last Word Listeners' Choice Award, Irish Book Awards 2023'One of the best [books] I have read about the complexities of poverty . ... -
The Road to Wigan Pier (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
RRP: $5.15Booksplease Price: $3.78HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer. In the... -
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.98A TLS, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020The new bestseller from the acclaimed author of Justice and one of the world's most popular philosophers"Astute, insightful, and empathetic...A... -
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.31THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Coming November 2020 as a major motion picture from Netflix starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close 'The political book of the year' Sunday... -
Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass by Darren McGarvey
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.31Brutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about poverty.The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.Winner of the Orwell... -
Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives Alice Loxton 9781035031283
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.00THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBiggest books to look out for in 2024 - The Guardian'The star of her generation' - Dan Snow, host of History Hit'Bursting with ideas and images' - Philippa Gregory,... -
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.66The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre.Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this... -
The Little Book of Sociology: A Pocket Guide to the Study of Society Rasha Barrage 9781800077188
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.81If you've always wanted to know how societies function - and why sometimes they don't - this beginner's guide to sociology has got the essential theories and thinkers covered Sociology has almost... -
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders 9781802063110
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Galvanizing and uplifting' The Guardian'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesIt's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want... -
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen by Peter Apps
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98***WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023*** 'Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears. This one did.' Rowan Moore, Observer Book of... -
Caste: The International Bestseller by Isabel Wilkerson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.56THE TIME NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Powerful and timely ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough" - Barack ObamaBeyond race or class, our lives are defined by a... -
Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals by Oliver Bullough
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35With a new introduction on the Ukraine crisis LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 A DAILY MAIL BEST... -
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.17In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless,... -
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'His finest work and one that was both symptom and engine of the concept of "history from below" ... Here Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Muggletonians, the early Quakers and others taking advantage... -
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.79'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian ... -
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns by Kerry Hudson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.20A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain.'Totally engrossing and deliciously feisty' Bernardine Evaristo'Staggering... An absolute inspiration' Douglas Stewart,... -
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
RRP: $10.97Booksplease Price: $9.74From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce programme in Texas, American employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of... -
Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain by Jeremy Paxman
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster 'A rich social history ... Paxman's book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously' DOMINIC... -
Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum by Dean Kirby 9781783831524
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20"It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible... -
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain James Bloodworth 9781786490162
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.00Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018For many in modern... -
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Kate Pickett
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter... -
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has... -
The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged Sam Friedman (London School of Economics & Political Science) 9781447336105
Booksplease Price: $12.89Politicians continually tell us that anyone can get ahead. But is that really true? This important, best-selling book takes readers behind the closed doors of elite employers to reveal how class... -
Poor Artists The White Pube 9780241633762
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE'Irreverent, provocative and funny' Dazed'This book might change the way you look at art, or change the way you feel it' Daisy Hildyard'A full-throated defence of... -
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside by Rebecca Smith 9780008526276
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.18‘A brilliant book about another side of working-class life, not a tower block in sight. Clever and honest, tackling slavery, loss and aspiration with humour and candour. I loved it’ KIT DE WAAL ‘A... -
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.94Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael... -
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education Stephanie Land 9781982151409
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a... -
Dragged Up Proppa: Growing up in Britain’s Forgotten North by Pip Fallow 9781529050851
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.05Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us by Nick Hayes
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 2022 'Brilliant, passionate and political . . . The... -
The Communist Manifesto: The Political Classic Karl Marx 9780857088765
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62DISCOVER THE WORK THAT LAUNCHED REVOLUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD Although it was published in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is as controversial and provocative as ever. Its stirring and poetic language... -
Both Not Half: 'Few people write about identity with such fluency and sincerity' SATHNAM SANGHERA by Jassa Ahluwalia 9781788708319
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $12.15'Full of warmth, humour, optimism and sometimes painful honesty' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'Anyone who's ever struggled to make sense of who they are and where they belong should read this book' NADIA... -
Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness Nathalie Olah 9780349702247
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35TATE BOOK OF THE MONTH 2023A timely critique of consumer culture which captures this image-obsessed moment in history, perfect for fans of Zadie Smith's Feel Free and Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror... -
Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.27This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world. Presenting a clear overview of... -
Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022 by Andrea Elliott
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless... -
A Small Man's England Tommy Sissons 9781912248926
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35IS THE WHITE WORKING CLASS RIGHT-WING? AND IS IT RIGHT-WING TO EVEN SPEAK OF A "WHITE WORKING CLASS"? In recent decades, as class consciousness has been suppressed and eroded, many white... -
Postcolonial Astrology: A Radical Genealogy of the Planets Alice Sparkly Kat 9781623175306
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623175306Author Alice Sparkly KatFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
When I Dare to Be Powerful by Audre Lorde
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77'Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength... -
Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $24.26Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are... -
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian EnoWe are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off... -
The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics by David Goodhart
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'A provocative take on the UK's new tribal divisions ... a book whose timing is...