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  • Superior

    Superior

    £9.99

    Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. After the horrors of the Nazi regime in WWII, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of eugenicists founded journals and funded research, providing…

  • The Patriarchs: How Men Came To Rule

    The Patriarchs: How Men Came To Rule

    £10.99

    For fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it For centuries, societies have treated male domination as natural to the human species. But how would our understanding of gender inequality—our imagined past and contested present—…

  • Inferior

    Inferior

    £9.99

    From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story. Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an eye-opening journey to uncover how women are being rediscovered….

  • Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

    Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

    £10.99

    In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren’t affected by it. She posted a piece on her blog, entitled: ‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race’ that led to this book. Exploring…

  • Hood Feminism

    Hood Feminism

    £9.99

    : Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot. Today’s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist…

  • Queenie

    Queenie

    £8.99

    British Book Awards Book of the Year. Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend,…

  • Empress and Aniya

    Empress and Aniya

    £7.99

    The first YA novel from the bestselling author of Queenie. When Empress starts at Aniya’s school, they’re not exactly best friends. But, when the two teenage girls accidentally cast a spell on their 16th birthday and end up switching bodies, they quickly learn that friendship is the most important magic of all. South London’s answer…

  • Pig Heart Boy

    Pig Heart Boy

    £7.99

    A powerful story about friendship, loyalty and family around this topical and controversial issue’ – Guardian’An engrossing story’ – Daily Telegraph’ That’s all I ever did – watch and listen. I was always a spectator, never a participant. I didn’t call that living. I was alive – but that was all.’Cameron is thirteen, and all…