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A cultural history of the nation’s favourite snack: Crunch: An Ode to Crisps is journalist Natalie Whittle’s love letter to the…

Crunch: An Ode to Crisps
Natalie Whittle
£18.99
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A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the nation’s leading political voices.

Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter
Gary Younge
£10.99
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A delightful, nostalgic ramble around the hostelries of London from a bygone age.

Back to the Local
Maurice Gorham
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The lively and ambitious story of the explosion of UK jazz in the context of race and cultural identity, and its…

Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story of the UK Jazz Explosion
André Marmot
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Dance Your Way Home speaks to the heart of what it is that makes us move – wherever and whenever that may…

Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor
Emma Warren
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The definitive story of Anna May Wong, the first East-Asian Hollywood star, and how she blazed a trail for the Chinese…

Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
Katie Gee Salisbury
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A luminous feat of time travel chronicling lives in a Sussex landscape from the prize-winning author of Romantic Moderns and Weatherland.

The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape
Alexandra Harris
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Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures Black gay Britain in inimitable…

Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain
Jason Okundaye
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From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood…

Hollywood: The Oral History
Jeanine Basinger
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From the Beatles to Elton John and the Rolling Stones, Tony King has been a confidante and creative muse for some…

The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music
Tony King
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An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely…

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
Tania Branigan
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An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants.

The Passengers
Will Ashon
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From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration…

Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
Cosey Fanni Tutti
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