The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2018 Shortlist

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2018. Now in its seventh year, the Bread & Roses Award seeks to celebrate excellence in the field of radical political non-fiction.

The winner will be announced by guest judges Joan Anim-Addo, Katherine Quarmby and Owen Hatherley at a ceremony at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday 2nd June 2018. Also announced at this ceremony will be the ARB’s children’s prize, The Little Rebel’s Children’s Book Award, the shortlist for which will be revealed on Thursday 3rd May.

The Shortlist

‘Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race’
Reni Eddo-Lodge [Bloomsbury Circus]

‘Border: A Journey To The Edge Of Europe’
Kapka Kassabova [Granta]

‘Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands’
Stuart Hall (w. Bill Schwarz) [Penguin Allen Lane]

‘Nasty Women’
Heather McDaid (Editor), Laura Jones (Editor) [404INK]

‘The Violence of Austerity’
Vickie Cooper, David Whyte (editors) [Pluto Press]

‘Sound System: The Political Power of Music’
Dave Randall [Pluto Press]

Award ceremony

The award ceremony for the award is taking place at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday 2nd June, hosted this year at Goldsmiths University, London. The winner of the award will receive a cheque for £500, funded by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers

Provisional details about this year’s bookfair can be found at: https://londonradicalbookfair.wordpress.com

Our guest judges

Katharine Quarmby is an award winning author and journalist, working in both TV and print journalism. Amongst her work she was assistant producer on Panorama, working on many controversial political and foreign films, and has the rare honour of being the only person to be shortlisted for both of the ARB’s book prizes: the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Fiction, for her book No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers (One World, 2013) and the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award Ossiri and the Bala Mengro, (Child’s Play International, with Richard O’Neill, 2016)

Owen Hatherley is a writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture. His most recent books include A New Kind of Bleak (Verso, 2012), Landscapes of Communism (Allen Lane, 2015), The Ministry of Nostalgia (Verso, 2016)

Professor Joan Anim-Addo has been the Director of the then Centre for Caribbean Studies at Goldmsiths, and is currently convenor for the undergraduate option: Caribbean Women’s Writing and also the Pathway ‘Literature of the Caribbean and its Diasporas’ within the MA Comparative Literary Studies programme.

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The Bread and Roses Submission List 2018

We are very happy to announce here the books submitted for the 2018 award, which this year features a record 63 entries. To qualify, all titles must fit the award’s political requirements, and have been published in 2017 by an author who is primarily resident in the UK.

The Shortlist will be announced on the 24th April 2018, and the award ceremony will be taking place at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday 2nd June 2018. This year’s bookfair will be held at Goldsmiths University’s Great Hall.

Our thanks to all publishers and authors who have submitted titles.
The Submission List is presented here in alphabetical order, by publisher.

Nasty Women	Heather McDaid (Editor), Laura Jones (Editor)	404INK
Bitch Doctrine: Essays For Dissenting Adults	Laurie Penny	Bloomsbury
Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were	Philip Lymbery	Bloomsbury
How To Resist: Turn Protest To Power	Matthew Bolton	Bloomsbury
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race	Reni Eddo-Lodge	Bloomsbury Circus
Politics Of The Mind: Marxism And Mental Distress	Iain Ferguson	Bookmark
Reader’s Guide To Marx’s Capital, A	Joseph Choonara	Bookmark
Know Your Place	Nathan Connolly (Editor)	Dead Ink
Post-Truth	Matthew D’Ancona	Ebury Press
Confessions Of A Recovering Environmentalist	Paul Kingsnorth	Faber & Faber
Future Sex: A New Kind Of Free Love	Emily Witt	Faber & Faber
Secret Life: Three True Stories	Andrew O’Hagan	Faber & Faber
Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win The White House	Luke Harding	Faber & Faber / Guardian
Dismembered: How The Atack On The State Harms Us All	Polly Toynbee, David Walker	Faber & Faber / Guardian
Border: A Journey To The Edge Of Europe	Kapka Kassabova	Granta
Island: A Journey Around Our Archipelago	Patrick Barkham	Granta
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind	Rachel Hewitt	Granta
Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, The Russians and the Jazz Age	Timothy Phillips	Granta
Strange Labrinth	Will Ashton	Granta
To Be A Machine	Mark O’Connell	Granta
Attack of the 50 Ft. Women: How Gender Equality Can Save The World!	Catherine Mayer	HarperCollins HQ
Diversify: Six Degrees of Integration	June Sarpong	HarperCollins HQ
Struggle Or Starve	Sean Mitchell	Haymarket
Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration & the Fate of Western Democracy	Sasha Polakow-Suransky	Hurst
Mask And The Flag, The	Paolo Gerbaudo	Hurst
Gender Agenda, The	Ros Ball, James Millar	JKP
How To Understand Your Gender	Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker	JKP
Justice For Laughing Boy	Sara Ryan	JKP
To My Trans Sisters	Charlie Craggs (Editor)	JKP
1984: India’s Guilty Secret	Pav Singh	Kashi House
Communism And Democracy	Mike Makin-Waite	Lawrence&Wishart
Corbyn Effect, The	Mark Perryman (Editor)	Lawrence&Wishart
Disarming The Nuclear Argument: The Truth About Nuclear Weapons	Timmon Milne Wallis	Luath Press
Poverty Safari	Darren McGarvey	Luath Press
Equality Effect: Improving Life For Everyone	Danny Dorling	New Internationalist
Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes & the Schooling of a Ruling Cl	Alex Renton	Orion
Big Capital: Who Is London For?	Anna Minton	Penguin
Bread For All : The Origins of the Welfare State	Chris Renwick	Penguin Allen Lane
Familiar Stranger	Stuart Hall (w. Bill Schwarz)	Penguin Allen Lane
Of Women	Shami Chakrabarti	Penguin Allen Lane
Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen	Guy Standing	Penguin Pelican
Believe	Nicola Adams	Penguin Viking
Plant Messiah, The	Carlos Magdalena	Penguin Viking
Balfour’s Shadow	David Cronin	Pluto Press
Death Of Homo Economicus, The	Peter Fleming	Pluto Press
Looking To London	Cynthia Cockburn	Pluto Press
People’s History Of The Russian Revolution, A	Neil Faulkner	Pluto Press
The Violence of Austerity	Vickie Cooper, David Whyte (editors)	Pluto Press
Sound System: The Political Power Of Music	Dave Randall	Pluto Press
Student  Revolt	Matt Meyers	Pluto Press
What Is Islamophobia	Massoumi, Mills & Miller (Editors)	Pluto Press
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways To Think Like a 21st Centu	Kate Rowarth	Random House
Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic	Lynn Gaspard (Editor)	Saqi
The Things I Would Tell You	Sabrina Mahfouz (Editor)	Saqi
Client Earth	James Thornton, Martin Goodman	Scribe
End Of Politicians, The	Brett Henning	Unbound
How To Be A Craftivist: The Art Of Gentle Protest	Sarah Corbett	Unbound
Body Positive Power	Megan Jayne Crabbe	Vermillion
Fearless Benjamin Lay, The	Marcus Rediker	Verso
New Poverty, The	Stephen Armstrong	Verso
October	China Meiville	Verso
Out Of The Wreckage: A New Politics For An Age Of Crisis	George Monbiot	Verso
Radical Happiness	Lynne Segal	Verso
Divide: A Brief Guide To Global Inequality & It’s Solutions	Jason Hickel	William Heinemann
Radicals: Outsiders Changing The World	Jamie Bartlett	William Heinemann

Submissions welcome for the 2018 Bread & Roses Award

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) is happy to announce that submissions are now being welcomed for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2018. The Bread and Roses Award celebrates non-fiction which is

• informed by socialist, anarchist, environmental, feminist and anti-racist concerns
• inspires, supports or reports on political and/or personal change
• accessible and readable by the interested reader
• relates to global, national, local or specialist areas of interest

Previous winners have included:

David Graeber’s ‘Debt: The First 5,000 Years’ (Melville House, 2011),
Hsiao-Hung Pai’s ‘Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants’ (Verso, 2012),
Joe Glenton’s ‘Soldier Box: Why I Won’t Return to the War on Terror’ (Verso, 2013)
‘Here We Stand: Women Changing The World’, edited by Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones (Honno Press, 2014)
‘The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh’ by Jeremy Seabrook  (Hurst, 2015)
‘The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power’ by Alex Nunns (OR Books, 2016)

Award ceremony and prize money

The award will be awarded at the London Radical Bookfair, to be held on a Saturday in June 2018 (precise date tbc). This 2018 London Radical Bookfair will  be taking place at Goldsmiths University.

There is one prize of £500 to the winning title. The prize is run in conjunction with the ARB’s prize for progressive children’s writing, The Little Rebels Children’s Book Award.

Submissions

PLEASE NOTE A NEW MAILING ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSIONS TO THIS YEAR’S AWARD.

For full submissions criteria please visit Bread and Roses website:
https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/faqs

Crucially, submitted books must have been published in 2017 and books must be written, or largely written by authors or editors normally living in the UK.

‘The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power’ by Alex Nunns wins the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) is delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing as ‘The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power’ by Alex Nunns and published by OR Books.

The judges greatly appreciated this exploration of the deep roots of the Corbyn phenomenon. In The Candidate, Nunns shows that Corbyn’s victories weren’t the accidental consequence of other candidates’ failures, but were built on the work of an energised, thoughtful and committed movement of citizen-campaigners.

Cogent, optimistic, well-written and thoroughly researched, this hugely topical book records with great intimacy and insight an historical moment whose lessons mustn’t be forgotten, while also exposing the persistent forces which continue to work against social change.

Alex Nunn’s was awarded the prize and a cheque for £500 by guest judge Joan Anim-Addo at this year’s London Radical Bookfair, hosted as ever by the ARB. This year’s prize money has been generously granted by the General Federation of Trade Unions.

Guest judge Joan Anim-Addo presents Alex Nunn’s with the award.

Alex Nunns with the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017

Photos by Asya Gefter http://asyagefter.com

Book summary

In September 2015 an earthquake shook the foundations of British politics. Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong and uncompromising socialist, was elected to head the Labour Party. Corbyn didn’t just win the leadership contest, he trounced his opponents. The establishment was aghast. The official opposition now had as its leader a man with a plan, according to the conservative Daily Telegraph, “to turn Britain into Zimbabwe.”

How this remarkable twist of events came about is the subject of Alex Nunns’ highly readable and richly researched account. Drawing on first-hand interviews with those involved in the campaign, including its most senior figures, Nunns traces the origins of Corbyn’s victory in the dissatisfaction with Blairism stirred by the Iraq War and the 2008 financial crash, the move to the left of the trade unions, and changes in the electoral rules of the Labour Party that turned out to be surreally at odds with the intentions of those who introduced them. The system of one-member-one-vote, which delivered Corbyn’s success, was opposed by those on the left and was heralded by Tony Blair who described it as “a long overdue reform that… I should have done myself.”

Giving full justice to the dramatic swings and nail-biting tensions of an extraordinary summer in UK politics, Nunns’ telling of a story that has received widespread attention but little understanding is as illuminating as it is entertaining. He teases out a plotline of such improbability that it would be unusable in a work of fiction, providing the first convincing explanation of a remarkable phenomenon with enormous consequences for the left in Britain and beyond.

For more info please visit the OR Book website:
http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-candidate/?utm_source=Bread%20and%20Roses&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=Candidate

The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017 Shortlist

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017. Now in its sixth year, the Bread & Roses Award seeks to celebrate excellence in the field of radical political non-fiction.

The winner will be announced by guest judges Joan Anim-Addo, Vera Chok and Owen Hatherley  at a ceremony at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday 24^th June 2017. Also announced at this ceremony will be the ARB’s children’s prize, The Little Rebel’s Children’s Book Award, the shortlist for which is now also announced.

THE 2017 SHORTLIST 

‘Lean Out’ by Dawn Foster (Repeater Books)
http://repeaterbooks.com/books/lean-out-dawn-foster

‘The Hammer Blow: How 10 Women Disarmed a War Plane’ by Andrea Needham (Peace News)
http://www.peacenews.info/node/8245/hammer-blow-–-how-10-women-disarmed-warplane

‘The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power’ by Alex Nunns (OR Books)
http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-candidate

‘This is the Place to Be’ by Lara Pawson (CB Editions)
http://www.cbeditions.com/pawson.html

‘See Red Women’s Workshop – Feminist Posters 1974-1990’ by See Red Members & Sheila Rowbotham (Four Corners Books)
https://seeredwomensworkshop.wordpress.com

‘The Egyptians: A Radical Story’ by Jack Shenker (Allen Lane)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/186165/the-egyptians/

‘Another Day in the Death of America’ by Gary Younge (Guardian Faber)
https://www.faber.co.uk/9781783351015-another-day-in-the-death-of-america.html

The winner of the award will receive a cheque for £500. The ARB would like to thank the General Federation of Trade Unions for funding this year’s award.

To view the submissions list for 2017 please visit: https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/the-bread-and-roses-submission-list-2017

The Bread and Roses Submission List 2017

We are very happy to announce here the books submitted for the 20167 award, which this year features 53 entries. To qualify, all titles must fit the award’s political requirements, and have been published in 2016 by an author who is primarily resident in the UK.

The Shortlist will be announced in April, and the award ceremony will be taking place at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday June 24th. This year’s bookfair will be held at Goldsmiths University’s Great Hall.

Our thanks to all publishers and authors who have submitted titles.
The Submission List is presented here in alphabetical order, by publisher.

The Egyptians: A Radical Story	Jack Shenker	Allen Lane
The Optician of Lamedusa	Emma Jane Kirby	Allen Lane
The Descent of Man	Grayson Perry	Allen Lane
1917: Russia’s Red Year	John Newsinger and Tim Sanders	Bookmarks
A Rebel’s Guide to Malcolm X	Antony Hamilton	Bookmarks
Schools Out! : The Hidden History of Britain’s School Student Strikes	Steve Cunningham & Michael Lavalette	Bookmarks
This is the Place to Be	Lara Pawson	CB Editions
Lean Logic & Surviving The Future	David Fleming & Shaun Chamberlin	Chelsea Green
Moranifesto	Caitlin Moran	Ebury Press
And the Sun Shines Now: How Hillsborough and the Premier League Changed Britain	Adrian Tempany	Faber&Faber
Gee Vaucher: An Introspective	Stevphen Shukaitis	Firstsite
See Red Women’s Workshop – Feminist Posters 1974-1990	See Red Members & Sheila Rowbotham	Four Corners Books
The Apocalypedia: A Utopian Guide to What is and What isn’t	Darren Allen	Green Books
Another Day in the Death of America	Gary Younge	Guardian Faber
The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe’s Refugee Crisis	Patrick Kingsley	Guardian Faber
The Long Depression	Michael Roberts	Haymarket
Six Authors in Search of Justice: Engaging with Political Transitions	Michael Newman	Hurst
A Revolution Undone: Egypt’s Road Beyond Revolt	H.A. Hellyer	Hurst
The Bleeding Edge: Why Capitalism Musn’t Get its Hands on New Technologies Ever Again	Bob Hughes	New Internationalist
Portraits of Violence : Ten Thinkers on Violence: A Visual Exploration	Brad Evans & Sean Michael Wilson	New Internationalist
NoNonsense Guide: Rethinking Education	Adam Unwin & John Yandell	New Internationalist
Shadow State: Inside the Secret Companies that Run Britain	Alan White	One World
Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East	Christopher M. Davidson	One World
The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power	Alex Nunns	OR Books
The Hammer Blow: How 10 Women Disarmed a War Plane	Andrea Needham	Peace News
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War	Robin Yassin-Kassab & Leila Al-Shami	Pluto
Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres	Jamie Woodcock	Pluto
The Rent Trap: How we Fell into It and How we Get Out of It	Rosie Walker & Samir Jeraj	Pluto
Cut Out: Living Without Welfare	Jeremy Seabrook	Pluto
1916: Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition	Kieran Allen	Pluto
The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation	Ian Cobain	Portobello Books
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp	Ben Rawlence	Portobello Books
Being a Beast: An Intimate and Radical Look at Nature	Charles Foster	Profile Books
Reminiscences of RAR	Roger Huddle & Red Saunders	Red Words
Lean Out	Dawn Foster	Repeater Books
Games Without Frontiers	Joe Kennedy	Repeater Books
The Long Depression	Michael Roberts	Haymarket Books
Island Story	J.D. Taylor	Repeater Books
Until We Are Fire	Shirin Ebadi	Rider
The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics and Cultural Labor After the Avant-Garde	Stevphen Shukaitis	Rowman & Littlefield
Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising 2016	Gilbert Achcar	Saqi Books
The Battle for British Islam: Reclaiming Muslim Identity from Extremism	Sara Khan	Saqi Books
The Leveller Revolution	John Rees	Verso
Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States	Sheila Rowbotham	Verso
The BBC: Myth of a Public Service	Tom Mills	Verso
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School	Stuart Jeffries	Verso
The Last Communard: Adrien Lejeune, the Unexpected Life of a Revolutionary	Gavin Bowd	Verso
Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics	Richard Seymour	Verso
Ending the War on Drugs	Richard Branson	Virgin
The Last Days of the Spanish Republic	Paul Preston	William Collins
Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics	Chris Knight	Yale
Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East	Christopher Phillips	Yale
Angry White People: Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right	Hsiao-Hung Pai	Zed Books
No Borders: The Politics of Immigration Control and Resistance,	Natasha King	Zed Books

 

Submissions now open for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) is happy to announce that submissions are now being welcomed for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017. The Bread and Roses Award celebrates non-fiction which is

• informed by socialist, anarchist, environmental, feminist and anti-racist concerns
• inspires, supports or reports on political and/or personal change
• accessible and readable by the interested reader
• relates to global, national, local or specialist areas of interest

Previous winners have included:

David Graeber’s ‘Debt: The First 5,000 Years’ (Melville House, 2011)
Hsiao-Hung Pai’s ‘Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants’ (Verso, 2012)
Joe Glenton’s ‘Soldier Box: Why I Won’t Return to the War on Terror’ (Verso, 2013)
‘Here We Stand: Women Changing The World’, edited by Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones (Honno Press, 2014)
‘The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh’ by Jeremy Seabrook (Hurst, 2015)

Guest judges

This year’s guest judges are:

Vera Chok is a writer and actor who contributed a chapter to The Good Immigrant (Book of the Year 2016, BBC Book of the Week, #1 on Guardian Books and Amazon bestseller) and is also published by the Guardian, Rising, Yauatcha Life, and The Brautigan Free Press. As a maker, Vera writes and produces mischievous and subversive pieces that investigate the construction of meaning, connection, and performativity. Vera is particularly interested in race, sex and gender and uses comedy as a weapon.

Owen Hatherley is a writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture. His most recent books include A New Kind of Bleak (Verso, 2012), Landscapes of Communism (Allen Lane, 2015), The Ministry of Nostalgia (Verso, 2016)

Professor Joan Anim-Addo has been the Director of the then Centre for Caribbean Studies at Goldmsiths, and is currently convenor for the undergraduate option: Caribbean Women’s Writing and also the Pathway ‘Literature of the Caribbean and its Diasporas’ within the MA Comparative Literary Studies programme.

Award ceremony and prize money

The prize will be awarded at the London Radical Bookfair, to be held on Saturday 24^th June 2017 in the Great Hall at Goldsmiths University, London.

There is one prize of £500 to the winning title, generously funded by the General Federation of Trade Unions. The prize is run in conjunction with the ARB’s prize for progressive children’s writing, The Little Rebels Children’s Book Award.

Submissions

For full submissions criteria and procedure please visit Bread and Roses website:
https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/faqs

Crucially, submitted books must have been published in 2016 and books must be written, or largely written by authors or editors living for the majoirty of the year in the UK.

The official deadline is 9^th January 2017, however we would  be very appreciative if the submissions could be made as soon as possible, to allow maximum time for reading.

More information and links

Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing
https://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com
The Little Rebels Children’s Book Award
www.littlerebelsaward.wordpress.com/
London Radical Bookfair
http://londonradicalbookfair.wordpress.com

Alliance of Radical Booksellers
www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk