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 |
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