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