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 |
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