The Bread and Roses Award 2020 online ceremony

On September 23rd 2020 the ninth Bread and Roses Award ceremony was held online. The six shortlisted authors spoke eloquently about their books, and Helena Earnshaw, representing the judges, spoke about the judging process, the shortlisted books, and announced the winner. You can watch the video of the event here – the winner’s speech is not to be missed!

Bread & Roses Award 2020 Online Award Ceremony

Please join us for this year’s Bread & Roses Award 2020 Online Award Ceremony, taking place at 7pm on Wednesday 23rd September. The event is free; all you have to do take part in this live streamed event is register by emailing events@fiveleaves.co.uk and you will be sent the necessary link.

Taking part in the ceremony and introducing their books will be shortlisted authors:
Becky Alexis-Martin, Kate Charlesworth, Priyamvada Gopal, Ruth Kinna, Johny Pitts and senior editor at Verso Leo Hollis speaking on behalf of Frances Ryan.

They will be joined by guest judges, the previous Bread & Roses winners :Helena Earnshaw, Angharad Penrhyn Jones, and Hsiao-Hung Pai.

The event will be hosted by Ross Bradshaw of Five Leaves Bookshop.

The Bread and Roses Award is a book prize with a difference: presented by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers, and without the backing of corporate sponsors, the award seeks to recognise and celebrate excellence in the field of radical political non-fiction. An award of £500 will be made to the winning author.

The Bread and Roses Submission List 2020

We are very happy to announce here the books submitted for the 2020 award. To qualify, all titles must fit the award’s political requirements, and have been published in 2019 by an author who is primarily resident in the UK.

Due to uncertainties created by the Covid-19 pandemic the dates of the shortlist and award ceremony are currently being rescheduled.

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

Title	Author	Publisher
A Left for Itself: Left-wing Hobbyists and Performative Radicalism	David Swift	Zero
A Seat at the Table: Interviews with Women on the Frontline	Amy Raphael	Virago
A Virtue of Disobedience	Asim Qureshi	Unbound
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe	Johny Pitts	Allen Lane
All Together Now?: One Man’s Walk in Search of His Father and a Lost England	Mike Carter	Guardian / Faber
Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus	Sandi Toksvig	Virago
Billionaires	Darryl Cunningham	Myriad
BOSH! How to Live Vegan	Henry Firth and Ian Theasby	HQ
Brave New Words	Susheila Nasta (Editor)	Myriad
Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being	Paul Mason	Allen Lane
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War	Duncan White	Little Brown
Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers	Kit De Waal (Editor)	Unbound
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People	Frances Ryan	Verso
Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima	Becky Alexis-Martin	Pluto Press
Don’t Touch my Hair	Emma Dabiri	Allen Lane
Equal: How We Fix the Gender Pay Gap	Carrie Gracie	Virago
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History	Richard J Evans	Little Brown
Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires	James Walvin	Robinson
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want	Rob Hopkins	Chelsea Green
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto	Aaron Bastani	Verso
Give Birth Like a Feminist	Milli Hill	HQ
The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism	Ruth Kinna	Pelican
Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats	Maya Goodfellow	Verso
How to be Autistic	Charlotte Amelia Poe	Myriad
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent	Priyamvada Gopal	Verso
It’s About Bloody Time. Period.	Emma Barnett	HQ
Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel	Gardner Thompson	Saqi
Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India	K.S. Komireddi	Hurst
Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World	Christopher Wylie	Profile
Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City	Alev Adil et al (Editors)	Saqi
One Man’s Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA	Daniel Finn	Verso
Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham	Jon Bloomfield	Unbound
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth	Guy Standing	Pelican
The Prison Doctor	Amanda Brown	HQ
Protest and Power: The Battle for the Labour Party	David Kogan	Bloomsbury
Rife: Twenty-One Stories from Britain’s Youth	Nikesh Shukla and Sammy Jones (Editors)	Unbound
Roaring Girls: The Forgotten Feminists of British History	Holly Kyte	HQ
Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide – A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020	Kate Charlesworth	Myriad
Sex, Power, Money	Sara Pascoe	Faber
Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen	Sabrina Mahfouz (Editor)	Westbourne Press
Stage Invasion: Poetry and the Spoken Word Renaissance	Peter Bearder	Out-Spoken
Surrender	Joanna Pocock	Fitzcarraldo
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health	Nathan Filer	Faber
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality	Peter Pomerantsev	Faber
Tunnel Vision	Kevin Beathnach	Faber
We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post War Britain	Daniel Sonabend	Verso
What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway): Women’s Voices from East London to Ethiopia	Nimko Ali	Penguin Viking
Where Are the Women?: A Guide To An Imagined Scotland	Sara Sheridan	Historic Environment Scotland
The Windrush BetrayalThe Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment	Amelia Gentleman	Guardian / Faber
Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can’t Have It All in a Free Market Economy	Vicky Pryce	Hurst

 

 

 

The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2019 Shortlist

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2019. Now in its eighth year, the Bread & Roses Award seeks to celebrate excellence in the field of radical political non-fiction.

In a change to previous years, the 2019 award is being facilitated, adjudicated and funded solely by Alliance of Radical Booksellers members. The £500 prize will be awarded to the winner at a special event to be held at the Bread & Roses Theatre, King’s Cross, on Tuesday 11th June, 2019.

Please do also visit the website of our sister book prize, The Little Rebel’s Children’s Book Award, to view the recently announced shortlist of the best books published in the UK for readers aged 0-12.

Clicking on the publisher link alongside each title will take you to a relevant page with more information about each title.

The Shortlist

‘Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire’ by Akala (Two Roads)

‘Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism’ edited by June Eric-Udorie (Virago)

‘Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right’ by Liz Fekete (Verso)

‘Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights by Juno Mac and Molly Smith (Verso)

‘Lights In The Distance:  Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe’ by Daniel Trilling (Picador)

‘Alt Right: From 4chan to the White House’ by Mike Wendling (Pluto Press)

The Bread and Roses Submission List 2019

We are very happy to announce here the books submitted for the 2019 award. To qualify, all titles must fit the award’s political requirements, and have been published in 2018 by an author who is primarily resident in the UK.

The Shortlist will be announced very soon, and the award ceremony will be taking place at the Bread &  Roses Theatre space, King’s Cross, on Tuesday 11th June 2019. More information on that to come.

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

A New Jerusalem	Benjamin Dickinson	9781780264424	New Internationalist
A Party With Socialists In It: A History of the Labour Left	Simon Hannah	9780745337470	Pluto Press
A Radical History of the World	Neil Faulkner	9780745338040	Pluto Press
A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques	Allison Vale	9781472140074	Little Brown
A Writer Of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger	Joshua Sperling	9781786637420	Verso
Against Creativity	Oli Mould	9781786636492	Verso
Alt. Right	Mike Wendling	9780745337456	Pluto Press
Bad Girls	Caitlin Davies	9781473647749	John Murray
Bullshit Jobs	David Graeber	9780241263884	Allen Lane
Burning Country	Robin Yassin-Kassab & Leila Al-Shami	9780745337821	Pluto Press
Burning Up	Simon Pirani	9780745335612	Pluto Press
Can We All Be Feminists?	June Eric-Udorie (Ed.)	9780349009872	Virago
Class Matters	Charles Umney	9780745337081	Pluto Press
Cracks In The Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine / Israel	Ben White	9780745337616	Pluto Press
Decolonising University	Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nişancıoğlu (Eds)	9780745338200	Pluto Press
England’s Discontents: Political Cultures and National Identities	Mike Wayne	9780745399331	Pluto Press
Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters With Syrian Refugees	Olivier Kugler	9781912408122	Myriad
Europe’s Fault Lines	Liz Fekete	9781784787226	Verso
Fallout: A Journey Through The Nuclear Age	Fred Pearce	9781846276255	Portabello
For A Left Populism	Chantal Mouffe	9781786637550	Verso
Four Feet Under	Tamsen Courtney	9781783525720	Unbound
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed By Tech	Jamie Suskind	9780198825616	Oxford U.P.
Game Changer: Eight Weeks That Transformed Politics	Steve Howell	9781786155863	Accent Press
Guilty Feminist, The	Deborah Frances-White	9780349010144	Virago
Hara Hotel	Teresa Thornhill	9781786635198	Verso
How The World Thinks: A Global History Of Philosophy	Julian Baggini	9781783782284	Granta
Inner Level, The	Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett	9781846147418	Allen Lane
John Maclean: Hero Of Red Clydeside	Henry Bell	9780745338385	Pluto Press
K-Punk	Mark Fisher	9781912248285	Repeater
Kill All The Gentlemen	Martin Empson	9781910885697	Bookmarks
Lee Lozano: Not Working	Jo Applin	9780300223279	Yale U.P.
Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service	Melissa Benn	9781788732208	Verso
Lights In The Distance	Daniel Trilling	9781509815616	Picador
Marx and Marxism	Gregory Claeys	9780141983486	Pelican
National Populism: The Revolt Against Democracy	Roger Eatwell & Matthew Goodwin	9780241312001	Pelican
Natives	Akala	9781473661219	Two Roads
Never Again: Rock Against Racism	David Renton	9781138502710	Taylor & Francis
Night March	Alpa Shah	9781849049900	Hurst
Nine Pints: Through the Miysterious, Miraculous World Of Blood	Rose George	9781846276125	Portabello
Picture Book Professors	Melissa M. Terras	9781108438452	Cambridge Elements
Propaganda Blitz	David Edwards & David Cromwell (Eds)	9780745338118	Pluto Press
Radical Help	Hilary Cottham	9780349009070	Virago
Radical Sacrifice	Terry Eagleton	9780300233353	Yale U.P.
Revolting Prostitutes	Juno Mac & Molly Smith	9781786633606	Verso
Talking To North Korea	Glyn Ford	9780745337852	Pluto Press
The Ebb of the Pink Tide: The Decline of the Left in Latin America	Mike Gonzalez	9780745399966	Pluto Press
The Human Planet	Simon L. Lewis & Mark A. Maslin	9780241280881	Pelican
The Inking Woman	Nicola Streeten & Cath Tate	9780995590083	Myriad
The Memory We Could Be	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	9781780264400	New Internationalist
To Provide All People	Owen Sheers	9780571348077	Faber
Trans Britain	Christine Burns (Ed.)	9781783524716	Unbound
Trans Europe Express	Owen Hatherley	9780141988320	Allen Lane
When Words Fail: A Life With Music, War and Peace	Ed Vulliamy	9781783783366	Granta

 

Joint winners of the Bread & Roses Award 2018 announced

‘Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands’ by Stuart Hall (with Bill Schwarz)
and
‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race’ by Reni Eddo-Lodge
joint winners of the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2018

In a first for the Bread & Roses Award, the guest judges have given this year’s prize to two books, ‘Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands’ by Stuart Hall (with Bill Schwarz) and ‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race’ by Reni Eddo-Lodge.

The award is given by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) and was presented to Bill Schwarz  by guest judge Joan Anim-Addo, at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday 2nd June.

Bread & Roses Award Trustee, Nik Gorecki, on the sharing of the award.“The decision to share the award was predicated on the notion that these two exceptional books compliment one another so well, offering two different approaches and levels of insight into the inter-relational dynamics of racism.

Stuart Hall drew on a lifetime of experience and academic learning to offer a subtle yet complex perspective on empire, colonialism and identity. Reni Eddo-Lodge’s direct writing style captures the immediacy of political discourse in the social media age, and unflinchingly turns a spotlight on the too-often unacknowledged manifestations of racism across society. The two books together provide readers with a rich inter-generational and inter-sectional narrative of black British experience and analysis.”

Guest judge Katharine Quarmby on ‘Familiar Stranger’

“Familiar Stranger is an outstanding memoir which, with considerable subtlety, marries together memoir with politics, providing readers with a brilliant analysis of the many discontents of colonialism. This posthumous account, written with Bill Schwarz, gave a beautiful sense of point and counterpoint throughout the book.

The chapters on Hall’s childhood were particularly strong in delineating the many complexities of race and class as identity is created – and the sections on the Windrush generation and their descendants heartbreakingly poignant, in the light of what is happening now.There can be no better guide to the intricacies of navigating British identities after the fall of empire than this book.”

Guest judge Joan Anim-Addo on ‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race’

“Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m no Longer Talking to White People About Race is a wonderful and timely book that dares to speak honestly to the contemporary moment in Britain, one that is increasingly characterised by young people, black and white, wanting to understand as fully as they can the society in which they live. While that society is of course multi-racial, the quality of life for too many people continues to be affected by the reality of race, or more accurately, racialised thinking in its varied guises.

Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m no Longer Talking to White People About Race, in addressing – so unflinchingly – this concern with race, stands within a radical, though largely hidden tradition of black writing in Britain. Where, for example, Robert Wedderburn had travelled with his Axe Laid to the Root in the nineteenth century and Linton Kwesi Johnson, notably with his Inglan is a Bitch in the twentieth century, Reni Eddo-Lodge, a young, home-grown, Black British woman of the twenty-first century now stands. Why I’m no Longer Talking to White People About Race must rightly be recognised for its radical work.

Kudos, too, to its publisher and the nameless person who quietly in the background refused to consent to the usual gatekeepers and fought for this book to be published. This book is direct. It is clear. It makes no excuses about its political positioning – black, intersectional, feminist – and it brings us all that much closer to the very necessary dialogue that we really need to have about race and that we must no longer sidestep.”

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

‘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

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