We are very happy to announce the Longlist for the 2016 award, which this year features a record 57 entries. To qualify, all titles must fit the award’s political requirements, and have been published in 2015 by an author who is primarily resident in the UK.
The Shortlist will be announced in March, and the award ceremony will be taking place at the London Radical Bookfair on Saturday May 7th. 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 Longlist is presented here in alphabetical order, by publisher.
Title | Author | Publisher |
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary | Anita Anand | Bloomsbury |
Soldier, Spy: A Survivor’s Tale | Victor Gregg with Rick Stroud | Bloomsbury |
The Health Gap | Michael Marmot | Bloomsbury |
Marxism and Womens Liberation | Judtih Orr | Bookmarks |
Them and Us: Fighting the Class War 1910-1939 | John Newsinger | Bookmarks |
Fighting on All Fronts: Popular Resistance in the Second World War | (ed) Donny Gluckstein | Bookmarks |
Bob Marley: Roots, Reggae & Revolution | Brian Richardson | Bookmarks |
Fighters in the Shadows | Robert Gildea | Faber & Faber |
Bitter Freedom | Maurice Walsh | Faber & Faber |
The Planet Remade | Oliver Morton | Granta |
Don’t Trust Don’t Fear Don’t Beg | Ben Stewart | Guardian Books |
Cameron’s Coup | Polly Toynbee and David Walker | Guardian Books |
Swimming with Sharks | Joris Luyendijk | Guardian Books |
Doing Good Better | William Macaskill | Guardian Books |
The Song of the Shirt | Jeremy Seabrook | Hurst |
2071 The World We’ll Leave Our Grandchildren | Duncan Macmillan and Chris Rapley | John Murray |
Northern ReSisters: Conversations with Radical Women | Bernadette Hyland | Mary Quaile Club |
Blacklisted | Phil Chamberlain and Dave Smith | New Internationalist |
Austerity: The demolition of the welfare state and the rise of the zombie economy | Kerry-Anne Mendoza | New Internationalist |
Rise of the Robots | Martin Ford | Oneworld |
Unfinsihed Business | Ann-Marie Slaughter | Oneworld |
My Life on the Road | Gloria Steinem | Oneworld |
Empire of Fear | Andrew Hosken | Oneworld |
Breadline Britain | Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack | Oneworld |
The Play of Political Culture, Emotions and Identity | Candida Yates | Palgrave |
Social and Psychological Dimensions of Personal Debt and the Debt Industry | ed. Serdar M. Degirmencioglu and Carl Walker | Palgrave |
Inscription, Diagnosis, Deception and the Mental Health Industry | Craig Newnes | Palgrave |
Do We Need Midwives? | Michel Odent | Pinter and Martin |
Men, Love & Birth | Mark Harris | Pinter and Martin |
A Passion for Birth. My life: anthropology, family and feminism | Sheila Kitzinger | Pinter and Martin |
Bare Reality: 100 Women, Their Breasts, Their Stories | Laura Dodsworth | Pinter and Martin |
Rebel Footprints | David Rosenberg | Pluto Press |
Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth | Kevin Ovenden | Pluto Press |
The Mythology of Work | Peter Fleming | Pluto Press |
Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts | Mel Evans | Pluto Press |
Whose Land Is Our Land? The use and abuse of Britain’s forgotten acres | Peter Hetherington | Policy Press |
Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Brtiain | Lisa McKenzie | Policy Press |
Honourable Friends? | Caroline Lucas | Portobello |
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? | Katrine Marcal | Portobello |
Do It Like A Woman | Caroline Criado-Perez | Portobello |
The Cabaret of Planets | Richard Mabey | Profile Books |
Social Theory | William Outhwaite | Profile Books |
Other People’s Money | John Kay | Profile Books |
What Nature Does For Britain | Tony Juniper | Profile Books |
LGBT Diversity and Inclusion in Early Years Education | Deborah Price and Kath Taylor | Routledge |
All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain At Work | Joanna Biggs | Serpent’s Tail |
Thatcher’s Secret War | Clive Bloom | The History Press |
Petticoat Heroes | Rhian E. Jones | University of Wales Press |
No Such Thing as a Free Gift | Linsey McGoey | Verso |
The Extreme Centre: A Warning | Tariq Ali | Verso |
Trans: A Memoir | Juliet Jacques | Verso |
The Rise of the Islamic State | Patrick Cockburn | Verso |
Red Rosa | Kate Evans | Verso |
Inventing the Future | Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams | Verso |
I Call Myself a Feminist | ed. Amy Annette, Rachel Holmes, Martha Mosse, Victoria Pepe and Alice Stride | Virago |
Clothing Poverty | Andrew Brooks | Zed Books |
The Racket | Matthew Kennard | Zed Books |