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A selection of books to help change the world - to learn from past movements and be inspired by fellow activists, they contain skills and knowledge to think differently, engage and connect differently.

These books (listed alphabetically) are just a snapshot of those we have in the shop - if you can’t see what you’re after please do give us a shout by email, phone or drop in and we can check the shelves or order in for you!

At checkout you have the option of postage or free click & collect if you’re local to the bookshop.

Book cover of 30 Easy Ways to Join the Food Revolution by Ollie Hunter
30 Easy Ways to Join the Food Revolution £14.99
Book cover of A Basic Income Pocketbook by Annie Miller
A Basic Income Pocketbook £9.99
Book cover of A Planet to Win : Why We Need a Green New Deal by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Thea Riofrancos
A Planet to Win : Why We Need a Green New Deal £10.99
Book cover of Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu
Abolish Silicon Valley £10.99
Book cover of Abolitionist Socialist Feminism - (a Mairi favourite) by Zillah Eisenstein
Abolitionist Socialist Feminism - (a Mairi favourite) £12.99
Book cover of Advertising Shits In Your Head : Strategies for Resistance by Vyvian Raoul, Josh Macphee
Advertising Shits In Your Head : Strategies for Resistance £12.99
Book cover of Against the Grain: The British Far Left from 1956 by Evan Smith (Ed.), Matthew Worley (Ed.)
Against the Grain: The British Far Left from 1956 £14.99
Book cover of All About Love - (a Peach favourite) by Bell Hooks
All About Love - (a Peach favourite) £10.99
Book cover of All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism - (an Anita favourite) by Tanya Talaga
All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism - (an Anita favourite) £9.99
Book cover of Anti-Politics : On the Demonization of Ideology, Authority and the State by Eliane Glaser
Anti-Politics : On the Demonization of Ideology, Authority and the State £8.99
Book cover of Basic Income : And How We Can Make It Happen by Guy Standing
Basic Income : And How We Can Make It Happen £8.99
Book cover of Being Numerous : Essays on Non-Fascist Life by Natasha Lennard
Being Numerous : Essays on Non-Fascist Life £12.99
Book cover of Between Light and Storm : How We Live With Other Species by Esther Woolfson
Between Light and Storm : How We Live With Other Species £20
Book cover of Burn It Down! : Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution by Breanne Fahs
Burn It Down! : Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution £20
Book cover of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice £13.99
Book cover of Clothing Poverty by Andrew Brooks
Clothing Poverty £9.99
Book cover of Constitution Street: Finding hope in an age of anxiety - (a Mairi favourite) by Jemma Neville
Constitution Street: Finding hope in an age of anxiety - (a Mairi favourite) £12.99
Book cover of Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People £9.99
Book cover of Decolonising the University by Gurminder K. Bhambra (Ed.), Dalia Gebrial (Ed.), Kerem Nişancıoğlu (Ed.)
Decolonising the University £16.99
Book cover of Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
Emergent Strategy £12.5
Book cover of The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
The End of Policing £12.99
Book cover of Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism by Paul Collier & John Kay
Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism £16.99
Book cover of Hope in the Dark - (a Mairi favourite) by Rebecca Solnit
Hope in the Dark - (a Mairi favourite) £9.99
Book cover of How to Save Politics in a Post-Truth Era by Ilan Zvi Baron
How to Save Politics in a Post-Truth Era £12.99
Book cover of How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division £4.99
Book cover of How We Fight White Supremacy : A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Akiba Solomon, Kenrya Rankin
How We Fight White Supremacy : A Field Guide to Black Resistance £13.99
Book cover of Humankind : A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
Humankind : A Hopeful History £20
Book cover of If They Come in the Morning... Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. Davis (ed.)
If They Come in the Morning... Voices of Resistance £9.99
Book cover of Imagine A Country by Ed. Val McDermid and Jo Sharp
Imagine A Country £12
Book cover of Irreplaceable by Julian Hoffman
Irreplaceable £9.99
Book cover of Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Know My Name £9.99
Book cover of Losing Earth : The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
Losing Earth : The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change £9.99
Book cover of Lost, Found, Remembered by Lyra McKee
Lost, Found, Remembered £12.99
Book cover of Lucky Dip : POLITICS by Could be anyone
Lucky Dip : POLITICS £10
Book cover of Made Possible : Stories of success by people with learning disabilities by Ed. Saba Salman
Made Possible : Stories of success by people with learning disabilities £9.99
Book cover of No! My First Book Of Protest by Julie Merberg
No! My First Book Of Protest £9.99
Book cover of Optimism Over Despair by Noam Chomsky, C.J. Polychroniou
Optimism Over Despair £6
Book cover of Poetry from the Future : Why a Global Liberation Movement Is Our Civilisation's Last Chance by Srecko Horvat
Poetry from the Future : Why a Global Liberation Movement Is Our Civilisation's Last Chance £9.99
Book cover of Prefigurative Politics : Building Tomorrow Today by Paul Raekstad, Sofa Saio Gradin
Prefigurative Politics : Building Tomorrow Today £15.99
Book cover of Radical Women : Arundhati Roy, Elif Shafak, Zadie Smith by Essay Bundle
Radical Women : Arundhati Roy, Elif Shafak, Zadie Smith £16.5
Book cover of Reconstructing Democracy. How Citizens Are Building from the Ground Up by Charles Taylor, Patrizia Nanz, Madeleine Beaubien Taylor
Reconstructing Democracy. How Citizens Are Building from the Ground Up £11.95
Book cover of Revolutionary Yiddishland : A History of Jewish Radicalism by Sylvie Klingberg
Revolutionary Yiddishland : A History of Jewish Radicalism £9.99
Book cover of Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire by The Rhodes Must Fall Movement
Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire £9.99
Book cover of Riders on the Storm : The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being by Alastair McIntosh
Riders on the Storm : The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being £9.99
Book cover of STIM by Ed Lizzie Huxley-Jones
STIM £9.99
Book cover of Stolen : How to Save the World from Financialisation by Grace Blakeley
Stolen : How to Save the World from Financialisation £10.99
Book cover of The Force of Nonviolence : The Ethical in the Political by Judith Butler
The Force of Nonviolence : The Ethical in the Political £14.99
Book cover of The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis £12.99
Book cover of The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It by Yascha Mounk
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It £14.95
Book cover of The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food £10.99
Book cover of The War on Disabled People : Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe by Ellen Clifford
The War on Disabled People : Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe £12.99
Book cover of Unfree Speech : The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong, Jason Y. Ng
Unfree Speech : The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now £9.99
Book cover of What You Have Heard Is True : A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forche
What You Have Heard Is True : A Memoir of Witness and Resistance £10.99
Book cover of Why Women Will Save the Planet by Friends of the Earth, C40 Cities
Why Women Will Save the Planet £9.99
Book cover of Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
Women Don't Owe You Pretty £12.99