07 March 2012
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Alliance of Radical Booksellers announces shortlist for inaugural Bread and Roses Award
The £1,000 prize is for the best book of radical fiction, non-fiction, graphic material or poetry published in 2011 ...
The £1,000 prize is for the best book of radical fiction, non-fiction, graphic material or poetry published in 2011
Housmans' Nick Gorecki told The Bookseller: 'To my knowledge this is the only book prize in the UK with what could be described as an explicitly left-wing entry criteria. The central involvement of radical bookshops in the establishment and running of the Bread and Roses award also really sets it apart from other book prizes.'
The seven-strong shortlist is:
Counterpower: Making Change Happen, Tim Gee (new Internationalist); Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber (Melville House); Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made It, ed Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns (OR Books); Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class, Owen Jones (Verso); Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination, Andy Merrified (Pluto Press); Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent, Laurie Penny (Pluto Press) and Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World, Nicholas Shaxson (Vintage).
The winner will be announced in May.
Website: http://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/
Housmans' Nick Gorecki told The Bookseller: 'To my knowledge this is the only book prize in the UK with what could be described as an explicitly left-wing entry criteria. The central involvement of radical bookshops in the establishment and running of the Bread and Roses award also really sets it apart from other book prizes.'
The seven-strong shortlist is:
Counterpower: Making Change Happen, Tim Gee (new Internationalist); Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber (Melville House); Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made It, ed Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns (OR Books); Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class, Owen Jones (Verso); Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination, Andy Merrified (Pluto Press); Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent, Laurie Penny (Pluto Press) and Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World, Nicholas Shaxson (Vintage).
The winner will be announced in May.
Website: http://breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com/
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