Stephen Bush Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?
Christopher Bertram
I mean, what is the actual impartiality issue here? Is Gary Lineker going to start Match of the Day by reading from Chris Bertram's Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants??
Paperback, 2018
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Sudhir Hazareesingh
Anyway, Sudhir Hazareesingh's 'Black Spartacus', great book.
Paperback, 2021
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hybrid Hate: Conflations of Antisemitism & Anti-Black Racism from the Renaissance to the Third Reich
Tudor Parfitt
From Tudor Parfitt’s magnificent “Hybrid Hate”. Tag yourself, I’m “wild”. https://t.co/zya6v2VnHK
Hardcover, 2020
$44.99$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On Beauty
Zadie Smith
At this point, I begin to wonder if I really *needed* to download Zadie Smith’s On Beauty in advance of getting on the half past four train back to London. Maybe that wasn’t the best use of my battery, I think.
Paperback, 2006
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fraud
Zadie Smith
Fans will find much they recognise in her tremendous new novel, which tells the story of a novelist, his mistress and a controversial trial over a 50-year period…Just like White Teeth, The Fraud is a novel that illuminates what it is to live and to love in the 21st century.
Hardcover, 2023
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics
Kenan Malik
@ptr_mcl @crookedfootball Whereas ‘Elite Capture’ (and in the popular market, Kenan Malik’s Not So Black and White) make serious political and intellectual arguments that have a similar shape but not actually a similar content to MG or RH.
Hardcover, 2023
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Sea Wall
Simon Stephens
‘Sea Wall’ is the name of a brilliant one-act play by Simon Stephens. It is not, and will never be, a meaningful or useful term for “coastal constituencies”. https://t.co/kR8QDolRty
Paperback, 2019
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