The Orwell Prizes shortlists 2019

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The Growth Delusion: The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations

David Pilling

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing ** 2019**

According to the economy, we have never been wealthier or happier. So why doesn’t it feel that way? The Growth…

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Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas

Alpa Shah

A first-hand account of India’s widespread leftist insurgency, and the state’s brutal response.

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Milkman

Anna Burns

Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. To be interesting…

$24.99

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Ordinary People

Diana Evans

It’s so so good - realistic and funny and so truthful it almost winded me’ Dolly Alderton Two London couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning. Michael, growing daily…

$19.99

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Sabrina

Nick Drnaso

When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies.

$36.99

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House of Stone

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

‘Easily the best debut I’ve read this year, Tshuma’s novel is both hilarious and horrifying, filled with compassion, anger and despair. [Her] unreliable narrator [is] of the kind that deserves…

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Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back

Oliver Bullough

From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, something has gone wrong with the workings of the world.

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The Line Becomes a River

Francisco Cantu

An electrifying memoir from a Mexican-American US Border Patrol guard

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