when the World Cup was on as the machos were glued in front of the TV listening to the comments of Brian Clough as if he were Tony Benn himself? To both questions the answer is the same -reading books. Ah, but what book? The staff of the Other Bookshop have compiled a guide for your holiday reading. Most of the books are fairly recent; other books mentioned in the list are bargain buys.
A LADIS LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS Isabella Bird A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Isabella Bird Published for the first time since 1880, the letters that make up this book tell of Isabella Bird's incredible journey through the Rocky Mountains with her 'dear desperado', Rocky Mountain Jim. £4.50 (1)
Nukespeak - The Media and the Bomb Audrey Crispin & others How the threat of the big bang is muffled by the media. John Pilger writes a stimulating introduction. £2.50 (2)
Wild Lilies, Poisonous Weeds Gregor Benton The very latest collection of the writings of the dissident movement in China. Informative and relevant. £4.95 (3)
Triumph of the People George Black The most comprehensive and factual account of the Nicaragua revolution. £6.95 (4)
Marx in London Asa Briggs The book of the TV programme. How to be a tourist in London and still feel revolutionary. £2.95 (5)
Six Red Months in Russia Louise Bryant Definitely not the book of the film, even though Diane Keaton's name features on the cover Graphic observations of the Russian revolution. £2.95 (6)
Sweet Freedom Bea Campbell & Anna Coote What the well intentioned male radical is reading this summer. An account of the contemporary feminist movement. £1.95 (7)
Freedom at Midnight Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre The story of the struggle for independence in India. politics but a good read and good value. £2.50 (8)
Socialist Challenge 23 July 1982 page 12 Big Red Songbook Mal Collins et al the camptire including Join the British Army Bum'. £1.95 (9)
Damnable Question George Dangerfield crisis years 1912-21. Beautifully written and at a special bargain price. f2.95 (10)
Britain in Decline Andrew Gamble beach. £4.95 (11)
Really Bad News news from the excellent Glasgow £2.95 (12)
The British Economic Disaster Andrew Glyn & John Harrison The best recent account of now (13)
Ain't I a Woman - Black Women and Feminism Bell Hooks sexism on black women during ment with feminism £3.95 (14)
Black Jacobins CLR James £4.95 (15)
Combined and Uneven Development Michael Lowy Trotsky, A Study in the Dynamics of his Thought Ernest Mandel originality price. £2.00 (17)
Darwin for Beginners Questionable Buy one and grunt. £2.95 (18) Forty-three big red songs for round and 'Hallelujah I'm a The best account of Ireland in the A useful introduction to Britain's economic mess. Read it on a Greek Glasgow University Media Group The latest exposure of the bias in TV group. A feature is an analysis of TV's coverage of the Labour Party.
British capitalism is making paupers (20) of us all. Well, most of us. f2.95 AIN'TIA WOMAN black women and leminism An examination of the impact of slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism in the women's movement and black women's involveThis comes in the good value department. James' classic account of the 1791 slave revolt in the Caribbean.
price One of the very best of the last couple of years. An analysis and persuasive detence of rotskv's theorv of permanent revolution. £4.50 (16)
Mandel explains the relevance and of Trotsky at a give-way Jonathan Miller & Borin Van Loon The latest in the 'Beginners' series.
Tom Pickard ALSON & BUser Jarrow March Tom Pickard Just out. The true story of the famous hunger march and the events leading up to it. £2.95 (19)
Poland: The State of the Republic Edited by Michael Vale Valuable source material. Two eports on the state of Poland il 978 by a grou o coucal rall' members and intellectuals. £4.95 The Summer Before the Frost Jean-Yves Potel Poland again. An eye witness account of the rise of Solidarity. Contains fascinating interviews with the leading participants. (21)
Ten Days that Shook the John Reed This is what the movie is supposed to be about. One of the first things anyone should read, and besides Trotsky's history, probably the best account of the Russian Revolution. £1.95 (22)
Insurgent Mexico John Reed Reed's account of the 1914 Mexican volution. How journalism shou written. $2.50 (2 The Fate of the Earth Jonathan Schell You've seen the TV adverts, it could be subtitled How Publishers Can Make a Bomb from the Bomb. Nevertheless, powerfully argued and relatively cheap. £1.95 (24)
Exterminism and Cold War EP Thompson and others The intellectual book on the bomb. Thompson and New Left Review renew old battles. £5.50 (25)
My Life Leon Trotsky $2.00 (26 Paupers' Paris Miles Turner The motto of the book is 'sleep cheap and eat well'. It also covers getting there, getting about there and the sights and shops. For paupers and cheapskates alike. £1.95 Nicaragua, the Sandinist Revolution Henri Weber A sympathetic study of the struggles and politics of the Sandinistas in power. £2.95 (28) Union Street Pat Barker The lives of seven working class women in the industrial North East. £2.95 (30)
Sturdy Black Bridges -Visions of Black Women in Literature Roseann Bell et al A collection of essays, interviews, stories, and • poems characterisation of black women in American, literature. £5.95 (31)
Lesbian Fiction Ely Bulkin A collection of short fiction by contemporary lesbian writers (mainly American). Expensive but recom. mended. £5.40 (32)
USA Dos Passos Not so pricey if you consider that it's really three books in one anc 1200 pages.
Dos Passos' epic story of turn of the century America is a real classic not to be missed. £4.95 (33)
MINTY ALLEY La novel b Minty Alley CLR James The only novel by CLR James. A good introduction to the 'Beacon' period of Caribbean literature. $2.70 Sula Toni Morrison The latest novel from this black American writer. £1.25 (35)
Gorky Park Martin Cruz Smith 'The thriller of the 80's' set in Moscow. £1.95 (36)
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist Robert Tressell Another classic and good value book, Tressell reveals the truth of working class life during the Edwardian age. £1.95 (37)
Any Woman's Blues Mary Helen Washington Collection of short stories by nine black women writers, including Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Frenchy Hodges. £3.50 (38)
illuminating the African and Caribbean Children editors £2.50 (40)
Peoples Too often forgotten John Mercer (42)
Jan Needle C. L. R. JAMES Group each (44)
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