Society books
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The author’s love of English coastal resorts shines through in this sharp and deeply moving study of the places that symbolise this country’s decline
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A deeply reported account of what England’s seaside towns reveal about the state of the nation
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A journalist’s account of the Arkansas town she left behind, and the friend whose fate she avoided
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A stirring call to make justice and equity a reality by applying the ideas of liberal philosopher John Rawls
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The poet’s Joni Mitchell-inspired memoir of her partnerless life marks an important shift in ideas about intimacy and solitude
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Simon Murray writes: He was one of the few academics who appeared to know much about trade unions
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A Pulitzer-winning sociologist argues that the United States’s gross inequality is no accident
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A clinical psychologist turns the spotlight on caregivers in this profoundly compassionate study
All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In by Kieran Yates review – a house is not a home