Booktopia

Booktopia

Which books would you take to the ends of the world with you?

A founder of the feminist publisher Virago Press, Ursula Owen, names her most beloved books.

From her children’s photo albums to alternative economic and political systems, Salma Yaqoob picks her favorites.

Heartfelt pleas for mistreated people to the the first literary denunciations of racism, feature on radical lawyer Louise Christian’s reading list

Red Pepper’s new co-editor James O’Nions picks his favourite books

Billy Hayes says music matters, revolution starts in the head and all you need is love

Musician Aki Nawaz on god delusions, the Qur’an and fighting the National Front

Map obsessive Roger Lloyd Pack reckons he could ’probably walk away with the Mastermind prize with Tintin as my subject’

Jill Robinson picks wild swans, joy and animal emotion

Tracy Quan mixes love, lust and Biblical studies

Newsnight’s Paul Mason on red virgins, vines and wrath

Jo Brand finds room for her mum among the Dickens

Peter Tatchell plumps for some Wilde with his de Beauvoir

Comedian Mark Thomas mixes Rushdie and Brecht with the Bible

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