Exposés of the Trump White House have led the boom, but readers have also been turning to theoretical work from authors including Marx and Orwell
Whether it boils down to a desperation to understand the intricacies of Theresa May’s backstop or a longing for reason in these troubled times, sales of politics books have almost doubled over the last two years.
Data revealed at a London book fair conference on Monday showed that politics and government titles were the fastest-growing category in non-fiction, up by 170% in 2018, with 1.8m books sold. Driven by titles including Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, which brought in sales worth almost £2.5m, and Reni Eddo-Lodge’s polemic Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, which sold more than 100,000 copies, sales of political books were worth £20.4m last year, according to Nielsen Book, up from £11.7m in 2016.
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