Lists of books purchased and borrowed by the Commons Library 2008 onwards Since October 2013, the House of Commons Library has regularly published details of the books which have been most frequently borrowed from the Library, and which titles it has purchased specifically in response to requests from Members of Parliament. Some information relating to the most frequently borrowed books during the years 2008–2013 is also included. Please note: The tables containing information relating to the period from 1 April 2019 show House of Commons Library book loans from Members of Parliament only. The tables containing information relating to the period prior to 1 April 2019 take account of all loans made; not only loans to Members of Parliament, but also to staff of the House and to other libraries too. The tables containing this information were prepared in response to freedom of information requests received by the Library. • 1 October 2020 to 31 March 2021 • 1 April to 30 September 2020 • 1 October 2019 to 31 March 2020 • 1 April to 30 September 2019 • 1 October 2018 to 31 March 2019 • 1 April to 30 September 2018 • 1 October 2017 to 31 March 2018 • 1 April to 30 September 2017 • 1 October 2016 to 31 March 2017 • 1 April to 30 September 2016 • 1 October 2015 to 31 March 2016 • 1 April to 30 September 2015 • 1 October 2014 to 31 March 2015 • 1 April 2014 to 30 September 2014 • 1 October 2013 to 31 March 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008 • About the Commons Library Books borrowed or purchased from 1 October 2020 to 31 March 2021 This document lists the books purchased by the House of Commons Library in response to requests from MPs, and the books borrowed by MPs from the Library on at least two occasions during the specified period. The Library operated a reduced service for some of the period under review, owing to the restrictions in place as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Fewer books were loaned during these months than would usually be the case. Date published May 2021 Books purchased The books listed below were purchased by the House of Commons Library in response to requests from Members of Parliament during the period 1 October 2020 to 31 March 2021. Date of Title Author Price £ request 13.10.20 Greed is dead: politics after individualism Paul Collier 14.27 02.11.20 Fall of the red wall: ‘The Labour Party no longer Steve Rayson 9.99 represents people like us’ 04.11.20 Putin’s people: how the KGB took back Russia and Catherine Belton 9.99 then took on the West 10.11.20 Dull disasters? How planning ahead will make a Daniel J Clarke and 26.52 difference Stefan Dercon 13.11.20 Who cooked Adam Smith’s dinner? A story Katrine Marçal 7.55 about women and economics 19.11.20 Cynical Theories: How Universities Made Helen Pluckrose 16.39 Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity - and James Lindsay And Why this Harms Everybody 30.11.20 Twilight of democracy: the failure of politics and Anne Applebaum 14.27 the parting of friends 04.12.20 The great demographic reversal: ageing Charles Goodhart 22.99 societies, waning inequality, and an inflation and Manoj Pradhan revival 08.12.20 Who was responsible for the Troubles? The Liam Kennedy 16.76 Northern Ireland conflict 08.12.20 Navigation by judgement: why and when top Dan Honig 16.79 down management of foreign aid doesn’t work 11.12.20 Neurodiversity reader: exploring concepts, lived Damian Milton 29.40 experience and implications for practice 18.12.20 Left out: the inside story of Labour under Corbyn Gabriel Pogrund 6.99 (ebook) and Patrick Maguire 23.12.20 Future is faster than you think: how converging Peter H Diamandis 16.80 technologies are transforming business, and Steven Kotler industries, and our lives 29.12.20 2030: how today’s biggest trends will collide and Mauro F Guillen 16.80 reshape the future of everything 07.01.21 The tyranny of merit: what’s become of the Michael J Sandel 16.80 common good? CONTRIBUTING TO A WELL INFORMED DEMOCRACY 20.01.21 A price to pay: the inside story of the NatWest David Bermingham 17.00 three 02.02.21 We are Bellingcat: an intelligence agency for the Eliot Higgins 16.80 people 05.02.21 Mission economy: a moonshot guide to changing Mariana Mazzucato 14.00 capitalism 05.02.21 Black star: Britain’s Asian youth movements Anandi 18.99 (ebook) Ramamurthy 05.02.21 Why nuclear power has been a flop: at solving the Jack Devanney 24.35 Gordian knot of electricity poverty and global warming 17.02.21 Flying Off Course: Airline Economics and Rigas Doganis 28.95 Marketing (ebook) 19.02.21 Whose health is it, anyway? (ebook) Sally Davies 29.56 05.03.21 Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: the diaries of 1918-38 Edited by Simon 29.40 (volume 1) Heffer 10.03.21 Scotland and the British Empire (ebook) J Mackenzie and 29.40 TM Devine 10.03.21 The case for a job guarantee Pavlina R 8.39 Tcherneva 11.03.21 Law in a time of crisis Jonathan Sumption 14.27 16.03.21 Towards democracy (ebook) Edward Carpenter 28.95 24.03.21 Value(s): the must-read book on how to fix our Mark Carney 33.14 politics, economics and values 29.03.21 The triumph of William McKinley: why the Karl Rove 14.47 election of 1896 still matters Books borrowed The following books were all borrowed by Members of Parliament from the House of Commons Library on at least two occasions during the period 1 October 2020 to 31 March 2021. Title Author Number of times loaned Left out: the inside story of Labour Gabriel Pogrund and 4 under Corbyn Patrick Maguire Trials of the state: law and the decline of Jonathan Sumption 3 politics Diary of an MP’s wife: inside and Sasha Swire 3 outside power Beyond the red wall: why Labour lost, Deborah Mattinson 3 how the Conservatives won and what will happen next? John Bercow: call to order Sebastian Whale 2 Spain in crisis Paul Preston 2 May at 10: the verdict Anthony Seldon 2 The Times Guide to the House of Ian Brunskill 2 Commons 2019 Lost lives David McKittrick 2 Chief Whip Tim Renton 2 2 Churchill and Eden: partners through David Charlwood 2 war and peace A promised land Barack Obama 2 Beyond Brexit: towards a British Vernon Bogdanor 2 constitution 3 Books borrowed or purchased from 1 April to 30 September 2020 This document lists the books purchased by the House of Commons Library in response to requests from MPs, and the books borrowed by MPs from the Library on more than one occasion during the specified period. The Library operated a reduced service for some of the period under review, owing to the restrictions in place as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Fewer books were loaned during these months than would usually be the case. Date published November 2020 Books purchased The books listed below were purchased by the House of Commons Library in response to requests from Members of Parliament during the period 1 April to 30 September 2020. Date of Title Author Price £ request 08.04.20 Markets, minds, and money: why America leads the Miguel Urquiola 24.32 world in university research 02.06.20 The rules of contagion: why things spread – and Adam Kucharski 7.31 why they stop 25.06.20 Buying Social Justice, Equality, Government Christopher 41.16 Procurement & Legal Change McCrudden 01.07.20 Our Joe: Joseph Chamberlain’s Conservative Nick Timothy Not yet legacy received 02.07.20 Managing people in tomorrow’s armed forces Michael Bett 15.85 02.07.20 China’s quest for foreign technology: beyond William C Hannas 23.39 espionage and Didi Kirsten Tatlow 03.07.20 Case studies in defence procurement and David Moore 19.95 logistics volume I: From World War II to the post- Cold War world 06.07.20 Evolution of a community: a study of Dagenham Peter Willmott 18.30 after forty years 07.07.20 Morality: restoring the common good in divided Jonathan Sacks 10.99 times 20.07.20 Should auld acquaintance be forgot: the great John Lloyd 16.80 mistake of Scottish independence 21.07.20 Remaking one nation Nick Timothy 22.32 21.07.20 The morning after: The Quebec Referendum and the Chantal Hebert 12.14 day that almost was 21.07.20 Hidden hand: exposing how the Chinese Clive Hamilton and 11.99 Communist Party is reshaping the world Mareike Ohlberg 21.07.20 Shadow state: murder, mayhem, and Russia’s Luke Harding 6.00 remaking of the West 23.07.20 In praise of walking: the new science of how we Shane O’Mara 5.49 walk and why it’s good for us 23.07.20 The room where it happened: a White House John Bolton 14.99 memoir CONTRIBUTING TO A WELL INFORMED DEMOCRACY 23.07.20 Superforecasting: the art and science of Philip E Tetlock and 3.99 prediction Dan Gardner 28.07.20 Twilight of democracy: the failure of politics and Anne Applebaum 9.99 the parting of friends 31.07.20 Autonomy: The quest to build the driverless car Lawrence Burns 3.99 and how it will reshape our world 25.08.20 Left out: the inside story of Labour under Corbyn Gabriel Pogrund and 15.95 Patrick Maguire 03.09.20 Ernest Bevin: Labour’s Churchill Andrew Adonis 8.62 04.09.20 The nine lives of Pakistan: dispatches from a Declan Walsh 14.00 divided nation 07.09.20 The future of national development banks Stephany Griffith- 52.92 Jones and José Antonio Ocampo 10.09.20 Head hand heart: the struggle for dignity and David Goodhart 20.00 status in 21st century 11.09.20 Law, technology and society: reimagining the Roger Brownsword 29.36 regulatory environment 29.09.20 False alarm: how climate change panic costs us Bjorn Lomborg 25.00 trillions, hurts the poor and fails to fix the planet 29.09.20 The man who ran Washington: the life and times of Peter Baker and 22.67 James A Baker III Susan Glasser Books borrowed The following books were all borrowed by Members of Parliament from the House of Commons Library on more than one occasion during the period 1 April to 30 September 2020.