Reni Eddo-Lodge’s landmark book began as an essay and became one of the defining contemporary works on race, racism and structural inequality in Britain.

Clear, forceful and historically grounded, it moves through Britain’s erased Black histories, the politics of class, feminism, education, power, whiteness and the exhaustion of having to explain racism to those least willing to understand it.

The title is often mistaken for a refusal of dialogue, but the book is really about the conditions under which dialogue becomes unequal: who has to explain, who gets to doubt, who is treated as objective, who is made to provide evidence for their own experience. Accessible without being softened, polemical without being loose, and still very useful for readers wanting an entry point into anti-racist writing beyond the American frame.

Bloomsbury paperback. First published in Great Britain in 2017; this expanded edition published in 2018, including the additional chapter “Aftermath.” Good second-hand condition, with light handling and shelfwear.