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You can buy books online or from our office. We have many more titles in our office library which you are welcome to read but please phone first.
The Bookshop is organised into four sections - click on the links below. If you want to print the pages, go to Print Properties and select Landscape.

All book are paperbacks unless stated otherwise. Poetry books are marked . Many are bilingual – a useful way to improve your Spanish! Any reference to the FSLN means the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Sandinista Party) who overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in 1979 and became the governing party from 1979 to 1990.

Publications since 2000. Prices include p & p.
The Sandinista Revolution, its legacy and the contribution of international solidarity.  An illustrated 30th anniversary briefing published by Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign. 14/07/09 Please open the pdf here >> or contact us if you  would like a paper copy (no charge) >>   Illustration: The struggle between David (Nicaragua) and Goliath (domination by Spain and the US) depicted in a mural in the church of Santa Maria de los Angeles, Managua. This is one of the many murals inspired by the Sandinista Revolution.
A Nicaraguan Journey - Memories from the Land of Sandino Luciano Baracco (Sessions of York 2010) Nicaragua is a land renowned for its lakes and volcanoes. Yet in the decade of the 1980's Nicaragua became famous for something very different. Following in the footsteps of Che Guevara, Sandinista revolutionary fighters overthrew one of Latin America's oldest dictatorships in July 1979 and transformed the country from an unknown backwater into a beacon of hope for the whole continent. A Nicaraguan Journey gives an account of how Nicaraguans today make sense of those revolutionary years, which brought their country to the attention of the whole world. The book costs £9:50 (plus postage) and all the profits will be donated to the Yo Si Puedo campaign to fund literacy teaching in Miskitu around the Coco River region. The book can be purchased at the following website:  http://www.sessionsofyork.co.uk/books/general.html
America's Backyard: The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War Against Terror. Grace Livingstone (Zed 2009). The United States has shaped Latin American history, condemning it to poverty and inequality by intervening to protect the rich and powerful.   Using newly declassified documents, Grace Livingstone reveals the US role in the darkest periods of Latin American history, including Pinochet’s coup in Chile, the Contra War in Nicaragua and the death squads in El Salvador.  She shows how the administration used the War on Terror as a new pretext for intervention; how it tried to destabilise leftwing governments and push back the ‘pink tide’ washing across the Americas.  America’s Backyard also includes chapters on drugs, economy and culture. Today Latin Americans are demanding respect and an end to the Washington Consensus.  Will the White House listen?	19.50
Nicaragua: The Imagining of a Nation. From Nineteenth Century Liberals to Twentieth Century Sandinistas  Luciano Baracco (Algora 2005). Examines the Sandinista Revolution in the context of Nicaragua's efforts at nation-building. Based on research and interviews, this book includes sections on the national literacy campaign and the indigenous peoples of the Atlantic Coast amongst others. It offers insights into the evolution of states in post-colonial Latin America and their struggle to strike an acceptable balance between sovereignty issues and the imperatives of global politics.  A major contribution to literature on Nicaragua.	20.00
After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neo-Liberal Nicaragua Florence Babb (University of Texas Press 2001). Drawing in interviews, this book analyses the impact on neo-liberalism and examines Managua co-operatives where women play a significant role. Informs and inspires.	21.50
Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution Matilde Zimmermann (Duke University Press 2000) Important history of one of Nicaragua's heroes. This thorough and well-researched book is critical to an understanding of the enduring popularity of Sandinismo today.	17.50
The Country Under My Skin Giaconda Belli (Bloomsbury 2002). “…the best autobiography I’ve read in years” (Salman Rushdie). Belli, now an internationally acclaimed poet, played a major part in the Revolution as a young woman. In this fascinating book she writes about the triumphs and failures of the Revolution and her part in it; her poetry; her lovers and children; her exile and her current life in Nicaragua and the USA.	£10.50
Letters from Nicaragua Father John Medcalf (CIIR 1988. Reissued with new introduction 2002). Vivid accounts in letter form of the suffering, joy and faith of rural Nicaraguans from 1985 to 1987 during the contra war. Useful outline of events in Nicaragua and biography.	£4.00
Storm Warnings: Hurricanes George and Mitch and the lessons for development. CIIR 2001 A detailed examination of 12 development programmes which arose from the two hurricanes. A critique of the way in which neo-liberal development has increased rather than decreased vulnerability in Nicaragua.	£6.50
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