In Mother State, Helen Charman writes a new political history of motherhood in Britain and Northern Ireland, from Women’s Liberation to austerity, Margaret Thatcher to Kat Slater, following mothers’ fight for an alternative future.

In Intervals, Marianne Brooker chronicles her own mother’s fight for a peaceful death on her own terms, in her own home. Connecting the most intimate spaces with the most political, the book explores choice, care and creativity under austerity.