Discover New Books
All recommended by myself or social worker practitioners, students and  academics...
If you have any of your own recommendations, please do get in contact and share them with the Social Work World!
Social Work Cats, and Rocket Science
By Elaine James, Rob Mitchell and Hannah Morgan. With Mark Harvey and Ian Burgess.
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
By Reni Eddo-Lodge
Hackney Child
By Hope Daniels and Morag Livingstone
Why Women are Blamed for Everything
By Dr Jessica TayorItem Subtitle
How to Get a PhD: A Handbook for Students and their Supervisors
By Estelle Phillips and Derek Pugh
Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined
By JJ Bola
Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work
By Brain J. Taylor and Edited by Kieth Brown
Assessment, Risk & Decision Making in Social Work: An Introduction
By Campbell Killick and Brian J. Taylor
Understand and Responding to Child Sexual Exploitation
Edited by Helen Beckett and Jenny Pearce
Making Sense of Child Sexual Exploitation: Exchange, Abuse and Young People
Sophie Hallett
Anti-Oppressive Social Work Theory and Practice
By Lena Dominelli
How to Survive Social Work
By Neil Thompson and John McGowan
In Control: Dangerous Relationships and how They End in Murder
By Jane Monckton Smith
Fifty-one Moves
By Ben Ashcroft
Psychoanalytic Insight and Relationships: A Kleinian Approach
By Isca Salzberger-Wittenberg
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
By Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz
A History of the Personal Social Services in England
Feast, Famine and the Future
By Ray Jones
Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality
By Imogen Tyler
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
By Brené Brown
Independent Thinking on Restorative Practice: Building relationships, improving behaviour and creating stronger communities
By Mark Finnis
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Human Rights in Child Protection
Implications for Professional Practice and Policy (Open Access)
By Asgeir Falch-Eriksen
Elisabeth Backe-Hansen