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Verso Gift Guide

Our 2025 Gift Guide: featuring Verso Gift Cards, the best-selling Verso Radical Diary, and more!

28 November 2025

Verso Gift Guide

We have bundled ebooks with every print purchase (where available) — meaning you can gift the print book and start reading the ebook straight away! 

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Verso Gift Card

Our Gift Cards are available in $10, $25, $50 & $100 denominations and have no expiration date. See all ofour Gift Card options here.

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Verso Planner and Notebook

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Verso Book Club Memberships

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The Essential John Berger

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Marx's Political Writings

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The Classic Analysis of Daily Life under Capitalism

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Jane Austen's Life in Images

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Verso Fiction

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David Harvey: Radical Marxist Intellectual

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Mike Davis: Prophetic Historian and Activist

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  • Verso Gift Card

    Verso Gift Card

    Our Gift Cards are available in $10, $25, $50 & $100 denominations and have no expiration date.   All gift cards are digital and can only be redeemed on the Verso Books website. Gift Cards are ...
  • Verso Gift Card

    Verso Gift Card

    Our Gift Cards are available in $10, $25, $50 & $100 denominations and have no expiration date.   All gift cards are digital and can only be redeemed on the Verso Books website. Gift Cards are ...
  • Verso Gift Card

    Verso Gift Card

    Our Gift Cards are available in $10, $25, $50 & $100 denominations and have no expiration date.   All gift cards are digital and can only be redeemed on the Verso Books website. Gift Cards are ...

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  • Nymph

    Nymph

    by Stephanie LaCava

    Not yet thirty, Bathory has assembled a peculiar résumé: model, sex worker, linguist, Latin scholar, and assassin. The last of these has been the family trade for generations. Growing up, Bathory, ...
  • Men in the Sun

    Men in the Sun

    by Ghassan Kanafani

    Translated by Hilary Kilpatrick

    Three Palestinian men embark on a brutal and treacherous odyssey across the Iraqi desert to Kuwait, not for liberation but material betterment. Under the indifferent brutality of border bureaucracy...
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  • If Only

    If Only

    by Vigdis Hjorth

    Translated by Charlotte Barslund

    A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. It is winter. January and minus 14°C, white, frosty mist around the parked car, around the spruces, the m...

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  • A Companion To Marx's Capital

    A Companion To Marx's Capital

    by David Harvey

    In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectur...
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  • Perdita

    Perdita

    by Dylan Riley

    “Our marriage was, from any conventional point of view, wildly implausible; and you, my dear son, are the miraculous product of this beautiful, rather crazy, and all too brief love affair.” When Dy...

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