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|isbnauthor=1504321383Edward W Said|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa PatemanRepresentations of the Intellectual

|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Edward Said's 'You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a manRepresentations of the Intellectual''. This was is less a strict theory of what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to intellectuals are and more a passionate argument for what they thought would should be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where Said clearly rejects the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by comfortable image of the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever afterintellectual as a detached expert speaking only to other specialists. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' Instead, he insists on the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was intellectual as a belief public figure, often awkward, abrasive, and unpopular, who speaks truth to power even when it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''inconvenient or risky.|isbn=1804272248

|author=Sakinu AhronglongAriel Saramandi|title=Hunter SchoolPortrait of an Island on Fire

|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary= The flyleaf to In this little powerful collection tells us that it is a work of fiction. That's possibly misleading. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sense that Ahronglong made it all upsociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, or whether it is as tunneling deep into the blurb goes on wounds left by colonialism and slavery to say expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''recollections, folklore and autobiographical storiesrotting''. It feels like , a blunt yet apt metaphor for the latter. It feels like systemic decay brought about by the stories he tells about his experiences as a childmalignant forces of racism, as an adolescentpatriarchy, as an adult are real environmental degradation and truegovernmental dysfunction. But memory is Each essay in this collection serves as a fickle thingkind of diagnostic, and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there, and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it. More people shouldcharting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=19997912821804271616

|author=Frederic GrosGregor Hens and Jen Calleja (translator)|title=A Philosophy of WalkingThe City and the World|rating=54|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I confess I picked this one up from In ''The City and the World'', Gregor Hens reveals how cities are as much imagined spaces as they are physical ones. With a deep affection for the urban landscapes that have shaped his life, Hens reflects on places like Cologne, Berlin, and Goch on the library in my pre-lockdown forage Lower Rhine with a blend of random stuffpersonal memory and thoughtful observation. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down His writing, at times abstract, captures not just architectural features but the pages I have marked emotional and return mental geographies tied to its varying wisdom when I need each location, for example, his perspectives as a child as opposed toas an adult. Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the first two pagesFrom Belgium and Germany to Berkeley and Columbus, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not Hens traces a sport''map of experiences, turning cities into reflections of identity and belonging.|isbn=17816883701804271691

|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)Paul B Preciado|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered HopesDysphoria Mundi

|genre=Graphic NovelsPolitics and Society|summary=I ''It is never really followed too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''  Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the events new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of Tiananmen Square with much attention when political apathy. Rather, it was playing out – someone in is the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the second half backdrop of their teens the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''. |isbn=1804271454}}{{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Feldman|title=Precarious Lease|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=The title of this novel refers to a French legal term (''bail précaire'') associated with squatters in France, affording them temporary suspension from eviction charges and processes, but few scant property rights. Among mentions of other prioritiessquats dotted around Paris like Le Carrosse and La Miroiterie, Feldman takes particular interest in one squat of massive proportions which adopted an almost mythical status for its inhabitants, you knowadmirers and detractors alike: Le Bloc. Something like a haven for artists and marginal members of society (as one character, Le Général, repeats throughout, ''I certainly didnlive on the margins of the margins of the margins''), Le Bloc was subject to the continual threat of eviction and the pressures from above which oppressed its inhabitants' lives. We follow Le Bloc from its opening in 2012 until its eventual dissolution, framed as a tragedy in this book. |isbn=1804271403}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire Dederer|title=Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=3|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Dederer sets out to unveil what she calls a 't know 'biography of the audience'' in a deconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the weeks old aphorism of protests and hunger strikes separating the art from the students before artist in the massacre context of contemporary ''cancel culture''. Dederer's work is original and expressive. The reader gets the birth of impression that the thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the Tank Man imagepage. In particular, I didn't know how the area had long been prologue packs a venue punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for political protesthis art, and I didnyet despises for his actions. This model of ''monstrous men''t know more as she calls them, is consistent for the first few chapters, interrogating the likes of Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. Her critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and maintaining her own subjectivity, as she holds it so dearly, and a personal, rather than collective voice.|isbn=1399715070}}{{Frontpage|author=Virginie Despentes|title=King Kong Theory|rating=4|genre=Autobiography |summary=''King Kong Theory'' is a spit about hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifesto, which can be seen as a call to arms for women in a phallocentric society broken at its core. Originally written in French, the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless a collection of essays in giving which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a general browser's context for woman through the complex prism of her varied life: from rape to sex work and pornography. Though these discussions are intertwined, their placement within the whole season book can feel somewhat disjointed, a reflection of protests back in 1989their original form as independent essays.|isbn=1684056993191309734X

|authorisbn=Sharon Blackie1009473085|title=If Women Rose RootedThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)

|genre= BiographyPolitics and Society|summary= I normally say that you can tell how much Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book means by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to me by how many pages have corners turned down''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. Perhaps If you're looking for an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before Ieasy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn've finished reading t the one book for you. If that's what you're looking for, Idon't think Anthony Seldon've borroweds book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. I want It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to avoid clichés like politics. 'powerful' The Conservative Effect'inspiring' is an entirely different beast. It'lifes the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-changing' – although it is definitely editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the first two and only time will tell about most important. This book follows the third – but clichés exist for well-established format: a reason series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any betterthe situation in 2024.|isbn=1912836017

|author= Linda ScottAlastair Humphreys|title= The Double X EconomyLocal

|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=''Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world''. It And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt 's a bold statement for an opening chapter, but it's far to share what I have learnt about some big issues from hyperbole as the following pages explaina year exploring a small map. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the impact on food system, rewilding…'' One of the local and world economy. What can be learnt from joys of the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in book for me was that the west? What can be done biggest thing he learned about the selling all of young women into marriagethese things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=05713536061785633678

|author=Danny DorlingEdel Rodriguez|title=SlowdownWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary= We are living 're in a time of rapid changechildhood, and we're worried about itin Cuba. Dorling tells us that The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the latter is normalcountry, has proven himself a Communist, natural and probably good not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for usall. We are designed to worry and with the current state Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of what wetaking his time away. Our narrator's family weren're doing t in the world we have much happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be worried aboutthe good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. However, over The mother gets the couple jobs with the next three-hundred-and-party to ease some pagesof the heat, if you can follow the argumentsbut in this sultry island country, it sets remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in scientific detail why either we shouldna fractured world|rating=3.5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I't m lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as worried as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are, or in some cases '' living the life we want – the best life that we're worrying about the wrong thingscould be living. Mostly. Because mostlyHer answer is an unequivocal ''no, things we are not changing as rapidly as we think they are''. In factDon't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the rate of change in many things is slowing down and the direction of change will in some cases go into reversefact that we are not.|isbn=03002434051785633848

|isbn=02414467321785633457|title=Our House is on FireCharging Around: Scenes Exploring the Edges of a Family and a Planet in CrisisEngland by Electric Car|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante ThunbergClive Wilkinson

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normalClive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the parenting edges of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what England in an electric car was happeningnot totally outrageous. In such circumstancesfact, it's natural to seek should be a solution close to homepleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, but eventuallyJoan, shouldn't it became clear ?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153050|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to the family that they were seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain'burned-out people on a burned-out planets Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. If they were Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to find a way 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there will be to live happily again their solution would need to be radical.come in the 2023 edition?

|isbn=0648684806B0B7289HKQ|title=Clara ColbyConversations Across America: The International SuffragistA Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=John HollidayKari Loya

|genre=BiographyTravel|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life decision was probably determined when her family emigrated made to ride the USATrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. At They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time she was just three-years-old but because there were factors which pointed this up as more of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, a challenge that it would be for most people who doted considered taking it on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She Merv Loya was the only child in the household 75 years old and her childhood he was glorioussuffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. By contrastInstead of flying cars, her family had become pioneer farmers in the midwe got night-west vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of the United States and life was hard, confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as Clara was I find it easy to find out when she read a few stories and her grandparents eventually went then forget to return to join the familybook. Clara would only know her mother for There's got to be a few monthsvery compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children the technology and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrivedthe world scape are purely incidental. As the eldest girlSo, what did I think of a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakeningbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it.

|isbnauthor=183895015XJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries Book of a Prisoner|author=Chris AtkinsHope

|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Documentary filmmakers don't usually get The done thing is to read a book all the run way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of establishments within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Groupexperience of reading this amazing book, but after getting involved I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. |isbn=024147857X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in an illegal tax scheme a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to fund his latest filmmodifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, Chris Atkins was invited for a five-year stayeven implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The first nine months were spent Battle for Museum in HMP Wandsworth, which the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is probably the oldest, largest art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and most dysfunctional prison in Europeprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.

|authorisbn=Michael Harris1398508632|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|summary= This is not It had been on the book I cards for a while but it was expecting it to bethe week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. For some reason I expected it The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to be another self-help manual on how to find calmstart, how to step outside in a world where the mainstreamnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, but it is not that at allBrexit and a pandemic. Instead Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of telling us how it is more about the ''why''terrains. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, She had electricity which used allowed her to be run a natural part of our human lifefridge, freezer and why that mattersdehydrator. Of course, he talks about how some people have found solitude She had a car - and what has come of that, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it outfuel. Most importantly, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about she had shelter: this lost art led himwas not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|isbn=1847947662

|isbn=17837843501529149800|title=This Golden FleeceThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1638485216|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Journey Through BritainBlack Man's Knitted HistoryOdyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Esther RutterFrederick Reynolds

|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing has everything to people shedo with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''d never met and preparing spreadsheets.  The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel forty-four-year-old police officer, in the length and breadth US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The image of woolChauvin kneeling on George's history neck is not one which I'll ever forget and how it had made and changed the landscapeprotests which followed cannot have been unexpected. She'd grown up on There was a sheep farm backlash against the police - and not just in Suffolk - Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were '' a free-range child on the farmall'' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her bloodtarred by the Chauvin brush.

|isbnauthor=0008294011Matthieu Aikins|title=How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece TemelkuranNaked Don't Fear the Water

|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought It's easy to forget at times that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question The Naked Don''Discuss t Fear the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasnWater isn't certain whether actually fiction, because it was reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided toaccompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. I think now that I do know. We There are in danger tense moments and gripping accounts of losing democracy and whilst border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teethenvironments and people described.|isbn= B09N9157T6

|isbn=17868934521785633074|title=The Ungrateful RefugeeStaggering Hubris|author=Dina NayeriJosh Berry

|genre=BiographyHumour|summary=Here in Members of Parliament like us to believe that the Westcountry is run by politicians, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. But all of those stories are written headed by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to Prime minister - the world ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the situations reality is that refugees find themselves in. Itthe ''prime''s rare that we find out movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the journeys from government. We are in the refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity privileged position of having access to do thatthe memoirs of Rafe Hubris, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone the man who was born in behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the middle end of a revolution in Iran, fleeing 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to America as a ten-year-oldwatch.

|isbn=18460455761846276772|title=Walks In The WildEnd of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|Animals Politics and WildlifeSociety|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn'An instruction manual for t pass the forest'' is how Wohllebenmedical become a part of an organisation it's publisher described the idea for this bookrare that their views are heard, and thattheir concerns are acknowledged. It's basically what it is – although right at personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the author says that bias but it is 's not intended to be a reference book, but an appetiserjust the individuals who are negatively impacted.

|isbn=17863316081529148251|title=Hard PushedMisfits: A Midwife's StoryPersonal Manifesto|author=Leah HazardMichaela Coel|rating=45|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=Over the past few years''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, weyet still compartmentalise? It've had a rash (sorry - no pun intended) of books by medical practitionerss as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it. Doctors have been at the forefront, but ''Hard Pushed Before you start reading ''Misfits''you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You' is the first re not going to read a book I've seen by of essays or a midwifeself-help book. ItYou's an unusual profession in that itre going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's one of the few callings 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the medical system where most of the patients are healthy and the only one where one person comes into the system and (for television industry at the most part) more than one goes outEdinburgh TV Festival. ItYou might be ''reading''s an amazing thing to be able to do - to escort new life into the world - and an enormous responsibility. Leah Hazard came book but you need to it after a career in television and ''Hard Pushedlisten'' is to the story of her career words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a midwife - and the title tells more than one storycloud of exquisite writing.

{{Frontpage|classisbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''To be a dark-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba

<!-- de Bois -->|-| style="width: 10''0.7%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785903357.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.coof English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.uk/dp/1785903357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

{{Frontpage| styleauthor="verticalRichard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|isbn=1800461682}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-alignShaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: top; text-aligncows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: left;"|cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.''

I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]Eliza Van Cort|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

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I should warn you Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in advance: this may not be the best time for me news, ''A Women's Guide to review the memoir of a Tory MPClaiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Not only am I a left-of-centre Now - to put it mildly be clear - voter and so probably have next this book is not a 'how to no points of political agreement disable your attacker with Nick de Boistwo simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliamentbe people who don't need protection, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classespeople who claim their own space. And yes If all women did this, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just as useless. Sigh. Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about an easy target to be used to prove thatthey are big men.}}At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[ Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois |Full Review]]  <!-- Reeves -->{{Frontpage|-author=Polly Barton| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Fifty Sounds[[image:1788312201.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/1788312201/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]5  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|==genre=[[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics by Rachel Reeves]]===and Society [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] ''Women in Westminster have changed the culture of politics and Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the perception of what women can doquestion '' Why Japan?''Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' chronicles the battles the 491 women who have Japan has been elected over on my radar for a while and if the course of the past century world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have fought and highlights their victoriesvisited by now. It is remarkable that the history of female Members of Parliament began in 1918I may get there later this year, the same year in which women were first given the right to vote but a decade before all women were given suffrage on equal terms with menI am not hopeful. Although Constance de Markievicz was And like Barton, I don't know the first female elected answer to Parliament, it was only in 1919 that Nancy Astor became the first women to take question ''why Japan?'' She explains her seat feelings in the House respect of Commons and pave the way for women of the future. It was not long after question in 1924 that the first female MP, Margaret Bondfield, was appointed into a cabinet position and since then women MPs have endeavoured to fight gender inequality and campaign for female rights. Within 100 years there has been a gradual revolution of change in politics and to date, Britain has been led by two female Prime Ministers. However, such great landmarks have overshadowed the other female MPs whose early achievementsessay, which have paved is on the way for subsequent women politicians, are consistently overlooked. In sound ''giro'Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' Rachel Reeves brings the forgotten stories into the spotlight to document – which she describes as being, among other things, the history sound of British female political history from 1919 ''every party where you have to 2019introduce yourself''. [[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics by Rachel Reeves|Full Review]]isbn=1913097501}}