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{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor=Stephen Fabes|title=Signs of Life|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary="15" <!I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. In order words I'm not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.|isbn=1788161211}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.
<!-- Bremner -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Bremner_UsThis was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0525533184/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]]  It wasn't supposed to be like this, unkind: it was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom and gloom. The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of simply the world, fuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. People keep saying that robots are coming adults in her life advising her as to take all our jobswhat they thought would be best for her. Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries It was reinforced by all around those fairy tales where the world. And inequality girl (she's usually fairly young) is as much of a problem as it ever was – if not more so. [[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism rescued by Ian Bremmer|Full Review]] <!-- Wolff -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wolff Trump.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408711400?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408711400]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff]]=== [[image:4handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] As I began listening Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White Housewithout'' we were treated to the unedifying spectacle of the President of the United States taking to Twitter to establish expectation that he they will marry and have children. It was ''a stable genius'', as opposed, we must belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude to being an unstable... Well, letthat 's not go there. It's a little too frightening: this belief is the most powerful man in the world. So what made me listen to this book? Well, Donald Trump didn't want me to read it: US presidents dona choice't often go down that road and rarely to a good destination (I'm thinking of Richard Nixon here) and that made me really want to know what was between the covers. But how did the book stack up? [[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff|Full Review]]<br>}} <!-- Anderson -->{{Frontpage|-author=Sakinu Ahronglong| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Hunter School[[image:Anderson_Fantasyland.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co4.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785038656]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]==genre=Autobiography [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 The flyleaf to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring this little collection tells us that it is a work of America in vivid relieffiction. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp witThat's possibly misleading. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]] <!-- Connolly -->|-| style= I am not sure whether it is "width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;fiction"|[[image:Connolly_working.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1911585363?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1911585363]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Know Your Place: Essays on in the Working Class by sense that Ahronglong made it all up, or whether it is as the Working Class by Nathan Connolly]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Simple summary: blurb goes on to say ''Know Your Placerecollections, folklore and autobiographical stories'' is an anthology of essays on . It feels like the working class by latter. It feels like the working class. There are twenty-three disparate pieces talking stories he tells about everything you can imagine: day trips to the seasidehis experiences as a child, access to the arts, food povertyas an adolescent, pub culture, glass ceilings, housing estates, vulgarity-as-class-marker, an adult are real and much moretrue.  And But memory is a full disclosure: ''Know Your Place'' was brought to fruition by crowdfunding fickle thing, and I was a contributor. I read the proposed spec maybe poetic licence has taken over here and just ''knew'' I would love the bookthere, should and maybe calling it reach fiction means that its fundraising target, safer and that's why I stumped up some cashtherefore more people will read it. I think class is both an under- and mis-discussed topic with working class More people defined externally and talked about rather than listened to or allowed to define themselves. And I really did love the book just as I thought I would. So you know - there's a possible reviewer bias here that you should know about. I like to think I would have criticised ''Know Your Place'' had it fallen short of my hopes for it but just in case, I'm letting you know. [[Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly|Full Review]]isbn=1999791282}}<!-- Smith -->{{Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Frederic Gros[[image:Smith_Dont.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147212345X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147212345X]] A Philosophy of Walking| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms by Harry Leslie Smith]]==rating=5 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]  Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms is part autobiography and part rallying call for society to tackle summary= I confess I picked this one up from the systemic, endemic and debilitating inequality faced by the people library in my pre-lockdown forage of the United Kingdom, particularly in the Northrandom stuff. Through reflecting on his Now I have to go out an buy my own experiences during his childhood, Harry Leslie Smith has painted a frank copy so that I can turn down the pages I have marked and uncompromising picture of the grim, appallingly miserable childhood he had return to endure due its varying wisdom when I need to the poverty faced by his family contrasted with the, shamefully still, grim and miserable lives many people endure today in a country ravaged by cuts, austerity and political turmoil. [[Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms by Harry Leslie Smith|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Bristow -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Bristow China.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985902?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985902]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[China Some books draw you in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow]]=== [[image:4starslowly.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Having worked for nine years This one had me in Bejing as a journalist for the BBCfirst two pages, author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history. Having been learning the local language for several years, Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacher, born in the early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of life in Communist China - but added to that, Bristow was greatly surprised to find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in ladies clothing. It soon becomes clear that the tale told here wherein Gros explains why ''walking is immensely personal - yet also paints not a fascinating portrait of one of the worldsport''s most intriguing nations. [[China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow|Full Review]]isbn=1781688370 |}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francis O'GormanLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=ForgetfulnessTiananmen 1989: Making the Modern Culture of AmnesiaOur Shattered Hopes
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|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Sharon Blackie
|title=If Women Rose Rooted
|rating=5
|genre= Biography
|summary= I normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading the one I've borrowed. I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.
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{{Frontpage
|author= Linda Scott
|title= The Double X Economy
|rating=5
|genre= Politics and Society
|summary=''Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the world''. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, but it's far from hyperbole as the following pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, and the impact on the local and world economy. What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the west? What can be done about the selling of young women into marriage, and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?
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{{Frontpage
|author=Danny Dorling
|title=Slowdown
|rating=4
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary= We are living in a time of rapid change, and we're worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and probably good for us. We are designed to worry and with the current state of what we're doing in the world we have much to be worried about. However, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, or in some cases that we're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and the direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0241446732
|title=Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis
|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=After a glut The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of books about mindfulness it came as something the parenting of a relief to encounter ''Forgetfulness''their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, Francis O'Gorman's thinking on why the twenty-first century is losing touch struggled with the past, on why what is likely - or could be made - to happen is so much more important than what has gone beforewas happening. The book is supremely intelligentIn such circumstances, but with the knowledge worn lightly and it's eminently readablenatural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, regardless of how you feel about it became clear to the conclusions he drawsfamily that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501324691</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stuart Maconie0648684806|title= Long Road From JarrowClara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 54|genre= Travel Biography|summary= I cancelled my The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and s life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's columnUSA. His downAt the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect sail with her parents and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admitthree brothers. Let's be honest Instead, thoughshe remained with her grandparents, I picked this one up because of someone else's reviewwho doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffeout of school. Places I grew up She was the only child inthe household and her childhood was glorious. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of) the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''family. Clara would only know her mother for a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfanfew months: she was married for fifteen years, Hillsboroughhad ten pregnancies, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history tooseven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. TangentiallyAs the eldest girl, at leasta heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=183895015X|title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author= Raymond WilliamsChris Atkins|titlerating=5|genre= Culture Politics and Society 1780|summary=Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the run of establishments within the Mountbatten-1950Windsor Hotel Group, but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited for a five-year stay. The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is probably the oldest, largest and most dysfunctional prison in Europe.}}{{Frontpage|author=Michael Harris|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating= 45|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary= From This is not the last decades book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the mainstream, but it is not that at all. Instead of telling us how it is more about the eighteenth century ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of our human life, and why that matters. Of course, he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of that, and eventually in the final words chapter he talks about his own experience of modernismhaving deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this book tracks societal changes through exploring five key wordslost art led him.|isbn=1847947662}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1783784350|title=This Golden Fleece: industryA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=5|genre=History|summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, democracy, class, art writing to people she'd never met and culturepreparing spreadsheets. The meanings job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of such thingsthe British Isles with occasional forays abroad, their essencediscovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the farm'' - and learned to spin, changes as per their use knit and weave from her mother and the era her mother's friend. This was in which their implications were consideredher blood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=4.5|amazonukgenre=Autobiography|summary=<amazonuk>1784870811</amazonuk>A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Patrick West1786893452|title= Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche for our timesThe Ungrateful Refugee|author=Dina Nayeri|rating= 14.5|genre= Politics and SocietyBiography|summary= Get Over Yourself considers Nietzsche's imagined perceptions Here in the West, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. But all of modern society those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and uses our society almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to explain his philosophythe world and the situations that refugees find themselves in. IIt'm sorry if s rare that sounds vague but it's we find out the best I can do journeys from the blurb on the back. After reading Get Over Yourself from cover refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity to coverdo that, in this intelligent, I am still none the wiser about powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the purpose middle of this book. It appears a revolution in Iran, fleeing to be America as a series of personal opinions held together with quotes, which don't always appear relevant, from Nietzsche, Chumbawumba and newspaper articlesten-year-old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409337</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage<!-- Landreth -->[[image:Landreth_Swell.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472938941?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1472938941]]1846045576|title===[[Swell by Jenny Landreth]]===Walks In The Wild[[image:5star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Sport|Sport]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] I love Jenny's own description of her book as a waterbiography Peter Wohlleben and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. This is more than just Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (I say ''just''!Translator) a recollection of the author's own encounters with water; it's also a history of women's fight for the right to swim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of the absurd. Not a lover of book blurbs myself, I do always seek to give a shout-out to those who get it dead right: in this case I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the-commute funny''. [[Swell by Jenny Landreth|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy|title= The Exile|rating= 4|genre= Politics Animals and SocietyWildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary= ''An account of the fate of Al Qaeda and instruction manual for the Bin Laden family since the events of 9/11, forest''The Exileis how Wohlleben'' plunges into s publisher described the murky waters of international terrorismidea for this book, espionage and politics. Detailed and meticulous, that's basically what it is – although right at the end the author says that it is not intended to be a reference book tackles the subject from all angles, providing a panoramic view of the subject and acting to enlighten and inform the readerbut an appetiser.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858762</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Clarkson1786331608|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story|author=Leah Hazard|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Over the past few years, we've had a rash (sorry - no pun intended) of books by medical practitioners. Doctors have been at the forefront, but ''Hard Pushed''Can is the first book I Speak to Someone in Charge?'ve seen by a midwife. It', blogger Emily Clarksons an unusual profession in that it's debut book, is a fierce, witty one of the few callings within the medical system where most of the patients are healthy and the only one where one person comes into the system and laugh-(for the most part) more than one goes out. It's an amazing thing to be able to do -loud funny ode to feminismescort new life into the world - and an enormous responsibility. In Leah Hazard came to it after a series of open letters, she addresses the issues faced by every modern woman, discussing everything from dealing with body hair to being made to feel uncomfortable career in the gym, as well as more personal issues, like her experiences of being television and ''Hard Pushed'catfished' and sent abuse online. This is the story of her career as a vital read for any girl born in midwife - and the 1990s, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exteriortitle tells more than one story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471156907</amazonuk>
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<!-- Elkin -->{{Frontpage[[image:Elkin_Flaneuse.jpg|leftisbn=1785903357|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099593378?ieConfessions of a Recovering MP|author=UTF8&tagNick de Bois|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode4|genre=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099593378]]Politics and Society|summary===[[FlaneuseI should warn you in advance: Women Walk this may not be the best time for me to review the City in Parismemoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, New Yorkalong with everyone else, Tokyoam currently subject to the debacle of parliament, Venice government and London by Lauren Elkin]]=== [[image:4starBrexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]]And yes, [[opposition parties:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless.
Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: they're places where you can't or shouldn't be seen walking; places where, in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking of everything from ''Madame Bovary'' to ''Revolutionary Road'')Sigh. When she imagines to herself what the female version of that well-known historical figure, the carefree ''flâneur'', might be, she thinks about women who freely wandered the world's great cities without having the more insalubrious connotation of the word 'streetwalker' applied to them. [[Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin|Full Review]]<br>
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===[[Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants: Letters from a doctor abroad by Saqib Noor]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] The letters begin much in the fashion of any young man away from home, perhaps in a quite exciting country, writing back to family and friends to tell them of his experiences, the sights he's seen and the people he's met. It's just a little different in ''Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants'' though: Saqib Noor is a junior doctor, training to be an orthopaedic surgeon and over a period of ten years he visited six countries, not as a tourist but to give medical assistance. They're countries which Noor describes as ''fourth world'' - third world with added disaster - and their need is desperate. [[Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants: Letters from a doctor abroad by Saqib Noor|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Rebecca Asher|title= Man Up|rating= 5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= When a couple of years ago my university introduced compulsory consent workshops along with an option of 'good lad' sessions for boys, all debate broke loose. Shouldn't consent be self-evident for everyone? Would the workshops reinforce the stereotype of 'laddish' boys? Would it all be about pointing fingers at boys and victimizing girls? What about non-binary people? In short, how could these workshops be anything else than a mission doomed to failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701807</amazonuk>At least Nick de Bois made me laugh!
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<!-- Grindrod -->[[image:Grindrod Outskirts.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473625025?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473625025]] ===Move to [[Outskirts by John Grindrod]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Popular Science Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] ''Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of countryside surrounding inner city housing estates. John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960's and '70's, as he puts it, ''I grew up on the last road in London.'' Grindrod explores the introduction of the green belt, and the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within this topic, he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart. [[Outskirts by John Grindrod|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Carolina de Robertis|title= Radical Hope|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society|summary= On 8th November 2016, Donald Trump was elected as the 46th President of the United States. Since then many Americans have been overcome with fear, worrying about what will become of American society during Trump's administration. Carolina de Robertis was no exception to this fear and in response to the newly elected President and his policies she put out a call for action. Radical Hope is the outcome to this call. De Robertis reached out to fellow writers and activists asking for letters, predominantly letters of love, addressed to the citizens of today and those of past and future generations in order to help spread hope during times of uncertainty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349010102</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Matthew d'Ancona|title=Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''Our own post-truth era is what happens when society relaxes its defence of values that underpin cohesion, namely veracity, honesty and accountability.'' I'm old enough or perhaps naive enough to believe that when making a decision about political voting, you should be able to rely absolutely on what the candidate tells you. I've been suspicious for a decade or more, but it's become difficult to ignore the change in political attitudes since Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. With regard to the latter, when Trump was challenged on a statement he'd made which was subsequently found to be incorrect, his response was ''Who cares if I got it wrong?'' He was able to tap to the fading concept of 'the American Dream' - those Americans who were used to waiting patiently in line and who had found themselves overtaken by ''women, immigrants and public sector workers''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Moss|title= Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife|rating= 4|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it is an unfortunate by-product of human population growth, which in the modern world has increased significantly. Through this book Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start to bring back some of Britain's wildlife without compromising the human way of life: we can co-exist with nature. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>}}