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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]==Politics and society==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tina RosenbergAlastair Humphreys|title=Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the WorldLocal
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel |summary=Teenagers in South Carolina have become involved Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. 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 anti-smoking movement, passing out information encouraging their peers book is an attempt ''to educate themselves share what I have learnt about the ways some big tobacco companies try to get them hookedissues from a year exploring a small map. There Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are youngsters in South Africa who’ve refused no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have sex without a condom because downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|author=Edel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the danger country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of HIV and AIDShis were kind of taking his time away. Minority students Our narrator's family weren't in Texas have challenged data going back years by succeeding at calculus where traditionally students the happiest of their race have struggled. Why? Because other people have done places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the same thingfather being watched and watched, and they want not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to fit ease some of the heat, but in.this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848313004</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lydia Ola TaiwoSarah Wilson|title=A Broken ChildhoodThis One Wild and Precious Life: A True Story of Abusethe path back to connection in a fractured world
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|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Mojisola – known to everyone as Ola – was born My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to a Nigerian couple in London in 1964 do with your one wild and spent the first five years of her precious life in a foster home in Brighton?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. '' Here she was loved, looked after I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and lived her precious life in a genuinely good familythe way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. This wasn In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't an unusual arrangement as it allowed see that she acknowledges the biological parents source) she pushes us to earn money without worrying think about childcare whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – and Ola was happythe best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. It was all the more cruel when her biological father arrived to take her Don't care what you'homere doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she' for s effing furious about the weekend – a weekend which would stretch into seven years of abuse and neglectfact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846245907</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Pemberton1785633457|title=The Doctor Will See You NowCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=The NHS is one Clive Wilkinson has a history of those things that everyone seems to have an opinion about, and this of course includes those of us who work travelling by unconventional means with a preference for said organisation (the world's 3rd largest employer, don'tcha know). Max Pemberton is one of those people: a doctor, though despite what you might assume from the title, not a GP but a hospital medicslow travel. This is As he neared his third book on eightieth birthday the subject idea of life (and death) within exploring the walls edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a hospitalpleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, plus the odd excursion to rather misnamed Care HomesJoan, and shouldn't it's not a bad read. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340919949</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirin Ebadi1529153050|title=The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One DestinyBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson
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|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=Dr Ebadi Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is currently living in exile, fearing for her safety, should she return coming to Iran in the foreseeable future. Her Prologue describes a violent seem more and bloody reaction to what more like an adrenaline sport, I was a peaceful situation involving wives, mothers and sisters. Boulders and large stones were thrown at elderly, defenseless women without a momentnudged towards ''Britain's hesitationBest Political Cartoons of 2022''. A taste of things to come?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0979845645</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nigel Hamilton|title=American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D Roosevelt to George W Bush|rating=5|genre=History|summary=The Premise is simple: take twelve men (and unfortunately they are all men, but Sharp eyes will have noted thatwe's re not yet through the author's fault) who have achieved high office and look at each of them. Firstly, take a look at year: the road cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to the high office, then how they performed once they reached their goal and finally a look at their private life31 August 2022. Suetonius did it first when he wrote ''The Twelve Caesars'' and now Nigel Hamilton has taken the same journey with ''American Caesars'', a remarkably Who can imagine what there will be to come in-depth look at twelve consecutive American presidents from the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and finishing with George W Bush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520419</amazonuk>2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bob Marshall-AndrewsB0B7289HKQ|title=Off MessageConversations Across America: The Complete Antidote to Political HumbugA Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya
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|genre=AutobiographyTravel|summary=Bob Marshall-Andrews entered Parliament in 1997Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, rather too late by the way) wanted to be spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a career politician (he good time to do it. The decision was already an established QC) and with a profound distrust made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of authorityit - in 2015. He They had no aspirations towards office, 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which was perhaps pointed this up as well for all concerned as he more of a challenge that it would become best known be for being a dissidentmost people who considered taking it on. I occasionally enquired as to which party held his allegiance Merv Loya was 75 years old and eventually concluded that he went with his conscience. The last three Labour administrations have spawned more political memoirs than any other – and I did wonder if this would be just one more to add to the pilewas suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684412</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Blixen1739593901|title=Out Of Africa22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=AutobiographyScience Fiction|summary=It's 'Our future will be more complex than a quarter we expected. Instead of a century since I first saw the film ''Out of Africa'' flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and it's one of the few that have stayed automated elderly care with me over the intervening yearsgeolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma. It wasn't just the story, but the personality of Karen Blixen and the wonderful landscape of the Ngong Hills, south of Nairobi, in Kenya's Rift Valley. I remember looking for this book at the time, but being unable to find it, so the opportunity to read it now was too good to miss.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951437</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary Armstrong Jane Goodall and Tim GrayDouglas Abrams |title=The Authentic Tawney: A New Interpretation of the Political Thought Book of R. H. Tawney Hope |rating=45|genre=Politics and Society|summary=The Authentic Tawney takes done thing is to read a fresh look at book all the political writing of R H Tawney, a left wing academic whose works were a big influence on the huge program of postwar reform engineered by the Labour Party, particularly the provision of universal secondary education. The authors assert that Tawney's ideas changed markedly way through the course of his life and that they lack the consistency that other interpreters have erroneously attributed before you sit down to themreview it. They reject the notion that his writings have I’m making an essential unityexception here, which is philosophically interesting - don't we tend because I don’t want to assume that an intellectual's life's work will contain a central 'core' lose any of ideas? Discussion the experience of an important pioneer reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in democratic socialism also seems relevant at a time when Labour has 'lost its way' and evolved into a watered down version of the Conservativestears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845402243</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Hewlett1788360737|title=Artivism: The Sarkozy PhenomenonBattle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=42|genre=Politics and Society|summary=The old saying Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that 'cometh the hour, cometh the man' and whether or not it's the electorate's ability ‘’Every man… contributes to pick modifying the man or whether social environment in which he was only seen as the right man in retrospect is a moot pointdevelops’’. There areTherefore, thoughall art must be political, some surprising people at even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the head Era of European countries at the moment – with Silvio Berlusconi and Nicholas Sarkozy at the head of my personal listPostmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. My [[Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: The True Story by Valerie Benaim and Yves Azeroual|last attempt]] recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to find out become more about Sarkozy proved to be too lightovertly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-weight for my tastes, but this time I've gone wing” donors and media elites hoping to the opposite end of the scale with create a book from Nick Hewlett, Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick more globalist and published by Imprint Academicprogressive regime. I mention those points because there is no attempt to present this as populist writing: it's scholarly from beginning to endOr at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402391</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Emmerson1398508632|title=The Future History of the Arctic: How climate, resources and geopolitics are reshaping the north, and why it matters to the worldWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary=Charles Emmerson examines It had been on the past history cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of Arctic explorationeating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, economic exploitation and development Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the policies area around her was a known habitat with a variety of governments of countries terrains. She had electricity which include Arctic territory (and others)allowed her to run a fridge, with the aim of understanding the present freezer and predicting the future betterdehydrator. He explains the apparently contradictory title in some detail in the Introduction She had a car - and fuel. While history is about the past Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'ideas about the future have changed over time'. Also, the future of the Arctic will be shaped by wild just to live off its historyproduce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yangzom Brauen and Katy Darbyshire1529149800|title=Across Many MountainsThings You Can Do: Three Daughters of TibetHow to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=BiographyHome and Family|summary=Fleeing your home can never be easy but when you are six, your only shoes are roughly hand-sewn and stuffed We begin with hay, and your route is over the world's highest mountain range then it must be particularly challenginga telling story. This was All the journey that Yangzom Brauen's mother took with her parents birds and animals fled when they fled Tibet after the Chinese invasion forest fire took hold and most of 1959. They were leaving behind all that they knew them stood and travelling watched, unable to India in the hope that think of anything they could find sanctuary in do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the country where river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the Dalai Lama fire. The animals laughed: what good was in exilethat doing. 'Across Many Mountains' I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. And that, really, is their storythe only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655344X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=XinranMatthieu Aikins|title=Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love The Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=4.5
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|summary=Xinran first came It's easy to my notice with her 2002 book "forget at times that The Good Women of China" which retold tales of Naked Don't Fear the women she had come across through her work in Chinese radioWater isn't actually fiction, where for many years she had hosted the local equivalent of because it reads very much like a cross between Woman's Hour and a late night phonewell-in talk showpaced thriller at times. She has been busy bringing us other stories in the meantimeThis is not by any means a criticism, but in this latest work she returns rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to those early days in radio accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and the stories she learned. Many of these stories she decided were too at times painful to telljourney. They speak There are tense moments and gripping accounts of children, specifically daughters, abandoned by their Chinese mothers one border crossings which had me on edge the whole way or anotherthrough. But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099535750</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Politkovskaya1785633074|title=Nothing but the Truth: Selected Dispatches Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry
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|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=Anna Politkovskaya worked for Members of Parliament like us to believe that the Russian newspaper Novaya gazetacountry is run by politicians, becoming particularly famous for her critical reports on headed by the Prime minister - the wars in Chechnya, on Putin, on state corruption and on life in Russia under his regime. She never avoided controversy and received a number of death threats before she was murdered in October 2006. She had reason to know these were no idle threats – one of her articles here entitled 'Is Journalism Worth the Loss of a Life?' reports the attempted murder primus inter pares'' (that's for those of one of her colleagues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526689</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonny Steinberg|title=Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=South African Steinberg has won awards with previous non-fiction books you who are Eton and after reading the praise from various sources (New York Times, J M CoetzeeOxbridge educated) I came to but the conclusion reality is that I was in for a serious and thoughtthe ''prime'' movers are the special advisers -provoking read. The preface tells us that the two Liberian men SPADS - Rufus and who are the driving force behind the younger Jacob left Liberian soil in vastly different circumstances and for different reasonsgovernment. But as they meet up years later and thousands We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of miles away from their homelandRafe Hubris, their ''Little Liberia'' in New York City has a tall order: the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to contain and accommodate their big personalities and to a certain extent, their big egoswatch. Can it cope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224085662</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Kidder1846276772|title=Mountains Beyond MountainsThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
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|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Dr Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to helping Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the poorest and neediest in society. He works tirelessly extent to help people less fortunate than him. ''Dedicated his life'' and ''works tirelessly'' - phrases we've heard many times about many wonderful people, but when reading ''Mountains Beyond Mountains'', you'll realise therewhich they suffer from it: it's not simply a shred part of hyperbole about these claimseveryday life. Farmer began working with tuberculosis and AIDS patients in Haiti, and then worked with them, and worked for them, and worked with them, and worked for them, and worked with them White men will always come first. In an area where treating the disease is just one part of The able will come before the problem, where poverty is rife, he has transformed an area, saved countless lives, and made an incredible difference to many peopledisabled. [http://www.pih.org/ Partners In Health] Jobs, the healthcare organisation he set up with his colleaguespromotions, takes this work worldwide. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684315</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adrian Johns|title=Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age|rating=4|genre=History|summary=If you higher salaries are inclined to take your cues from the weekly reviews, as the witty poet Gavin Ewart once expressed the matter, you will doubtless find currently articles as varied as; Russell Brand predicting the imminent decline preserve of the BBC, various interpretations of liberalism and how these struggle for expression in Coalition Government policywhite man. There are concerns too about the legislation governing the internet and references back to the Sixties battles between, on the one hand, Even when those who wouldn't pass the unbridled self-expression medical become a part of the free market and, on the otheran organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the virtues of self-restraint in such matters as individuals on the re-examination receiving end of the Lady Chatterley trial, now fifty years ago. An unusual and quite intriguing book, Death of a Pirate, about bias but it's not just the development of intellectual property and piracy in radio touches on all these contemporary concerns in a dramatic wayindividuals who are negatively impacted. It combines the history of modern broadcasting with a crime story and consequent trial.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393068609</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
|author=Michaela Coel
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|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beate Teresa Hanika0008350388|title=Learning We Need to ScreamTalk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|summary=After decades of watching politics more or ''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less assiduously I was surprised by the New Labour administration. Never before had so much been put – or so it seemed – in the public domaindesirable, but never before had I had quite such a feeling of really not understanding what was going onless hireable, of being party to only half a storyless intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts.. The age of spin told us little that we really wanted to know, but left unsaid all the important things. Early in 2010 I was disappointed that I'd missed Andrew Rawnsley's 'The End of the Party' but now IWe Need to Talk About Money'm rather glad that I did as it's been republished in paperback with two additional chapters which include the extraordinary events surrounding the 2010 General Election.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141046147</amazonuk>}}by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark OatenRichard Brook|title=Screwing UpUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life
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|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Like John Profumo I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and otherssometimes 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, Mark Oaten will probably be remembered for found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the wrong reasonsway that it does now. It I believe it came to me not just because I was the episode which made him for likely to give it a while the countryfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's Nou.s. 1 paparazzi targetp. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, and which as he recounts in his Prologueso there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, when his even if it doesn't always turn out that way'world was crashing down' and ] – but also because it hardly needs recounting in detail. Yet when all is said and done, this is a very lively, readablebook I needed to read, sometimes quite poignant memoir from one of the men whose career at Westminster began and ended with the Blair and Brown years. Throughout there is an admirable absence of self-pityright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849540071</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Pennac1787332098|title=School BluesHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=4.5
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|summary=Daniel Pennac's book discusses the issue of children who struggle at school'When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and offers some ideas so on how teachers can and should help . And we assign them. It is not a dry textbook places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on educational theory. He writes from personal experiencesofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, as a teacher and novelist who was once millions of wild animals stay out there, 'un cancre'somewhere, translated here as a dunce or a bad student'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694648</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mullin1523092734|title=Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005 A Women's Guide to 2010Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
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|summary=At the end of [[A View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin|A View from the Foothills]] we left Chris Mullin wondering why he was no longer Tony Blair's Africa minister at the Foreign Office. He was never to get 'She brings a definitive answer to this, but was later told hug-kick-thunderclap that Blair handed out the junior ministerial appointments rather like sweets, with few worries about how people would feel if they were missed out or sackedevery woman needs in her life. In Decline Again and Fall we see Chris come down from the foothills of politics again and return to the backbenchesagain. He might no longer be in a position of power'' (Alma Derricks, but he's still in the thick of it. Perhaps thoughformer CMO, some of the enjoyment is draining away from the job as he sees himself with years more of doing nothing very important.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683998</amazonuk>}}Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam PhillipsPolly Barton|title=On BalanceFifty Sounds|rating=4.5
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|summary=Essential Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a tightrope walkerwhile and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, prized as an intellectual objectiveI don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, balance which is generally considered something to on the sound ''giro' '' – which we can aspire. We praise someone who makes a balanced decisionshe describes as being, among other things, we envy people who have a the sound of 'good work/life balance' we offer an opinion every party where you have to introduce yourself'on balance' to demonstrate that we have considered various arguments and options.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241143888</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James RobertsonStephen Fabes|title=And The Land Lay StillSigns of Life|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionTravel|summary=The novel starts I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places... at the endI was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. We see the fictional characterUnfortunately, photographer Mike Pendreich collating many, many photographs I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which his late father took with his trusty camerawas the guts to simply go out and do it. His father is generally acknowledged as I also didn't inherit the better kind of the two at the craft; he simply 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 knackrequisite 'bottle'. And what his son is now in charge In order words I'm not the sort of are black person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and white photographs charting a social history at that timenot come home for six years. And we all know Fabes did precisely that a picture is worth a thousand words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024114356X</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Green1504321383|title=Murder in the High HimalayaSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman
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|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Meet Mister Bigelow. He's elderly, living alone on Long Island, New York, with some health problems but more than enough family and friends to get him by, and still a very active interest in yachting, regattas and more. Meet, too, Frances Woodsford. She's reaching middle-age, living with her brother You can't be happy and mum in Bournemouth, and working for the local baths as organiser of events, office lackey and morefulfilled on your own. I suggest You are not complete until you do meet them, although neither ever met the other. Despite this they kept up find a brisk and lively conversation about all aspects of life, from the late 1940s until his death at the beginning of the 60s. And as a result comes this book, of heavily edited highlights, which opens up a world of social history and entertaining diary-style commentman''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542293</amazonuk>}}
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