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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''.
|genre= Politics and Society
|summary= Get Over Yourself considers Nietzsche's imagined perceptions I confess I picked this one up from the library in my pre-lockdown forage of modern society and uses our society to explain his philosophyrandom stuff. Now I'm sorry if have to go out an buy my own copy so that sounds vague but it's the best I can do from turn down the blurb on the back. After reading Get Over Yourself from cover pages I have marked and return to cover, its varying wisdom when I am still none need to. Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the wiser about the purpose of this book. It appears to be first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a series of personal opinions held together with quotes, which donsport''t always appear relevant, from Nietzsche, Chumbawumba and newspaper articles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845409337</amazonuk>1781688370
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{{Frontpage|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5|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.|isbn=1684056993}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cathy ScottSharon 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-Clark changing' – although it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason and Adrian LevyI'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.|isbn=1912836017}}{{Frontpage|author= Linda Scott|title= The ExileDouble X Economy|rating= 45
|genre= Politics and Society
|summary= An account of ''Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the fate of Al Qaeda and the Bin Laden family since the events of 9/11, world''The Exile. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, but it' plunges into s far from hyperbole as the murky waters of international terrorismfollowing pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, espionage and politicsthe impact on the local and world economy. Detailed and meticulous, What can be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation in the book tackles west? What can be done about the subject from all anglesselling of young women into marriage, providing a panoramic view of the subject and acting to enlighten what can chimpanzees and inform the reader.bonobos teach us about mothering?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858762</amazonuk>0571353606
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily ClarksonDanny Dorling|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?Slowdown|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=''Can I Speak to Someone We are living in Charge?''a time of rapid change, blogger Emily Clarksonand we's debut book, re worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is a fiercenormal, witty natural and laughprobably 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-outand-loud funny ode to feminism. In a series of open letterssome pages, she addresses if you can follow the issues faced by every modern womanarguments, discussing everything from dealing with body hair to being made to feel uncomfortable 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 gymwrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as well rapidly as more personal issueswe think they are. In fact, like her experiences the rate of being 'catfished' change in many things is slowing down and sent abuse online. This is a vital read for any girl born the direction of change will in the 1990s, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exteriorcases go into reverse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471156907</amazonuk>0300243405
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Asher0241446732|title= Man UpOur 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= When a couple The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years ago my university introduced compulsory consent workshops along old, struggled with an option of what was happening. In such circumstances, it'good lad' sessions for boyss natural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, all debate broke loose. Shouldn't consent be self-evident for everyone? Would the workshops reinforce it became clear to the stereotype of family that they were 'laddish' boys? Would it all be about pointing fingers at boys and victimizing girls? What about nonburned-binary out people? In short, how could these workshops be anything else than on a burned-out planet''. If they were to find a mission doomed way to live happily again their solution would need to failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701807</amazonuk>be radical.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Carolina de Robertis0648684806|title= Radical HopeClara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 4|genre= Politics and SocietyBiography|summary= On 8th November 2016, Donald Trump The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was elected as probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the 46th President time she was just three-years-old but because of the United Statessome childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Since then many Americans have been overcome Instead, she remained with fearher grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, worrying about what will become both in and out of American society during Trump's administrationschool. Carolina de Robertis She was no exception to this fear and the only child in response to the newly elected President household and his policies she put out a call for actionher childhood was glorious. Radical Hope is By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the outcome mid-west of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to this call. De Robertis reached find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to fellow writers and activists asking join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for lettersfifteen years, predominantly letters of lovehad ten pregnancies, addressed to seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the citizens of today eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and those of past and future generations in order to help spread hope during times of uncertaintyWisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349010102</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew d'Ancona183895015X|title=Post-TruthA Bit of a Stretch: The New War on Truth and How to Fight BackDiaries of a Prisoner|author=Chris Atkins|rating=3.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Documentary filmmakers don''Our own post-truth era is what happens when society relaxes its defence t usually get the run 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 establishments within the candidate tells you. I've been suspicious for a decade or moreMountbatten-Windsor Hotel Group, but it's become difficult to ignore the change after getting involved in political attitudes since Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. With regard an illegal tax scheme to the latterfund his latest film, when Trump Chris Atkins was challenged on invited for a statement he'd made which was subsequently found to be incorrect, his response was ''Who cares if I got it wrong?'' five-year stay. He was able to tap to the fading concept of 'the American Dream' - those Americans who The first nine months were used to waiting patiently spent in line and who had found themselves overtaken by ''womenHMP Wandsworth, which is probably the oldest, immigrants largest and public sector workers''most dysfunctional prison in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen MossMichael Harris|title= Wild KingdomSolitude: Bringing Back Britain's WildlifeIn Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating= 45|genre= Animals and WildlifeLifestyle|summary= Wildlife has been declining in Britain over This is not the 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 last few decades; mainstream, but it is an unfortunate by-product not that at all. Instead of human population growth, which in telling us how it is more about the modern world has increased significantly''why''. Through this book Moss suggests a few ways in Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which we can start used to bring back 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 Britain's wildlife without compromising that, and eventually in the human way final chapter he talks about his own experience of life: we can cohaving deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-exist with natureways that his thinking about this lost art led him. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>1847947662
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1783784350
|title=This Golden Fleece: A 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, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The 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 the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering 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, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008294011
|title=How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
|author=Ece Temelkuran
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1786893452
|title=The Ungrateful Refugee
|author=Dina Nayeri
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=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 those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the world and the situations that refugees find themselves in. It's rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity to do that, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the middle of a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a ten-year-old.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1846045576
|title=Walks In The Wild
|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)
|rating=4
|genre=Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife
|summary=''An instruction manual for the forest'' is how Wohlleben's publisher described the idea for this book, and that's basically what it is – although right at the end the author says that it is not intended to be a reference book, but an appetiser.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1786331608
|title=Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story
|author=Leah Hazard
|rating=4
|genre=Lifestyle
|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'' is the first book I've seen by a midwife. It's an unusual profession in that it's 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 (for the most part) more than one goes out. It's an amazing thing to be able to do - to escort new life into the world - and an enormous responsibility. Leah Hazard came to it after a career in television and ''Hard Pushed'' is the story of her career as a midwife - and the title tells more than one story.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1785903357
|title=Confessions of a Recovering MP
|author=Nick de Bois
|rating=4
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir 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, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless.
Sigh.
Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that.
At least Nick de Bois made me laugh!
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