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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 to take all our jobs. Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains adults in countries all around the world. And inequality is as much of a problem as it ever was – if not more so. [[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism 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:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] As I began listening to ''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House'' we were treated to the unedifying spectacle of the President of the United States taking to Twitter to establish that he was ''a stable genius'', her life advising her as opposed, we must conclude to being an unstable... Well, let's not go therewhat they thought would be best for her. Itwas reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's a little too frightening: this usually fairly young) is rescued by the most powerful man in the worldhandsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. So what made me listen Few girls are lucky enough to this book? Well, Donald Trump didn't want me to read it: US presidents don'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 be brought up? [[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Anderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Anderson_Fantasyland.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785038656]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]] <!-- Connolly -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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 the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Simple summary: ''Know Your Placewithout'' is an anthology of essays on the working class by the working class. There are twenty-three disparate pieces talking about everything you can imagine: day trips to the seaside, access to the arts, food poverty, pub culture, glass ceilings, housing estates, vulgarity-as-class-marker, expectation that they will marry and much morehave children.  And a full disclosure: ''Know Your Place'' was brought to fruition by crowdfunding and I It was a contributor. I read the proposed spec belief and just ''knew'' I it would be many years before Louisa would love the book, should it reach its fundraising target, and conclude that's why I stumped up some cash. I think class 'a belief is both an under- and mis-discussed topic with working class 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 Placechoice'' 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]]}}<!-- Smith -->{{Frontpage|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Smith_Dont.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147212345X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINauthor=147212345X]] Sakinu Ahronglong| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms by Harry Leslie Smith]]==title=Hunter School [[image:5star.jpg|link=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 the systemic, endemic and debilitating inequality faced by the people of the United Kingdom, particularly in the North. Through reflecting on his own experiences during his childhood, Harry Leslie Smith has painted a frank and uncompromising picture of the grim, appallingly miserable childhood he had to endure due 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 China4.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985902?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985902]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow]]===Autobiography[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a journalist for the BBC, 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 The flyleaf to this little collection tells us 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 it is immensely personal - yet also paints a fascinating portrait work of one of the world's most intriguing nationsfiction. [[China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow|Full Review]] <!-- Landreth -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Landreth_Swell.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472938941?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1472938941]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Swell by Jenny Landreth]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Sport|Sport]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] I love JennyThat's own description of her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our ownpossibly misleading. This is more than just (I say ''just''!) 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 am not sure whether 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]] <!-- Maconie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;fiction"|[[image:MACONIE_lONG.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785030531/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and in the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's column. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Let's be honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have no connection (sense that I know of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about Ahronglong made it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsboroughall up, or Orgreave'' then somehow whether it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at least. [[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie|Full Review]] <!-- Grindrod -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Grindrod Outskirts.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473625025/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Outskirts by John Grindrod]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star 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]] <!-- Elkin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Elkin_Flaneuse.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099593378?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099593378]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] Lauren Elkin is down blurb goes 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 say ''Revolutionary Road''). When she imagines to herself what the female version of that well-known historical figurerecollections, the carefree ''flâneur'', might be, she thinks about women who freely wandered the worldfolklore and autobiographical stories's great cities without having the more insalubrious connotation of the word 'streetwalker' applied to them. [[Flaneuse: Women Walk It feels like the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Noor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Noor_Surgerylatter.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1521173192?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1521173192]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Surgery on It feels like 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 stories he tells about his experiences, the sights he's seen and the people he's met. It's just as a little different in ''Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants'' though: Saqib Noor is a junior doctorchild, training to be as an orthopaedic surgeon and over a period of ten years he visited six countriesadolescent, not as a tourist but to give medical assistancean adult are real and true. They're countries which Noor describes as ''fourth world'' - third world with added disaster - and their need But memory is desperate. [[Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants: Letters from a doctor abroad by Saqib Noor|Full Review]]<br> <!-- O'Gorman -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ogorman_Forgetfulness.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1501324691/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia by Francis O'Gorman]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics fickle thing, and Society|Politics maybe poetic licence has taken over here and Society]] After a glut of books about mindfulness it came as something of a relief to encounter ''Forgetfulness'', Francis O'Gorman's thinking on why the twenty-first century is losing touch with the past, on why what is likely - or could be made - to happen is so much more important than what has gone before. The book is supremely intelligentthere, but with the knowledge worn lightly and maybe calling it's eminently readable, regardless of how you feel about the conclusions he draws. [[Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia by Francis O'Gorman|Full Review]] <!-- Williams -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Williams_Culture.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784870811/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Culture fiction means that its safer and Society 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] From the last decades of the eighteenth century to the final words of modernism, this book tracks societal changes through exploring five key words: industry, democracy, class, art and culture. The meanings of such things, their essence, changes as per their use and the era in which their implications were considered. [[Culture and Society 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams|Full Review]] <!-- West -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:West_Get.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1845409337/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche for our times by Patrick West]]=== [[image:1star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] ''Get Over Yourself'' considers Nietzsche's imagined perceptions of modern society and uses our society to explain his philosophy. I'm sorry if that sounds vague but therefore more people will read it's the best I can do from the blurb on the back. After reading Get Over Yourself from cover to cover, I am still none the wiser about the purpose of this book. It appears to be a series of personal opinions held together with quotes, which don't always appear relevant, from Nietzsche, Chumbawumba and newspaper articles. [[Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche for our times by Patrick West|Full Review]] <!-- Scott-Clark -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Levy_Exile More people should.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408858762/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Exile by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy]]==isbn=1999791282 [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] An account of the fate of Al Qaeda and the Bin Laden family since the events of 9/11, ''The Exile'' plunges into the murky waters of international terrorism, espionage and politics. Detailed and meticulous, the book tackles the subject from all angles, providing a panoramic view of the subject and acting to enlighten and inform the reader. [[The Exile by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy|Full Review]] <!-- Clarkson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Clarkson_Can.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471156907/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Can I Speak to Someone in Charge? by Emily Clarkson]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?, blogger Emily Clarkson's debut book, is a fierce, witty and laugh-out-loud funny ode to feminism. In 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 in the gym, as well as more personal issues, like her experiences of being 'catfished' and sent abuse online. This is a vital read for any girl born in the 1990s, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exterior. [[Can I Speak to Someone in Charge? by Emily Clarkson|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rebecca AsherFrederic Gros|title= Man UpA Philosophy of Walking|rating= 5

|summary= When a couple of years ago I confess I picked this one up from the library in my university introduced compulsory consent workshops along with an option pre-lockdown forage of 'good lad' sessions for boys, all debate broke looserandom stuff. Shouldn't consent be self-evident for everyone? Would Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the workshops reinforce pages I have marked and return to its varying wisdom when I need to. Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the stereotype of first two pages, wherein Gros explains why '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 walking is not a mission doomed to failure?sport''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784701807</amazonuk>1781688370

{{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}}{{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.|isbn=1912836017}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Carolina de RobertisLinda Scott|title= Radical HopeThe Double X Economy|rating= 45

|summary= On 8th November 2016''Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the world''. It's a bold statement for an opening chapter, Donald Trump was elected but it's far from hyperbole as the 46th President of following pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, and the impact on the United Stateslocal and world economy. Since then many Americans have been overcome with fearWhat 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, worrying and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about what will become mothering?|isbn=0571353606}}{{Frontpage|author=Danny Dorling|title=Slowdown|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary= We are living in a time of American society during Trumprapid change, and we's administrationre worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and probably good for us. Carolina de Robertis was no exception We are designed to this fear worry and with the current state of what we're doing in response the world we have much to be worried about. However, over the newly elected President next three-hundred-and his policies she put -some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out a call for actionin 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. Radical Hope In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and the outcome to this calldirection of change will in some cases go into reverse. De Robertis reached out to fellow writers |isbn=0300243405}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241446732|title=Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and activists asking for lettersa Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, predominantly letters Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the parenting of lovetheir two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. In such circumstances, addressed it's natural to seek a solution close to home, but eventually, it became clear to the family 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the citizens USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of today some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and those saw that she received a good education, both in and out of past school. She was the only child in the household and future generations her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in order 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 help spread hope during times of uncertaintyjoin the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349010102</amazonuk>

{{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

|summary=Documentary filmmakers don''Our own postt usually get the run of establishments within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Group, but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited for a five-truth era year stay. The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is what happens when society relaxes its defence of values that underpin cohesion, namely veracityprobably the oldest, honesty largest and accountabilitymost dysfunctional prison in Europe.'' }}{{Frontpage|author=Michael Harris|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= This is not the book I'm old enough or perhaps naive enough was expecting it to believe that when making a decision about political voting, you should be able . For some reason I expected it to rely absolutely be another self-help manual on what how to find calm, how to step outside the candidate tells you. I've been suspicious for a decade or moremainstream, but it's become difficult to ignore the change in political attitudes since Brexit and the election of Donald Trumpis not that at all. With regard to Instead of telling us how it is more about 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?why'' . He was able to tap to the fading concept of Harries examines how we'the American Dream' - those Americans who were re eroding solitude, which used to waiting patiently in line be a natural part of our human life, and who had why that matters. Of course, he talks about how some people have found themselves overtaken by ''womensolitude and what has come of that, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, immigrants but mostly he wanders down the alleys and public sector workers''by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>1847947662

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Moss1783784350|title= Wild KingdomThis Golden Fleece: Bringing Back A Journey Through Britain's WildlifeKnitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating= 45|genre= Animals and WildlifeHistory|summary= Wildlife has been declining It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in Britain over 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 last few decades; it is an unfortunate by-product length and breadth of human population growththe British Isles with occasional forays abroad, which in discovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the modern world has increased significantlylandscape. Through this book Moss suggests She'd grown up on a few ways sheep farm in which we can start Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the farm'' - and learned to bring back some of Britainspin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's wildlife without compromising the human way of life: we can co-exist with naturefriend. This was in her blood. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>