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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna BikontAlastair Humphreys|title= The Crime and the SilenceLocal|rating= 45|genre= HistoryTravel |summary= Where was your father? Where was your brotherAlastair 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, your mother, your uncle? These are the questions Anna Bikont struggles book is an attempt ''to ask during her investigation into share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a shocking act of violence committed against the Jewish community in Jedwabne during the summer of 1941small map. The Crime Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the Silence weaves together journalsfood system, interviews and pictures to share the story rewilding…'' One of a community torn apart by hatred and intolerance. It is also a moving testament to the dedication joys of Bikont, who documents her struggle to find the truth with grace and dignity in book for me was that the face biggest thing he learned about all of silencethese things was that there are no easy answers, rationalisationno single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and even anger, from members of the Polish community who would rather not stir up the crimes of the pastthat there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099592525</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate HarradEdel Rodriguez|title=Purple ProseWorm: Bisexuality in BritainA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=Before reading Kate HarradWe're in childhood, and we's thought provoking insight into bisexuality re in Britain I have to confess to being as guilty of the misconceptions surrounding the subject as everyone elseCuba. It is only when you read this collection of essays The revolution has happened, and anecdotesCastro, you realise the prejudice they face on first thought of as a daily basis. The very nature saviour of bisexuality is widely misunderstood by the heterosexual country, has proven himself a Communist, and gay communities alikenot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. As a result bisexuals find themselves marginalised, or Well, in the worstthose hours-case scenario, completely ostracisedlong speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Far from having, Our narrator's family weren't in the best happiest of both worlds''places here, they are considered an uncle refusing to be sitting on the fence, unable good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to come to terms with their true sexuality. ''Purple Prose'' tackles these myths and illsome minor pro-informed ideas head onCommunism skirmish, such as Angola) and in the process shows a community that does have many issuesfather being watched and watched, just and not the ones that are liked for his successful photography business, success being laid at their doorfrowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to 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>0996460160</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wade GrahamSarah Wilson|title=Dream CitiesThis One Wild and Precious Life: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the Worldpath back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre= HistoryLifestyle|summary=Between 1950 My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and 2014 the worldprecious life?''s urban population increased from 746 million I get to 3love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.9 billion'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. The urbanising trend Sarah Wilson is set to continue with the United Nations predicting equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that by she acknowledges the middle of the century 66% of source) she pushes us will be city dwellers, a massive six billion people. How have city planners and architects tried to cope with think about whether we really ''are'' living the recent surge? How can they avoid repeating mistakes from life we want – the past? Both of those questions best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are considered in Dream Cities – Seven Urban Ideas That Shape The Worldnot''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, Wade GrahamI) could be doing more…And she's excellent field guide to effing furious about the modern worldfact that we are not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445659735</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=T J Coles1785633457|title=Britain's Secret WarsCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary= Britain's Secret Wars is Clive Wilkinson has a chilling and disturbing book to read. With all four corners history of the globe hell-bent on conflict, oppression and injustice, our sanitised media portrays Britain, as travelling by unconventional means with a nation, responding to harrowing global eventspreference for slow travel. What is chilling, in T J Coles book, is that As he neared his eightieth birthday the political establishment, through the military and intelligence community appear to be complicit in instigating many idea of them. What is disturbing is that exploring the majority edges of information he has used to form his analysis and conclusion is freely available and England in the public domainan electric car was not totally outrageous. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570783</amazonuk>In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Lightburn1529153050|title=An Annoyance of Neighbours: Life is Never Dull When You Have Neighbours!|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=You can choose your friends. You can't choose your relatives, but you can - usually - put some physical distance between you and them, but you can't choose your neighbours and once you're ''there'' it can be very expensive or even impossible to break the link. Now, I can't give you any advice on this thorny subject as it's more than thirty years since I've been in a position to have anything to complain about, but Angela Lightburn knows all there is to know. SheBritain's spent years collating all the different problems which people have with their neighbours and ways of improving the situation which don't involve a lengthy prison sentence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785892029</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBest Political Cartoons 2022|author= Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna|title= Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance Tim Benson|rating= 3.54|genre= Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=Here we are, world, in Seeking some light relief from the midst of a new Renaissance. What will it be, to flounder or to flourish? The central aim of this discourse is to highlight our current position, and the fact that there political turmoil which is a choice coming to be made. The authors date 1990 as the dawn of a new, seem more and our presentmore like an adrenaline sport, Renaissance. As with the last, this time warrants in a whole host of risks, but it also offers the opportunity to reap the benefits of the changes occurring across the globe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147293637X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Xinran, Esther Tyldesley and David Dobson|title= Buy Me The Sky|rating= 3.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary='I was nudged towards 'These single-sprout children are more precious than gold'', says a Chinese woman to the author. Buy Me The Sky asks what itBritain's like to grow up as Best Political Cartoons of 2022''gold'. Sharp eyes will have noted that we' re not yet through Xinran's conversations with ten adults from the first generation of China's only children. In the highly informative introduction, she tells the story of a 22 year old male student who, in 2010, ran over a female migrant worker in his car, and then was so fearful of : the consequences that he brutally murdered hercartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. He was tried and executed Who can imagine what there will be to come in a hugely divisive case with some seeing him as an evil perpetrator and others, a victim. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044731</amazonuk>the 2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom BowerB0B7289HKQ|title=Broken VowsConversations Across America: Tony Blair The Tragedy A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of PowerAmerica|author=Kari Loya

|genre=BiographyTravel|summary=In May 1997 we went Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time to vote gleefully, sure that there do it. The decision was going made to be a change ride the Trans America Bike Trail from the tiredYorktown, Virginia to Astoria, sleazeOregon -ridden Conservative government we'd been sufferingall 4250 miles of it - in 2015. The Blairs' entry into Downing Street They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the following day recommended time - through crowds but there were factors which pointed this up as more of well-wishers - was like a breath of fresh air and (perhaps fortunately) challenge that it would be years before I discovered that the 'well wishers' had been bussed in for the eventmost people who considered taking it on. Looking back now it seems that our hopes for what the 'New Labour' government could achieve were unreasonably high Merv Loya was 75 years old and therehe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's a special place in hell reserved for those who disappoint us in this way. I've often wondered quite how history will see Blair: Afghanistan and Iraq as well as his failure to deal with Gordon Brown would always sour his premiership for me, but to what extent could his achievements such as the Good Friday Agreement, the minimum wage and higher welfare payments be balanced against his failures?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314201</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Popham 1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The Lady Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for FreedomStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyScience Fiction|summary=On 13 November 2010''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest after spending 15 we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of the previous 21 years confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a prisoner of Burmafew stories and then forget to return to the book. There's military junta. Political reforms soon followed, culminating with Suu (as she prefers got to be known) being elected a very compelling hook to parliamentkeep me engaged. The West rejoiced; leaders, business men, and tourists poured in; and Suu entered Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the pantheon of modernworld-day political heroesbuilding. Burma was a burgeoning democracy, It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and Suu was a saintthe world scape are purely incidental. In reality So, as Peter Popham argues in 'The Lady and the Generals'what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, the situation was far more complexI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043719</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jason BurkeJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=The New Threat From Islamic MilitancyBook of Hope |rating=45|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Barely The done thing is to read a day passes without Islamic militancy book all the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making headlines somewhere in the worldan exception here, and yet it can be a hard subject because I don’t want to grasp. The sudden rise lose any of Islamic State and their campaign of shocking violence both in the Middle East and further afield has left many confused and fearful, and has provoked a sometimes extreme political response. In "The New Threat From Islamic Militancy", Jason Burke, a journalist with two decades experience of experience reporting on the Islamic worldreading this amazing book, attempts I want to correct the many misconceptions about Islamic extremism to give a true understanding of the threat we now facecapture it as it hits me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701475</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Benedict Rogers|title= Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads|rating= 3.5|genre= History|summary= Benedict Rogers And it is a human rights activist and journalist with an expert insight into Burma, gathered first-hand on journeys to regions off the beaten trackhitting me. Burma is a country under the iron rule of a succession of military regimes, struggling with over half a century of suffering, much unknown to the wider international audienceThis beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846044464</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roger Scruton1788360737|title= Fools, Frauds and FirebrandsArtivism: Thinkers The Battle for Museums in the Era of the New LeftPostmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating= 3.52

|summary=''Thinkers of 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 ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the New Left'' first came out social environment in 1985which he develops’’. Therefore, under Thatcher's governmentall art must be political, even implicitly. British left-wing intellectuals gave Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it savage reviewsis art for art’s sake. The publisher was threatened with a boycott and the book was withdrawn from bookshops. Roger Scruton feels this recent trend of so-called artivism has caused his university career artists to declinebecome more overtly political (read: left wing). In the introduction, he says he is ''reluctant to return Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to the scene of such create a disastermore globalist and progressive regime.'' However, this is a subject he is clearly passionate about, having worked with underground networks in communist Europe and seen the destructive reality behind the fashionable ''leftist ways of thinkingOr at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408187337</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Malala Yousafzai1398508632|title= I Am MalalaThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 5|genre= AutobiographyLifestyle|summary= ''She's It had been on the cards for a phenomenon'' is my OH's response to any mention while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of Malalaeating only wild food. I can't disagree on some levelThe 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, but what this book proves is that on another she is just Brexit and a girlpandemic. One voice among manyWilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. It's just that she decided She had electricity which allowed her to speak louder than most. We know about Malala because she got luckyrun a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She got lucky because when she got shot by the Taliban there were people nearby, doctors who got her to had a hospital, car - and then luckier still because when her condition worsenedfuel. Most importantly, nearby there were western doctors with access to western facilities and she had shelter: this was flown not a plan to the UK for treatment''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Metcalf1529149800|title=From Skedaddle Things You Can Do: How to Selfie: Words of the GenerationFight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=3.54|genre=TriviaHome and Family|summary=I have to go We begin with a roundabout way to introducing this book, so bear with metelling story. It stems partly from dictionaries All the birds and animals fled when the etymology forest fire took hold and most of the language we usethem stood and watched, but more so if unable to think of anything from a different couple of books, and their ideas of generationsthey could do. The authors of those posited the idea that all those archetypical generations – tiny hummingbird flew to the Baby Boomers, the Millennials, and those before, in between river and since – have their own cyclical pattern, and the history began taking tiny amounts of humanity has been water and will be formed by flying back to drop them into the interplay of just four different kinds, running (with only one exception) in regular orderfire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. I don't really hold much store by that, and 'I certainly didn't know we'd started one since m doing the Millennials – who the heck decides such things, for one? ''Somebody must have put out an orderbest I can'', as someone here says of something elsesaid the hummingbird. But in And that, really, is the same only way as generations get defined that we will solve the problem of climate change – by collective persons unknown, so do words – and those words are certainly a clue to each of us doing what was importantwe can, predominant and of course spoken in each decadehowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019992712X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Danny Rogers1638485216|title=Campaigns that Shook the WorldBlack, White, and Gray All Over: The Evolution of Public RelationsA Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating= 5|genre= Business and Finance Autobiography|summary= I dithered about how ''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to begin this reviewdo with character. On one hand I thought I should probably start Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by saying that I have Derek Chauvin, a work related interest forty-four-year-old police officer, in marketing and communicationsthe US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. On the other hand, Danny Rogers has written We rarely see pictures of a book murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which appealed to me on several levels. Campaigns are about psychology I'll ever forget and storytelling – the protests which of course leads us into branding but also feature critical issues around concept deliveryfollowed cannot have been unexpected. In short, I There was looking forward to reading this for many reasons – a backlash against the police - and it didn’t disappointnot just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill LeovyMatthieu Aikins|title=GhettosideThe Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=34.5

|summary=There are enough LA rappers around It's easy to attest forget at times that living as The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a black man in South Central well-paced thriller at times. This is no easy task. Dismiss these urban lyricists at your perilnot by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as crude they may be, but ''Ghettoside'' will soon inform the disbeliever that life a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the streets of LA is hardwhole way through. With But it's written with a 40 times higher chance of being murdered than a white person in America, what made haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the LA of the 80s through reader to perfectly envisage the late 2000s such a dangerous place to live for young black men?environments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784700762</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Coates1785633074|title= Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating= 4.5|genre= TravelHumour|summary= I know Holland in Members of Parliament like us to believe that the way everyone does. Pancakes and windmills and Potcountry is run by politicians, oh my. But itheaded by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's one for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the few European countries I've never lived 'prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in for any period the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of timeRafe Hubris, and so I the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was intrigued completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to know morewatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>185788633X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Marriott1846276772|title= I Used to Know ThatThe End of Bias: HistoryHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I've picked up a few things over Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the years, most notably extent to which they suffer from English language text books while TEFLing abroad (thereit: it's nothing like an exciting lesson on Guy Fawkes to have simply a classroom part of Mexicans wondering why we so love to celebrate a terrorist attack that didn't happen)everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. But I have gaps Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of this I am sure, and I thought to get the white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a basic understanding part ofan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, well, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the basics that we all should know, a quick read receiving end of this book wouldnthe bias but it't hurts not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Marriott1529148251|title= I Should Know That - Great Britain|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I am a dreadful Brit. I'm better at the geography of Colombia than the UK (true story, I had to google where Essex was the other day). Despite 17 years of full time education in the UK, I probably wouldn't pass a simple citizenship test. Which is a little embarrassing, really. So when this book came up for review I thought I'd have it, both for interest and as a subtle way to brush up on my Britain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434313</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMisfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Tony Wilkinson|title=Capitalism and Human ValuesMichaela Coel|rating=45

|summary=Tony Wilkinson has a first class honours degree in philosophy ''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and has worked poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in government service and investment management - the ideal background for a consideration certain frame of capitalism and the human values which propel itmind. ItYou's re not too long ago going to read a book of essays or a self- certainly within my lifetime - that religion largely dictated the values held help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by individuals, but true religious belief now seems Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to be professionals within the exception rather than television industry at the ruleEdinburgh TV Festival. In its place we have a society for whom consumerism is You might be ''reading'' the driving force - and a widening gap between those who can afford book but you need to consume and those who cannot. As Wilkinson says ''Getting and spending have come listen'' to define who we arethe words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407881</amazonuk>ll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Gittos0008350388|title=Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville We Need to Ched EvansTalk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=3.5

|summary=It is said that we live in ''To be a rape culture. Tabloid headlines scream that the number of rapes dark-skinned Black woman is on the increase to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and that the police and the courts are failing to deal with the problemultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... '' There's 'We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a belief that the rate book by a writer of conviction is consistently lowcolour while only 7% study a book by a woman. '' It's also said that sexism and misogyny have created a society in which rape is a regular occurrence, frequently not reported 'The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the police UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and that society at large doesn't really carenine. Luke GittosIt was her mother who came first, a solicitor practicing criminal lawwith her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, argues that these claims are based on myths and misunderstandings of the statistics principled and determined that far from ''improving'' their children would have the way that rape and sexual assaults are dealt with best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it's actually working against was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the interests of victimsfamily acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845408373</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KrienRichard Brook|title=Night GamesUnderstanding Human Nature: A Journey User's Guide to the Dark Side of SportLife

|genre=SportLifestyle|summary=Mere mortals relax by having I am a game of footy of a weekend firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and a couple of drinkssometimes books choose us. In my case, but what does a professional sportsman do to cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial this is one of an Australian Rules footballerthe latter. Not so very long ago, just into his twenties and follows the case as if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it goes to court, interviewing found some of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areasit interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. In deference I believe it came to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity she's chosen me not just because I was likely to give the man who was charged the name of it a favourable review [ ''Justinfull disclosure The Bookbag' in an attempt to level the playing fields u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to speak. You could Google like the facts and come up with the correct namebook, but this isneven if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book of gossip about particular people. It's an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commoditiesI needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McMillan1787332098|title=Neither Nowt Nor Summat: In search of the meaning of YorkshireHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=45

|summary=Ian McMillan''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, poetdogs, radio presenterfoxes, poet elephants and so on. And we assign them places in residence at Barnsley Football Club society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and professional Yorkshiremanmillions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere, is worried. It has crossed his mind that he might not be ''Yorkshire enoughhopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I mean, given that his father was not from Godcows are for cheese (I couldn's Own County, t consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was a Scot by birthquibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. In a series of discursions on If I had to choose between the subject company of Yorkshire he attempts to distil humans and the essence company of animals, I would probably choose the county and animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to understand what being a Yorkshireman meansstop me but I was initially reluctant. To this end we accompany him through towns and citiesI eat cheese, the Cudworth Probus Clubeggs, Ilkley Moor chicken and elicit contributions from Mad Geoff the barber, a kazoo-playing train guard fish and four Saddleworth council workers in search of a mattressI needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. Amongst othersI suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable. All of Yorkshire life is here. Including Yorkshire puddings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959950</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Xinran1523092734|title= Buy Me The Sky|rating= 5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I started reading Xinran thirteen years ago, and whilst I havenA Women't read all of her books, every one that I have read has at some point had me in tears. This one was no different.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044715</amazonuk>}}{{newreviews Guide to Claiming Space|author=Ray Barron Woolford|title=Food Bank BritainEliza Van Cort|rating=45

|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as ''She brings a smartlyhug-kick-dressed young man foraged thunderclap that every woman needs in waste bins for foodher life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, less than a mile from former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the riches life of the City of Londonchoosing unapologetically and bravely. Intrigued as It is to what was going on he went live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to askClaiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. The man explained Now - to him that hebe clear - this book is not a 'd just got a job after how to disable your attacker with two years of being unemployedsimple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but it would discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be five weeks before he was paid''protected''. He couldnI've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim benefits as he was in work and had no savingstheir own space. If all women did this, so the bins had those few men who are violent to be his source of food and by the following week he women would have realise that we are not just an easy target to walk be used to work as he couldn't afford the faresprove that they are big men. That was the inspiration for the [http://www.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe CombiPolly Barton|title=Generation Z: Their Voices, Their Lives Fifty Sounds|rating=4.5

|summary=Generation ZWhere do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for anyone a while 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 me who didn’t Barton, I don't know, is made up of those young people born between 1995 and 2001. It is one of the central contentions of Chloe Combi’s book answer to the question ''why Japan?'Generation Z: Their voices, Their Lives' that these young people’s lives are unlike anyone else’s She explains her feelings in British history. From respect of the radical technological innovation which produced question in the internet and smart phones to multiculturalismfirst essay, life for these children and teenagers which is characterised by so much that was not experienced by their parents and grandparents. In on the sound ''giro' 'Generation Z'– which she describes as being, thenamong other things, Combi offers some glimpses into the worlds sound of young people today, in what she wishes ''every party where you have to be introduce yourself'a conversation starter between teenagers and adults'. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091958776</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah GarlandStephen Fabes|title=Azzi in BetweenSigns of Life

|genre=For SharingTravel|summary=Our story begins in a country at warI was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately you could probably put a name to it (although it isn, I didn't named) as it happens all too regularlyinherit what Dr. Our heroine is Azzi, a young girl whose life Stephen Fabes clearly had which was not ''too'' affected by the war, but every day guts to simply go out and do it came a little closer. Her father still worked as a doctor and her mother made beautiful clothes. Her grandmother wove warm blankets. Then I also didn't inherit the day came when they had kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to run, for their lives, strangers and escape was by boat and they became refugeesbasic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. The three In order words I'm not the sort of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most for they were accepted person who will get on a temporary basis into another country (again it's bike outside a London hospital and not named) and they had a come home, although it was just one roomfor six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>1788161211