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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John GrindrodAlastair Humphreys|title= OutskirtsLocal|rating= 45|genre =Animals and WildlifeTravel |summary=''Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of countryside surrounding inner city housing estatesworld. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate As he says in his introduction, the 1960book is an attempt ''s to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and '70'saccess, as he puts itagriculture, ''I grew up on the last road in London.food system, rewilding…'' Grindrod explores One of the introduction joys of the green belt, and book for me was that the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decadesbiggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within this topicno single 'right or wrong', he has somehow managed that every upside is likely to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing have a memoir with a lot of heartdownside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473625025</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Carolina de RobertisEdel Rodriguez|title= Radical HopeWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating= 4|genre= Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary= On 8th November 2016We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, Donald Trump was elected and Castro, first thought of as the 46th President a saviour of the United Statescountry, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Since then many Americans have been overcome with fear Well, worrying about what will become those hours-long speeches of American society during Trumphis were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's administration. Carolina de Robertis was no exception family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to this fear some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and in response to the newly elected President father being watched and watched, and not liked for his policies she put out a call for actionsuccessful photography business, success being frowned upon. Radical Hope is The mother gets the outcome couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this call. De Robertis reached out to fellow writers and activists asking for letters, predominantly letters of lovesultry island country, addressed to it remains the citizens kind of today and those heat forcing you out of past and future generations in order to help spread hope during times of uncertainty.the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349010102</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew d'AnconaSarah Wilson|title=Post-TruthThis One Wild and Precious Life: The New War on Truth and How the path back to Fight Backconnection in a fractured world

|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''Our own post-truth era What is what happens when society relaxes its defence of values it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that underpin cohesion, namely veracity, honesty and accountabilityline so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm old enough or perhaps naive lucky enough to believe that when making a decision about political voting, you should be able living my one wild and precious life the way I want to rely absolutely on what the candidate tells you. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though Ican't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are've been suspicious for a decade or more, but it's become difficult to ignore living the change in political attitudes since Brexit and life we want – the election of Donald Trumpbest life that we could be living. With regard to the latter, when Trump was challenged on a statement heHer answer is an unequivocal ''d made which was subsequently found to be incorrectno, his response was ''Who cares if I got it wrong?we are not'' . He was able to tap to the fading concept of Don'the American Dreamt care what you' - those Americans who were used to waiting patiently in line and who had found themselves overtaken by ''womenre doing, she thinks you (we, immigrants and public sector workers'I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Moss1785633457|title= Wild KingdomCharging Around: Bringing Back Britain's WildlifeExploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 45|genre= Animals and WildlifeTravel|summary= Wildlife Clive Wilkinson has been declining in Britain over a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the last few decades; it is an unfortunate by-product edges of human population growth, which England in the modern world has increased significantlyan electric car was not totally outrageous. Through this book Moss suggests In fact, it should be a few ways in which we can start to bring back some of Britainpleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn's wildlife without compromising the human way of life: we can co-exist with nature. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>t it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Clegg1529153050|title=Politics: Between the ExtremesBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=The Seeking some light relief from the current political landscape turmoil which is changing rapidly at the moment. A little coming to seem more than two years ago we were facing the end of the UK's first coalition government since World War II and fully expecting that we would see another. Instead we saw a Conservative government elected with a workable majority. Brexit saw the end of one Prime Minister and another elected by a few members of parliament. As more like an adrenaline sport, I write wewas nudged towards 're facing another general election, with a Conservative landslide predicted. In two years we've seen the Liberal Democrats collapse from being part of the ruling coalition to a party whose MPs could hold a meeting in a decent-sized car.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704164</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jess Phillips|title= Everywoman: One WomanBritain's Truth About Speaking the Truth|rating=3.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=''Everywoman'' announces itself proudly, with a chapter named ''The Truth about Speaking upBest Political Cartoons of 2022''. Jess Phillips, the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, tells us many times Sharp eyes will have noted that she is we''gobby'' and that she has a loud voice. Her voice does come re not yet through, clear and urgentthe year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Using her journey Who can imagine what there will be to Westminster and her experiences come in Parliament, Phillips teaches the reader the truths she's learned on her journey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786330776</amazonuk>2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tormod V BurkeyB0B7289HKQ|title=Ethics for a Full World orConversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, Can Animal-Lovers Save and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the World?Soul of America|author=Kari Loya

|genre= Animals and WildlifeTravel|summary= Burkey argues Kari (that man's current practices are outside rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the realms of nature. He is no longer part of the ecosystem, but instead exists above it through way) wanted to spend some time with his dominating ways. He is himself distanced even further by advancement in technologies, industry, money father and all the pollution that comes with themperiod between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The natural worlddecision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Burkey arguesVirginia to Astoria, no longer exists for man because he has altered Oregon - all 4250 miles of it by such things- in 2015. Indeed, global warming has caused climate change, which, if They had 73 days to do it continues, will make - slightly less than the world unrecognisable. For the world to become fuller, for recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it to would be a world that seeks to provide for the needs of every living thing, then most people who considered taking it needs to changeon. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570856</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum1739593901|title= 22 Ideas About The Future of Violence - Robots |author=Benjamin Greenaway and Germs, Hackers and Drones: Confronting the New Age of ThreatStephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=Looking back over this month, April 2017, the news has been full of terrorist attacks perpetrated by lone individuals. A suicide bombing on the St Petersburg Metro killed 15 people and injured 64 ''Our future will be morecomplex than we expected. In Stockholm Instead of flying cars, Sweden, a hijacked truck steered into a pedestrian shopping area we got night-vision killer drones and department storeautomated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma. Most recently, '' I've got a shooting in Paris just two days ago, claimed the life couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a police officer few stories and injured several othersthen forget to return to the book. Whilst There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it is true that governments have access to impressive, cutting's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-edge building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology to combat terrorism, it is also a fact that these resources and the world scape are becoming increasingly available to individualspurely incidental. At So, what costdid I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655934</amazonuk> Well, I loved it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lynn KnightJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title= The Button BoxBook of Hope |rating= 45|genre= HistoryPolitics and Society |summary= Buttons are The done thing is to read a book all the underdogs way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the clothing world: dismissed as functional elements experience of clothing, falling into the same dustbin category with zips and shoe lacesreading this amazing book, they tend I want to be seen capture it as necessary for keeping clothes on, rather than contributors to styleit hits me. But Lynn Knight is set to prove that the opposite And it is truehitting me. We think nothing of lacing discussions about clothing and feminism with headscarves, bikinis, and underweight models – and buttons deserve a place on the pedestal of gender discussion, tooThis beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593092</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Flynn1788360737|title= Good As YouArtivism: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years The Battle for Museums in the Era of Gay BritainPostmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating= 52|genre= History Politics and Society|summary=The last 30 years have seen Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a tidal wave of change sweep the country with regards to how gay vacuum. It is made by people are perceived and accepted. In 1984, Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the pulsing electronic beats of ''Smalltown Boy'' became an anthem to unite Gay Mensocial environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, but just a month later, a virus called HIV would all art must be identifiedpolitical, spreading a climate of panic and fear across the nation, and marginalising a community who were already ostracisedeven implicitly. 30 years later though, the long road to gay equality would reach a climax with Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the legalistion Era of gay marriage. Journalist Paul Flynn charts this remarkable journey via the cultural milestones Postmodernism’ is adamant that affected this change - with interviews with such protagonists as Kylie, Russell T Davies, Will Young, Holly Johnson and Lord Chris Smithart is freer when it is art for art’s sake. This is the story The recent trend of Britain's brothers, sons, cousins, fathers and husbands. Of public outrage and personal loss, the so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (not always legalread: left wing) highs . Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and desperate lows, media elites hoping to create a more globalist and the final collective victory as Gay Men were finally recognised to be as Good As Youprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032925</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark Aylwin Thomas1398508632|title= Blades of Grass|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Any book that has me in tears at the end has been worth my time. Any book that has me hoping it will end differently to the way I know it must is worth the reading. Any book that convinces me that maybe there is still hope in the world – that for all the mistakes made thus far, still being made right now, there is a common humanity which ultimately, eventually, must do some good – that is worth the writing and the reading and the time. Blades of Grass is one such book. It's a forgotten story, an unknown story to most people. It is one that should be told – and reflected upon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676969</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Wilderness Cure|author=John Preston|title=A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the EstablishmentMo Wilde

|genre=True CrimeLifestyle|summary=Jeremy Thorpe It had been on the cards for a while but it was the sort week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of person who was generally liked by otherseating only wild food. He The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was flamboyant and gregarious but could give perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the impression that meeting someone normal sores had made his daybeen exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. He never seemed to forget Wilde had a name and he few advantages: the area around her was witty, charismatic and very charminga known habitat with a variety of terrains. He appeared She had electricity which allowed her to be run a decent man, with views with which I would have agreed on racefridge, capital punishment freezer and membership of the Common Market, as the European Union was then knowndehydrator. For this was the nineteen sixties and Thorpe She had entered Parliament at the age of thirty a car - and by 1967 he would be party leaderfuel. On the surface he Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a man who had everything going for himplan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241973740</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Bakewell1529149800|title= At The Existentialist CaféThings You Can Do: Freedom, Being How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Apricot CocktailsSara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre= Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary= You know We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that old saying about judging books by their cover? doing. Ignore it! ''I have found 'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. And that by judging a book by its cover and getting it completely wrong , really, is a great the only way to find yourself committed to reading a book that you'd never have picked in a million years and yetwe will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, somehow, being amazingly glad you didhowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554887</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Benn and Ruth Winstone (editor)1638485216|title=The Benn DiariesBlack, White, and Gray All Over: The Definitive CollectionA Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds

|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=Tony Benn must be one of the most famous diarists of the modern age. He kept a diary from his schooldays in the nineteen forties until he made his last entry in 2009''Corruption is not department, five years before his deathgender or race specific. Benn was also a particularly charismatic politician: since my teens I've found myself listening It has everything to him believing that I disagreed do with what he was saying and then realising that perhaps we werencharacter. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't so far apart after allmatter''. Whatever he spoke about always gave food for thought. Of course the ideal way to enjoy the diaries would be to read the individual volumes The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, beginning with {{amazonurl|isbn=0099497719|title=Years Of Hope: Diarieson 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin,Letters and Papers 1940a forty-four-year-1962}}old police officer, in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but thatFloyd's a lengthy undertaking and ''death was an exception. The Benn Diaries: The Definitive Collectionimage of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I' edited by Ruth Winstone gives you ll ever forget and the opportunity to sample protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against the best of the diaries police - and not just in a mere seven hundred Minneapolis: whatever their colour or so pages. Be warned though: there has been a previous {{amazonurl|isbn=0099634112|title=composite volume}}, also called creed they were ''The Benn Diariesall'' and published in 1996tarred by the Chauvin brush. The current volume goes to 2009.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786330768</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Henning MankellMatthieu Aikins|title= QuicksandThe Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating= 4.5|genre= AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary= How do you judge a book? Not by its cover, weIt's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn're told. In my caset actually fiction, often by the number of turned down corners or post-because itreads very much like a well-note-marked pages paced thriller at times. This is not by the time I've finished reading it. Sometimesany means a criticism, by whether I worry about leaving its characters but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to fend for themselves while I take accompany his friend as a break…or by how much refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of it stays with border crossings which had me afterwards or for how longon edge the whole way through. In this case, But it doesn't matter. However, I judge ''Quicksand'' s written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the judgement comes up reader to perfectly envisage the same. This collection of vignettes from an ageing, possibly dying, writer looking back on his own life is as powerful as it is simple, as easy to read as it is impossible to forgetenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784701564</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anne Glyn-Jones1785633074|title= Morse Code Wrens of Station XStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryHumour|summary= Bletchley Park Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is probably now run by politicians, headed by the least secret of all Prime minister - the secret ops ''primus inter pares'' (that went on during World War II. I 's for one am pleased about those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that: technology has moved on so far that there canthe ''prime''t be anything that happened back then on movers are the communications front that is worth continuing to shroud in mystery. With most of special advisers - the participants either departed or at least in the departure lounge, SPADS - who are the more recollections we can still gather driving force behind the bettergovernment. What remained secret far longer however, is We are in the work privileged position of the telegraphers that served Station X: those posted having access to the Y-stations. There are few memoirs of them left to tell their talesRafe Hubris, so I applaud those the man who finally saw fit (a) to release them from their life-long bonds was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of secrecy and (b) encourage them 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to write it down, tell us what it was really likewatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409086</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donald Naismith1846276772|title=A Bradford ApprenticeshipThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5

|summary=with all schools removed Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from their control and established as freestanding and self-governing academiesit: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. In effect this would (and possibly The able will) mean that what was once a national servicecome before the disabled. Jobs, locally administered will become a local servicepromotions, nationally administeredhigher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Donald Naismith is perhaps best known as Even when those who wouldn't pass the former Chief Education Officer medical become a part of Richmond-upon-Thamesan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, Croydon and then Wandsworth but his education and formative working years took place in his adopted home city of Bradfordthat their concerns are acknowledged. In It''A Bradford Apprenticeship'' he gives us an affectionate tribute to s personally appalling and degrading for the city which made him what he is and his thoughts individuals on the education system. Bradford was once one receiving end of the countrybias but it's leading education authorities and he values not just the opportunities it gave him to fine tune his thinkingindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524636118</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Siri Hustvedt1529148251|title= Misfits: A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and the MindPersonal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating= 45|genre= Politics and Society |summary= ''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I must confess that were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''A Woman Looking Before you start reading ''Misfits'' spoke you need to me on be in a profound, intimate levelcertain frame of mind. This is in part due You're not going to the apparent similarities between me and Siri Hustvedt read a book of essays or a self- we are both feminists who love art and also love science in a world help book. You're going to read writing which emphasises that these two passions are mutually exclusivewas inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. What Hustvedt suggests in You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''A Woman Lookinglisten'' is that it is to the words as though you're in the similarities between these two areas we should emphasise lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and that you'll be carried on a cohesive, inclusive approach towards art and science could help fill the gaps in both disciplinescloud of exquisite writing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638895</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=T J Coles0008350388|title=The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired We Need to Force Britain from the European UnionTalk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=3.5|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=''Have you been misTo be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-sold Brexit by posh men in sharp suits promising you free healthcare? skinned counterparts...'' If so, you might be entitled ''We Need to compensation.Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

There wasn't much could make me laugh on Otegha Uwagba came to the morning after the EU referendum but this spoof advert on Twitter managed itUK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. OnlyThe family was hard-working, it seems principled and determined that it wasn't completely a joke - well apart from their children would have the bit about compensationbest education possible. In ''The Great Brexit Scandal'' T J Coles looks at the substantial core There was always a painful awareness of free marketeers in the Conservative party who were determined to rid the UK money although this did not translate into a shortage of the Brussels red tape which anything: it was putting a brake on their activitiessimply carefully harvested. You might also know these views as ''neoliberalism'', an ideology which looks to deregulate markets and maximise profitsWhen Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. On the surface that doesn't sound badFor Otegha, until you realise that the benefit will go education meant a scholarship to the people who are already a private school in the group which Coles refers to as the ''mega-rich'' London and the losers will be working peoplethen a place at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570813</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Erin MooreRichard Brook|title= ThatUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Not EnglishGuide to Life|rating= 4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=It's not clear who first coined the expression ''divided by I am a common language'' about Brits firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and Americanssometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, but as if I had come across this highly entertaining book demonstratesI'd have skimmed it, found some of it isninteresting, but it would not have 'hit home't our language that divides us. On in the contrary the language simply reflects the divisions way that existit does now. We tend I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to watch give it a lot of TV at home, but rarely find anything that totally engrosses usfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u. As a result we tend to talk over a lot of TVs. We play games with some of what we watchp. One of those games is spotting anachronisms. Another that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is "would she ever have got a predisposition towards expecting to like the job" – particularly fun with crime programmes that think book, even if itdoesn's ok for lab techs to have long free-flowing locks when doing evidence analysis or have Detective Sergeants who frankly wouldnt always turn out that way't have passed their CV submission. A long-running one involves spotting the spread of British English in American TV shows. Erin Moore explains why. Not directly, indeed I'm not sure she even makes the connection ] – but the fact that there are also because it is a lot more Brits in the higher echelons of US TV-making might just explain why CSIbook I needed to read, NCIS, Law and Order and a whole host of other shows will slip in words like wallet, handbag, boot (of a car), pavement…right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784701912</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris McIvor1787332098|title=The How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World is Elsewhere|author=Henry Mance

|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=As a Country Director''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, Chris McIvor has worked for a number and millions of years at Save wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the Childrennext David Attenborough series. 'The World is Elsewhere' covers his time there  I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and, his journeys across a number I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of countriesit. It is a beautiful mix of autobiography Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and travelI consider myself an animal lover. It also captures his philosophical thoughts on international aid. He reflects on both If I had to choose between the good company of humans and the bad with a very easycompany of animals, conversational writing style that makes I would probably choose the book truly captivatinganimals. I insisted that I read from cover this book: no one was trying to cover in a single sittingstop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, unusual for a reviewerchicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. Such was I suspected that making the draw as he laid himself baredecision would not be comfortable. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124346</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anna Bikont1523092734|title= The Crime and the Silence|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= Where was your father? Where was your brother, your mother, your uncle? These are the questions Anna Bikont struggles to ask during her investigation into a shocking act of violence committed against the Jewish community in Jedwabne during the summer of 1941. The Crime and the Silence weaves together journals, interviews and pictures to share the story of a community torn apart by hatred and intolerance. It is also a moving testament A Women's Guide to the dedication of Bikont, who documents her struggle to find the truth with grace and dignity in the face of silence, rationalisation, and even anger, from members of the Polish community who would rather not stir up the crimes of the past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099592525</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewClaiming Space|author=Kate Harrad|title=Purple Prose: Bisexuality in BritainEliza Van Cort

|summary=Before reading Kate Harrad's thought provoking insight into bisexuality 'She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in Britain I have her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to confess to being as guilty live the life of the misconceptions surrounding the subject as everyone elsechoosing unapologetically and bravely. It is only when to live the life you read this collection of essays and anecdotes, you realise 've always wanted.'' Sometimes the prejudice they face on reviewing gods are generous: at a daily basis. The very nature of bisexuality time when violence against women is widely misunderstood much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by the heterosexual and gay communities alikeEliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. As Now - to be clear - this book is not a result bisexuals find themselves marginalised'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, or, in but discussion at the worst-case scenario, completely ostracised. Far from having, moment seems to be about how women can be ''the best of both worldsprotected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, they are considered to be sitting on the fencepeople who don't need protection, unable to come to terms with people who claim their true sexualityown space. ''Purple Prose'' tackles these myths and ill-informed ideas head on If all women did this, and in the process shows a community those few men who are violent to women would realise that does have many issues, we are not just not the ones an easy target to be used to prove that they are being laid at their doorbig men. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0996460160</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wade GrahamPolly Barton|title=Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the WorldFifty Sounds

|genre= HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=Between 1950 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 while and 2014 if the worldhadn's urban population increased from 746 million to 3t gone into melt-down I would have visited by now.9 billionI may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. The urbanising trend is set And like Barton, I don't know the answer to continue with the United Nations predicting that by question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the middle of question in the century 66% of us will be city dwellersfirst essay, a massive six billion people. How have city planners and architects tried to cope with which is on the recent surge? How can they avoid repeating mistakes from sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the past? Both sound of those questions are considered in Dream Cities – Seven Urban Ideas That Shape The World, Wade Graham's excellent field guide 'every party where you have to the modern worldintroduce yourself''. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445659735</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=T J ColesStephen Fabes|title=Britain's Secret WarsSigns of Life

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary= Britain's Secret Wars is a chilling I was brought up on maps and disturbing book to readfirst-person narratives of tales of far away places. With all four corners of the globe hellI was birth-bent on conflict, oppression righted wanderlust and injusticecuriosity. Unfortunately, our sanitised media portrays Britain, as a nation, responding I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to harrowing global eventssimply go out and do it. What is chilling I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, in T J Coles book, is ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the political establishment, through requisite 'bottle'. In order words I'm not the military sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and intelligence community appear to be complicit in instigating many of themnot come home for six years. What is disturbing is Fabes did precisely that the majority of information he has used to form his analysis and conclusion is freely available and in the public domain. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905570783</amazonuk>1788161211

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