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<!-- Wolff -->{{Frontpage[[image:Wolff Trump.jpg|leftauthor=Alastair Humphreys|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408711400?ieLocal|rating=UTF8&tag5|genre=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408711400]]Travel  =|summary==[[Fire Alastair Humphreys has walked and Fury: Inside cycled all over the Trump White House by Michael Wolff]]=== [[image:4world.5star And then written about it.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics For this book he walked and Society|Politics cycled very close to home and Society]] then wrote about it. As I began listening to he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''Fire to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and Fury: Inside access, agriculture, the Trump White Housefood system, rewilding…'' we were treated to the unedifying spectacle One of the President joys of the United States taking to Twitter to establish book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was ''a stable genius''that there are no easy answers, as opposed, we must conclude to being an unstable... Well, letno single 's not go there. Itright or wrong's a little too frightening: this is the most powerful man in the world. So what made me listen to this book? Well, Donald Trump didn't want me to read it: US presidents don't often go down that road and rarely every upside is likely to have a good destination (I'm thinking of Richard Nixon here) downside for somebody and that made me really want to know what was between the covers. But how did the book stack up? [[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff|Full Review]]<br>{{newreview|author= Kurt Andersen|title= Fantasyland|rating= 4|genre= History |summary= 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 there are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp witsome hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785038656</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nathan ConnollyEdel Rodriguez|title=Know Your PlaceWorm: Essays on the Working Class by the Working ClassA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=Simple summary: We're in childhood, and we'Know Your Place'' is an anthology re in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of essays on the working class by the working classcountry, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. There are twenty Well, those hours-three disparate pieces talking about everything you can imagine: day trips to long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the seasidehappiest of places here, access an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the artscountry demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, food povertysuch as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, pub cultureand not liked for his successful photography business, glass ceilingssuccess being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, housing estatesbut in this sultry island country, vulgarity-as-class-marker, and much more. it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911585363</amazonuk>1474616720

{{Frontpage<!-- Smith -->[[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&creativeASIN=147212345X]] ===[[Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms by Harry Leslie Smith]]==author=Sarah Wilson [[image:5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics This One Wild and Society]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]  Don't Let My Past Be Your FuturePrecious Life: 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 path back to the poverty faced by his family contrasted with the, shamefully still, grim and miserable lives many people endure today connection 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> {{newreview|author= Michael Bristow|title= China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresserfractured world|rating= 43.5|genre= Autobiography Lifestyle|summary=Having worked for nine years My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in Bejing which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as a journalist for her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the BBC, author Michael Bristow decided source) she pushes us to write think about Chinese history. Having been learning whether we really ''are'' living the local language for several years, Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacher, born in life we want – the early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of best life in Communist China - but added to thatwe could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. 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 is immensely personal - yet also paints a fascinating portrait of one of the worldDon't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's most intriguing nationseffing furious about the fact that we are not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910985902</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francis O'Gorman1785633457|title=ForgetfulnessCharging Around: Making Exploring the Modern Culture Edges of AmnesiaEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=After Clive Wilkinson has a glut of books about mindfulness it came as something history of travelling by unconventional means with a relief to encounter ''Forgetfulness'', Francis O'Gorman's thinking on why preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the twenty-first century is losing touch with idea of exploring the pastedges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, on why what is likely - or could it should be made - to happen is so much more important than what has gone before. The book is supremely intelligenta pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, but with the knowledge worn lightly and shouldn't it's eminently readable, regardless of how you feel about the conclusions he draws. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501324691</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stuart Maconie1529153050|title= Long Road From JarrowBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating= 54|genre= Travel Humour|summary= I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and Seeking some light relief from the only thing I miss current political turmoil which is Stuart Maconie's column. His down-coming to-earth approach seem more and sharp wit belie more like an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Letadrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's be honest, though, I picked this one up because Best Political Cartoons of someone else2022''s review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I Sharp eyes will have no connection (noted that I know of) to we're not yet through the year: the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too31 August 2022. Tangentially, at least.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Raymond WilliamsB0B7289HKQ|title= Culture Conversations Across America: A Father and Society 1780-1950Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya|rating= 4|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel|summary= From Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the last decades of way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the eighteenth century period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the final words of modernismTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, this book tracks societal changes through exploring five key words: industryVirginia to Astoria, democracy, class, art and cultureOregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. The meanings of such things, their essence, changes as per their use and They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the era in recommended time - but there were factors which their implications were pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who consideredtaking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870811</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Patrick West1739593901|title= Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche for our times22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 15|genre= Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary= Get Over Yourself considers Nietzsche's imagined perceptions 'Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of modern society flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and uses our society automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of confessions to explain his philosophymake. I'm sorry if that sounds vague but not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the best I can do from technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the blurb on technology and the backworld scape are purely incidental. After reading Get Over Yourself from cover to cover So, what did I am still none the wiser about the purpose think of this a book. It appears to be a series of personal opinions held together with quotestwenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, which don't always appear relevant, from Nietzsche, Chumbawumba and newspaper articlesI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409337</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny LandrethJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title= SwellThe Book of Hope |rating= 5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I love Jenny's own description of her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. This The done thing is more than just (I say ''just''!) to read a recollection of book all the author's own encounters with water; way through before you sit down to review it's also a history of women's fight for the right to swim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about itI’m making an exception here, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover I don’t want to lose any of the absurd. Not a lover experience of reading this amazing book blurbs myself, I do always seek want to give a shout-out to those who get capture it as it hits me. And it dead right: is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in this case I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the-commute funny''tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472938941</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy1788360737|title= Artivism: The ExileBattle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating= 42

|summary= An account 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 fate of Al Qaeda and the Bin Laden family since the events of 9/11social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, ''even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Exile'' plunges into Battle for Museum in the murky waters Era of international terrorism, espionage and politicsPostmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. Detailed and meticulous, the book tackles the subject from all angles, providing a panoramic view The recent trend of the subject so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and acting media elites hoping to enlighten create a more globalist and inform the readerprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858762</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Clarkson1398508632|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=''Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?'', blogger Emily Clarkson's debut book, is It had been on the cards for a fierce, witty and laughwhile but it was the week-out-loud funny ode to feminismlong consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. In a series The end of open lettersNovember, she addresses particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the issues faced by every modern womanbest time to start, discussing everything from dealing with body hair to being made to feel uncomfortable in a world where the gymnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, as well as more personal issues, like Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her experiences was a known habitat with a variety of being 'catfished' terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and sent abuse onlinedehydrator. This is She had a vital read for any girl born in the 1990scar - and fuel. Most importantly, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its fun exteriorproduce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471156907</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Elkin1529149800|title=FlaneuseThings You Can Do: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and LondonSara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=History Home and Family|summary=Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: they're places where you can't or shouldn't be seen walking; places whereWe begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking unable to think of everything from ''Madame Bovary'' to ''Revolutionary Road'')anything they could do. When she imagines The tiny hummingbird flew to herself what the female version river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that well-known historical figure, the carefree doing. ''I'flâneurm doing the best I can'', might besaid the hummingbird. And that, really, she thinks about women who freely wandered is the world's great cities without having only way that we will solve the more insalubrious connotation problem of the word 'streetwalker' applied to themclimate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Saqib Noor1638485216|title=Surgery on the Shoulders of GiantsBlack, White, and Gray All Over: Letters from a doctor abroadA Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=45

|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The letters begin much in the fashion murder of any young George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man away from home, perhaps in on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a quite exciting countryforty-four-year-old police officer, writing back to family and friends to tell them in the US city of his experiences, Minneapolis sent shock waves around the sights heworld. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's seen neck is not one which I'll ever forget and the people he's metprotests which followed cannot have been unexpected. It's There was a backlash against the police - and not just a little different in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'Surgery on ' tarred by the Chauvin brush.}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthieu Aikins|title=The Naked Don't Fear the Shoulders of GiantsWater|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn' though: Saqib Noor t actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a junior doctorcriticism, training but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to be an orthopaedic surgeon accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and over a period gripping accounts of ten years he visited six countries, not as border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with a tourist but haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to give medical assistanceperfectly envisage the environments and people described.|isbn= B09N9157T6}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4. They5|genre=Humour|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that're countries which Noor describes as s for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''fourth worldprime'' movers are the special advisers - third world with added disaster the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and their need is desperate.Society|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1521173192</amazonuk>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 it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rebecca Asher1529148251|title= Man UpMisfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating= 5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= When a couple of years ago my university introduced compulsory consent workshops along with an option of 'good lad' sessions for boysHow am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, all debate broke loosemalpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it. Shouldn't consent ' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-evident for everyone? Would help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the workshops reinforce Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the stereotype of book but you need to ''listen'laddish' boys? Would it all be about pointing fingers at boys to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and victimizing girls? What about non-binary people? In short, how could these workshops you'll be anything else than carried on a mission doomed to failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701807</amazonuk>cloud of exquisite writing.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Grindrod0008350388|title= OutskirtsWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating= 45|genre =Animals Politics and WildlifeSociety|summary=''OutskirtsTo be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' 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 '70We Need to Talk About Money''s, as he puts it, by Otegha Uwagba ''I grew up on the last road 0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in LondonEngland study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' Grindrod explores ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the introduction of the green beltUK 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. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the various fights and developments best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it has gone through over was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisionsfamily acquired a car. Within this topicFor Otegha, he has somehow managed education meant a scholarship to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with private school in London and then a lot of heartplace at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473625025</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Carolina de RobertisRichard Brook|title= Radical HopeUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary= On 8th November 2016I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, Donald Trump was elected as the 46th President this is one of the United Stateslatter. Since then many Americans Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have been overcome with fearskimmed it, worrying about what will become found some of American society during Trumpit interesting, but it would not have 'hit home's administrationin the way that it does now. Carolina de Robertis I believe it came to me not just because I was no exception to this fear and in response likely to the newly elected President and his policies she put out give it a call for actionfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. Radical Hope is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the outcome to this call. De Robertis reached book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to fellow writers and activists asking for letters, predominantly letters of loveread, addressed to the citizens of today and those of past and future generations in order to help spread hope during times of uncertaintyright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349010102</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew d'Ancona1787332098|title=Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight BackLove Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=3.5

|summary=''Our own post-truth era is what happens when 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 relaxes its defence : cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of values that underpin cohesionwild animals stay out there, namely veracity''somewhere, honesty and accountability'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I'm old enough or perhaps naive enough was going to believe that when making a decision about political voting, you should be able to rely absolutely on what the candidate tells youargue. I've been suspicious mean, cows are for a decade or more, but itcheese (I couldn's become difficult to ignore t consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the change in political attitudes since Brexit and wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the election sake of Donald Trumpit. With regard Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to 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 animals - and I got it wrong?'' consider myself an animal lover. He was able to tap If I had to choose between the company of humans and the fading concept company of 'animals, I would probably choose the American Dream' - those Americans who were used animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to waiting patiently in line stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and who had found themselves overtaken by ''women, immigrants fish and public sector workers''I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Moss1523092734|title= Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back BritainA Women's WildlifeGuide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating= 45|genre= Animals Politics and WildlifeSociety|summary= Wildlife has been declining ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in Britain over her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the last few decades; it life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is an unfortunate by-product of human population growth, which much in the modern world has increased significantlynews, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Through Now - to be clear - this book Moss suggests is not a few ways in which we can start 'how to bring back some of Britaindisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's wildlife without compromising something far more effective, but discussion at the human way of life: moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we can co-exist with natureare not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick CleggPolly Barton|title=Politics: Between the ExtremesFifty Sounds

|summary=The political landscape is changing rapidly at 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 if the momentworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. A little more than two years ago we were facing I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the end question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the UKquestion in the first essay, which is on the sound 's 'giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|isbn=1913097501}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephen Fabes|title=Signs of Life|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= I was brought up on maps and first coalition government since World War II -person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and fully expecting that we would see anothercuriosity. Instead we saw a Conservative government elected with a workable majorityUnfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. Brexit saw I also didn't inherit the end kind of one Prime Minister steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and another elected by a few members of parliamentbasic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. As In order words I write we're facing another general electionm 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, with 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 Conservative landslide predictedman''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. In two years weIt wasn've seen t unkind: it was simply the Liberal Democrats collapse from being part of adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the ruling coalition handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a party whose MPs could hold belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a meeting in belief is a decent-sized carchoice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704164</amazonuk>