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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nathan Connolly1785633457|title=Know Your PlaceCharging Around: Essays on Exploring the Working Class Edges of England by the Working ClassElectric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|genre=Politics Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and Societyhis wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153050|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Simple summary: Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022'Know Your Place'. Sharp eyes will have noted that we' is an anthology of essays on re not yet through the working class by year: the working classcartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. There are twenty-three disparate pieces talking about everything you Who can imaginewhat there will be to come in the 2023 edition?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B7289HKQ|title=Conversations Across America: day trips A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the seaside, access period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the artsTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, food povertyVirginia to Astoria, pub culture, glass ceilings, housing estates, vulgarityOregon - all 4250 miles of it -asin 2015. They had 73 days to do it -classslightly less than the recommended time -marker, but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and much morehe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911585363</amazonuk>

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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stuart MaconieJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title= Long Road From JarrowThe Book of Hope |rating= 5|genre= Travel Politics and Society |summary= I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only The done thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's column. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and read a soul more sensitive than he might be willing book all the way through before you sit down to admitreview it. Let's be honest, thoughI’m making an exception here, because I picked don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this one up because of someone else's reviewamazing book, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of) want to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about capture it as it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow hits me. And it does become part of my history toois hitting me. Tangentially, at leastThis beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Raymond Williams1788360737|title= Culture and Society 1780-1950Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating= 42

|summary= From the last decades of the eighteenth century 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 final words of modernismsocial environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, this even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book tracks societal changes through exploring five key words‘Artivism: industry, democracy, class, The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art and culturefor art’s sake. The meanings recent trend of such things, their essence, changes as per their use 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 media elites hoping to create a more globalist and the era in which their implications were consideredprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870811</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Patrick West1398508632|title= Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche for our timesThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 15|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary= Get Over Yourself considers Nietzsche's imagined perceptions It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of modern society and uses our society to explain his philosophyeating only wild food. I'm sorry if that sounds vague but it's The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best I can do from the blurb on the back. After reading Get Over Yourself from cover time to coverstart, I am still none in a world where the wiser about normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the purpose area around her was a known habitat with a variety of this bookterrains. It appears She had electricity which allowed her to be run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a series of personal opinions held together with quotescar - and fuel. Most importantly, which donshe had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live''t always appear relevant, from Nietzsche, Chumbawumba and newspaper articleswild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409337</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jenny Landreth1529149800|title= SwellThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating= 54|genre= Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary= I love Jenny's own description 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 her book as a waterbiography water and I love her encouragement flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that we should each write our owndoing. This is more than just (I say ''justI''!) a recollection of m doing the authorbest I can's own encounters with water; it's also a history of women's fight for , said the right to swimhummingbird. That sounds absurd until you start reading about itAnd that, really, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover the only way that we will solve the problem of the absurd. Not a lover climate change – by each of book blurbs myselfus doing what we can, I do always seek to give a shout-out to those who get it dead right: in this case I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the-commute funny''however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472938941</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1638485216|title= Cathy Scott-Clark Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Adrian LevyLaw Enforcement|titleauthor= The ExileFrederick Reynolds|rating= 45|genre= Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary= An account ''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. 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 Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in the fate US city of Al Qaeda and Minneapolis sent shock waves around the Bin Laden family since the events world. We rarely see pictures of 9/11, 'a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The Exileimage of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I' plunges into ll ever forget and the murky waters of international terrorism, espionage and politicsprotests which followed cannot have been unexpected. Detailed and meticulous, the book tackles the subject from all angles, providing There was a panoramic view of backlash against the subject police - and acting to enlighten and inform not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the readerChauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858762</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily ClarksonMatthieu Aikins|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?The Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=It''Can I Speak s easy to Someone in Charge?forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, blogger Emily Clarkson's debut book, is because it reads very much like a fierce, witty and laughwell-out-loud funny ode to feminismpaced thriller at times. In This is not by any means a series of open letterscriticism, she addresses the issues faced by every modern woman, discussing everything from dealing with body hair but rather a testament to being made how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to feel uncomfortable in the gym, accompany his friend as well as more personal issues, like her experiences a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of being 'catfishedborder crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it' s written with a haunting and sent abuse online. This is a vital read for any girl born in almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the 1990s, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exteriorenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471156907</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Elkin1785633074|title=Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and LondonStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=History Humour|summary=Lauren Elkin Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is down on suburbs: theyrun by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares're places where you can't or shouldn(that't be seen walking; places where, in fiction, women s for those of you who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking of everything from Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''Madame Bovaryprime'' to ''Revolutionary Road'')movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. When she imagines We are in the privileged position of having access to herself what the female version memoirs of that well-known historical figureRafe Hubris, the carefree ''flâneur'', might be, she thinks about women man who freely wandered was behind the world's great cities without having skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the more insalubrious connotation end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the word 'streetwalker' applied man to themwatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Saqib Noor1846276772|title=Surgery on the Shoulders The End of GiantsBias: Letters from a doctor abroadHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=The letters begin much Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the fashion extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of any young man away from homeeveryday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, perhaps in a quite exciting countrypromotions, writing back to family and friends to tell them higher salaries are the preserve of his experiences, the sights hewhite man. Even when those who wouldn's seen and t pass the people hemedical become a part of an organisation it's metrare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's just a little different in ''Surgery personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the Shoulders receiving end of Giantsthe bias but it'' though: Saqib Noor is a junior doctor, training to be an orthopaedic surgeon and over a period of ten years he visited six countries, s not as a tourist but to give medical assistancejust the individuals who are negatively impacted. They're countries which Noor describes as ''fourth world'' - third world with added disaster - and their need is desperate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1521173192</amazonuk>

{{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>