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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|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author= Patrick WestMo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=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 eating only wild food. The 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, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529149800|title= Get Over YourselfThings You Can Do: Nietzsche for our timesHow to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating= 14|genre= Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary= Get Over Yourself considers Nietzsche's imagined perceptions 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 modern society water and uses our society flying back to explain his philosophydrop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm sorry if that sounds vague but it's doing the best I can do from the blurb on '', said the backhummingbird. After reading Get Over Yourself from cover to cover And that, really, I am still none is the wiser about only way that we will solve the purpose problem of this bookclimate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1638485216|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It appears has everything to be a series of personal opinions held together do with quotes, which doncharacter. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't always appear relevantmatter''. The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, from Nietzschea forty-four-year-old police officer, Chumbawumba in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against the police - and newspaper articlesnot just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409337</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenny LandrethMatthieu Aikins|title= SwellThe Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I love JennyIt's own description of her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement easy to forget at times that we should each write our own. This is more than just (I say The Naked Don''just''!) a recollection of t Fear the authorWater isn's own encounters with water; t actually fiction, because it's also reads very much like a history of women's fight for the right to swimwell-paced thriller at times. That sounds absurd until you start reading about itThis is not by any means a criticism, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – because Jenny Landreth is clearly recounts a lover vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the absurdwhole way through. Not a lover of book blurbs myself, I do always seek to give a shout-out to those who get But it dead right: in this case I'm definitely s written with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the-commute funny''environments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472938941</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy1785633074|title= The ExileStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyHumour|summary= An account Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the fate ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of Al Qaeda you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the Bin Laden family since reality is that the events of 9/11, ''The Exileprime'' plunges into movers are the special advisers - the murky waters SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of international terrorism, espionage and politics. Detailed and meticulousRafe Hubris, the book tackles man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the subject from all angles, providing a panoramic view end of 2020. You might not know the subject and acting name now but he will certainly be the man to enlighten and inform the readerwatch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858762</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Clarkson1846276772|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=''Can I Speak Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to Someone in Charge?'', blogger Emily Clarksonwhich they suffer from it: it's debut booksimply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, is a fiercepromotions, witty and laugh-out-loud funny ode to feminismhigher salaries are the preserve of the white man. In Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a series part of open lettersan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, she addresses that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the issues faced by every modern woman, discussing everything from dealing with body hair to being made to feel uncomfortable in individuals on the gym, as well as more personal issues, like her experiences receiving end of being the bias but it'catfished' and sent abuse online. This is a vital read for any girl born in s not just the 1990s, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exteriorindividuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471156907</amazonuk>

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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-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 Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=[[Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in ParisOtegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, New Yorkless hireable, Tokyo, Venice less intelligent and London ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Lauren Elkin]]===Otegha Uwagba

[[image:4star''0.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]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

Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: they're places where you can't or shouldn't be seen walking; places whereOtegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, in fictionwith her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of everything from ''Madame Bovary'' to ''Revolutionary Road'')anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When she imagines to herself what Otegha was ten the female version of that well-known historical figure, the carefree ''flâneur'', might befamily acquired a car. For Otegha, she thinks about women who freely wandered the world's great cities without having the more insalubrious connotation of the word 'streetwalker' applied education meant a scholarship to them. [[Flaneuse: Women Walk the City a private school in Paris, London and then a place at New YorkCollege, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin|Full Review]]Oxford.<br>}}

<!-- Noor -->{{Frontpage|author=Richard Brook[[image|title=Understanding Human Nature:Noor_SurgeryA User's Guide to Life|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Lifestyle|linksummary=https://wwwI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.amazons.cop.uk/gp/product/1521173192?ieis that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|isbn=1800461682}}{{Frontpage|isbn=UTF8&tag1787332098|title=thebookbagHow to Love Animals in a Human-21&linkCodeShaped World|author=as2&campHenry Mance|rating=1634&creative5|genre=6738&creativeASINPolitics and Society|summary=1521173192]]''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, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.''

===[[Surgery on I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans and the Shoulders company of Giantsanimals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: Letters from a doctor abroad by Saqib Noor]]no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=5[[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and Society]]again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

The letters begin much in ''To claim space is to live the fashion life of any young man away from home, perhaps in a quite exciting country, writing back to family choosing unapologetically and friends to tell them of his experiences, the sights he's seen and the people he's metbravely. It's just a little different in ''Surgery on is to live the Shoulders of Giants'life you' though: Saqib Noor is a junior doctor, training to be an orthopaedic surgeon and over a period of ten years he visited six countries, not as a tourist but to give medical assistanceve always wanted. They're countries which Noor describes as ''fourth world'' - third world with added disaster - and their need is desperate. [[Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants: Letters from a doctor abroad by Saqib Noor|Full Review]]<br>

{{newreview|author= Rebecca Asher|title= Man Up|rating= 5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= When Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a couple of years ago my university introduced compulsory consent workshops along with an option of time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'good lad' sessions for boys, all debate broke looseby Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Shouldn't consent Now - to be selfclear -evident for everyone? Would the workshops reinforce the stereotype of this book is not a 'laddishhow to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' boys? Would manual: it all 's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about pointing fingers at boys and victimizing girls? What about non-binary 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? In shortwho claim their own space. If all women did this, how could these workshops those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be anything else than a mission doomed used to failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701807</amazonuk>prove that they are big men.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John GrindrodPolly Barton|title= OutskirtsFifty Sounds|rating= 4|genre =Animals and Wildlife|summary=''Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of countryside surrounding inner city housing estates. John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960's and '70's, as he puts it, ''I grew up on the last road in London.'' Grindrod explores the introduction of the green belt, and the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within this topic, he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473625025</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Carolina de Robertis|title= Radical Hope|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society|summary= On 8th November 2016, Donald Trump was elected as the 46th President of the United States. Since then many Americans have been overcome with fear, worrying about what will become of American society during Trump's administration. Carolina de Robertis was no exception to this fear and in response to the newly elected President and his policies she put out a call for action. Radical Hope is the outcome to this call. De Robertis reached out to fellow writers and activists asking for letters, predominantly letters of love, addressed to the citizens of today and those of past and future generations in order to help spread hope during times of uncertainty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349010102</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Matthew d'Ancona|title=Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back|rating=3.5

|summary=Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Our own post-truth era is what happens when society relaxes its defence of values that underpin cohesion, namely veracity, honesty and accountability.Why Japan?'' I'm old enough or perhaps naive enough to believe that when making Japan has been on my radar for a decision about political voting, you should be able to rely absolutely on what while and if the candidate tells youworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I've been suspicious for a decade or moremay get there later this year, but itI am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don's become difficult t know the answer to ignore the change question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in political attitudes since Brexit and respect of the election of Donald Trump. With regard to question in the latterfirst essay, when Trump was challenged which is on a statement hethe sound 'd made which was subsequently found to be incorrect, his response was 'giro'Who cares if I got it wrong?'' He was able to tap to – which she describes as being, among other things, the fading concept sound of 'the American Dream' - those Americans who were used every party where you have to waiting patiently in line and who had found themselves overtaken by ''women, immigrants and public sector workersintroduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen MossFabes|title= Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's WildlifeSigns of Life|rating= 45|genre= Animals and WildlifeTravel|summary= Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it is an unfortunate byI was brought up on maps and first-product person narratives of human population growthtales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which in was the modern world has increased significantlyguts to simply go out and do it. Through this book Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to bring back some of Britainstrangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. In order words I's wildlife without compromising m not the human way sort of life: we can co-exist with natureperson who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Clegg1504321383|title=Politics: Between the ExtremesSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman

|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=The political landscape is changing rapidly at ''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the momentadults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. A little more than two years ago we were facing It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the end of the UKgirl (she's first coalition government since World War II and fully expecting usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that we would see anotherthey can live happily ever after. Instead we saw a Conservative government elected with a workable majority. Brexit saw Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the end of one Prime Minister expectation that they will marry and another elected by a few members of parliamenthave children. As I write we're facing another general election, with It was a Conservative landslide predicted. In two belief and it would be many years webefore Louisa would conclude that ''ve seen the Liberal Democrats collapse from being part of the ruling coalition to a party whose MPs could hold belief is a meeting in a decent-sized carchoice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704164</amazonuk>