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{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Bremner -->Alastair Humphreys|-title=Local| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|5[[image:Bremner_Us.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0525533184/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Travel | stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer]]=== [[image:4Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world.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]] It wasnthen wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''t supposed to be like thisshare what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom land use and gloom. The spectre access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of terrorism hangs over most the joys of the world, fuelling refugee crises and worries book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about national security. People keep saying all of these things was that robots there are coming no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to take all our jobs. Anti-establishment political parties have a downside for somebody and that there are making huge gains in countries all around the worldsome hard choices ahead. And inequality is as much of a problem as it ever was – if not more so. [[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer|Full Review]]isbn=1785633678}}<!-- Wolff -->{{Frontpage|-author=Edel Rodriguez| styletitle="widthWorm: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|A Cuban American Odyssey[[image:Wolff Trump.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408711400?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408711400]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Graphic Novels===[[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics We're in childhood, and Society|Politics and Society]] As I began listening to we''Fire re in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Fury: Inside the Trump White House'' we were treated to the unedifying spectacle Castro, first thought of the President as a saviour of the United States taking to Twitter to establish that he was ''country, has proven himself a stable genius''Communist, as opposed, we must conclude and not done nearly enough to being an unstable..create a level playing field for all. Well, let's not go therethose hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. ItOur narrator's a little too frightening: this is the most powerful man family weren't in the world. So what made me listen to this book? Wellhappiest of places here, Donald Trump didn't want me an uncle refusing to read it: US presidents don't often go down that road and rarely to a be the good destination soldier the country demanded (I'm thinking of Richard Nixon hereespecially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and that made me really want to know what was between the coversfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. But how did The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the book stack up? [[Fire and Fury: Inside heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the Trump White House by Michael Wolff|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Anderson -->kitchen…|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Anderson_Fantasyland.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785038656]]1474616720}}{{Frontpage| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]==author=Sarah Wilson [[image:4star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[This One Wild and Precious Life:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 path back to 2017 connection 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 are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]] <!-- Connolly -->a fractured world|-| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|3.5[[image:Connolly_working.jpg|left|linkgenre=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1911585363?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1911585363]] Lifestyle| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Know Your Place: Essays on My favourite Mary Oliver line is the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Simple summary: ''Know Your Placeone in which she asks '' What is an anthology of essays on the working class by the working class. There are twenty-three disparate pieces talking about everything it you can imagine: day trips plan to the seaside, access do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to the arts, food poverty, pub culture, glass ceilings, housing estates, vulgarity-as-class-marker, and love that line so much morebecause my answer is ''This! Precisely this.  And a full disclosure: ''Know Your Place I'' was brought m lucky enough to fruition by crowdfunding be living my one wild and precious life the way I was a contributorwant to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I read can't see that she acknowledges the proposed spec and just source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''kneware'' I would love living the life we want – the book, should it reach its fundraising target, and best life that's why I stumped up some cashwe could be living. I think class Her answer is both an under- and mis-discussed topic with working class people defined externally and talked about rather than listened to or allowed to define themselves. And I really did love the book just as I thought I would. So you know - thereunequivocal ''s a possible reviewer bias here that you should know about. I like to think I would have criticised no, we are not''Know Your Place. Don't care what you' had it fallen short of my hopes for it but just in casere doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she'm letting you knows effing furious about the fact that we are not. [[Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly|Full Review]]isbn=1785633848}}<!-- Smith -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1785633457| styletitle="widthCharging Around: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car[[image:Smith_Dont.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147212345X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creativeauthor=6738&creativeASIN=147212345X]] Clive Wilkinson| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"5|===[[Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms by Harry Leslie Smith]]==genre=Travel [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]  Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms is part autobiography and part rallying call Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for society to tackle slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the systemic, endemic and debilitating inequality faced by idea of exploring the people edges of the United Kingdom, particularly England in the Northan electric car was not totally outrageous. Through reflecting on his own experiences during his childhoodIn fact, Harry Leslie Smith has painted it should be a frank pleasant holiday for Clive and uncompromising picture of the grim, appallingly miserable childhood he had to endure due to the poverty faced by his family contrasted with thewife, shamefully stillJoan, grim and miserable lives many people endure today in a country ravaged by cuts, austerity and political turmoil. [[Donshouldn't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms by Harry Leslie Smith|Full Review]]it?<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Bristow -->|isbn=1529153050|-title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Tim Benson|rating=4[[image:Bristow China.jpg|leftgenre=Humour|linksummary=httpsSeeking 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''. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the year://wwwthe cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985902 Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985902]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"B0B7289HKQ|title===[[China in DragConversations Across America: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow]]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 [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] [[:Category:Politics Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Having worked for nine years in Bejing as the period between two jobs seemed like a journalist for good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the BBCTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, author Michael Bristow decided Virginia to write about Chinese history. Having been learning the local language for several yearsAstoria, Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - the language teacher, born in 2015. They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of life in Communist China recommended time - but added to there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that, Bristow it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he 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 suffering from early- yet also paints a fascinating portrait of one of the worldstage Alzheimer's most intriguing nations. [[China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow|Full Review]]}}<!-- Landreth -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1739593901| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|22 Ideas About The Future[[image:Landreth_Swell.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472938941?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1472938941]] Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"5|===[[Swell by Jenny Landreth]]==genre=Science Fiction [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Sport|Sport]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] 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 is 'Our future will be more complex than just (I say ''just''!) a recollection of the author's own encounters with water; it's also a history of women's fight for the right to swimwe expected. That sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of the absurd. Not a lover Instead of book blurbs myselfflying cars, I do always seek to give a shoutwe got night-out vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to those who get it dead right: in this case I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the-commute funnytrack grandma.''. [[Swell by Jenny Landreth|Full Review]] |}

{{newreview|author=Francis OI'Gorman|title=Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture ve got a couple of Amnesia|rating=4confessions to make.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=After a glut of books about mindfulness I'm not keen on short stories as I find it came as something of easy to read a relief few stories and then forget to return to encounter the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there'Forgetfulness'', Francis O'Gormans science fiction: far too often it's thinking on why the twenty-first century is losing touch technology which takes centre stage along with the past, on why what is likely - or could be made world- to happen is so much more important than what has gone beforebuilding. The book is supremely intelligent, but with It's human beings who fascinate me: the knowledge worn lightly technology and it's eminently readablethe world scape are purely incidental. So, regardless what did I think of a book of how you feel about the conclusions he drawstwenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501324691</amazonuk>

{{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 book. It appears to be a series climate change – by each of personal opinions held together with quotesus doing what we can, which don't always appear relevant, from Nietzsche, Chumbawumba and newspaper articleshowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409337</amazonuk>

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 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 not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian LevyMatthieu Aikins|title= The ExileNaked Don't Fear the Water|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= An account It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, 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 – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the fate of Al Qaeda whole way through. But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the Bin Laden family since reader to perfectly envisage the events environments and people described.|isbn= B09N9157T6}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Members of 9/11Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'The Exile'(that' plunges into the murky waters s for those of international terrorism, espionage you who are Eton and politicsOxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. Detailed and meticulous We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the book tackles man who was behind the subject from all angles, providing a panoramic view skilful control of the subject and acting 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 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>

<!-- Elkin -->{{Frontpage[[image:Elkin_Flaneuse.jpg|leftisbn=1529148251|linktitle=httpsMisfits://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099593378?ieA Personal Manifesto|author=UTF8&tagMichaela Coel|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode5|genre=as2&campPolitics and Society|summary=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099593378]]''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''

Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in 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.s.amazonp.cois 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.uk/gp/product/1521173192?ie|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&creativeASIN=1521173192]]Politics and Society|summary===[[Surgery ''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 Shoulders of Giants: Letters from a doctor abroad by Saqib Noor]]===next David Attenborough series.''

[[image:4starI was going to argue.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] I mean, [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and Society]] The letters begin I much prefer my elephants in the fashion wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of any young man away from home, perhaps in a quite exciting country, writing back it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to family animals - and friends I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to tell them choose between the company of humans and the company of his experiencesanimals, I would probably choose the sights he's seen and the people he's metanimals. It's just a little different in ''Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants'' thoughI insisted that I read this book: Saqib Noor is a junior doctor, training no one was trying to be an orthopaedic surgeon and over a period of ten years he visited six countries, not as a tourist stop me but to give medical assistanceI was initially reluctant. They're countries which Noor describes as ''fourth world'' - third world with added disaster - I eat cheese, eggs, chicken 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 fish and Society|summary= When a couple of years ago I needed to either do so without guilt or change my university introduced compulsory consent workshops along with an option of 'good lad' sessions for boys, all debate broke loosechoices. Shouldn't consent be self-evident for everyone? Would I suspected that making the workshops reinforce the stereotype of 'laddish' boys? Would it all decision would not be about pointing fingers at boys and victimizing girls? What about non-binary people? In short, how could these workshops be anything else than a mission doomed to failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701807</amazonuk>comfortable.

<!-- Grindrod -->[[image:Grindrod Outskirts''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely.jpg|left|link=https://www It is to live the life you've always wanted.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473625025?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473625025]] ===[[Outskirts by John Grindrod]]===''

[[imageSometimes the reviewing gods are generous:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]]at a time when violence against women is much in the news, [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] ''OutskirtsA Women's Guide to Claiming Space' ' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is an interesting take on not 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 how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs'70manual: it'ssomething far more effective, as he puts it, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''I grew up on the last road in London.protected'' 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 I've always thought that women need to rise above this topic, he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart. [[Outskirts by John Grindrod|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Carolina de Robertis|title= Radical Hope|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society|summary= On 8th November 2016be people who don't need protection, Donald Trump was elected as the 46th President of the United Statespeople who claim their own space. Since then many Americans have been overcome with fear If all women did this, worrying about what will become of American society during Trump's administration. Carolina de Robertis was no exception those few men who are violent 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 women would realise that we are not just an easy target 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 be used to help spread hope during times of uncertaintyprove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349010102</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew d'AnconaPolly Barton|title=Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight BackFifty Sounds|rating=34.5

|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