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{{Frontpage|classauthor=Alastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=5|genre=Travel |summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|author=Edel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-"wikitable" cellpaddinglong speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Wilson|title="15" <This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=3.5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in 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 her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|isbn=1785633848}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=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 his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153050|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=4|genre=Humour|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''. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B7289HKQ|title=Conversations Across America: 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 period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do it. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon -all 4250 miles of it - INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HEREin 2015. They had 73 days to do it -slightly less than the recommended time - 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 he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night->vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''

<!I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm 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 technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty- Bremner two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. }}{{Frontpage|author=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=The Book of Hope |rating=5|genre=Politics and Society |summary= The done thing is to read a book all the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. |isbn=024147857X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics and Society|summary= 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 social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of 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 progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.}}{{Frontpage|-isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle| stylesummary="width: 10%; verticalIt had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-alignlong 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: top; textthe 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 -alignand fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: center;"this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529149800[[image|title=Things You Can Do:Bremner_Us.jpgHow to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|linksummary=httpWe begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed://wwwwhat good was that doing.amazon ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird.co And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.uk/dp/0525533184/ref}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1638485216|title=nosim?tagBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=thebookbag-21]]''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.''

| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] It wasn't supposed to be like this, was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom and gloom. The spectre of terrorism hangs over most murder of the worldGeorge Floyd, fuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. People keep saying that robots are coming to take all our jobs. Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the world. 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]] <!forty-six- Wolff year-->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wolff Trump.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408711400?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408711400]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Michael Wolff]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] As I began listening to ''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House'' we were treated to the unedifying spectacle of the President of the United States taking to Twitter to establish that he was ''a stable genius'', as opposed, we must conclude to being an unstable... Well, let's not go there. It's a little too frightening: this is the most powerful man in the world. So what made me listen to this book? WellDerek Chauvin, Donald Trump didn't want me to read it: US presidents don't often go down that road and rarely to a good destination (I'm thinking of Richard Nixon here) 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> <!forty-four- Anderson -->|year-| style="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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]]old police officer, [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring US city of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, Minneapolis sent shock waves around the exhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp witworld. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]] <!-- Connolly -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Connolly_working.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1911585363?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1911585363]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Know Your Place: Essays on 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 Place'' is an anthology We rarely see pictures of essays on the working class by the working class. There are twenty-three disparate pieces talking about everything you can imagine: day trips to the seaside, access to the arts, food poverty, pub culture, glass ceilings, housing estates, vulgarity-as-class-marker, and much more.  And a full disclosure: murder taking place but Floyd''Know Your Place'' was brought to fruition by crowdfunding and I s death was a contributor. I read the proposed spec and just ''knew'' I would love the book, should it reach its fundraising target, and that's why I stumped up some cash. I think class 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 themselvesexception. And I really did love the book just as I thought I would. So you know - there's a possible reviewer bias here that you should know about. I like to think I would have criticised ''Know Your Place'' had it fallen short of my hopes for it but just in case, I'm letting you know. [[Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly|Full Review]] <!-- Smith -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms by Harry Leslie Smith]]=== [[ The image:5star.jpg|link=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 for society to tackle the systemic, endemic and debilitating inequality faced by the people of the United Kingdom, particularly in the North. Through reflecting Chauvin kneeling 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 to the poverty faced by his family contrasted with the, shamefully still, grim and miserable lives many people endure today in a country ravaged by cuts, austerity and political turmoil. [[DonGeorge't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms by Harry Leslie Smith|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Bristow -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Bristow China.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985902?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985902]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a journalist for the BBC, author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history. Having been learning the local language for several years, Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacher, born in the early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of life in Communist China - but added to that, 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 s neck is immensely personal - yet also paints a fascinating portrait of not one of the world's most intriguing nations. [[China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow|Full Review]] <!-- Landreth -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Landreth_Swell.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472938941?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1472938941]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Swell by Jenny Landreth]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Sport|Sport]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] which I love Jenny's own description of her book as a waterbiography ll ever forget and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. This is more 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 swimprotests which followed cannot have been unexpected. That sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly There was a lover of backlash against the absurd. Not a lover of book blurbs myself, I do always seek to give a shoutpolice -out to those who get it dead rightand not just in Minneapolis: in this case Iwhatever their colour or creed they were 'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's all''giggles-on-tarred by the-commute funny''. [[Swell by Jenny Landreth|Full Review]] <!-- Maconie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:ISBNChauvin brush.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/ISBN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's column. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Let's be honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else's review, 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) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at least. [[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie|Full Review]] |} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francis O'GormanMatthieu Aikins|title=Forgetfulness: Making The Naked Don't Fear the Modern Culture of AmnesiaWater

|summary=After a glut of books about mindfulness it came as something of a relief It's easy to encounter ''Forgetfulnessforget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, Francis O'Gorman's thinking on why the twentybecause it reads very much like a well-first century paced thriller at times. This is losing touch with the pastnot by any means a criticism, on why what is likely - or could be made - but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to happen is so much more important than what has gone beforeaccompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. The book is supremely intelligent, but with There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the knowledge worn lightly and whole way through. But it's eminently readable, regardless of how you feel about written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the conclusions he drawsenvironments and people described. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1501324691</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Raymond Williams1785633074|title= Culture and Society 1780-1950Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyHumour|summary= From Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the last decades ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the eighteenth century driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the final words memoirs of modernismRafe Hubris, this book tracks societal changes through exploring five key words: industry, democracy, class, art and culture. The meanings the man who was behind the skilful control of such things, their essence, changes as per their use and the era in Covid crisis which their implications were consideredwas completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870811</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Patrick West1846276772|title= Get Over YourselfThe End of Bias: Nietzsche for our timesHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating= 14.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Get Over Yourself considers NietzscheAnyone 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 imagined perceptions simply a part of modern society and uses our society to explain his philosophyeveryday life. White men will always come first. I'm sorry if that sounds vague but it's the best I can do from the blurb on The able will come before the backdisabled. After reading Get Over Yourself from cover to cover Jobs, promotions, I am still none higher salaries are the wiser about preserve of the purpose of this bookwhite man. It appears to be Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a series part of personal opinions held together with quotesan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, which donthat their concerns are acknowledged. It't always appear relevant, from Nietzsche, Chumbawumba s personally appalling and newspaper articlesdegrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409337</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author= Cathy ScottBefore 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-Clark and Adrian Levy|title= The Exile|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society|summary= An account of help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the fate of Al Qaeda and television industry at the Bin Laden family since Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the events of 9/11, book but you need to ''listen'The Exile'to the words as though you' plunges into re in the murky waters of international terrorism, espionage and politicslecture theatre. Detailed The disjointedness will fade away and meticulous, the book tackles the subject from all angles, providing you'll be carried on a panoramic view cloud of the subject and acting to enlighten and inform the readerexquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858762</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Clarkson0008350388|title= Can I Speak We Need to Someone in Charge?Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society|summary=''Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?'', blogger Emily Clarkson's debut book, is To be a fierce, witty and laughdark-out-loud funny ode to feminism. In a series of open letters, she addresses the issues faced by every modern skinned Black woman, discussing everything from dealing with body hair is to being made to feel uncomfortable in the gymbe seen as less desirable, as well as more personal issuesless hireable, like her experiences of being 'catfished' less intelligent and sent abuse online. This is a vital read for any girl born in the 1990s, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exterior.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471156907</amazonuk>}}<!-- Elkin -ultimately less valuable than my light->[[image:Elkin_Flaneuseskinned counterparts.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099593378?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099593378]]'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba

===[[Flaneuse: Women Walk the City ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London England study a book by Lauren Elkin]]===a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

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Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs{{Frontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature: theyA User're places where you can't or shouldn't be seen walking; places wheres Guide to Life|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, in fictionand sometimes books choose us. In my case, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking this is one of everything from 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 'Madame Bovary'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 [ ''Revolutionary Roadfull disclosure The Bookbag'')s u.s.p. When she imagines is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to herself what like the female version of that well-known historical figurebook, the carefree even if it doesn''flâneurt always turn out that way''] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, might be, she thinks about women who freely wandered the worldright now.|isbn=1800461682}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary='s great cities without having the more insalubrious connotation of the word 'streetwalker' applied to When we do think about animals, we break themdown into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. [[FlaneuseAnd we assign them places in society: Women Walk the City cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in Pariszoos, New Yorkand millions of wild animals stay out there, Tokyo''somewhere, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin|Full Review]]<br>'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.''

<!-- Noor -->[[image:Noor_SurgeryI was going to argue.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat.co.uk/gp/product/1521173192?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1521173192]] ===[[Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants: Letters from a doctor abroad by Saqib Noor]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Politics ) and Society|Politics 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 his experienceshumans and the company of animals, 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.

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===[[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 childhoodbe people who don't need protection, producing a memoir with a lot of heartpeople who claim their own space. [[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 2016 If all women did this, 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 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