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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=5|genre=Politics 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 society=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__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frank FurediEdel Rodriguez|title=On Tolerance: The Life Style WarsWorm: A Defence of Moral IndependenceCuban American Odyssey
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|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=Furedi is a Professor of Sociology at a UK university so heWe're in childhood, and we'll know his subject matter inside outre in Cuba. The short preface tells us that 'tolerance revolution has been emptied happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of its moral the country, has proven himself a Communist, and intellectual meaningnot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away.' This publicationOur narrator's aim is 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 argue some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the case father being watched and watched, and not liked for tolerance in societyhis successful photography business, success being frowned upon. How its meaning has changed over The mother gets the couple jobs with the centuries until today's rather fuzzy and watered-down meaning. Professor Furedi was spurred on party to writing ease some of the heat, but in this book because he firmly believes that tolerance has been lost somehowsultry island country, to be almost invisible in some areas it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of public and private life.the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1441120106</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris MullinSarah Wilson|title=A Walk-on PartThis One Wild and Precious Life: Diaries 1994 - 1999the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=We tend My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to remember where we were do with your one wild and how we heard about the deaths of people like John F Kennedy, Elvis Presley and Princess Diana, but precious life?'' Iget to love that line so much because my answer is ''d add another person to the list: John SmithThis! Precisely this. '' I remember sitting in 'm lucky enough to be living my office one wild and a colleague coming in precious life the way I want to tell me. She added Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I suppose can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether wereally ''are''ll have living the life we want – the best life that dreary Gordon Brown as leader now'we could be living. WeHer answer is an unequivocal 'd many angst-ridden miles to go before that came about but Smith's death is the opening entry in thisno, the third volume (but first chronologically) of Chris Mullinwe are not''s Diaries. This book covers the first period of Don'New Labourt care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, from SmithI) could be doing more…And she's death until Mullin's assumption into government in July 1999effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846685230</amazonuk>1785633848
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tina Rosenberg1785633457|title=Join the ClubCharging Around: How Peer Pressure Can Transform Exploring the WorldEdges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Teenagers in South Carolina have become involved in the anti-smoking movement, passing out information encouraging their peers to educate themselves about Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the ways big tobacco companies try to get them hooked. There are youngsters in South Africa who’ve refused to have sex without a condom because idea of exploring the danger edges of HIV and AIDS. Minority students England in Texas have challenged data going back years by succeeding at calculus where traditionally students of their race have struggledan electric car was not totally outrageous. Why? Because other people have done the same thingIn fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and they want to fit in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848313004</amazonuk>his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Ola Taiwo1529153050|title=A Broken Childhood: A True Story of Abuse|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Mojisola – known to everyone as Ola – was born to a Nigerian couple in London in 1964 and spent the first five years of her life in a foster home in Brighton. Here she was loved, looked after and lived her life in a genuinely good family. This wasnBritain't an unusual arrangement as it allowed the biological parents to earn money without worrying about childcare – and Ola was happy. It was all the more cruel when her biological father arrived to take her 'home' for the weekend – a weekend which would stretch into seven years of abuse and neglect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846245907</amazonuk>}} {{newreviews Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Max Pemberton|title=The Doctor Will See You NowTim Benson|rating=3.54|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=The NHS Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is one of those things that everyone seems coming to have seem more and more like an opinion aboutadrenaline sport, and this of course includes those I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of us who work for said organisation (the world2022's 3rd largest employer, don'tcha know). Max Pemberton is one of those people: a doctor, though despite what you might assume from the title, Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not a GP but a hospital medic. This is his third book on yet through the subject of life (and death) within year: the walls of a hospital, plus the odd excursion cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to rather misnamed Care Homes, and it's not a bad read31 August 2022. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340919949</amazonuk> Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirin EbadiB0B7289HKQ|title=The Golden CageConversations Across America: Three BrothersA Father and Son, Three ChoicesAlzheimer's, One Destinyand 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Dr Ebadi is currently living in exileKari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, fearing for her safetyby 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, should she return Virginia to Iran Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in the foreseeable future2015. Her Prologue describes a violent and bloody reaction They had 73 days to what was do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a peaceful situation involving wives, mothers and sisterschallenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. Boulders Merv Loya was 75 years old and large stones were thrown at elderly, defenseless women without a momenthe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's hesitation. A taste of things to come?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0979845645</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel Hamilton1739593901|title=American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D Roosevelt to George W Bush22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=HistoryScience Fiction|summary=The Premise is simple: take twelve men (and unfortunately they are all men, but that's not the author's fault) who have achieved high office and look at each of themOur future will be more complex than we expected. FirstlyInstead of flying cars, take a look at the road we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to the high office, then how they performed once they reached their goal and finally a look at their private lifetrack grandma. Suetonius did it first when he wrote ''The Twelve Caesars'' and now Nigel Hamilton has taken the same journey with ''American Caesars'', a remarkably in-depth look at twelve consecutive American presidents from the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and finishing with George W Bush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520419</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen BlixenJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Out Of AfricaThe Book of Hope
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|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society |summary=It's more than The done thing is to read a quarter of a century since I first saw book all the film ''Out of Africa'' and way through before you sit down to review it's one of the few that have stayed with me over the intervening years. It wasn't just the storyI’m making an exception here, but the personality because I don’t want to lose any of Karen Blixen and the wonderful landscape experience of the Ngong Hills, south of Nairobi, in Kenya's Rift Valley. I remember looking for reading this amazing book at the time, but being unable I want to find capture it, so the opportunity to read as it hits me. And it now was too good to missis hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241951437</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Sedley1788360737|title=Ashes and SparksArtivism: Essays On Law and JusticeThe Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=4.52|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Some books are hard 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 readmodifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, and even harder to reviewimplicitly. This 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 particularly true art for art’s sake. The recent trend of what are essentially academic or "professional" books 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 you come media elites hoping to them as create a lay readermore globalist and progressive regime. This then is my starting position on Ashes and SparksOr at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0521170907</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Armstrong and Tim Gray1398508632|title=The Authentic Tawney: A New Interpretation of the Political Thought of R. H. Tawney Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=The Authentic Tawney takes It had been on the cards for a fresh look at while but it was the political writing week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of R H Tawneyeating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a left wing academic whose works were a big influence on world where the huge program of postwar reform engineered normal sores had been exacerbated by the Labour Partyclimate change, particularly Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the provision area around her was a known habitat with a variety of universal secondary educationterrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. The authors assert that Tawney's ideas changed markedly through the course of his life She had a car - and that they lack the consistency that other interpreters have erroneously attributed to themfuel. They reject the notion that his writings have an essential unity Most importantly, which is philosophically interesting - don't we tend she had shelter: this was not a plan to assume that an intellectual's life's work will contain a central live'core' of ideas? Discussion of an important pioneer in democratic socialism also seems relevant at a time when Labour has 'lost wild just to live off its way' and evolved into a watered down version of the Conservativesproduce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402243</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Hewlett1529149800|title=The Sarkozy PhenomenonThings You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=The old saying is that 'cometh We begin with a telling story. All the hour, cometh birds and animals fled when the man' forest fire took hold and most of them stood and whether or not it's the electorate's ability watched, unable to pick the man or whether he was only seen as the right man in retrospect is a moot pointthink of anything they could do. There are, though, some surprising people at The tiny hummingbird flew to the head river and began taking tiny amounts of European countries at the moment – with Silvio Berlusconi water and Nicholas Sarkozy at flying back to drop them into the head of my personal listfire. My [[Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla BruniThe animals laughed: The True Story by Valerie Benaim and Yves Azeroual|last attempt]] to find out more about Sarkozy proved to be too light-weight for my tastes, but this time what good was that doing. ''I've gone to m doing the opposite end of best I can'', said the scale with a book from Nick Hewletthummingbird. And that, really, Professor of French Studies at is the only way that we will solve the University problem of Warwick and published climate change – by Imprint Academiceach of us doing what we can, however small that might be. I mention those points because there is no attempt to present this as populist writing: it's scholarly from beginning to end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402391</amazonuk>
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|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dambisa MoyoMatthieu Aikins|title=How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly And The Naked Don't Fear the Stark Choices AheadWater|rating=4.5
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|summary=MoyoIt's first book, easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn'Dead Aid'' was t actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well regarded and oft discussed title when I worked in Development-paced thriller at times. In This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a country where it was hard testament to find any book at all, somehow every ex-pat household seemed how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to have accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at least one copy times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of this, and I followed border crossings which had me on edge the sheep and had a readwhole way through. It was But it's written with a great, insightful book haunting and almost lyrical quality that we could all identify with, allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and I was eager to read her second, if somewhat unrelated workpeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846142350</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Lewis1785633074|title=The Big ShortStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceHumour|summary=So. The subprime mortgage crisis, the worldwide financial crisis, people losing their jobs, their money, their houses, their security. Unregulated greed, Members of Parliament like us to believe that went on and on and on. And the people who caused it all got rich during and aftercountry is run by politicians, very few felt any sort of consequences, and millions of other people worldwide suffered greatly. Strip away all headed by the intentionally confusing terminology and it all amounts to bets with unbelievable amounts of money. How did it all come about and how did it play out? Michael Lewis explains Prime minister - the mess as only he can. Just as his earlier excellent work {{amazonurl|title=Liar''primus inter pares'' (that's Poker|isbn=0340839961}} encapsulated for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the excesses of Wall Street in reality is that the 1980s, so does ''The Big Shortprime'' perfectly tell movers are the special advisers - the tale of Wall Street in SPADS - who are the driving force behind the 2000sgovernment. In fact, given We are in the extent privileged position of having access to the current global clusterfuckmemoirs of Rafe Hubris, it makes the shocking ''Liar's Poker'' look positively mild man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by comparisonthe end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043539</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Xinran1846276772|title=Message from an Unknown Chinese MotherThe End of Bias: Stories of Loss and Love How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5
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|summary=Xinran first came Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to my notice with her 2002 book "The Good Women of China" which retold tales of the women she had come across through her work in Chinese radio, where for many years she had hosted the local equivalent of a cross between Womanthey suffer from it: it's Hour and simply a late night phone-in talk showpart of everyday life. White men will always come first. She has been busy bringing us other stories in The able will come before the meantimedisabled. Jobs, but in this latest work she returns to those early days in radio and promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the stories she learnedwhite man. Many Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of these stories she decided were too painful to tellan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. They speak It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of children, specifically daughters, abandoned by their Chinese mothers one way or anotherthe bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535750</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Politkovskaya1529148251|title=Nothing but the TruthMisfits: Selected Dispatches A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=4.5
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|summary=Anna Politkovskaya worked for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta, becoming particularly famous for her critical reports ''How am I able to be so transparent on the wars in Chechnyapaper about rape, on Putinmalpractice and poverty, on state corruption and on life in Russia under his regime. She never avoided controversy and received a number of death threats before she was murdered in October 2006. She had reason to know these were no idle threats – one of her articles here entitled 'Is Journalism Worth the Loss of a Lifeyet still compartmentalise? It' reports the attempted murder of one of her colleagues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526689</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonny Steinberg|title=Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=South African Steinberg has won awards with previous non-fiction books and after reading the praise from various sources (New York Times, J M Coetzee) s as though I came to the conclusion that I was in for a serious and thought-provoking read. The preface tells us that the two Liberian men - Rufus and were telling the younger Jacob left Liberian soil in vastly different circumstances and for different reasons. But as they meet up years later and thousands of miles truth whilst simultaneously running away from their homeland, their ''Little Liberia'' in New York City has a tall order: to contain and accommodate their big personalities and to a certain extent, their big egos. Can it cope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224085662</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tracy Kidder|title=Mountains Beyond Mountains|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Dr Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to helping the poorest and neediest in society. He works tirelessly to help people less fortunate than him. ''Dedicated his life'' and ''works tirelessly'' - phrases we've heard many times about many wonderful people, but when reading ''Mountains Beyond Mountains'', you'll realise there's not a shred of hyperbole about these claims. Farmer began working with tuberculosis and AIDS patients in Haiti, and then worked with them, and worked for them, and worked with them, and worked for them, and worked with them. In an area where treating the disease is just one part of the problem, where poverty is rife, he has transformed an area, saved countless lives, and made an incredible difference to many people. [http://www.pih.org/ Partners In Health], the healthcare organisation he set up with his colleagues, takes this work worldwide. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684315</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beate Teresa Hanika0008350388|title=Learning We Need to ScreamTalk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|summary=As ''To be a teacher myself, I'm naturally well aware of most of the aspects of education that Andrew Penman discusses here and some of the stories he repeats are welldark-known skinned Black woman is to me but may be of news to some readers. Yesseen as less desirable, less hireable, people will really do just about anything to try less intelligent and get their children into the school of their choice – even commit fraud! But how well does this book work as an insight into the type of measures some people will go ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to for those readers unaware of the desperation thatcan set in at this time in a child’s life? It’s a good question…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906132976</amazonuk>}}Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark OatenRichard Brook|title=Screwing UpUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life
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|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Like John Profumo I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and otherssometimes 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, Mark Oaten will probably be remembered for found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the wrong reasonsway that it does now. It I believe it came to me not just because I was the episode which made him for likely to give it a while the countryfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's Nou.s. 1 paparazzi targetp. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, and which as he recounts in his Prologueso there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, when his even if it doesn't always turn out that way'world was crashing down' and ] – but also because it hardly needs recounting in detail. Yet when all is said and done, this is a very lively, readablebook I needed to read, sometimes quite poignant memoir from one of the men whose career at Westminster began and ended with the Blair and Brown years. Throughout there is an admirable absence of self-pityright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849540071</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Pennac1787332098|title=School BluesHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=4.5
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|summary=Daniel Pennac's book discusses the issue of children who struggle at school'When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and offers some ideas so on how teachers can and should help . And we assign them. It is not a dry textbook places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on educational theory. He writes from personal experiencesofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, as a teacher and novelist who was once millions of wild animals stay out there, 'un cancre'somewhere, translated here as a dunce or a bad student'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694648</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Mullin1523092734|title=Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005 A Women's Guide to 2010Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
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|summary=At the end of [[A View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin|A View from the Foothills]] we left Chris Mullin wondering why he was no longer Tony Blair's Africa minister at the Foreign Office. He was never to get 'She brings a definitive answer to this, but was later told hug-kick-thunderclap that Blair handed out the junior ministerial appointments rather like sweets, with few worries about how people would feel if they were missed out or sackedevery woman needs in her life. In Decline Again and Fall we see Chris come down from the foothills of politics again and return to the backbenchesagain. He might no longer be in a position of power'' (Alma Derricks, but he's still in the thick of it. Perhaps thoughformer CMO, some of the enjoyment is draining away from the job as he sees himself with years more of doing nothing very important.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683998</amazonuk>}}Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam PhillipsPolly Barton|title=On BalanceFifty Sounds|rating=4.5
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|summary=Essential Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a tightrope walkerwhile and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, prized as an intellectual objectiveI don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, balance which is generally considered something to on the sound ''giro' '' – which we can aspire. We praise someone who makes a balanced decisionshe describes as being, among other things, we envy people who have a the sound of 'good work/life balance' we offer an opinion every party where you have to introduce yourself'on balance' to demonstrate that we have considered various arguments and options.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241143888</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James RobertsonStephen Fabes|title=And The Land Lay StillSigns of Life|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionTravel|summary=The novel starts I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places... at the endI was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. We see the fictional characterUnfortunately, photographer Mike Pendreich collating many, many photographs I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which his late father took with his trusty camerawas the guts to simply go out and do it. His father is generally acknowledged as I also didn't inherit the better kind of the two at the craft; he simply steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the knackrequisite 'bottle'. And what his son is now in charge In order words I'm not the sort of are black person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and white photographs charting a social history at that timenot come home for six years. And we all know Fabes did precisely that a picture is worth a thousand words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024114356X</amazonuk>1788161211
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Green1504321383|title=Murder in the High HimalayaSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman
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|summary=Meet Mister Bigelow. He's elderly, living alone on Long Island, New York, with some health problems but more than enough family and friends to get him by, and still a very active interest in yachting, regattas and more. Meet, too, Frances Woodsford. She's reaching middle-age, living with her brother You can't be happy and mum in Bournemouth, and working for the local baths as organiser of events, office lackey and morefulfilled on your own. I suggest You are not complete until you do meet them, although neither ever met the other. Despite this they kept up find a brisk and lively conversation about all aspects of life, from the late 1940s until his death at the beginning of the 60s. And as a result comes this book, of heavily edited highlights, which opens up a world of social history and entertaining diary-style commentman''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542293</amazonuk>}}
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