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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Malala YousafzaiAlastair Humphreys|title= I Am MalalaLocal|rating= 5|genre= AutobiographyTravel |summary= ''She's a phenomenon'' is my OH's response 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 any mention of Malalahome and then wrote about it. I can't disagree on some levelAs he says in his introduction, but what this the book proves is that on another she is just an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a girlsmall map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One voice among many. Itof 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's just , that she decided every upside is likely to speak louder than mosthave 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 know about Malala because she got lucky're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. She got lucky because when she got shot by The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the Taliban there were people nearbycountry, doctors who got her to has proven himself a hospitalCommunist, and then luckier still because when her condition worsenednot done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, nearby there those hours-long speeches of his were western doctors with access 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 western facilities some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and she was flown to the UK father being watched and watched, and not liked for treatmenthis 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allan MetcalfSarah Wilson|title=From Skedaddle to SelfieThis One Wild and Precious Life: Words of the Generationpath back to connection in a fractured world

|genre=TriviaLifestyle|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 have get to go a roundabout way to introducing love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this book, so bear with me. '' It stems partly from dictionaries I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the etymology of the language we use, but more so if anything from a different couple of books, and their ideas of generationsway I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. The authors of those posited the idea In her book that all those archetypical generations – the Baby Boomers, the Millennials, and those before, in between and since – have their own cyclical pattern, and the history of humanity has been and will be formed by the interplay of just four different kinds, running takes Oliver's words as her title (with only one exception) in regular order. though I doncan't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really hold much store by that, and I certainly didn't know we'd started one since are'' living the Millennials life we want – who the heck decides such things, for one? best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''Somebody must have put out an orderno, we are not'', as someone here says of something else. But in Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the same way as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, so do words – and those words fact that we are certainly a clue to what was important, predominant and of course spoken in each decadenot.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019992712X</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Danny Rogers1785633457|title=Campaigns that Shook Charging Around: Exploring the World: The Evolution Edges of Public RelationsEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 5|genre= Business and Finance Travel|summary= I dithered about how to begin this review. On one hand I thought I should probably start Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by saying that I have unconventional means with a work related interest in marketing and communicationspreference for slow travel. On As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the other hand, Danny Rogers has written a book which appealed to me on several levels. Campaigns are about psychology and storytelling – which edges of course leads us into branding but also feature critical issues around concept deliveryEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In shortfact, I was looking forward to reading this it should be a pleasant holiday for many reasons – Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it didn’t disappoint.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Leovy1529153050|title=GhettosideBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=3.54|genre=Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=There are enough LA rappers around Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to attest that living as a black man in South Central is no easy task. Dismiss these urban lyricists at your perilseem more and more like an adrenaline sport, as crude they may be, but I was nudged towards ''Britain'Ghettosides Best Political Cartoons of 2022'' . Sharp eyes will soon inform have noted that we're not yet through the disbeliever that life on year: the streets of LA is hardcartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. With a 40 times higher chance of being murdered than a white person Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B7289HKQ|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, what made Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the LA Soul of America|author=Kari Loya|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the 80s through way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the late 2000s such period between two jobs seemed like a dangerous place good time to live do it. The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 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 young black men?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700762</amazonuk>most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Coates1739593901|title= Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands 22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= TravelScience 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 know Holland in 'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the way everyone doesbook. Pancakes and windmills and Pot, oh my There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. But Then there's science fiction: far too often it's one of the few European countries 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've never lived in for any period think of a book of timetwenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, and so I was intrigued to know moreloved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>185788633X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma MarriottJane 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 Used don’t want to Know Thatlose 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: HistoryThe Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating= 42

|summary= I've picked up Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a few things over vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the yearssocial environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, most notably from English language text books while TEFLing abroad (there's nothing like an exciting lesson on Guy Fawkes to have a classroom 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 Mexicans wondering why we so love -called artivism has caused artists to celebrate a terrorist attack that didn't happenbecome more overtly political (read: left wing). But I Their seemingly grass roots movements have gaps, of this I am sure, been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and I thought media elites hoping to get create a basic understanding of, well, the basics that we all should know, a quick read of this book wouldn't hurtmore globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Marriott1398508632|title= I Should Know That - Great BritainThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary= I am It had been on the cards for a dreadful Britwhile but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. I'm better at the geography The end of Colombia than the UK (true storyNovember, I had to google where Essex particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the other day). Despite 17 years of full best time education to start, in a world where the UKnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, I probably wouldn't pass Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a simple citizenship testvariety of terrains. Which is She had electricity which allowed her to run a little embarrassingfridge, reallyfreezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. So when Most importantly, she had shelter: this book came up for review I thought Iwas not a plan to ''live''d have it, both for interest and as a subtle way wild just to brush up on my Britainlive off its produce. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434313</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Wilkinson1529149800|title=Capitalism Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Human ValuesSara Boccaccini Meadows

|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=Tony Wilkinson has We begin with a first class honours degree in philosophy telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and has worked in government service most of them stood and investment management - watched, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the ideal background for a consideration river and began taking tiny amounts of capitalism water and flying back to drop them into the human values which propel itfire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. It's not too long ago - certainly within my lifetime - that religion largely dictated 'I'm doing the values held by individualsbest I can'', but true religious belief now seems to be said the exception rather than the rulehummingbird. In its place And that, really, is the only way that we have a society for whom consumerism is will solve the driving force - and a widening gap between those who problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can afford to consume and those who cannot. As Wilkinson says ''Getting and spending have come to define who we are, however small that might be.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407881</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Gittos1638485216|title=Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous MythBlack, White, and Gray All Over: From Steubenville to Ched EvansA Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=It ''Corruption is said that we live in a rape culturenot department, gender or race specific. Tabloid headlines scream that the number It has everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of rapes is George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on the increase and that the 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police and officer, in the courts are failing to deal with US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the problemworld. ThereWe rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's a belief that the rate of conviction is consistently lowdeath was an exception. ItThe image of Chauvin kneeling on George's also said that sexism and misogyny have created a society in which rape neck is a regular occurrence, frequently not reported to one which I'll ever forget and the police and that society at large doesn't really careprotests which followed cannot have been unexpected. Luke Gittos, There was a solicitor practicing criminal law, argues that these claims are based on myths and misunderstandings of backlash against the statistics police - and that far from not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''improvingall'' tarred by the way that rape and sexual assaults are dealt with it's actually working against the interests of victimsChauvin brush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845408373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KrienMatthieu Aikins|title=Night Games: A Journey to The Naked Don't Fear the Dark Side of SportWater

|summary=Ian McMillan, poet, radio presenter, poet in residence It's easy to forget at Barnsley Football Club and professional Yorkshireman, is worried. It has crossed his mind times that he might not be ''Yorkshire enoughThe Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, given that his father was because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not from God's Own Countyby any means a criticism, but was rather a Scot by birthtestament 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. In a series There are tense moments and gripping accounts of discursions border crossings which had me on edge the subject of Yorkshire he attempts to distil the essence of the county and to understand what being whole way through. But it's written with a Yorkshireman means. To this end we accompany him through towns haunting and cities, almost lyrical quality that allows the Cudworth Probus Club, Ilkley Moor and elicit contributions from Mad Geoff reader to perfectly envisage the barber, a kazoo-playing train guard environments and four Saddleworth council workers in search of a mattress. Amongst others. All of Yorkshire life is here. Including Yorkshire puddingspeople described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959950</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Xinran1785633074|title= Buy Me The SkyStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyHumour|summary= I started reading Xinran thirteen years agoMembers of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and whilst I havenOxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''t read all prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of her booksRafe Hubris, every one that I have read has at some point had me in tearsthe man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. This one was no differentYou might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044715</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ray Barron Woolford1846276772|title=Food Bank BritainThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5

|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as a smartly-dressed young Anyone who is not an able, white man foraged understands bias in waste bins for food, less than that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a mile from the riches of the City part of Londoneveryday life. Intrigued as to what was going on he went to askWhite men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man explained to him that he. Even when those who wouldn'd just got t pass the medical become a job after two years part of being unemployedan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, but it would be five weeks before he was paidthat their concerns are acknowledged. He couldnIt't claim benefits as he was in work s personally appalling and had no savings, so degrading for the individuals on the bins had to be his source receiving end of food and by the following week he would have to walk to work as he couldnbias but it't afford the fares. That was the inspiration for s not just the [http://www.wecarefoodbanks.co.uk/ We Care Food Bank]individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Combi1529148251|title=Generation ZMisfits: Their Voices, Their Lives A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=45

|summary=Generation Z''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, for anyone like me who didn’t knowmalpractice and poverty, is made up of those young people born between 1995 and 2001. yet still compartmentalise? It is one of 's as though I were telling the central contentions of Chloe Combi’s book truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading 'Generation Z: Their voices, Their Lives' that these young people’s lives are unlike anyone else’s in British history. From the radical technological innovation which produced the internet and smart phones to multiculturalism, life for these children and teenagers is characterised by so much that was not experienced by their parents and grandparents. In Misfits'Generation Z', then, Combi offers some glimpses into the worlds of young people today, in what she wishes you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read a conversation starter between teenagers and adults'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958776</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Garland|title=Azzi in Between|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Our story begins in book of essays or a country at warself-help book. Unfortunately you could probably put a name You're going to it (although it isnread writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel't named) as it happens all too regularlys 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Our heroine is Azzi, a young girl whose life was not You might be ''tooreading'' affected by the war, book but every day it came a little closer. Her father still worked you need to ''listen'' to the words as a doctor and her mother made beautiful clothes. Her grandmother wove warm blankets. Then though you're in the day came when they had to run, for their lives, and escape was by boat and they became refugeeslecture theatre. The three of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most for they were accepted disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a temporary basis into another country (again it's not named) and they had a home, although it was just one roomcloud of exquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barroux0008350388|title=Where's the Elephant?We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba

|summary=It's no mistake that the cover of my edition of this book is 'To be a photo where the Transdark-Siberian Railway skinned Black woman is horizontal in the frameto be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts... '' It's well known for going east-west, left 'We Need to right across the map of the largest country Talk About Money'' by far in the worldOtegha Uwagba ''0. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches 7% of Russia, it could only be a long, thin line across the cover, as it is English Literature GCSE students in our imagination of it as a form of transport and England study a travel destination in its own right. So when this book mentions it as the spine or backbone of Russia by a couple of times, that's got to be writer of colour while only 7% study a prone Russia – one lying down, not upright or active. David Greene, a stalwart of northern American radio journalism, uses this book to see just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians are – and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdict, as well as by a slight indictmentwoman. '' It's no mistake either for this cover to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for the people met both riding and living alongside the tracks of the Railway are definitely the ribs of the piece.'The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes|title=HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Hillary Clinton initially Otegha Uwagba came to our attention as First Lady and even then she might have faded into international obscurity had it not been for the way in which UK from Kenya when she managed to hold was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her head high during those unfortunate incidents mother who came first, with Bill her father joining them later. The family was hard- wellworking, HRC wasn't ''involved'' but I'm sure you know what I'm talking aboutprincipled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. Then she re-emerged through the fog There was always a painful awareness of the George W Bush presidency with her bid to gain the Democratic nomination, losing in money although this did not translate into a hotly contested series shortage of primaries to Barack Obama - and went on to become his Secretary of Stateanything: it was simply carefully harvested. Now When Otegha was ten the question is whether or not she will make another run for President family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in 2016London and then a place at New College, Oxford.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594692</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike McIntyre and Chris Brinkley (narrator)Richard Brook|title=The Kindness of StrangersUnderstanding Human Nature: Penniless Across AmericaA User's Guide to Life

|genre=TravelLifestyle|summary=In 1994 Mike McIntyre was I am a thirty-seven-year-old journalist with a secret: he was frightenedfirm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. There were specific fearsIn my case, but what it boiled down to was that he was frightened this is one of life - and then there was a memorythe latter. He remembered - with Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some shame - of it interesting, but it would not stopping for a hitchhiker with a gas can have 'hit home' in the desertway that it does now. It I believe it came to me not just because I was almost on likely to give it a whim favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that he decided to cross Americapeople chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, from San Francisco in California so there is a predisposition towards expecting to Cape Fear in North Carolina, which might sound like a great adventurethe book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but McIntyre decides to do also because it without money - is a book I needed to be completely reliant on the kindness of strangers. He was confronting his own fearsread, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00PWMVWTY</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)1787332098|title=Massacre in Norway: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and the Utoya Youth Camp|rating=2.5|genre=History|summary=Anders Behring Breivik was 32 when he both planted a van bomb in Oslo's central government district How to hit out at what he thought was 'Cultural Marxism', which killed 8, then left for an island Love Animals in a lake 24 miles away, where a notably political youth gathering was enjoying itself. He gunned down 69 people – more than one in ten of those at the camp – and wounded many scores more. He also spammed countless people with another of his projects, a lengthy manifesto declaring his ideas about Islamisation and what he saw as a pernicious multiculturalism ruining his country. His case was one of the more superlative events in modern Nordic history – as was the surprisingly lenient sentence for over 70 lives of just 21 years. This is, as you'd expect, one of the many books to result from the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHuman-Shaped World|author=John Campbell|title=Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded LifeHenry Mance

|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society|summary=It must be rare indeed that a British political figure who never became Prime Minister is ''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 subject of or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages of textnext David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. HoweverI mean, as John Campbell demonstrates cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in this volume, the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it is difficult . Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to do justice animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the lifecompany of humans and the company of animals, times I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and career of Roy Jenkins in much less than fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected thatmaking the decision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Jones1523092734|title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great CharterA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort

|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=For what do we – and by courtesy of ''She brings a lengthy timeline hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in historyher life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, would former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a spigurnel? What time when violence against women is much in the most revered legal document in historynews, which sets out the rights of man – but also has time ''A Women's Guide to talk about widowsClaiming Space'' rights, fish traps, and by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be both sexist and clear - this book is not a 'how to discuss the importance to peopledisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's estates something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? What will probably be the only notable historical experience of Britain in 1215, when we finally get diverted from thinking about WWI and discuss the 800 years of something else, even though the authority of no less than the Pope declared it null and void within ten weeks of its being finished?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858853</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Krishna Bhatt|title=The Royal Enigma|rating=2|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=There is absolutely nothing wrong with books that cross genreshow women can be ''protected''. The best historical novels are as much history as fictionI've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. HoweverIf all women did this, it is a golden rule those few men who are violent to women would realise that a book must know who and what it is. One of the problems with The Royal Enigma is we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that it suffers from a serious identity crisisthey are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian HartPolly Barton|title=That's Racist: How the regulation of speech and thought divides us allFifty Sounds

|summary=Adrian Hart 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 long history of campaigning against racismwhile 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 least because he was subjected hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to racial abuse when he was at school. With jet-black hair and a complexion that was just the question ''slightlywhy Japan?'' darker than was normal he was She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the closest that his school had to someone who might be of Pakistani origin. It was only name calling from a group of boys but first essay, which is on the experience stuck and hesound ''giro' ''s put much – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of his working life ''every party where his mouth is. So, you might expect that he would be a devotee of the zero tolerance approach have to racist speech, but heintroduce yourself''s far from certain that this is the right way to go and believes that this might be causing more divisions in society than racism itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845407555</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaStephen Fabes|authortitle=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfSigns of Life|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceTravel|summary=We're screwedI was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doingUnfortunately, there is a reason why we shouldnI didn't be doing inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and people to back basic practicality that would have meant that reason up I would have survived if I had been gifted with scientific datathe requisite 'bottle'. Take any aspect In order words I'm not the sort of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke person who will get on a bike outside a serious illness or worseLondon hospital and not come home for six years. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets Fabes did precisely that could turn our world upside down at the blink of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=How To Be A ConservativeSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Roger ScrutonLouisa Pateman|rating=34.5|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=Roger Scruton has been described by Jesse Norman as 'one of 'You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the few intellectually authoritative voices adults in British conservatismher life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. His central theme in this book is Few girls are lucky enough to defend and champion be brought up ''without'' the value of the home, a society based on free association expectation that they will marry and the nation statehave children. The simplest of biographical sections demonstrates that the author It was brought up not from ‘privileged’ stock but within a Labour-voting, lower middle class family, to demonstrate belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that his conservatism was not inherited but ''a belief is a product of his own intellectual journeychoice''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472903765</amazonuk>