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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Benedict RogersAlastair Humphreys|title= Burma: A Nation at the CrossroadsLocal|rating= 3.5|genre= HistoryTravel |summary= Benedict Rogers 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 human rights activist year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and journalist with an expert insight into Burmaaccess, agriculture, the food system, gathered first-hand on journeys to regions off rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the beaten track. Burma 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 country under the iron rule 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 succession saviour of military regimesthe country, has proven himself a Communist, struggling with over half and not done nearly enough to create a century level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of sufferingplaces here, much unknown an uncle refusing to be the wider international audiencegood 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846044464</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Roger ScrutonSarah Wilson|title= Fools, Frauds This One Wild and FirebrandsPrecious Life: Thinkers of the New Leftpath back to connection in a fractured world|rating= 3.5|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''Thinkers of the New LeftWhat 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 ' first came out in 1985, under Thatcher's governmentThis! Precisely this. British left-wing intellectuals gave it savage reviews. The publisher was threatened with a boycott '' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the book was withdrawn from bookshopsway I want to. Roger Scruton feels this caused his university career to decline 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 introduction, he says he is source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are''reluctant to return to living the life we want – the scene of such a disasterbest life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal '' However, this is a subject he is clearly passionate aboutno, having worked with underground networks in communist Europe and seen the destructive reality behind the fashionable we are not''leftist ways of thinking. 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408187337</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Malala Yousafzai1785633457|title= I Am MalalaCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 5|genre= AutobiographyTravel|summary= ''She's Clive Wilkinson has a phenomenon'' is my OH's response to any mention history of Malala. I can't disagree on some level, but what this book proves is that on another she is just travelling by unconventional means with a girlpreference for slow travel. One voice among many. It's just that she decided to speak louder than mostAs he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. We know about Malala because she got lucky. She got lucky because when she got shot by the Taliban there were people nearbyIn fact, doctors who got her to it should be a hospitalpleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, and then luckier still because when her condition worsenedJoan, nearby there were western doctors with access to western facilities and she was flown to the UK for treatment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>shouldn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Metcalf1529153050|title=From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the GenerationBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=3.54|genre=TriviaHumour|summary=I have Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to go a roundabout way to introducing this book, so bear with me. It stems partly from dictionaries seem more and the etymology of the language we use, but more so if anything from a different couple of bookslike an adrenaline sport, and their ideas I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of generations2022''. The authors of those posited the idea that all those archetypical generations – the Baby Boomers, the Millennials, and those before, in between and since – Sharp eyes will 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 (with only one exception) in regular order. I don't really hold much store by noted that, and I certainly didn't know we'd started one since re not yet through the Millennials – who year: the heck decides such things, for one? ''Somebody must have put out an order'', as someone here says of something elsecartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. But Who can imagine what there will be to come in the same way as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, so do words – and those words are certainly a clue to what was important, predominant and of course spoken in each decade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019992712X</amazonuk>2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Danny RogersB0B7289HKQ|title=Campaigns Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Shook Capture the World: The Evolution Soul of Public RelationsAmerica|author=Kari Loya|rating= 54|genre= Business and Finance Travel|summary= I dithered about how Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to begin this review. On one hand I thought I should probably start by saying that I have spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a work related interest in marketing and communicationsgood time to do it. On The decision was made to ride the other handTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Danny Rogers has written a book which appealed Virginia to me on several levelsAstoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. Campaigns are about psychology and storytelling – They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of course leads us into branding but also feature critical issues around concept deliverya challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. In short, I Merv Loya was looking forward to reading this for many reasons – 75 years old and it didn’t disappointhe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill Leovy1739593901|title=Ghettoside22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=There are enough LA rappers around ''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 attest that living make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a black man in South Central is no easy taskfew stories and then forget to return to the book. Dismiss these urban lyricists at your peril, as crude they may There's got to be, but a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it'Ghettoside's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It' will soon inform s human beings who fascinate me: the disbeliever that life on technology and the streets of LA is hardworld scape are purely incidental. With a 40 times higher chance of being murdered than a white person in AmericaSo, what made the LA did I think of the 80s through to the late 2000s such a dangerous place to live for young black menbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700762</amazonuk> Well, I loved it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ben CoatesJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title= Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart The Book of the Netherlands Hope |rating= 45|genre= TravelPolitics and Society |summary= I know Holland in The done thing is to read a book all the way everyone doesthrough before you sit down to review it. Pancakes and windmills and PotI’m making an exception here, oh my. But it's one because I don’t want to lose any of the few European countries I've never lived in for any period experience of timereading this amazing book, and so I was intrigued want to know morecapture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>185788633X</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Marriott1788360737|title= I Used to Know ThatArtivism: 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. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. ItAnd 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1638485216|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Frederick Reynolds|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=''Corruption is not too long ago department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''. The murder of George Floyd, a forty- certainly within my lifetime six- that religion largely dictated the values held year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by individualsDerek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, but true religious belief now seems to be in the exception rather than US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the ruleworld. In its We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place we but Floyd's death was an exception. The image of Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a society for whom consumerism is backlash against the driving force police - and a widening gap between those who can afford to consume and those who cannot. As Wilkinson says not just in Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were ''Getting and spending have come to define who we are.all''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407881</amazonuk>tarred by the Chauvin brush.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke GittosMatthieu Aikins|title=Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched EvansThe Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=34.5

|summary=It is said that we live in a rape culture. Tabloid headlines scream that the number of rapes is on the increase and that the police and the courts are failing to deal with the problem. There's a belief easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the rate of conviction is consistently low. ItWater isn's also said that sexism and misogyny have created t actually fiction, because it reads very much like a society in which rape well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a regular occurrencecriticism, frequently not reported but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to the police accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and that society at large doesn't really caretimes painful journey. Luke Gittos, a solicitor practicing criminal law, argues that these claims There are based on myths tense moments and misunderstandings gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the statistics and that far from ''improving'' the whole way that rape and sexual assaults are dealt with through. But it's actually working against written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the interests of victimsenvironments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845408373</amazonuk>B09N9157T6

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Krien1785633074|title=Night Games: A Journey to the Dark Side of SportStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry

|genre=SportHumour|summary=Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a weekend and a couple Members of drinks, but what does a professional sportsman do Parliament like us to cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballerbelieve that the country is run by politicians, just into his twenties and follows headed by the Prime minister - the case as it goes to court, interviewing some ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of those directly or indirectly involved you who are Eton and digressing into related areas. In deference to Oxbridge educated) but the fact reality is that the woman had automatic anonymity she's chosen '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 give the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was charged behind the name skilful control of 'Justin' in an attempt to level the playing field, so to speakCovid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You could Google might not know the facts and come up with the correct name, now but this isn't a book of gossip about particular peoplehe will certainly be the man to watch. It's an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McMillan1846276772|title=Neither Nowt Nor SummatThe End of Bias: In search of the meaning of YorkshireHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5

|summary=Ian McMillan, poet, radio presenter, poet in residence at Barnsley Football Club and professional Yorkshireman, Anyone who is worried. It has crossed his mind that he might not be ''Yorkshire enough''an able, given white man understands bias in that his father was not they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from Godit: it's Own County, but was simply a Scot by birthpart of everyday life. In a series of discursions on White men will always come first. The able will come before the subject of Yorkshire he attempts to distil disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the essence preserve of the county and to understand what being a Yorkshireman meanswhite man. To this end we accompany him through towns and cities, Even when those who wouldn't pass the Cudworth Probus Club, Ilkley Moor and elicit contributions from Mad Geoff the barber, medical become a kazoo-playing train guard and four Saddleworth council workers in search part of a mattressan organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. Amongst others. All It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of Yorkshire life is here. Including Yorkshire puddingsthe bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959950</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Xinran1529148251|title= Buy Me The SkyMisfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating= 5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= ''How am I started reading Xinran thirteen years agoable to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst I havensimultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You't re not going to read all a book of her books, every one that I have essays or a self-help book. You're going to read has writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at some point had me the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in tearsthe lecture theatre. This one was no differentThe disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044715</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ray Barron Woolford0008350388|title=Food Bank BritainWe Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=45

|summary=One morning Ray Barron Woolford watched as ''To be a smartlydark-dressed young man foraged in waste bins for foodskinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a mile from the riches writer of the City of Londoncolour while only 7% study a book by a woman. '' Intrigued as ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to what the UK from Kenya when she was going on he went to askfive years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. The man explained to him that he'd just got a job after two years of being unemployedIt was her mother who came first, but it would be five weeks before he was paidwith her father joining them later. He couldn't claim benefits as he The family was in work and had no savingshard-working, so the bins had to be his source of food principled and by the following week he determined that their children would have to walk to work as he couldn't afford the faresbest education possible. That There was the inspiration for the [httpalways a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything://wwwit was simply carefully harvested.wecarefoodbanks When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car.co For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxford.uk/ We Care Food Bank].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>099308091X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe CombiRichard Brook|title=Generation ZUnderstanding Human Nature: Their Voices, Their Lives A User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Generation Z, for anyone like me who didn’t knowI am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, is made up of those young people born between 1995 and 2001sometimes books choose us. It In my case, this is one of the central contentions of Chloe Combi’s latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'Generation Z: Their voicesd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, Their Livesbut it would not have 'hit home' in the way that these young people’s lives are unlike anyone else’s in British historyit does now. From the radical technological innovation which produced the internet and smart phones I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to multiculturalism, life for these children and teenagers give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is characterised by so much that was not experienced by people chose their parents and grandparents. In 'Generation Z'own books rather than getting them randomly, then, Combi offers some glimpses into so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the worlds of young people todaybook, in what she wishes to be even if it doesn't always turn out that way''] – but also because it is a conversation starter between teenagers and adults'book I needed to read, right now. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091958776</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Garland1787332098|title=Azzi How to Love Animals in Betweena Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance

|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society|summary=Our story begins in a country at war. Unfortunately you could probably put a name to it (although it isn't named) as it happens all too regularly'When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. Our heroine is AzziAnd 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, a young girl whose life was not ''toosomewhere,'' affected by hopefully on the warnext David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but every day then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it came a little closer. Her father still worked as a doctor Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and her mother made beautiful clothesI consider myself an animal lover. Her grandmother wove warm blanketsIf I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. Then the day came when they had I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to runstop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, for their liveseggs, chicken and escape was by boat fish and they became refugeesI needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. The three of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most for they were accepted on a temporary basis into another country (again it's I suspected that making the decision would not named) and they had a home, although it was just one roombe comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barroux1523092734|title=WhereA Women's the Elephant?Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort

|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society|summary=We've all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally'', haven't we? They appeal to children She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and adults again and everyone who has seen again.''Where's the Elephant?(Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) '' has jumped in with great enthusiasm, keen To claim space is to show just how observant they are. We start off with a forest - actually it's live the Amazon Rainforest - full life of glorious colours choosing unapologetically and our three friends, who are hiding in therebravely. Elephant It is probably the easiest to spot, but Snake and Parrot are in there too and with a little concentration you'll find them. When you turn live the page life you'll scan the trees again and discover their hiding placesve always wanted. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeremy Treglown|title=FrancoSometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, 's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936|rating=3.5|genre=History|summary=With 'A Women'Franco’s Crypts Guide to Claiming Space'' Jeremy Treglown has taken a highly charged subject – life in Spain under Franco – and placed it under what by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to some might appear be clear - this book is not a somewhat revisionist microscope. His aim appears 'how to be twofolddisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: to consider the nature of collective memoryit's something far more effective, particularly in but discussion at the light of the exhumations of mass graves moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that commenced earlier women need to rise above this century, andto be people who don't need protection, secondlypeople who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to examine – and celebrate - Spain’s cultural output during Franco’s years as dictatorwomen would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701157</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GreenePolly Barton|title=Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of RussiaFifty Sounds

|summary=ItWhere do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?''s no mistake that the cover of Japan has been on my edition of this book is radar for a photo where while and if the Transworld hadn't gone into melt-Siberian Railway is horizontal in the framedown I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. ItAnd like Barton, I don's well known for going east-west, left t know the answer to right across the map question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the largest country by far question in the world. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be a longfirst essay, thin line across the cover, as it which is in our imagination of it as a form of transport and a travel destination in its own right. So when this book mentions it as on the spine or backbone of Russia a couple of times, thatsound ''giro' ''s got to be of a prone Russia – one lying downwhich she describes as being, not upright or active. David Greeneamong other things, a stalwart the sound of northern American radio journalism, uses this book ''every party where you have 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 a slight indictment. Itintroduce yourself''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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Allen and Amie ParnesStephen Fabes|title=HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth Signs of Hillary ClintonLife|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Hillary Clinton initially 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 she managed to hold her head high during those unfortunate incidents with Bill - well, HRC wasn't ''involved'' but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Then she re-emerged through the fog of the George W Bush presidency with her bid to gain the Democratic nomination, losing in a hotly contested series of primaries to Barack Obama - and went on to become his Secretary of State. Now the question is whether or not she will make another run for President in 2016.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099594692</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mike McIntyre and Chris Brinkley (narrator)|title=The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America|rating=4.5

|summary=In 1994 Mike McIntyre I was a thirtybrought up on maps and first-seven-year-old journalist with a secret: he was frightenedperson narratives of tales of far away places. There were specific fears, but what it boiled down to I was that he was frightened of life birth- righted wanderlust and then there was a memorycuriosity. He remembered - with some shame - not stopping for a hitchhiker with a gas can in the desertUnfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. It was almost on a whim that he decided to cross America, from San Francisco in California to Cape Fear in North Carolina, Stephen Fabes clearly had which might sound like a great adventure, but McIntyre decides to do it without money - to be completely reliant on the kindness of strangers. He was confronting his own fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PWMVWTY</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)|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 guts to hit simply go out at what he thought was 'Cultural Marxism', which killed 8, then left for an island 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 moredo it. He I 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 youdidn'd expect, one of the many books to result from the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612346685</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Campbell|title=Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=It must be rare indeed that a British political figure who never became Prime Minister is t inherit the subject kind of or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages of text. Howeversteady nerve, as John Campbell demonstrates in this volume, it is difficult ability to do justice talk to the life, times strangers and career of Roy Jenkins in much less than basic practicality that would have meant that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Jones|title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter|rating=5|genre=History|summary=For what do we – and by courtesy of a lengthy timeline in history, I would have survived if I had been gifted with the Americans likewise – most likely owe thanks to a spigurnel? What is the most revered legal document in history, which sets out the rights of man – but also has time to talk about widowsrequisite ' rights, fish traps, and to be both sexist and to discuss the importance to peoplebottle's estates to debts owed Jewish moneylenders? . What will probably be In order words I'm not the only notable historical experience sort of Britain in 1215, when we finally person who will 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 genres. The best historical novels are as much history as fiction. However, it is on a golden rule that bike outside a book must know who London hospital and what it isnot come home for six years. One of the problems with The Royal Enigma is Fabes did precisely that it suffers from a serious identity crisis.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005Q8QCTY</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Hart1504321383|title=That's Racist: How the regulation of speech Single, Again, and thought divides us allAgain, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman

|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=Adrian Hart has ''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a long history of campaigning against racism, not least because he man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was subjected brought up to racial abuse when he was at schoolbelieve. With jet-black hair and a complexion that was just ''slightlyIt wasn'' darker than was normal he t unkind: it was simply the closest that his school had adults in her life advising her as to someone who might what they thought would be of Pakistani originbest for her. It was only name calling from a group of boys but reinforced by all those fairy tales where the experience stuck and hegirl (she's put much of his working life where his mouth usually fairly young) isrescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. So, you might expect Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that he they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a devotee of the zero tolerance approach to racist speech, but hebelief is a choice''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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407555</amazonuk>