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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom BowerAlastair Humphreys|title=Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of PowerLocal|rating=45|genre=BiographyTravel |summary=In May 1997 we went to vote gleefully, sure that there was going to be a change from Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the tired, sleaze-ridden Conservative government we'd been sufferingworld. And then written about it. The Blairs' entry into Downing Street the following day - through crowds of well-wishers - was like a breath of fresh air For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and (perhaps fortunately) then wrote about it would be years before I discovered that the 'well wishers' had been bussed in for the event. Looking back now it seems that our hopes for what As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt 'New Labour' government could achieve were unreasonably high and there's to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a special place in hell reserved for those who disappoint us in this waysmall map. I've often wondered quite how history will see Blair: Afghanistan Nature loss, pollution, land use and Iraq as well as his failure to deal with Gordon Brown would always sour his premiership for meaccess, agriculture, but to what extent could his achievements such as the Good Friday Agreementfood system, rewilding…'' One of the minimum wage and higher welfare payments be balanced against his failures?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314201</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter Popham |title=The Lady and joys of the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle book for Freedom|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=On 13 November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi me was released from house arrest after spending 15 of the previous 21 years as a prisoner of Burma's military junta. Political reforms soon followed, culminating with Suu (as she prefers to be known) being elected to parliament. The West rejoiced; leaders, business men, and tourists poured in; and Suu entered that the pantheon biggest thing he learned about all of modern-day political heroes. Burma these things was a burgeoning democracythat there are no easy answers, and Suu was a saint. In reality, as Peter Popham argues in no single 'The Lady and the Generalsright or wrong', the situation was far more complexthat every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846043719</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jason BurkeEdel Rodriguez|title=The New Threat From Islamic MilitancyWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=Barely We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a day passes without Islamic militancy making headlines somewhere in saviour of the worldcountry, has proven himself a Communist, and yet it can be not done nearly enough to create a hard subject to grasplevel playing field for all. The sudden rise Well, those hours-long speeches of Islamic State and their campaign his were kind of shocking violence both taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the Middle East happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and further afield has left many confused the father being watched and fearfulwatched, and has provoked a sometimes extreme political responsenot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. In " The New Threat From Islamic Militancy", Jason Burke, a journalist mother gets the couple jobs with two decades the party to ease some of experience reporting on the Islamic worldheat, attempts to correct but in this sultry island country, it remains the many misconceptions about Islamic extremism to give a true understanding kind of heat forcing you out of the threat we now face.kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784701475</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Benedict RogersSarah Wilson|title= BurmaThis One Wild and Precious Life: A Nation at the Crossroadspath back to connection in a fractured world|rating= 3.5|genre= HistoryLifestyle|summary= Benedict Rogers My favourite Mary Oliver line is a human rights activist the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and journalist with an expert insight into Burma, gathered first-hand on journeys precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to regions off be living my one wild and precious life the beaten trackway I want to. Burma Sarah Wilson is a country under equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the iron rule of a succession of military regimesbest life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, struggling with over half a century of sufferingshe thinks you (we, much unknown to I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the wider international audiencefact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846044464</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roger Scruton1785633457|title= Fools, Frauds and FirebrandsCharging Around: Thinkers Exploring the Edges of the New LeftEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 3.5|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=''Thinkers Clive Wilkinson has a history of the New Left'' first came out in 1985, under Thatcher's government. British left-wing intellectuals gave it savage reviews. The publisher was threatened travelling by unconventional means with a boycott and the book was withdrawn from bookshopspreference for slow travel. Roger Scruton feels this caused As he neared his university career to decline. In eightieth birthday the introduction, he says he is ''reluctant to return to idea of exploring the scene edges of such a disasterEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous.'' HoweverIn fact, this is it should be a subject he is clearly passionate aboutpleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, having worked with underground networks in communist Europe and seen the destructive reality behind the fashionable shouldn''leftist ways of thinking.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408187337</amazonuk>t it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Malala Yousafzai1529153050|title= I Am MalalaBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating= 54|genre= AutobiographyHumour|summary= Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''SheBritain's a phenomenonBest Political Cartoons of 2022'' is my OH's response to any mention of Malala. I can't disagree on some level, but what this book proves is Sharp eyes will have noted that on another she is just a girl. One voice among many. Itwe's just that she decided re not yet through the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to speak louder than most31 August 2022. We know about Malala because she got lucky. She got lucky because when she got shot by the Taliban there were people nearby, doctors who got her to a hospital, and then luckier still because when her condition worsened, nearby Who can imagine what there were western doctors with access to western facilities and she was flown will be to come in the UK for treatment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan MetcalfB0B7289HKQ|title=From Skedaddle to SelfieConversations Across America: Words A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of the GenerationAmerica|author=Kari Loya|rating=3.54|genre=TriviaTravel|summary=I have to go a roundabout Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way ) wanted to introducing this book, so bear spend some time with me. It stems partly from dictionaries his father and the etymology of the language we use, but more so if anything from period between two jobs seemed like a different couple of books, and their ideas of generationsgood time to do it. The authors of those posited decision was made to ride the idea that all those archetypical generations – the Baby BoomersTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, the MillennialsVirginia to Astoria, 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 Oregon - all 4250 miles of just four different kinds, running (with only one exception) it - in regular order2015. I don't really hold much store by that, and I certainly didn't know we'd started one since They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the Millennials – who the heck decides such things, for one? ''Somebody must have put out an order'', recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as someone here says more of something elsea challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. But in the same way as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, so do words – Merv Loya was 75 years old and those words are certainly a clue to what he was important, predominant and of course spoken in each decadesuffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019992712X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Danny Rogers1739593901|title=Campaigns that Shook the World: 22 Ideas About The Evolution of Public RelationsFuture|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= Business and Finance Science Fiction|summary= ''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I dithered about how 've got a couple of confessions to begin this reviewmake. On one hand I thought 'm not keen on short stories as I should probably start by saying that I have find it easy to read a work related interest in marketing few stories and communicationsthen forget to return to the book. On the other hand, Danny Rogers has written There's got to be a book which appealed very compelling hook to keep me on several levelsengaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. Campaigns It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are about psychology and storytelling – which purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of course leads us into branding but also feature critical issues around concept delivery. In twenty-two science fiction shortstories? Well, I was looking forward to reading this for many reasons – and loved it didn’t disappoint.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749475099</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill LeovyJane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=GhettosideThe Book of Hope |rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=There are enough LA rappers around The done thing is to attest that living as read a black man in South Central is no easy taskbook all the way through before you sit down to review it. Dismiss these urban lyricists at your perilI’m making an exception here, as crude they may be, but ''Ghettoside'' will soon inform the disbeliever that life on because I don’t want to lose any of the streets experience of LA reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hardhitting me. With a 40 times higher chance of being murdered than a white person This beautiful book has me in America, what made the LA of the 80s through to the late 2000s such a dangerous place to live for young black men?tears. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784700762</amazonuk>024147857X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Coates1788360737|title= Why the Dutch are DifferentArtivism: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands |rating= 4|genre= Travel|summary= I know Holland The Battle for Museums in the way everyone does. Pancakes and windmills and Pot, oh my. But it's one of the few European countries I've never lived in for any period Era of time, and so I was intrigued to know more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>185788633X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPostmodernism|author= Emma Marriott|title= I Used to Know That: HistoryAlexander 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=45|genre=BiographyTravel|summary=Hillary Clinton initially came to our attention as First Lady I was brought up on maps 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 first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth- wellrighted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, HRC wasnI didn't ''involved'' but I'm sure you know inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. Ialso didn'm talking about. Then she re-emerged through t inherit the fog kind of the George W Bush presidency with her bid steady nerve, ability to gain the Democratic nomination, losing in a hotly contested series of primaries talk to Barack Obama - strangers and went on to become his Secretary of Statebasic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. Now In order words I'm not the question is whether or sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not she will make another run come home for President in 2016six years. Fabes did precisely that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099594692</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1504321383|title=Mike McIntyre Single, Again, and Again, and Chris Brinkley (narrator)Again|titleauthor=The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across AmericaLouisa Pateman

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