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  • Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating by Frank Furedi
    |genre=Politics and Society ...nts, but clumsy prose makes this analysis of the education system, society and their failings a difficult book to read. Good to get the cogs in the brain
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  • Top Ten Non-Fiction Books To Make You Think
    Fiction can feed the soul and stir the heart; the best non-fiction can also do this, whilst being rooted ...ry=Much more than a military history, this is an accessible, clear-sighted and riveting account of the devastation of Hamburg by the Allied Forces in 1943
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  • Global Modernity and Other Essays by Tom Rubens
    |title=Global Modernity and Other Essays |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Campaigns that Shook the World: The Evolution of Public Relations by Danny Rogers
    |genre=Business and Finance |summary= a thoughtful and detailed analysis of the power of PR, campaigns and communications
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  • Top Ten Green Books for Eco-Warriors
    ...ake a difference. These are the best green books, for inspiring, educating and influencing the environmentalists in your life. Why not [mailto:sue@thebook |author=Andy Hamilton and Dave Hamilton
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  • Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics by Rachel Reeves
    |title=Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics |genre=Politics and Society
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  • And The Land Lay Still by James Robertson
    |title=And The Land Lay Still ...ntury. Robertson takes in politics, history, the economy, social life and society: basically a rich tapestry of Scottish life at the time.
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  • The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A C Grayling
    |title=The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind |sort=Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
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  • Top Ten Books About London
    ...c as the city itself. There is history and crime, politics and literature, and even an alternative London in a parallel world. Why not [mailto:sue@thebook |author=Cathy Ross and John Clark
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  • The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China by James Palmer
    |title=The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China |sort=Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China
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  • Food Bank Britain by Ray Barron Woolford
    |genre=Politics and Society ...e was in work and had no savings, so the bins had to be his source of food and by the following week he would have to walk to work as he couldn't afford t
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  • Idle Thoughts on Jerome K Jerome: A 150th Anniversary Celebration by Jeremy Nicholas
    ...lighthearted articles from various writers, alongside little-known stories and pieces by the writer himself, published to celebrate his 150th birthday. |publisher= [http://www.jeromekjerome.com/ The Jerome K Jerome Society]
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  • The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to be Brave by Polly Morland
    |title=The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to be Brave |sort=Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to be Brave , The
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  • Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche for our times by Patrick West
    |genre=Politics and Society ...and rather boring outlet for West's ire about equality, identity politics and 'snowflake' students.
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  • The Expo Files: Articles by the Crusading Journalist by Stieg Larsson
    |genre=Politics and Society ...original pieces, this is a sterling collection of anti-fascist journalism, and a building block too to the author's thriller trilogy.
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  • Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: The True Story by Valerie Benaim and Yves Azeroual
    |title=Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni: The True Story |author=Valerie Benaim and Yves Azeroual
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  • Outskirts by John Grindrod
    |genre=Animals and Wildlife |summary= An interesting and unique look at a common part of the British landscape, bound up in an endea
    3 KB (458 words) - 21:48, 15 February 2018
  • Politics: Between the Extremes by Nick Clegg
    |title=Politics: Between the Extremes |genre=Politics and Society
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  • The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight From Tyranny by Jeremy Seabrook
    |title=The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight From Tyranny |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Culture and Society 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams
    |title= Culture and Society 1780-1950 |genre= Politics and Society
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  • From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami
    ...r future of 2011. Fatherland (as I will abbreviate it) explores the social and political ramifications of one speculative scenario: what if North Korea in ...rica has wreaked havoc on Japan's investments, infrastructure and economy. And when the tides of power have turned, opportunistic old enemy North Korea is
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  • Top Ten Books about Britain, Britishness, and the Brits
    ...sen her favourite books about Britishness. Read about how we see ourselves and how we are seen by others. What are our totems, aside from a nice cup of te ...htful and witty account of an American journalist's impressions, anecdotes and more serious but still amusing analyses of British (or rather, English) way
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  • Lotteries in Public Life by Peter Stone (editor)
    |genre=Politics and Society ...tion of the role of chance and randomness in all forms of decision making, and indeed to consider the whole process of how we make up our minds.
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  • Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back by Matthew d'Ancona
    |title=Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Can I Speak to Someone in Charge? by Emily Clarkson
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ning, but also moving, account of the struggles real women face in today's society. A must read for anyone interested in feminism, especially younger women.
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  • People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's Shadows by Richard Parry
    |title=People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan's Shadows |genre=Politics and Society
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  • The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy
    ...y accessible portrait of American family life taking place between the USA and troubles-era Ireland. ...keeps one an eye on the present day (Trump, of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into curren
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  • Cockfosters by Helen Simpson
    .... The piece is definitely about the subject of ageing – about time passed and what might be remaining ahead – but you soon discover that not only do al ...on trolley finding a happy place alongside an unexpected new acquaintance, and a woman baking her daughter's birthday cake. Definitely on the positive si
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  • Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America by Walid Phares
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=Despite the authors arrogance and patronising writing style, this is an interesting account of the reasons be
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  • I Should Know That - Great Britain by Emma Marriott
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary= A great summary of politics, society, history and geography of Great Britain. All the things you may have forgotten…or forg
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  • The Cage by Gordon Weiss
    ...ry of the Tamil/Sri Lankan conflict paints a truly depressing picture of a society in turmoil, at the whim of international power games. ...t 40 years conflict, and has produced a detailed account of the background and eventual denouement of this conflict.
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  • Top Ten Books For The Defenders Of Reason
    ...hy not [mailto:sue@thebookbag.co.uk tell us] about your favourite books by and for the defenders of reason? ...isms; convincing, well researched and even with advice on how to watch out and try to minimise your own unreason. Highly recommended for all.
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  • Alpha by Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)
    |author=Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator) ...es at one point during the ordeal – but there are people smugglers galore, and blind chance to also obey along the way…
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  • Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? by Gary Younge
    |title=Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? |summary=A thoughtful and very readable look at how identity impacts on politics – can our various identities bring us together instead of dividing us?
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  • Notebooks, 1922-86 by Michael Oakeshott
    |genre=Politics and Society ...books of Michael Oakeshott’s private reflections spanning over sixty years and edited by Luke O’Sullivan.
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  • Kidnapped And Other Dispatches by Alan Johnston
    |title=Kidnapped And Other Dispatches |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life by John Campbell
    |summary=A very full biography of the former Labour minister and SDP leader ...onstrates in this volume, it is difficult to do justice to the life, times and career of Roy Jenkins in much less than that.
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  • The Stone Cradle by Patrice Chaplin
    ...ing an ancient secret society and the mysteries and secrets that they hold and protect. ...small French village, made famous by the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. Linking the two places through sacred geometry to the mount
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  • Harry's Last Stand by Harry Leslie Smith
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=Stunning indictment of the world today and just how little has changed, in some ways, over the last nine decades.
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  • Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
    ...ok at a man who truly works tirelessly to help the poorest and neediest in society. Highly recommended. ...where poverty is rife, he has transformed an area, saved countless lives, and made an incredible difference to many people. [http://www.pih.org/ Partners
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  • Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth: From Steubenville to Ched Evans by Luke Gittos
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=It seems that society is obsessed by rape and sexual assaults: Luke Gittos believes that it's a dangerous myth.
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  • Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World by Tina Rosenberg
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=Sprawling but extremely engaging and readable account of a variety of situations in which peer pressure has been
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  • Out of the Ashes: Britain After the Riots by David Lammy
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=An informed and inspirational look at the riots of August 2011. Brilliant, compelling writ
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  • Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster by Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill
    |title=Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster |author=Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill
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  • We Need to Talk About Money by Otegha Uwagba
    |genre=Politics and Society ...It's brilliantly readable and frightening when you realise what we, as a society, are losing. A book everyone should read.
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  • Winter by Adam Gopnik
    ...ed over time. A surprisingly wonderful, philosophical read with a charming and relaxed tone. ...art and poetry, however, issues such as changing society, technology, sex and culture are also explored, in relation to these pivotal notions. He also in
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  • Politics of Fear: Beyond Left and Right by Frank Furedi
    |title=Politics of Fear: Beyond Left and Right |genre=Politics and Society
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  • On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
    |author= Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor |genre=Politics and Society
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  • A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our Democracy by Martin Bell
    |title=A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our Democracy |sort= Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our Democracy
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  • HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
    |title=HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton |author=Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
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  • Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia by David Greene
    |genre=Politics and Society ...Railway as a stepping stone from person to person, opening out the country and its spirit in much more political, but equally interesting, ways.
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  • A Bradford Apprenticeship by Donald Naismith
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ford and then the Metropolitan area has developed. It's thought-provoking and enlightening.
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  • Unveiled: A Woman's Journey Through Politics, Love, and Obedience by Deborah Kanafani
    |title=Unveiled: A Woman's Journey Through Politics, Love, and Obedience ...hom Deborah continued to idolise, despite some difficulties. His glamorous and, at times, rather edgy lifestyle contrasted strongly with her simple life w
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  • The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai
    ...ating fantasy novel involving a magic system, sisterhood, complex politics and a fight for women's rights, culminating in a jaw-dropping conclusion. ..., from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.
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  • The Establishment: And how they get away with it by Owen Jones
    |title=The Establishment: And how they get away with it |sort=Establishment: And how they get away with it
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  • Capitalism and Human Values by Tony Wilkinson
    |title=Capitalism and Human Values |genre=Politics and Society
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  • How To Be A Conservative by Roger Scruton
    |genre=Politics and Society ...t analysis of what it means for him to hold right-wing values and opinions and in doing so, expresses complex philosophical ideas in an accessible manner,
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  • Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia by Francis O'Gorman
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=Provocative, approachable and important: a book for our times.
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  • The Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels by Kia Ahankoob
    |title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels |sort=Gold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels
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  • The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom by Peter Popham
    |title=The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom |sort=Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom
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  • The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
    |title=The Rise and Fall of Communism |sort= Rise and Fall of Communism
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  • The Broken Compass: How British Politics lost its way by Peter Hitchens
    |title=The Broken Compass: How British Politics lost its way |genre=Politics and Society
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  • A History of Warfare by John Keegan
    ...ied. It requires a bit of previous knowledge of history but nothing major, and its personal perspective will stimulate even if you disagree with it or are ...t help himself and included unnecessary detailed data (notably about Roman and Greek campaigns), compelled probably by his classical education rather than
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  • Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism by Kira Cochrane (editor)
    |genre=Politics and Society ...e feminists might find it a bit tame, Kira Cochrane's collection of essays and articles is suitable for most readers (male or female, confirmed feminist o
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  • The Last Diaries: A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine by Tony Benn
    ...eaval but Benn approaches the problems with his usual energy, intelligence and humanity. Recommended. ...s of widowhood, the upheaval of moving from the family home of sixty years and the problems of failing health.'' I've always been relieved that Benn has
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  • Britain's Secret Wars by T J Coles
    |genre=Politics and Society ...military involvement in instigating many of them, all in the name of power and influence.
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  • The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish by Dido Butterworth and Tim Flannery
    |author=Dido Butterworth and Tim Flannery ...pieces of fiction, unfortunately struggles by being too much of the first, and not enough of the others.
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  • Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance by Daisy Hay
    |title= Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance ...bsurd' union, the odd couple proved very well-matched and supremely happy, and he became an unexpected yet very successful Prime Minister. This biography
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  • The Shock of the Old by David Edgerton
    |genre=Politics and Society ...l approach that favours the way people lived over the biographies of kings and queens, you will too.
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  • Bane and Shadow by Jon Skovron
    |title=Bane and Shadow ...ttles and politics. With even darker elements than the first novel, ''Bane and Shadow'' is a thrilling read in which our favourite characters begin to fin
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  • Church as a Safe Place: Confronting, Resolving and Minimizing Abuse in the Church by Peter R. Holmes and Susan B. Williams
    |title= Church as a Safe Place: Confronting, Resolving and Minimizing Abuse in the Church |author= Peter R. Holmes and Susan B. Williams
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  • The Wilderness Cure by Mo Wilde
    |summary=A rivetting look at the benefits and challenges of eating only wild food for a year. It's something we might al ...hich allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' w
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  • Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms by Harry Leslie Smith
    |genre=Politics and Society ...etreated back into the darkness of history, a battle cry against injustice and a call to arms for those of us who believe in a just, fair world.
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  • Interventions by Noam Chomsky
    |genre=Politics and Society ...forthright, lucid and convincing way. Required reading for all Americans, and recommended for everybody else.
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  • The Complex by Nick Turse
    |genre=Politics and Society ...wit and admirable evenhandedness. Turse's writing is lucent, well-sourced and assured, although his arguments occasionally fail to hit the mark.
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  • Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy by Marina Hyde
    |title=Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy ...lliwell and Nicole Kidman bring to the UN, we might seriously question how and why they ever got involved in the first place.
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  • Man Up by Rebecca Asher
    |genre=Politics and Society ...es, this book is an eye-opener and a must-read for anyone living in modern society.
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  • Everywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth by Jess Phillips
    |genre= Politics and Society ...oice does come through, clear and urgent. Using her journey to Westminster and her experiences in Parliament, Phillips teaches the reader the truths she's
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  • The Sarkozy Phenomenon by Nick Hewlett
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=A scholarly look at Nicholas Sarkozy which is interesting and thought-provoking but perhaps not for the general reader.
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  • Feeding Frenzy: The New Politics of Food by Paul McMahon
    |title=Feeding Frenzy: The New Politics of Food |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary= An invigorating and surprisingly accessible account of the problems caused by ever-increasing g
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  • Dragonfly by Julia Golding
    |summary=An epic novel of politics, religion, war and love that will leave you wanting to read everything Julia Golding is capabl ...otion, always dressed in intricate ornamental robes with her hair covered, and her face painted white, with sixteen rituals to observe before she can even
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  • The Double X Economy by Linda Scott
    |genre=Politics and Society ...all over the world, and the negative impact this has on health and wealth and life chances.
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  • The Button Box by Lynn Knight
    ...x'' takes the reader on a delightful tour of fashion, female emancipation, and the history of women's rights – all in the form of a rummage through a bu ...clothing and feminism with headscarves, bikinis, and underweight models – and buttons deserve a place on the pedestal of gender discussion, too.
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  • The Mistress of Paris by Catherine Hewitt
    ...rous times, rising through a volatile world of politics, sex and intrigue, and positioning herself as one of the truly influential people of her day. ...ound the gaps, and this proves to be both a full and intriguing biography, and a fascinating portrait of the time period.
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  • The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
    ...ed through the widely various political allegiances of one family. Graphic and tragic. ...This triggers a night of misery in which the colonel recalls his own past, and the tragic lives of his five children.
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  • The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton
    |genre=Politics and Society ...s we read, forgetting that it's the ''bad'' news which sells the product - and an income stream is necessary to maintain the news organisations.
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  • The Future History of the Arctic: How climate, resources and geopolitics are reshaping the north, and why it matters to the world by Charles Emmerson
    ...he Arctic: How climate, resources and geopolitics are reshaping the north, and why it matters to the world ...he Arctic: How climate, resources and geopolitics are reshaping the north, and why it matters to the world
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  • Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
    |title=Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Goodbye Mr Socialism by Antonio Negri and Raf Scelsi
    |author= Antonio Negri and Raf Scelsi |genre=Politics and Society
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  • The Country Formerly Known As Great Britain by Ian Jack
    |genre=Politics and Society ...mary=Selected pieces from one of our finest writers, all thought-provoking and informative. Definitely recommended.
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  • A Walk-on Part: Diaries 1994 - 1999 by Chris Mullin
    |genre=Politics and Society ...d another person to the list: John Smith. I remember sitting in my office and a colleague coming in to tell me. She added 'I suppose we'll have that dre
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  • Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary= A challenging call to arms for art and literature to wake up and engage with the twenty-first century.
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  • Radical Hope by Carolina de Robertis
    |genre=Politics and Society ...to tell their untold stories in the wake of the 2016 Presidential Election and it certainly packs a punch.
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  • Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of Tibet by Yangzom Brauen and Katy Darbyshire (translator)
    |author=Yangzom Brauen and Katy Darbyshire (translator) ...the Chinese occupation of Tibet and the resulting diaspora. Heartbreaking and uplifting.
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  • Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna
    |title=Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance |author=Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna
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  • Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches by John Prescott
    ...weight autobiography concentrating on the man rather than the times or the politics makes for an easy but unchallenging read. Cautiously recommended if you're ...as it's possible to get and his autobiography was expected to be revealing and possibly even tell us where some of the bodies are buried. So, how did it
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  • Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World by Wade Graham
    ...ill be city dwellers, a massive six billion people. How have city planners and architects tried to cope with the recent surge? How can they avoid repeatin ...es. His big seven are Castles, Monuments, Slabs, Homesteads, Corals, Malls and Habitats.
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  • The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle
    |title=The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust |sort=Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust
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  • Take Me to the Source: In Search of Water by Rupert Wright
    |genre=Politics and Society ...er in our lives. An offbeat but learned antidote to predictions of drought and war.
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ed Straw
    ...y=Jill's not easily impressed by political books but she did enjoy [[Stand and Deliver: A Design for Successful Government by Ed Straw]]. She had quite a Jill's not easily impressed by political books but she did enjoy [[Stand and Deliver: A Design for Successful Government by Ed Straw]]. She had quite a
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  • The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
    |genre=Home and Family ...vision of human nature and society that's not only pessimistic but narrow and limiting. Possibly worth borrowing to read for the strategy analysis, thoug
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  • Angela Merkel: The Chancellor and Her World by Stefan Kornelius
    |title=Angela Merkel: The Chancellor and Her World ...king in Tbilisi to being the guest of honour at a White House state dinner and examines how a girl from East Germany rose to the highest ranks of European
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  • The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better For Everyone by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
    |author=Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett |genre=Politics and Society
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  • The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
    ...novels but perhaps not one of the best unless you're devoted to Victorian politics but it's still a good read. ...uth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explain. The ladies of society, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez ma
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  • The Forever Watch by David Ramirez
    |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton ...ff 300 years ago on a 1000 year mission to a new planet. Earth is no more and the people on the ship have already evolved. Hana is one such person, a ma
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  • The Long Price (Shadow and Betrayal) by Daniel Abraham
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  • Top Ten Books About Africa
    ...xes fiction and non-fiction, books looking back and those looking forward, and books explicitly about Africa with those simply set there. They're all wond |title=The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam
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  • Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands by Ben Coates
    ...google the title of this book. Type in a suggestive ''Why the Dutch are…'' and you'll get an insight into what the world thinks of them: ...gner to uncover, he takes us on a journey that goes beyond red lit windows and Anne Frank to the true depths of the country.
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  • The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling by Ben Okri
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ll of the above. The result is something that looks completely disposable and lightweight – like someone put an ISBN number on your local pizza parlour
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  • How Could She? by Dana Fowley
    ...est paedophile ring in Scoland. This is the story of what happened to her and how she found the courage to do what needed to be done. ...r times she was forced to go to the homes of other men where she was raped and abused. Did her mother not know what was going on? Did she turn a blind e
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  • Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast
    |genre=Politics and Society ...with the world, and in particular with George W Bush and the other movers and shakers among the world's super rich.
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  • The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor
    ...ia, whose response to Georgie’s death was to give money to a dodgy medium, and who ended up in the river at the same spot as her son. ...lly interesting picture of 18th century university life. There is a secret society which in reality is mostly a drinking club, albeit one with particularly na
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  • The Arab Spring: Rebellion, revolution, and a new world order by Toby Manhire (editor)
    |title=The Arab Spring: Rebellion, revolution, and a new world order |sort= Arab Spring: Rebellion, revolution, and a new world order
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  • Misfits: A Personal Manifesto by Michaela Coel
    |genre=Politics and Society ...and particularly black in the television industry. Very thought-provoking and everyone should read it. Highly recommended.
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  • What Should We Tell Our Daughters?: The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female by Melissa Benn
    |title=What Should We Tell Our Daughters?: The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Stand and Deliver: A Design for Successful Government by Ed Straw
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  • Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America by Clive Stafford-Smith
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  • Palestinian Walks: Notes from a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
    ...nian landscape and a damning indictment of both the Israeli settler policy and the PLO leadership. Sometimes, it's difficult not to despair. ...ld expect, it is sad, angry, hopeless. However, it is also quite beautiful and, at times, touches on the profound.
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  • That's Racist: How the regulation of speech and thought divides us all by Adrian Hart
    |title=That's Racist: How the regulation of speech and thought divides us all |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery by Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur
    |author= Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur ...ry=A scathing look at our modern, credit crunch days, which is so accurate and astute in its ranting it cannot succeed to be as funny as it wants.
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  • A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
    ...ut dragons. She even went on a hunt for wolf-drakes, disguised as a male, and that's a species that prefers female prey. But as renowned a pioneer as sh ...t brings the old (dragon lore) to us in a new/old way (Victoriana fantasy) and gives us a completely new story (all these brilliant pages).
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  • Shadow Web by N M Browne
    ...liberties, but also to appreciate the value of living in a relatively free society. ...ne at one time or other; she googles her name. A strange namesake appears, and still more strangely, wants to get in touch. This Jessica Allendon says she
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  • On Tolerance: The Life Style Wars: A Defence of Moral Independence by Frank Furedi
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ly study of tolerance. What is it exactly - should we strive to attain it and is it pertinent in the 21st century?
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  • All That is Solid Melts into Air by Darragh McKeon
    ...rouse they seek sickly and weirdly uncoordinated. What has affected them, and will of course affect all the characters in the book, is the nuclear disast ...character it so expertly personifies, it has a stolid ability to carry on and succeed against all the odds. It does, however, make several peculiar turn
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  • Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism by Alexander Adams
    |genre=Politics and Society ...re of progressivism and potentially radicalism. Adams wonders at what cost and who is paying for this new breed of activism?
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  • The Benn Diaries: The Definitive Collection by Tony Benn and Ruth Winstone (editor)
    |author=Tony Benn and Ruth Winstone (editor) ...ny Benn kept for over seventy years. It's a very readable, inspirational and thought provoking book. Highly recommended.
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  • Lock In by John Scalzi
    ...at inhabits the body that is at fault? It is up to FBI agents Chris Shane and Leslie Vann to discover. ...Scalzi is an award winning science fiction writer who knows all about this and his skills are shown off once more in ''Lock In''. This is a crime thrille
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  • Top Ten Books For Your Auntie
    ...moving stories, and books that will make them laugh, or even feel all cosy and warm on the inside. Your perfect gift idea is in here somewhere! Why not [m ...st as important as what does. It's about love and loss, politics and power and the effect of the past upon the present. The real beauty is in the understa
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  • Clara Colby: The International Suffragist by John Holliday
    ...of the pioneer suffragist, Clara Bewick Colby. The research is impressive and the story well-told. I was sorry to finish the book. Definitely recommend ...ter Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.
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  • Black Cats and Evil Eyes: A Book of Old-Fashioned Superstitions by Chloe Rhodes
    |title=Black Cats and Evil Eyes: A Book of Old-Fashioned Superstitions |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Wednesday's Child by Shane Dunphy
    |genre=Home and Family ...truthful account of families in crisis, the limitations of state agencies and the difficulties in achieving results. Perhaps not a pleasant read, but cer
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  • The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah
    ...r examples with which most of us can identify, are given - such as slavery and the Chinese habit of footbinding culminating in why they fell out of favour |publisher=W W Norton and Co
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  • War Child: A Boy Soldier's Story by Emmanuel Jal
    |summary= We should all read this book, and weep. Then, we should act. ...by western aid workers and journalists, who do, I am sure, write fluently and passionately about the horror of Darfur. This is the first book that I hav
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  • A Diary of The Lady: My First Year as Editor by Rachel Johnson
    |summary=Boris Johnson's ball-busting sister leaves a trail of fire and shattered careers as she tries to drag the venerable institution of 'The La ..., proprietors of 'The Lady' since it was founded 125 years ago, chose son and heir Ben Budworth to turn the magazine's fortunes around before it folded.
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  • It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable things by Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby
    |author=Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby ...have scoured the press for those and other, similarly noteworthy auctions, and found what other people paid for what you didn't know you would have wanted
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  • Azzi in Between by Sarah Garland
    ...t who then becomes a refugee and has to start a new life elsewhere. Moving and important. ...accepted on a temporary basis into another country (again it's not named) and they had a home, although it was just one room.
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  • Where's the Elephant? by Barroux
    ...nk this is an animal version of ''Where's Wally'', but it's so much more - and everyone should read the book. Highly recommended. ...tion you'll find them. When you turn the page you'll scan the trees again and discover their hiding places. You even wonder if it might get a little ''b
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  • Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005 to 2010 by Chris Mullin
    |title=Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005 to 2010 |sort=Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005 to 2010
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  • Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report by Iain Sinclair
    |genre=Politics and Society ...roduce a dizzying, perplexing yet endlessly fascinating portrait of people and of place.
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  • The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
    If you watch the American detective series ''Numbers'' on television and not only enjoy it, but actually follow the maths – then you will love thi ...l or imaginary. After all a theorem ''is'' imaginary until it's proven – and the point about most of these is that they haven't been. (I think?!) Cert
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  • Palace Council by Stephen L Carter
    ...al thriller set against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, Vietnam and Watergate. '''An Oprah Tantalizing Beach Read and a Richard and Judy Summer Read 2009'''
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  • The Authentic Tawney: A New Interpretation of the Political Thought of R. H. Tawney by Gary Armstrong and Tim Gray
    |author=Gary Armstrong and Tim Gray |genre=Politics and Society
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  • School Blues by Daniel Pennac
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ut how children who struggle at school can be helped, by a French novelist and former teacher who himself was once labelled as a dunce
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  • Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson
    |title= Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All ...some thoughts on the cultural history of the Maoris. Beautifully written, and researched, this would appeal to anyone who has an interest in the history
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  • The Big Truck That Went By by Jonathan M Katz
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=An engaging eyewitness account of the quake in Haiti and the failure of the governments to solve the problems that followed.
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  • No Expenses Spared by Robert Winnett and Gordon Rayner
    |author= Robert Winnett and Gordon Rayner |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning by George Monbiot
    |genre=Politics and Society ...maths, and a lot of technology, but it's written with a journalist's ease and some wit mixed with the rancour. Buy it today.
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  • Brand Society by Martin Kornberger
    |title=Brand Society |genre=Business and Finance
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  • Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod
    |summary= Convincing world-building, complex plot and though-provoking ideas are slightly weakened by extremely shallow character ...gion has been truly separated from politics and became a genuinely private and societaly marginalised activity.
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  • Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement by Frederick Reynolds
    |title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement |summary=An inspiring story of a man who turned his own life around and applied his beliefs to the benefit of his local community. Highly recommen
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  • The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010) by Deirdre Osborne (Editor)
    |title=The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010) |sort=Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)
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  • The Tall Man: Life and Death on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
    |title= The Tall Man: Life and Death on Palm Island |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
    ...l look at the appalling misuses of science throughout society. Part exposé and part educational tool, ''Bad Science'' is as highly recommended as they com ...k/science/series/badscience Guardian columnist]) cuts through the bullshit and gives people the tools to spot such nonsense for themselves.
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  • Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen
    ...istory which takes the reader on a journey through the mendacity, ambition and greed of America, from its early days as a promised land of religious freed ...y and delusion, to create a monstrous chimera shaped by the American dream and now propagating a distorted nightmare with impunity.
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  • More from Our Own Correspondent by Tony Grant (Editor)
    |genre=Politics and Society ...e the ordinary faces behind the stories and appreciate a degree of opinion and honesty too often missing from our daily news reports.
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  • Thinking About Almost Everything by Ash Amin and Michael O'Neill
    |author= Ash Amin and Michael O'Neill |genre=Politics and Society
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  • The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan
    ...t a mental snatch of The Times newspaper exactly a year into their future, and what's more, one that comes completely true – either for good or bad… ...d the lengthy set-up are five stories, built into this portmanteau novel. And I dislike making predictions of my own, but seeing I found several faults,
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  • Direct Red by Gabriel Weston
    ...into what it takes to become a surgeon. Beautifully, compellingly written and highly recommended. ...e're pulled into the intricacies of her world without the need to don mask and gown.
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  • The Wall Between Us by Matthew Small
    |genre=Politics and Society ...out the complexities surrounding the conflict between Israel and Palestine and what, if anything, can be done to create peace. Immersed within the lives o
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Gillian Philip
    ...nd a murder mystery. She was kind enough to tell Bookbag about writing it, and to chew the cud generally. ...nd a murder mystery. She was kind enough to tell Bookbag about writing it, and to chew the cud generally.
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  • Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts Advertisement by Francesca Beauman
    ...through something trivial, but a majorly enjoyable history of a factor of society with more to say than you might think... ...pitalised, but you'd be in disagreement with Ms Beauman, who gives a big L and a big H to it every time she writes of it in her survey of its history. Wh
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  • Guernica and Total War by Ian Patterson
    |title=Guernica and Total War ...lous fears have come to seem considerably less ridiculous, prescient even, and have been echoed throughout our cultural narrative. One of the most potent
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  • Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union by Harold D Clarke, Matthew Goodwin and Paul Whiteley
    |author=Harold D Clarke, Matthew Goodwin and Paul Whiteley |genre=Politics and Society
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  • How Much have Global Problems Cost the World?: A Scorecard from 1900 to 2050 by Bjorn Lomborg (Editor)
    |genre=Politics and Society ...negative or positive economic effects of the ten topics, looking backwards and forwards, in a useful introduction.
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  • Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
    |genre=Politics and Society ...s you nervous, this is a book you should read and not avoid. Clear, direct and succinct, it makes its case. Silence is a conversation too, you know. Just
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  • The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer
    |genre=Politics and Society ...is exhilarating if infuriating and anybody who likes journalistic passion and doesn't mind a bit of sloppy argument would enjoy it either energetically a
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  • Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936 by Jeremy Treglown
    |title=Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936 ...and complex analysis of public works, culture and collective memory during and after Franco's period of rule.
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  • Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
    |genre=Politics and Society ...a community living a parallel existence to mainstream society. His methods and ideology may be questionable, but SV's 10 years of study gleans insights in
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  • Welcome by Barroux
    ...e side of the pool, er, sea) when suddenly there was a loud cracking noise and three of the bears found themselves stranded on a relatively small ice floe ...time they're refused permission to land because there are too many of them and there's just not enough room, as you can see.
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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London by Laurence Manley (editor)
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=Hit and miss account of London's place in English literature. With a wide range of
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  • Walks In The Wild by Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)
    |author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator) |genre=Animals and Wildlife
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  • Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
    ...iven story about troops on a PR 'Victory Tour' during the Iraq war and the society that sends them there. In Ben Fountain's ''Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'', Billy and what is left of his Bravo troop colleagues are back from the war in Iraq fo
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  • Rush Hour by Iain Gately
    ...rite a book about, but Iain Gately blends a collection of historical tales and facts together with his wonderful writing. The last thing you may want to d ...be, or trying to navigate busy country lanes in order to do the school run and get to work on time, we've probably all experienced it. But have you ever t
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  • Emerald by Karen Wallace
    ...estroyed with the news that she is to marry an unpleasant, vulgar old man, and that her beloved pet bear is to be sent to the baiting pits. Her attempts t ...she wrote to Uncle Charles saying that Emerald was to marry Lord Suckley, and that he was already on his way to the Hall to inspect his new bride.
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  • The Tropic of Serpents (A Memoir by Lady Trent) by Marie Brennan
    ...d dragon chaser just about holds its own, due to the charms of the conceit and some strongly visual action scenes. ...massacre them for industrial purposes). Here, repressed by the Victorian society she lives in, she can just about raise another exhibition together, to a di
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  • The New Rulers Of The World by John Pilger
    |genre=Politics and Society ...highly-respected campaigner. Less sensational in style than Michael Moore and more accessible than Noam Chomsky, Pilger provides an angry but precise cri
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  • South of the River by Blake Morrison
    ...ars of the Blair premiership. It's well-written with good characterisation and Bookbag hopes you'll read it. |publisher=Chatto and Windus
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  • The World Turned Upside Down by Leila Rasheed
    |summary=17th and 21st century teenagers are caught up in the conflicts of their day. ...Jack, even though he is a Roundhead soldier with no money, land or status, and he is from an inferior background to her.
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  • Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola by Mark Thomas
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ing after reading it. Thomas falls between the jocularity of Michael Moore and the painstaking notations of John Pilger.
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  • The Triumph of Ignorance and Bliss: Pathologies of Public America by James Polk
    |title=The Triumph of Ignorance and Bliss: Pathologies of Public America |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Downing Street Diary: Volume Two by Bernard Donoughue
    |genre=Politics and Society ...oughue went to 10 Downing Street as Senior Policy Adviser to Harold Wilson and later to James Callaghan. Volume two of his diaries covers Callaghan's pre
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  • Temptations of Power by Robert J Jackson
    |genre=Politics and Society ..., it's clear, logical and persuasive. Recommended for all those interested and concerned by world affairs.
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  • China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow
    ...Drag'' is a sensitive and unique investigation into everyday life in China and an affectionately painted portrait of a Chinese man who's a little differen ...que and compelling viewpoint that expands as the two travel through China, and through the past of the cross-dressing teacher.
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  • Falling Off The Edge: Globalization, World Peace and Other Lies by Alex Perry
    |title= Falling Off The Edge: Globalization, World Peace and Other Lies |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Demystifying the Chinese Economy by Justin Yifu Lin
    |genre=Business and Finance ...eventy-five (or even more) today, the chances are that some of Lin's ideas and interpretations in this book will have a profound effect upon us all within
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  • The World is Elsewhere by Chris McIvor
    |summary='The World is Elsewhere' is a beautiful mix of autobiography and travel, with a little philosophical thought thrown in for good measure. A t ...philosophical thoughts on international aid. He reflects on both the good and the bad with a very easy, conversational writing style that makes the book
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  • The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life by Uri Gneezy and John List
    |title=The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life |sort=Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life, The
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  • How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ows 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 ne
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  • The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny by Shirin Ebadi
    |genre=Politics and Society ...t outlooks and feelings about their country: Iran, as they witness change and upheaval
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  • Staggering Hubris by Josh Berry
    ...inister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the spe ...be taken too seriously. It was late November 2021 when I started reading and none of the shenanigans which I read about seemed remotely possible. Still
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  • Learning to Scream by Beate Teresa Hanika
    |summary=A strangely uplifting and beautifully-told story of the sexual abuse suffered by thirteen-year-old Ma ...s is a great arrangement because they know how much Granddad loves Malvina and looks forward to her visits. There's a problem though. Malvina doesn't li
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  • Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd
    ...eland, no-one knows where, and Holly's stuck in London with Fiona and Ray, and a school she hates. And then, Holly finds the wig.
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  • Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
    |title=Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Out Of Africa by Karen Blixen
    |summary=First published in 1937 but still fresh and relevant, this is the story of Karen's Blixen's life as a coffee farmer in ...ning years. It wasn't just the story, but the personality of Karen Blixen and the wonderful landscape of the Ngong Hills, south of Nairobi, in Kenya's Ri
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  • Burn Mark by Laura Powell
    ...s the prevalent view that witchcraft and witchcrime are all but synonymous and that witchkind generally presents a serious threat to national security. He ...tch on the very same day as Glory. Soon, these two will be thrust together and, unlikely allies that they are, must get to the bottom of a conspiracy that
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  • A Rainbow in the Night by Dominique Lapierre
    |genre=Politics and Society ...he African National Congress' thirty year struggle against white supremacy and apartheid.
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  • Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown by John Campbell
    ...at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown ...ok at eight pairs of rivals in British politics during the last 200 years, and their consequences for the development of their respective parties.
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  • A Broken Childhood: A True Story of Abuse by Lydia Ola Taiwo
    ...n in more ways than one as Ola moves from a happy foster home to the abuse and neglect which was all that her parents could offer. It's a heart-breaking ...for the weekend – a weekend which would stretch into seven years of abuse and neglect.
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  • The Folly of the World by Jesse Bullington
    ...im. What that quest is, and how it will lead to nightmares, deaths galore and a lot of other interesting parts of the story, is for you to discover, in t ...lot. How this man takes himself from his American home and brings himself and his readers so vividly into mediaeval mainland Europe is beyond me.
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  • The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch by Michael Wolff
    |genre=Politics and Society ...him to write this book, but asked for no veto. It's interesting, readable and informative, but probably not the ''whole'' truth. Cautiously recommended.
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  • Wireless by Charles Stross
    |summary= An inventive and atmospheric collection of science-fiction short stories. Will need to engag ...skilful at creating mood. His stories are a strange blend of the technical and the archaic.
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  • The Captain's Girl by Nicola Pryce
    |summary= A young woman is engaged to a man she cannot love and seeks help from her neighbours, but the truth she uncovers threatens the sa ...fateful night, she runs away to the Polcarrow house to beg them for help, and the pivotal events of that night have far-reaching consequences for all inv
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  • Guilt About the Past by Bernhard Schlink
    |genre=Politics and Society ...the solidarity seen connecting the whole nation like a toxic spider web. And since then it's linked in all the children, in a ''bequeathal'' of guilt.
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  • Skeptoid 2: More Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena by Brian Dunning
    ...nto the media and pop culture. Readable if a bit random, it will entertain and educate in equal measures. ...d downright loony ideas, claims and myths common or persistent in the pop (and not so pop) culture. ''Skeptoid 2'' is essentially a written version of tho
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  • The Kid: A True Story by Kevin Lewis
    ...Eventually he was put into care but even then the support was inadequate and Kevin found himself caught up in a criminal underworld where he was known s ...e's a startling lack of self-pity in the book. Yes, the story is dreadful and you wonder if there was a queue of people waiting to murder Gloria, his mot
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  • Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ascinating combination of personal memoir and the intricacies of languages and how to learn them.
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  • The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement by Jean M Twenge and W Keith Campbell
    |author=Jean M Twenge and W Keith Campbell |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Bristol Murders by Nicola Sly
    |summary= Accounts of 30 murder cases committed in Bristol between 1741 and 1957. ...957 suggests that, no matter what else may have changed over two centuries and more, human nature basically alters but little.
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  • The Last Resort by Douglas Rogers
    his parents – two white farmers, Lyn and Roz – to follow him out of the hyper-inflation, and the corruption in the country. Instead, the
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  • Blame by Simon Mayo
    ...ies, they've since been adopted by people who have themselves been accused and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as the worst criminal fami ...extreme as this fictional one, but we can still feel it – and a lot of the politics of the situation relies on us having that edge to our collective memory.
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  • Odalisque (Percheron) by Fiona McIntosh
    ...McIntosh|Emissary]], the second in Fiona McIntosh's ''Percheron'' trilogy and was eager to read the first to find out what I'd missed. Starting with the ...to have a greater say in the running of Percheron, as Boaz is only fifteen and so likely to be unsure of himself.
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  • The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
    |genre=Politics and Society ...t provoking, and utterly refreshing – eye-opening in the best possible way and allowing the reader a deep glimpse into the varied stories of what makes a
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  • Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America by Allen M Hornblum, Judith L Newman and Gregory J Dober
    |author=Allen M Hornblum, Judith L Newman and Gregory J Dober |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Education Under Siege: Why There is a Better Alternative by Peter Mortimore
    |genre=Politics and Society ...f the current plight of our schools. His experience as a classroom teacher and leading authority on comparative education suggests urgently needed improve
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  • By Its Cover by Donna Leon
    ...y=It's the 23rd book in the series but the story is still remarkably fresh and engaging. It's a good, thought-provoking read. ...but there were quite a few factors which didn't quite add up for Brunetti and he decided to look at some of the other regular attenders at the library.
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  • The Godfather of Kathmandu by John Burdett
    ...ntive and makes compelling reading. It's cult fiction. It's black comedy and it comes recommended by Bookbag. Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half ''farang'' the son of a brothel madam and an American GI, but it's the latter rather than the former which is likely
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  • Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds by Cordelia Fine
    ...r science and gender politics, but social science in general, human nature and the many forms in which our cultural conditioning shapes not just our behav ...g a key-ring made of canine testicles was less of a puerile opening gambit and more of a consciously chosen attempt to make me believe that Cordelia Fine'
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  • Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
    |genre=Politics and Society ...hich our manners have declined into boorishnesswill have you both thinking and laughing. Buy it for yourself or for someone else as a present.
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  • Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car by Clive Wilkinson
    |summary=A look at the journey undertaken by Clive Wilkinson and his wife, Joan in 2018. The subtitle should probably have been 'in search ...not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?
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  • The Crocodile by the Door: The Story of a House, a Farm and a Family by Selina Guinness
    |title=The Crocodile by the Door: The Story of a House, a Farm and a Family |sort=Crocodile by the Door: The Story of a House, a Farm and a Family
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  • Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
    ...l love story playing out against the turmoil of late 20th century Nigerian politics – but impacted more by centuries of tradition than by the sometimes viole ...at is the most heart-breakingly beautiful truth I've read in a long time – and it sums up this story. This is a story about love not being enough…but s
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  • Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay Britain by Paul Flynn
    ...red reading for gay men and their allies in the UK. Gripping, enlightening and emotional. ...utrage and personal loss, the (not always legal) highs and desperate lows, and the final collective victory as gay men were finally recognised to be as Go
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  • The Strategy Of Antelopes: Rwanda After the Genocide by Jean Hatzfeld
    |genre=Politics and Society ...how the country is trying to repair itself. It's heartbreaking, personal, and an incredibly valuable testimony.
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  • The Naked Man by Desmond Morris
    |genre=Politics and Society ...d Ape'' , this is a fascinating and scarily in depth look at the male body and all its oddities.
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  • Hurricane Justice by Patricia Watkins
    ...but finished it in less than twenty-four hours. There's an excellent plot and characters you really root for. Highly recommended. ...more help Finn dived into the river and managed to extract Chester McGuire and his business associate, Sandy Moseley, but whilst checking that there was n
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  • Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back by Douglas Rushkoff
    |title=Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back |genre=Politics and Society
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  • The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley
    |title=The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour |sort= End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour
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  • Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste by Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
    |title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste |author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
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  • Dorset Murders (True Crime History) by Nicola Sly
    ...e years 1818-1946 and includi ng the cases of Alma and Francis Rattenbury, and Charlotte Bryant. ...yet not always idyllic Dorset. Twenty two murders, committed between 1818 and 1946, come under the microscope in these pages.
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  • Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley
    ...hard time in the popular consciousness and this story humanises her trials and tribulations very well. ...of the Boleyn faction. ''Lady Mary'' follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tu
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  • On Balance by Adam Phillips
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=A series of essays and talks that challenge the way we think about things we thought we did not ne
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  • Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain by Kate Harrad
    |genre=Politics and Society ...all bisexuals, but for the general reader it highlights the misconceptions and prejudice that bisexuals have to face on a daily basis.
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  • The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli
    ...at the centre of Kristen Ciccarelli's stunning debut. With a complex plot and refreshing originality, ''The Last Namsara'' is a spellbinding book which d ...ounce of skill and bravery Asha possesses and more, to confront the beast and discover the full truth of her past, as well as the path of her future.
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  • Culture of Fear: Risk-taking and the Morality of Low Expectation by Frank Furedi
    |title=Culture of Fear: Risk-taking and the Morality of Low Expectation |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Spiritwalker: Cold Magic by Kate Elliott
    ...c trilogy which will appeal to anyone who likes romance, fantasy, intrigue and strong female heroines. ...s moving forward in the shape of massive airships, 19 year old cousins Cat and Bee Hassi Barahal live normal lives. But without warning, the girls' world
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  • Heretics by Leonardo Padura
    ...tury to pre-WWII all the way up to present day. Add a wry Cuban detective and we have something special. ...he St Louis in Havana docks but in a country and a time rife with politics and corruption, the ship is turned back without permitting any of their passeng
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  • I Used to Know That: History by Emma Marriott
    |genre= Politics and Society ...terrorist attack that didn't happen). But I have gaps, of this I am sure, and I thought to get a basic understanding of, well, the basics that we all sho
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  • The Naked Don't Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people described.
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  • The Exile by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy
    |author=Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy |genre=Politics and Society
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  • A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and the Mind by Siri Hustvedt
    |title=A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and the Mind |sort= Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex and the Mind
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  • Generation Z: Their Voices, Their Lives by Chloe Combi
    |genre=Politics and Society ...rous, gloomy, and sometimes shocking tales of growing up in Britain today. And from social media to gang violence, Chloe Combi turns real stories of young
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  • The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union by T J Coles
    |title=The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union |sort=Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union
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  • The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about danger by Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter
    |title=The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about danger |sort=Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about danger
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  • A Journey Through Ruins: The Last Days of London by Patrick Wright
    |genre=Politics and Society ...of the Thatcher years as seen through the eyes of East London. Witty, wise and humane, this re-issue seems remarkably apropos at a time when the collapse
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  • The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America by Mike McIntyre and Chris Brinkley (narrator)
    |author=Mike McIntyre and Chris Brinkley (narrator) ...ithout any money, reliant on the kindness of strangers. Thought-provoking and fascinating.
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  • House of Fun: 20 glorious years in parliament by Simon Hoggart
    |genre=Politics and Society ...overing a period of twenty years. They're entertaining, thought-provoking and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny.
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  • Transforming Pandora by Carolyn Mathews
    ...well-written, thought-provoking book which can be read on different levels and which kept me turning the pages long after I should have been asleep. Carol ...he hears there's a lingering doubt. A spirit voice mentioned her children and Pandora was adamant that she didn't have any children - it's actually quite
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  • Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S Thompson by Anita Thompson (Editor)
    ...the good Doctor Hunter S.Thompson was just as much of a firebrand, stirrer and critic extraordinaire in front of a microphone as he was in print. It is almost 40 years since Dr Hunter S Thompson's seminal work ''Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas'' first graced the shelves. His gonzo style, putting
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  • Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth by Nigel Jones
    |title=Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth ...hy of the 'war poet', his writing, life and loves, first published in 1999 and newly revised.
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  • Pocket World in Figures 2015 by The Economist
    ...ay. The 2015 edition is the twenty fourth in the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaught. ...west growing. This is then extended by the highest and lowest birth rates and teenage births. Shockingly, in Niger more than 20% of women aged 15 to 19
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  • Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly
    |genre=Politics and Society ...Happily destroying the tabloid conception of working class as male, white and racist.
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  • Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
    |title=Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left |genre=Politics and Society
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  • You Will Not have My Hate by Antoine Leiris
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ningly conveyed by journalist Antoine Leiris. A story of death, love, hope and defiance that will stay with the reader long after they've finished.
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  • Of the People, By the People: A New History of Democracy by Roger Osborne
    |genre=Politics and Society ...the world which did not first operate through complex relations of kinship and deference, as had others up to then. Parallels would be seen in Rome a few
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  • Betrayal by Adriaan van Dis
    ...more chance to struggle for someone's freedom against all odds and violent society. ...ot as condensed as a short story, each sentence must still serve a purpose and here Adriaan shows he's more than a match for the art.
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  • Heart of Darfur by Lisa French Blaker
    ...s Sans Frontieres nurse. Simply and honestly written, it tells a difficult and uncomfortable story that absolutely demands to be read. It is a Radio 4 boo ...r have blue eyes, or are tall, or are short - it's that arbitrary. So you, and all the other people like you, have to get out with just what you can carry
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  • If it is Your Life by James Kelman
    ...edge of society. He addresses issues such as class, politics, gender, age and ill health. ...types of oppression, with a calculating subversion of the English language and a disregard for convention. I tend to veer more towards the latter view, bu
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  • No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War Britain by Paul Addison
    |summary=A comprehensive history of the changes in the character of British society since 1945, against the political events which brought them about (or somet ...at deal, but he did so because of, or perhaps despite, being all substance and no show.
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  • Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes by Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)
    |author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator) ...er for the political unrest in Beijing in 1989, with all the hows and whos and whys the average reader could need.
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  • The Locked Ward by Dennis O'Donnell
    |genre=Politics and Society ...s on a psyc ward - albeit as a member of staff, not a patient. Interesting and easy to read.
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  • This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History by Esther Rutter
    |summary=Erudite, interesting and absolutely magical. Highly recommended. ...child on the farm'' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.
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  • Sylvia Pankhurst: The Rebellious Suffragette by Shirley Harrison
    |summary=A biography of the noted suffragette campaigner and pacifist, and her often divided family who had similar aims but often disagreed on how to ...etached from each other. His widow became heavily involved in public work and political agitation, an increasingly remote mother from the young children
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  • Signs of Life by Stephen Fabes
    ...'m not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that. ...out how hard and long it takes, how much intelligence and emotional energy and sheer bloody effort it takes to get to that point. To then say, you know
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  • Disfigured: A Saudi Woman's Story of Triumph over Violence by Rania Al-Baz
    ...of the attack on a news presenter by her husband. It made world headlines and left her in a coma, but highlighted the plight of many Saudi women. Defini ...a Saudi television programme. No woman had ever been a news anchor before and it was only to be expected that there would be plenty of men wanting to mar
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  • The Nolympics: One Man's Struggle Against Sporting Hysteria by Nicholas Lezard
    |genre=Politics and Society ...complete myth. So after losing money on a holiday that I planned for years and didn’t need to be on anyway, I thought reading this would be a form of th
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  • Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea by Donovan Hohn
    |genre=Politics and Society ...at happened to nearly 30,000 of the toys and the result is a very readable and compelling book with a wake-up call over what we are all doing to the plane
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  • Maus by Art Spiegelman
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=The graphic novel is dominated by fantasy and science fiction. The Holocaust is a risky subject for the format, as it ris
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  • Struggle or Starve by Carole White and Sian Williams
    |author=Carole White and Sian Williams ...1920s and 1930s, about childhood, growing up, life, death, education, work and more.
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  • The Progressive Patriot by Billy Bragg
    ...riotism, ends as a plea for freedom to choose our own identity. Thoughtful and thought-provoking, it will probably appeal more to fans of Bragg's songs th ...y Bragg's way with a lyric, effortlessly and movingly weaving the personal and political - to the point where the two are indistinguishable.
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  • Britain for Sale by Alex Brummer
    |genre=Business and Finance ...ht by foreign interests with only profit in mind. Well worth purchasing - and locally sourced, too.
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  • Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022 by Tim Benson
    ...ght relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Politi ...gton. We were the almost-winners of Eurovision. Tensions with China grew and the Russians tried to make Ukraine their own. Americans were polarised on
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  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent by Robert A Caro
    ...orn though - the second book in a series is not often as good as the first and it struck me that these might not be the most exciting years in Johnson's l ...a congressman, his 'war service', the source of his much-disputed fortune and the infamous 1948 Senatorial primary.
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  • The Future of Violence - Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones: Confronting the New Age of Threat by Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum
    |title=The Future of Violence - Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones: Confronting the New Age of Threat |sort=Future of Violence - Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones: Confronting the New Age of Threat
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  • This is Not the End of the Book; by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere
    |author=Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere ...ulously incorrect books, the Internet and how it cannot surpass books; all and more are discussed here by two brilliantly erudite companions.
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  • Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriguez
    ...munism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned up ...me to. It's an approach that makes the pages look full of realistic life, and yet quite startling with it.
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  • Neither Nowt Nor Summat: In search of the meaning of Yorkshire by Ian McMillan
    |genre=Politics and Society ...licit contributions from Mad Geoff the barber, a kazoo-playing train guard and four Saddleworth council workers in search of a mattress. Amongst others.
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  • Split Second by Sophie McKenzie
    ...terity and with extremist groups springing up. Credible central characters and brilliant plotting. Recommended. ...ycle of more and more austerity, where people queue for free food handouts and racist extremist groups are increasingly dominating the public conversation
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  • Calories and Corsets: A history of dieting over two thousand years by Louise Foxcroft
    |title=Calories and Corsets: A history of dieting over two thousand years |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus by Tim Hindle
    |title= Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Waterfire Saga: Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly
    |summary=Undersea fantasy with diverse characters and thoughtful worldbuilding. There may be too much exposition for some. ...dream, in which witches of Mer legend warn her of terrible danger to come. And when her friend Neela arrives for the occasion, she confesses that she has
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  • Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife by Stephen Moss
    |genre= Animals and Wildlife ...is never too late to reverse some of the damage. The book offers plausible and convincing approaches on exactly how this can be achieved.
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  • An Annoyance of Neighbours: Life is Never Dull When You Have Neighbours! by Angela Lightburn
    |genre=Politics and Society ...llating all the different problems which people have with their neighbours and ways of improving the situation which don't involve a lengthy prison senten
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  • A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton
    |genre=Politics and Society ...writer-in-residence at Heathrow's Terminal Five. It covers as much ground, and provides as many insights into the human condition, as some novels.
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  • Pill City by Kevin Deutsch
    |genre=Politics and Society ...Century. This hard hitting true crime book looks at the impact at a local and countrywide level.
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  • Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Beth Webb
    |title=Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs ...Bookbag favourite Beth Webb. Detailed science, two fab central characters, and lots of misdirection. Recommended.
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  • The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds by Jessica Nordell
    |genre=Politics and Society ...Eye-opening, fascinating and frightening in equal measures. A fascinating and highly recommended read.
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  • The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski
    ...sounds of revolutions in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Personal stories and the global context are both appropriately considered, giving a great snapsh In that time, he saw 27 revolutions throughout Africa, Latin America and
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  • How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ip. It's strong on what's happened and is happening, but less forthcoming and compelling about how it can be prevented.
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  • Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Scott Kilman and Roger Thurow
    |author= Scott Kilman and Roger Thurow |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours by Emily Cockayne
    ...or ruin our lives. In this engaging book, she takes various case studies and anecdotes of living side by side in Britain from around 1200 to the present ...ame close to intoxicating him’. Sadly he was in the grip of tuberculosis, and they had to content themselves with exchanging yearning letters for much of
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  • War Against the Taliban: Why it All Went Wrong in Afghanistan by Sandy Gall
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=An informed and informative look at what has happened in Afghanistan. The situation is com
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  • Encyclopedia Paranoiaca by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf
    |author=Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf |summary=… or how we should learn to stop worrying and love the world. Life is a lethal, sexually-transmitted existence anyhow.
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  • Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
    |genre=Politics and Society ...-judgemental book - an evocative childhood memoir, a personal story of war and the difficult job of trying to report it. Outstanding.
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  • Britain in a Perilous World: The Strategic Defence and Security Review we need by Jonathan Shaw
    |title=Britain in a Perilous World: The Strategic Defence and Security Review we need |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story by Leah Hazard
    ...sweat and tears story of the life of a midwife in the NHS. Very readable and highly recommended. ...n television and ''Hard Pushed'' is the story of her career as a midwife - and the title tells more than one story.
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  • School Daze: Searching for a Decent State Education by Andrew Penman
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ews to some readers. Yes, people will really do just about anything to try and get their children into the school of their choice – even commit fraud! B
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  • The American Future: A History by Simon Schama
    ...rican history through its attitude to war, religion, the national identity and economics. Not the easiest of reads because of the style, but worth persev ...e States and he looks at four areas – War, Religion, the American identity and Economics in an attempt to understand how the country has reached this poin
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  • Nothing but the Truth: Selected Dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya
    |genre=Politics and Society ...tion and on life in Russia under his regime. She never avoided controversy and received a number of death threats before she was murdered in October 2006.
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  • The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner
    ...first viewing would seem like a classic pulpy detective story to titillate and adhere to the male stereotypes of the 1950s. However, this novel is transgr ...y written in the 1950s. It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the theft of priceless Bornean artefac
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  • The Big Short by Michael Lewis
    |genre=Business and Finance ...ent and important look at the subprime mortgage crisis, how it was caused, and those who truly saw the problems before everyone else. I'm surprised it's n
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  • Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
    |genre=Politics and Society ...und 40 times higher than the normal US murder rate. What were the reasons and the solutions to make the streets safer – or is there nothing that could
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To H A Goodman
    ...It's a highly imaginative, sometimes touching, story, told with great pace and enthusiasm. We couldn't resist the opportunity to ask H A Goodman some ques ...It's a highly imaginative, sometimes touching, story, told with great pace and enthusiasm. We couldn't resist the opportunity to ask H A Goodman some ques
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  • The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont
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  • Night Games: A Journey to the Dark Side of Sport by Anna Krien
    ...tempt to level the playing field, so to speak. You could Google the facts and come up with the correct name, but this isn't a book of gossip about partic ...d been raped by two much more prominent players, but that case was dropped and only Dyer was charged. If I have one quibble about this book it's that I d
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  • A Field Guide To The British by Sarah Lyall
    |genre=Politics and Society ...htful and witty account of an American journalist's impressions, anecdotes and more serious but still amusing analyses of British (or rather, English) way
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  • Farewell To The East End by Jennifer Worth
    |summary= A fascinating look at midwives and nursing in the 1950s. ...d nurse, working with the nuns at Nonnatus House in the East End of London and this volume (her third book on this topic) covers the 1950s.
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  • An Atheist's History of Belief by Matthew Kneale
    |genre=Politics and Society ...e examination of the history of belief and religion, spanning several ages and including many schools of thought.
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  • Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear by Dan Gardner
    |title= Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear ...nd readably. It might not sound like a thriller, but it's very accessible and covers a topic one should definitely open one's mind to more.
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  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
    |genre=Politics and Society ...e, ''21 Lessons'' explores the challenges which we now face. enlightening and - occasionally - just a bit frightening.
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  • Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin by Norah Vincent
    |title= Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin ...addicted to drugs. In this hospital, the doctors are overworked and jaded and medication is always the answer. Soon, the author finds that her latent dep
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  • Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=Highly enjoyable memoir of the joys and pitfalls of being a backbench MP.
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  • Bubble Wrapped Children by Helen Oakwater
    |genre=Politics and Society ...somewhat when looking at the specific issues surrounding social networking and adoption, taking too narrow a viewpoint, despite the important points being
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  • High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze by Jill Stark
    ...than just a tale of how dreadful it was to go without - it's illuminating and very convincing. ...t day in January Stark decided that she was going to do something about it and the initial decision was that she would spend three months on the wagon.
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  • The Romantic Economist by Richard Bronk
    |genre=Politics and Society ...but a must for all policy practitioners, highly recommended for economists and worth checking out for anybody interested in social sciences.
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  • Reversing Global Warming For Profit by Bill Butterworth
    |genre=Politics and Society ...il fuels are going to run out. More and more people will compete for fewer and fewer of civilisation's luxuries. We're all worried.
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  • Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age by George Brock
    |title=Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age |genre=Politics and Society
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  • The Vagaries Of Swing (Footprints on the Margate Sands of Time) by Mac Carty
    ...king and occasionally hilarious memoir about life, death and cricket. Oh, and Margate. Recommended. Mac Carty popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interv ...growing up in Margate, all of which had been revisited on a regular basis and usually over a pint. I've just read the result.
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  • An Otter on the Aga by Rex Harper
    |genre=Politics and Society ...rowth of an animal sanctuary with some wonderful stories about the animals and birds who were looked after over a period of more than forty years. You wil
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  • Murder on a Summer's Day: (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody
    ...Kate Shackleton series is the best yet - great plot, excellent characters and a location to die for. Highly recommended. ...er in the day, Narayan's body was found. He'd been shot through the heart and a clumsy attempt had been made to hide the body - but only Kate Shackleton
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  • The New Threat From Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=Jason Burke's informative and timely book provides an excellent introduction to the confusing world of Is
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  • Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World by Ian Bremmer
    |title=Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
    ...ns and the truth behind brutal pasts fill every chapter. Pick this book up and prepare to be dazzled. ...fairy-tale. Working against the clock, Sancia will work to save her world and prevent a descent into destruction.
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  • Top Ten Books With Gorgeous Illustrations
    ...ok is. These are the best books for poring over, soaking up the atmosphere and just flat out enjoying. These are books featuring our favourite illustrator |author=David Almond and Dave McKean
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  • A Women's Guide to Claiming Space by Eliza Van Cort
    |genre=Politics and Society ...a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)
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  • Flashes of Thought: Lessons in life and leadership from the man behind Dubai by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
    |title=Flashes of Thought: Lessons in life and leadership from the man behind Dubai |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Events, Dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary of Britain from Woolf to Campbell by Ruth Winstone (editor)
    |genre=Politics and Society ...z personalities, covering various movements in politics and major national and international events from the last hundred years, which can be dipped into
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  • The Secret Life of France by Lucy Wadham
    ...d journalist give her ample material to dissect the differences between Us and Them. |publisher= Faber and Faber
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  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ises important issues about medical ethics, healthcare, race, class, money and more.
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  • The Second Plane by Martin Amis
    |genre=Politics and Society ...portage, short stories and essays on the attacks on the World Trade Centre and what has happened since. The stance is less centrist than is currently fas
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  • Outraged of Tunbridge Wells: Original Complaints from Middle England by Nigel Cawthorne
    ...om the Royal town's press itself make a great eye-opener to the complaints and complainants of Kent. ...or ''heaps'' of miscreants to learn how to hang the Union Flag correctly. And a bus shelter was installed near the War Memorial – who knew such a thing
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  • Guilt Trip: From Fear to Guilt on the Green Bandwagon by Alex Hesz and Bambos Neophytou
    |author= Alex Hesz and Bambos Neophytou |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Off Message: The Complete Antidote to Political Humbug by Bob Marshall-Andrews
    ...nd two-thirds, with the first third being the antidote to political humbug and the two-thirds looking at some thought-provoking subjects. Recommended. ...abour administrations have spawned more political memoirs than any other – and I did wonder if this would be just one more to add to the pile.
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  • The Library Book by Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others
    |author=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others ...good and vital about the public library service, and makes an interesting and enjoyable read.
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  • The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe
    ...d culture, African literature and the legacy of colonialism in his country and the rest of Africa. Highly recommended ...rom guest lectures at universities around the world and conference papers, and others are written for this book, particularly many of the more personal pi
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  • Top Ten Beach Reads For Men
    ...Girls]]. (Of course, there's nothing stopping women enjoying these choices and vice versa!) Why not [mailto:sue@thebookbag.co.uk tell us] about your favou ...alating crimes that threaten the whole entertainment corporation. A bright and engaging comedy thriller that comes recommended by the Bookbag.
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  • Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America by Kari Loya
    |title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul o |sort=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul o
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  • How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly And the Stark Choices Ahead by Dambisa Moyo
    |title=How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly And the Stark Choices Ahead |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads by Benedict Rogers
    Benedict Rogers is a human rights activist and journalist with an expert insight into Burma, gathered first-hand on journe ...s in this eye-opening, thought-provoking run-through of the past, present, and future of a country full of human tragedy.
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  • Inventing the Enemy: Essays on Everything by Umberto Eco
    ...n of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels like The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. ...are better informed, intrigued and prodded to examine his discourse again and again, even if only to challenge what you have heard. Such are the effects
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  • From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generation by Allan Metcalf
    ...– and those words are certainly a clue to what was important, predominant and of course spoken in each decade. ...tzgerald here mentions ''jungle music'' (and not in the Goldie definition) and there clearly is a different book that would track these passing histories
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  • This Is Paradise by Hyok Kang
    ...ting, testimony of a childhood in one of the world's most closed societies and sadly, closes with some sharp words about the way the more fortunate global ...uth Korea in a forced flight through Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. And ''This Is Paradise!'' is his story.
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  • Aid and Other Dirty Business: How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor by Giles Bolton
    |title=Aid and Other Dirty Business: How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
    |title=Love, Hate and Other Filters ...g. A must read for teens who are interested in learning about how politics and current affairs can have an impact on certain minorities' everyday lives.
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  • Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg
    |title=Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis |author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg
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  • I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
    ...er very warm and personal telling. It should be on every school curriculum and on the reading list of every member of parliaments around the world. ...sened, nearby there were western doctors with access to western facilities and she was flown to the UK for treatment.
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  • Big Babies by Michael Bywater
    |genre=Politics and Society ...have all become so infantile that will have you reduced to tears of shame and hysteria. Everyone should read it before we're reduced to wearing nappies.
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  • A Bunch of Fives by Helen Simpson
    ...fe is unsurpassed. The stories are funny, charming, honest, sad, accurate and beautifully written. I will come straight out with it at the top of this review and state that I am a big fan of Helen Simpson. So this book, which is a selec
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  • A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston
    |title=A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment |sort=Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
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  • Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City by Jonny Steinberg
    ...view-style, Steinberg goes right back to their roots in a troubled country and tries to get to grips with why they are both now living in New York City. ...k Times, J M Coetzee) I came to the conclusion that I was in for a serious and thought-provoking read.
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  • The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
    ...is the buzz word here with the author giving in-depth history and analysis and covering the crucial life stages of the female sex. ...it be interesting to also have a male reviewer give this book his thorough and undivided attention?
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  • The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
    |author=Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick |summary=A warts and all history of the USA. It's not an easy or quick read but does repay the
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  • Burn My Heart by Beverley Naidoo
    ...onial rule in Kenya, told through the eyes of two small boys. Well-written and passionately told, it doesn't duck the issues. Recommended. ...it, 55,000 British soldiers will kill at least 12,000 of the Kikuyu people and imprison another 150,000. Yet another 1,120 Kikuyu will be sentenced to dea
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  • There Is No Such Thing As A Free Press by Mick Hume
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=It's deliberately intended to start a discussion about the press - and is a brilliant antidote to over-indulgence in Leveson. You ''really'' shou
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  • The Wave by Morton Rhue
    |genre=Politics and Society ...e Wave gives the lie to anyone who says "It couldn't happen here". A short and easy read but with a very serious message.
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  • Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants: Letters from a doctor abroad by Saqib Noor
    ...in some of the most troubled areas of the world. Harrowing, enlightening and uplifting. Saqib Noor popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookba ...ich Noor describes as ''fourth world'' - third world with added disaster - and their need is desperate.
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  • SPQR A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
    ...les a balanced view of the civilization that dominated classical antiquity and that still resonates in our lives today. If you only ever read one book on ...rce was important, but other threads in the weave (such as social mobility and the effect of extending citizenship to many of the conquered) made the Roma
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  • Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship by Frances Woodsford
    ...m the 1950s, written by a very personable English lady with a charming wit and way with words. ...ok, of heavily edited highlights, which opens up a world of social history and entertaining diary-style comment.
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  • Lost Voices: Memories of a Vanished Way of Life by Gilda O'Neill
    |genre=Politics and Society ...d journeys, the day's work, relationships with the local people, weekends, and so on.
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  • A Good African Story: How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee Brand by Andrew Rugasira
    |genre=Politics and Society ...teresting polemic against international aid and for the creation of wealth and employment opportunies by the private sector, to solve Africa’s immense p
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  • Across the Pond by Terry Eagleton
    |genre=Politics and Society |publisher=W. W. Norton and Co
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  • West of the Wall by Marcia Preston
    ...suffering and despair of East Berliners under strict communist occupation and the desperate choices one woman had to make. ...people to escape to the West. Eventually, his organisation is identified and he too has to flee. Trudy is left living with her ageing mother-in-law to b
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  • Top Ten Books About Language
    ...uage, with words, with communication of meaning that goes beyond language, and with our favourite variety of language: the one that makes books. Why not [ |title=How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die
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  • Night Broken (Mercy Thompson) by Patricia Briggs
    ...and the werewolf family she married into. The balance of domestic detail and sheer fantasy threat shows this to be one of the more successful urban fant ...[Mercy Thompson: River Marked by Patricia Briggs|book six – River Marked]] and the fae implement that was so much a feature of that book is being requeste
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  • A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge
    ...u simply have to stand up and cheer, then you are guaranteed a pleasurable and thought-provoking read. ...ed, inevitably, to the ruthless class distinctions which exist in Cavernan society.
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  • Bedlam: London and Its Mad by Catharine Arnold
    |title= Bedlam: London and Its Mad ...g attitudes of public and medical authorities to the condition, from Roman and Saxon times to the present day.
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  • Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
    |title=Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter |summary=Surely the most colourful, and probably the most definitive, book on this subject you would ever need to p
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  • The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want by Garrett Keizer
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=Fascinating and thought provoking, a 'must read' for anyone who lives with, near, or even a
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  • The Doctor Will See You Now by Max Pemberton
    |genre=Politics and Society ...walls of a hospital, plus the odd excursion to rather misnamed Care Homes, and it's not a bad read.
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  • Single, Again, and Again, and Again by Louisa Pateman
    |title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again ...do when that just isn't working out? An excellent, thought-provoking read and every parent of a young girl should read it ''before'' a bias develops.
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  • White Riot by Joe Thomas
    ...racial tensions of Thatcherite Britain is a powerful and engaging thriller and a story I can't wait to see continued. ...is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective view.
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  • Lenin's Kisses by Yan Lianke
    ...funding an ambitious plan to move Lenin's body to China. Full of allegory and symbolism, this is a rare example of modern Chinese literary fiction in tra ...is relatively simple, what makes this book so interesting is the structure and way the story is told.
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  • Luxury Fashion Branding: Trends, Tactics, Techniques by Uche Okonkwo
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ur Paddington? You will, and much more besides, after reading this lengthy and in-depth investigation into the world of luxury fashion branding.
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  • Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped The World by David Aaronovitch
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=A great look at a phenomenon I like to read about and scorn equally - the cranky, quirky conspiracy allegations that currently ar
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  • Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You About Diet, Thrift and Going Green by Patricia Nicol
    ...=Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You About Diet, Thrift and Going Green |genre=Politics and Society
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  • The Little Book of Prison by Frankie Owens
    |genre=Politics and Society ...mary=A survival guide to prison - a bit on the brief side but entertaining and easy to read.
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  • You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain by Tim Moore
    ...l town, our author has valiantly journeyed round many of these grot-spots, and found the story of decrepitude only exacerbating. ...d shops, betting shops, booze shops, and both see the same problems, cause and effect.
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  • The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday by Neil MacFarquhar
    |genre=Politics and Society ...our understanding of Islam in the Middle East today, suitable for students and general interest readers.
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  • Stripped: The Bare Reality of Lap Dancing by Jennifer Hayashi Danns and Leveque Sandrine
    |author=Jennifer Hayashi Danns and Leveque Sandrine |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Living, Thinking, Looking by Siri Hustvedt
    ...tual novelist Siri Hustvedt. A challenging read, drawing on the sciences and the arts to analyse what it is to be human. ...about what it means to be human. In these essays she examines who we are and how we got that way.
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  • Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ed to weightier matters, most notably Guantanamo Bay and the war on terror and the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.
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  • In the Name of the People: Pseudo-Democracy and the Spoiling of Our World by Ivo Mosley
    |title=In the Name of the People: Pseudo-Democracy and the Spoiling of Our World |genre=Politics and Society
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  • The Wonga Coup by Adam Roberts
    ...remier League of killing and disappearance, alongside the likes of Pol Pot and modern day tyrants like Robert Mugabe. The fact that the Nguemas are dictat ...SAS trained former mercenary in the shape of British adventurer Simon Mann and you have all the ingredients for a coup attempt.
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  • Top Ten Children's Books About Weighty Subjects
    ...y, so they're engaged emotionally, but have enough distance to feel secure and safe whilst doing it. We bemoan political uninterest in our teenagers, so w ...fiction. It's moving, honest and tugs at the heartstrings. As an inclusive and accessible book introducing fairly complex ideas about war, Bookbag couldn'
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  • The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict by Peter Beaumont
    |genre=Politics and Society ...tion of his years in the field. It is a book ill-served by both its title and its cover, except maybe insofar as both might serve to sneak it onto the bo
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  • Massacre in Norway: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and the Utoya Youth Camp by Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)
    |title=Massacre in Norway: The 2011 Terror Attack on Oslo and the Utoya Youth Camp |author=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)
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  • Language: The Cultural Tool by Daniel Everett
    ...in. The travel stories – jaunts to Brazil, Mexico and beyond – are great, and while you might think they’re taking things a bit off track (albeit in a ...Pirahã, with whom Everett spends a lot of time, have no words for numbers, and far fewer ways to describe colour than we do. Made to consider why, Everett
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  • I Count by icount.org.uk
    |genre=Home and Family ...towards a carbon-reduced lifestyle. It's easy to follow, has great advice and is full of humour. I Count would make a wonderfully virtuous gift but is pe
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  • 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain by Quentin Letts
    ...y= The author's choice of people in public life, mainly from the political and media world, who have in one way or another dumbed down or tarnished the na ...y sketch writer and theatre critic, Radio 4 presenter and former ''Times'' and ''Telegraph'' columnist, just has. Lest anybody think that a ''Daily Mail'
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  • Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain by George Monbiot
    |genre=Politics and Society ...or and when to get interested if you want to reclaim the local communities and the wider state from the corporations.
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  • A Time for Machetes: The Rwandan Genocide - The Killers Speak by Jean Hatzfeld
    |genre=Politics and Society ...uge in churches and were burned to death. They were hunted down in marshes and cut to pieces by their very neighbours.
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  • Frontline by David Loyn
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=Wonderful stuff, written with great affection and conviction. You couldn't make these stories up. Frontline is a gripping, fl
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  • The End of Growth by Richard Heinberg
    |genre=Business and Finance ...loom the last thing you might want is to pick up a book that reiterates it and then some. But while this book may seem at first glance to be a bit of a do
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  • Mafia State by Luke Harding
    |genre=Politics and Society ...in April 2007. This was an account of an interview with the arch-oligarch and Kremlin critic, Boris Berezovsky. Harding was not at the interview but adde
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Gabe Riggs
    ...tional and visceral read that illuminates and educates with a strong voice and clear, capable prose. There was a lot to talk about when Gabe popped into ...tional and visceral read that illuminates and educates with a strong voice and clear, capable prose. There was a lot to talk about when Gabe popped into
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  • Quicksand by Henning Mankell
    ...stay with you for a long time. Inspiring, thought-provoking, intellectual and heart-warming in equal measures. One you'll come back to. ...so pages. It almost cries out to be taken as a 'book of days' read slowly and pondered over a couple of months or longer.
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  • Doggone by Erik Ryman
    ...restriction on items description. The ministeries were bought fast enough, and the companies who bought them were in fact merged soon enough, leaving the ...much I can say - this is a remarkable story of how best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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  • Murder in the High Himalaya by Jonathan Green
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ran the Dalai Lama out in the 1950s in their consuming urge for lebensraum and mineral mining, they are a near-impenetrable barrier, protecting their coun
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  • Japan Through The Looking Glass by Alan Macfarlane
    ...thought-provoking introduction into Japanese culture, history and current society. ...wn travels and experiences, the book is Macfarlane's attempt to understand and to explain ''Japan''.
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  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
    |genre=Politics and Society ...ds research and analysis are immaculate but his over-long personal musings and lack of suggestions for higher-impact political solutions that would have a
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  • Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
    |title=Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London ...n, blending memoir, social history and literary criticism to form a unique and largely enjoyable book.
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  • A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner by Chris Atkins
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=Very readable, thought-provoking and important. We need better prisons. Honestly.
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Chit Dubey
    ...sed when she read [[21 Doors to Happiness: Life Through Travel Experiences and Meditation by Chit Dubey]] as it chimed with her personal view of life. Sh ...sed when she read [[21 Doors to Happiness: Life Through Travel Experiences and Meditation by Chit Dubey]] as it chimed with her personal view of life. Sh
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  • List Of Books To Celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th Anniversary
    ...giant of science, both from those that are loudly singing Happy Birthday, and those that we've previously enjoyed. |author=Charles Darwin and David Quammen (Author and Editor)
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  • Top Ten Tube Reads
    ...ect escapism when when you're delayed for half an hour on the Circle Line, and others will make the best use of our time by improving our minds. These are ...r with the rather peculiar mission of dating every star sign of the zodiac and reporting back with her findings.
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  • Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age by Adrian Johns
    |title=Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age ...ssor of history at the University of Chicago into the development of radio and the information age in Britain.
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  • The Serrano Succession by Elizabeth Moon
    ...tories and details. Recommended for those with the patience for the style, and the prior volumes on their shelves, only. ...ish medical practice of rejuv – is the drug process at fault, or poisoned, and how far-reaching are its effects on the military officers that have been ab
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  • Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony by Matthew Parker
    ...struggles for supremacy between the major European powers and the triumphs and tragedies of the early colonial ventures in the Americas. ...is how he manages to spin out a much broader narrative about the domestic and international contexts in which Britain's imperial ambitions were first bor
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  • Play It Again: An Amateur Against The Impossible by Alan Rusbridger
    ...n Rusbridger, Guardian Editor-in-Chief and pianist, during which time Wiki and the News of the World leak. Fascinating. ...d tell a clear story: it is his stock-in-trade as Editor of the Guardian. And the book duly held me through a messy, interrupted week of bedtime reading.
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  • Geek Wisdom by Stephen H Segal
    ...teachings from everything from Star Wars to Ghostbusters. Fun, insightful and easy to read. ...se ''Hitchhiker’s Guide... '' as my reading aloud piece for a Year 7 exam, and think it would be more than a little fun to take a trip to Comic Con. At t
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  • American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D Roosevelt to George W Bush by Nigel Hamilton
    ...tieth and early twenty-first centuries, starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and finishing with George W Bush. ...ollege interview and since then I've had an obsession with modern American politics: post Eisenhower I'm reasonably well-versed but pre-Kennedy a little more f
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  • Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
    |title=Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower
    |publisher=Faber and Faber ...could his achievements such as the Good Friday Agreement, the minimum wage and higher welfare payments be balanced against his failures?
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  • Freedom Next Time by John Pilger
    |genre=Politics and Society ...o look. The usual mix of careful, meticulous research, eye witness reports and face-to-face interviews, this book should be required reading for anyone wh
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  • Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
    ...series shows us a world in the aftermath of a galactic-scale catastrophe, and how our protagonists work to survive in a world that has forgotten them. ...stem to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just ge
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  • A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins
    |title=A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein
    |title= Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness |author= Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein
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  • A View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin
    ...llin was never one of the 'big beasts' of New Labour but this well-written and considered book may well prove to be the definite volume about the Blair ye ...ls of government who's party to what's happening further up the hillside ''and'' down on the plains.
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  • Panicology by Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams
    |author=Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams ...ses essential facts and statistics while trying to ascertain the real risk and compare it to the level of panic. Best used as a reference tool when the re
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  • A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)
    |author=Zygmunt Miloszewski and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) ...nds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly.
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  • Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
    ...s a powerful novel whose story pacts a punch. It excels in plot and pacing and boasts unforgettably unapologetic characters whom readers will fall in love ''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Get
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  • They've Got Your Number by Stephen Baker
    ...r daily lives will change our destiny forever, this is a thought provoking and extremely readable book about a very real, of the moment issue. ...matical modelling of humanity' sounds like one of the sexiest things ever, and are chomping at the bit to learn more about it, then you might well be inte
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  • On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries by Richard Reynolds
    |genre=Home and Family ...tive, entertaining and inspiring book outlines the history of the movement and gives many examples of individuals who have strived to make a difference. H
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  • The Day The Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
    ...life with a respectable suitor. Starring Niagara Falls, this atmospheric and compelling historical romance is told with conviction. ...ort of novel, a saga-esque historical romance, with a characterful heroine and page-turning story line that necessitates reading late into the night. Wel
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  • Please Don't Call Me Human by Wang Shuo
    ...riting, but it is very funny for the rest of us. Sadly, a poor translation and a lack of text notes may prevent some readers getting the best from it. ...tee renames itself the National Mobilizing Committee, or MobCom for short, and decides to look for a Big Dream Boxer: a descendant of one of the cultish m
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  • Her Three Wise Men by Stanley Middleton
    |summary= A gentle tale of love and university research in a small English village. Old fashioned, but highly c ...orth Midlands. Stanley Middleton's latest novel follows her various trials and tribulations over the course of about a year.
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  • Signing Their Rights Away by Denise Kiernan
    |summary=An accessible look at the lives of the thirty-nine creators and signatories of the United States Constitution, in an attractive hardback ed ...ay of Life and the American Dream. The 4th of July is the national holiday and often thought to be the single most important date in American history.
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  • The Secrets of Happiness by Richard Schoch
    |genre=Home and Family |summary=A breezy and accessible survey of 3,000 years of thinking about the persistent human que
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  • From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp
    |genre=Politics and Society ...any country, Sharp's original booklet has enjoyed an extraordinary career and been credited with helping non-violent revolutions in numerous countries. U
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  • Amexica: War Along the Borderline by Ed Vulliamy
    |genre=Politics and Society ...order between US and Mexico, and the devastating impact of the drugs trade and deregulated capitalism.
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  • Bookbag Review Submission Document
    ...xt in upper case must be removed before submission. If you don't use find and replace – all of the same text requires EXACTLY the same information – DON'T DELETE ANYTHING IN LOWER CASE (other than 'see note...') AND TYPE THE RELEVANT INFORMATION BESIDES THE '=' WITHOUT DELETING ANYTHING WHI
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  • Nothing But Fear by Knud Romer and John Mason (translator)
    |author=Knud Romer and John Mason (translator) ...ocument; sometimes human hatred and national damage are more enduring than politics.
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  • Richi$tan: A Journey Through the 21st Century Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert Frank
    |title=Richi$tan: A Journey Through the 21st Century Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich |genre=Politics and Society
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  • A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
    ...r in 1940 to Tony Blair's resignation and beyond. Magnificently researched and written with a pleasing lightness of touch, it's highly recommended by Book If this had not been written by one of the best-known journalists and commentators working today, I'd have had my doubts about the title. Sure, t
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  • A Place In My Country: In Search Of A Rural Dream by Ian Walthew
    ...ve back to London, he resigned and rather than buy a property in London he and his Australian wife bought a cottage in the Cotswolds to give Ian the peace ...pressure. Little by little Ian and Han develop a relationship with Norman and the other characters of this tightly-knit community.
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  • Screwing Up by Mark Oaten
    |summary=A personal and political memoir by the former Liberal Democrat MP for Winchester, who stoo ...one of the men whose career at Westminster began and ended with the Blair and Brown years. Throughout there is an admirable absence of self-pity.
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  • If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
    ...hy and a call to arms for a change in the way we think and live. Beautiful and thoughtful. ...o and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any better.
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  • A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save the World and Create Prosperity by Nicholas Stern
    |title= A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save the World and Create Prosperity |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Nelson: A Dream of Glory by John Sugden
    ...rafalgar. More than a biography, this book is a sharp insight to the life and times of the various ranks in the navy during the late 18th century. ...y'' sitting on the Bookbag shelf, but I had just come back from Portsmouth and a wander around on the Victory, so it was a bit hard to resist.
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  • Schott's Almanac 2008 by Ben Schott
    |genre=Politics and Society |summary=The annual collection of trivia, ephemera, data and more. Apart from for dipping in to a page at a time it is hard to see what
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  • Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour
    |summary= Charming, shocking and illuminating, this novel combines a clever love story with comentary on con ...strength and endurance of love to overcome obstacles, and it is a charming and at times moving story.
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  • The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the Industry by John Kay
    |title=The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren't in the Industry |genre=Politics and Society
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  • 22 Ideas About The Future by Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
    |author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors) |summary=A brilliantly-readable book - and it's one you really should read - and then read again. The future ''might'' not look like this but some of it is
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  • Buy Me The Sky by Xinran
    |genre=Politics and Society I started reading Xinran thirteen years ago, and whilst I haven't read all of her books, every one that I have read has at s
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  • Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg
    ...story of washing and personal hygiene. It is full of interesting anecdotes and facts, but it is also a thoughtful examination of changing attitudes toward ...missed out on an enjoyable and informative book, full of fascinating facts and a jolly good read.
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  • Himglish and Femalese: Why Women Don't Get Why Men Don't Get Them by Jean Hannah Edelstein
    |title= Himglish and Femalese: Why Women Don't Get Why Men Don't Get Them ...= A handy summary of 21st century male/female relations. Lively, engaging, and doesn't take itself too seriously. Whilst the advice occasionally verges on
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  • The Food We Eat by Joanna Blythman
    ...ou've been eating really is and you'll have the knowledge to make informed and better choices. It's ten years old but still worth reading. ...thought I would be doing for another decade disappeared because of illness and I became a woman of leisure.
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  • Fallout by Sadie Jones
    ...y arena of London theatre in the 1970s. Sharp with the feel of the times, and accurate in its humanity. If you haven't then you'll find ''Fallout'' an exploration of how it happens, and how we deal with it, or not.
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Mick O'Hare
    ...s annual books of answers to tantalising questions have always entertained and educated us here at Bookbag, so the opportunity to interview Mick O'Hare ab ...s annual books of answers to tantalising questions have always entertained and educated us here at Bookbag, so the opportunity to interview Mick O'Hare ab
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  • Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticisms 1981 - 1991 by Salman Rushdie
    |title=Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticisms 1981 - 1991 |genre=Politics and Society
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  • What is Your Dangerous Idea? by John Brockman
    |genre=Politics and Society ...alk with their peers because it forces them to go to the top of their form and explain their most interesting new ideas.''
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  • Newest Biography Reviews
    ...entific evidence. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has ...e from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for a lifetime.
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  • Peas and Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners by Sandi Toksvig
    |title=Peas and Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners |genre=Politics and Society
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  • A Philosophy of Walking by Frederic Gros
    |genre=Politics and Society ...meditation on what it means to walk. Insightful, thoughtful, one to savour and to return to.
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  • Tic-tac Teddy Bears and Teardrop Tattoos by Justin Scroggie
    |title= Tic-tac Teddy Bears and Teardrop Tattoos ...provides a very good and authoritative look at a world of hidden messages and coded communications.
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  • Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie
    ...the 1930s and what hasn't. It's a warning about where we might be headed, and a hopeful assessment of why we might not be. ...because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have no connection (
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  • The Everyday Activist by Michael Norton
    |genre=Home and Family ...big or small. There's all the information you'll need to enthuse yourself and to organise the sort of changes that can make the world a better place.
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  • Swell by Jenny Landreth
    |genre=Politics and Society ...f your nearest defunct Lido, nothing will. Witty, intelligent, informative and a jolly good read.
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  • Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London by Jennifer Worth
    ...she shares some of their life stories with us. Evocative, heartbreaking, and a valid historical social record. What more do you want? ...ple in 1800s unable to fend for themselves, ending up destitute and scared and ''carted off'' to the workhouse. The very fact that we use those words ''c
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  • The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan
    |title=The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power |sort=Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
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  • Below the Parapet by Carol Thatcher
    ...pleasantly surprised though - the book was read over a couple of evenings and I felt that I knew Denis Thatcher rather better than before I opened the bo ...l area. The meat of this book is the relationship between him and Margaret and how he enabled her to achieve what she did.
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  • Raising My Voice: The Extraordinary Story of the Afghan Woman Who Dares to Speak Out by Malalai Joya
    |genre=Politics and Society |publisher=Rider and Co
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  • Old Men in Love by Alasdair Gray
    ...ic taste, tendency to pick up books from the piles of unread or discarded, and off-centre (or some would say warped) sense of humour, I have probably come ...in and having no interest in the papers, she explains how they came to her and how Alasdair Gray came to edit them. Insights she offers none at all.
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  • A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa by A T Williams
    ...dual injuries. There are now in the region of another 250 individuals, men and women, whose families are making legal claims to have been killed in furthe ...e ambiguous functions of the investigators, the RMP, are clearly explained and the high level of feelings were also fresh in the recent memories of all th
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  • What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
    |genre=Politics and Society ...(and what not to do) guide from one of the most eminent authors on success and leadership.
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  • Hunter School by Sakinu Ahronglong
    ...curtailed it's an ideal time to be discovering vicariously...short, gentle and very informative read. ...ken over here and there, and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it. More people should.
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  • Sex, Science and Profits by Terence Kealey
    |title=Sex, Science and Profits |genre=Politics and Society
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  • Meaning Inc.: The Rise of the 21st Century Company by Gurnek Bains et al
    |genre=Politics and Society ...their working lives and provides tools and ideas to promote further growth and development in this area.
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  • At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
    |title=At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails |genre=Politics and Society
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  • The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
    |summary=An essay collection of one of the most significant philosophers and historians of ideas of the twentieth century. ...orals informed the more obvious changes in philosophy, literature, culture and much more.
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  • Bomb, Book and Compass by Simon Winchester
    |title= Bomb, Book and Compass ...ham and his involvement with the historical development of Chinese Science and Technology.
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  • What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorised Biography of Oliver Reed by Robert Sellers
    ...uch as his acting, written with the aid of interviews with family, friends and peers. ...r booze, brawls and all types of laddish behaviour. As Sellers’ very full and remarkably objective biography reveals, it was a funny yet sad life all at
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  • Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
    |summary=An intriguing wander through why solitude matters and how hard it is to come by. ...f having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.
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  • Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran
    |title=Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love |genre=Politics and Society
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  • An Island in Time: The Biography of a Village by Geert Mak
    ...ng, and makes you question your own views on how and why it came to this – and what we can do about it. ...mid 1990s journalist and author Geert Mak returned to his native Friesland and took up residence in the village of Jorwert. His aim was to investigate th
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  • Climb the Green Ladder: Make Your Company and Career More Sustainable by Amy V Fetzer and Shari Aaron
    |title= Climb the Green Ladder: Make Your Company and Career More Sustainable |author= Amy V Fetzer and Shari Aaron
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  • The Royal Enigma by Krishna Bhatt
    |summary=Some interesting ideas and the making of a good story lie behind this book, but I can't genuinely reco ...istory as fiction. However, it is a golden rule that a book must know who and what it is. One of the problems with The Royal Enigma is that it suffers f
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  • Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies
    ...= Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media |genre=Politics and Society
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  • How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser
    |title=How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival ...ct of physics, studying quantum entanglement in terms of Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading.
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  • Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2010
    ...ies in [[The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] and if you're looking for more historical fiction you mustn't forget [[Heartsto '''Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction'''
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  • War Stories by Jeremy Bowen
    ...o bring sound and pictures to our screens. The book is factual, insightful and well-written. It's recommended by Bookbag. ...ught news of war to our televisions, radios and newspapers were very brave and certainly not like other people. Jeremy Bowen is definitely not like other
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  • The Games We Played by Susan Kelleher
    ...nitely a Christmas stocking-filler book - one to be read and passed around and shared. Buy it, read it, share it. ...the age-range of members the resulting letters covered the 1920s to 1970s and these have been distilled into an utterly charming, totalling nostalgic, co
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  • D C Confidential by Christopher Meyer
    |genre=Politics and Society ...r'' said the dust jacket. It's perfectly true, too. They are controversial and he was there. There - that's most of the praise out of the way.
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  • Blood River by Tim Butcher
    ...Congo & along its eponymous river, Tim Butcher explores the modern country and its history. An enthralling rendition of what is effectively the rape of a ...Aid gave us all hope that maybe the continent's problems were solvable... and almost as long since we'd begun to realise that it wasn't going to be that
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  • Blades of Grass by Mark Aylwin Thomas
    ...during the late thirties, early forties, providing an insight into history and thoughts for consideration of the future. Written as a memorial to a famil ...n story, an unknown story to most people. It is one that should be told – and reflected upon.
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  • The Insider by Piers Morgan
    ...thing there that you couldn't have got by assiduously reading the tabloids and you won't feel good after reading it. It's mildly interesting but ultimatel ...people who make a good living out of selling it. Still, the book was there and I thought I might as well have a look just to see how dreadful it was.
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  • That's Not English by Erin Moore
    |genre=Politics and Society ...n the common language that divides us. I defy you not to smile repeatedly and also not to learn something about your own language whichever side of the p
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  • The Design of Future Things by Donald Norman
    ...e by any educated readers with some interest in design, how things do work and how they should. ...is doing something or just hanging there? Been trying to interpret beeping and blinking signals on a coffee maker? Lulled into sense of false security by
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  • Local by Alastair Humphreys
    ...ntures around the map of his home turf looking for nature and finding that and much else besides. ...ght or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Michael Pronko about 'Motions and Moments'
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Michael Pronko about 'Motions and Moments' ...and Moments: More Essays on Tokyo by Michael Pronko|third book]], Motions and Moments: More Essays on Tokyo. She had quite a few questions for Michael w
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  • Shopped by Joanna Blythman
    |genre=Politics and Society ...reading for all British consumers. Read it and weep. Still better, read it and do something about it.
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  • The Temple-Goers by Aatish Taseer
    |summary=A harsh portrait of a modern India that is short on sentiment and heavy on ambition. ...kh mother, traces his absent Muslim father across the border in Pakistan – and also for his translations of the short stories of Saadat Hasan Manto.
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  • The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
    |genre=Politics and Society ...carries this double mantle with aplomb occasionally bordering on chutzpah and plenty of style. Highly recommended.
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  • Ashes and Sparks: Essays On Law and Justice by Stephen Sedley
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  • Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently by John L Locke
    |title=Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently ...le romp through the academic study of linguistic differences between males and females, a persuasive hypothesis that these are biologically determined.
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  • Christmas Gift Recommendations 2008
    ...ver marketing. We've picked out the best books which we've seen this year and we think that you should be able to find something for everyone on your gif ...ome we think that Anne Cleves is the most promising newcomer at the moment and we can recommend [[White Nights by Ann Cleeves|White Nights]].
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  • The Truth Commissioner by David Park
    ...y others who thought the past was laid to rest. Story-telling at its best and political questioning at its most subtle. Recommended on both levels. ...He'd never been anywhere before ‘except once'. And now he's frightened – and so he should be. He is in deep trouble.
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  • The Elimination by Rithy Panh
    |genre=Politics and Society ...lm-maker. He confronts Comrade Duch, one of the architects of the horror, and intersperses those interviews with his own childhood memories of the time.
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