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[[Category:New Reviews|Politics and Society]]==Politics and society==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Kevin Lewis|title=The Kid: A True Story|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Kevin Lewis grew up on a poverty <!--stricken London council estate in the sort of home that the neighbours complain about. Remove His mother – inadequate by any measure – hated him more than most of her six children and he was beaten and starved by both of his parents. You might think that Social Services would have stepped in and removed him, but any relief was to be short-lived. 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 simply as 'The Kid'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014104859X</amazonuk->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris MullinAriel Saramandi|title=Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005 to 2010|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=At the end Portrait of [[A View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin|A View from the Foothills]] we left Chris Mullin wondering why he was no longer Tony Blair's Africa minister at the Foreign Office. He was never to get a definitive answer to this, but was later told that Blair handed out the junior ministerial appointments rather like sweets, with few worries about how people would feel if they were missed out or sacked. In Decline and Fall we see Chris come down from the foothills of politics and return to the backbenches. He might no longer be in a position of power, but he's still in the thick of it. Perhaps though, some of the enjoyment is draining away from the job as he sees himself with years more of doing nothing very important.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683998</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Malalai Joya|title=Raising My Voice: The Extraordinary Story of the Afghan Woman Who Dares to Speak Outan Island on Fire
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|summary=Forget entertainment – In this is a book powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to read if you have any interest in intradermally dissect the war in Afghanistan. My particular view has developed from a British armchairsociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, comprising part emotional reaction, a smidgeon of history tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and an over-reliance on British media sourcesslavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. In a war zone where truth has been Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting'', a casualty throughout, this book gives blunt yet apt metaphor for the general reader an authentic view of conditions in Afghanistan over systemic decay brought about by the past twenty five years malignant forces of continual warfare. Written by a young and hot-headedracism, wildly patriotic 'ordinary' womanpatriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this is no more reliable than any other partisan viewcollection serves as a kind of diagnostic, but its value is to help put official news sources into their proper context. I found it educative in several sensescharting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846041503</amazonuk>1804271616
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia NicolGregor Hens and Jen Calleja (translator)|title=Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You About Diet, Thrift and Going Green|rating=2.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=In the current economy, lots of people are trying to make ends meet in their own ways. Not since the days of Brownie badges has the word ''thrift'' been bandied around so much, but now it's not so much about saving money as it is about surviving. Actually, maybe it always was, but the Guiding Association thought a jolly piggy bank was a more appropriate badge emblem than a depressed family collapsed in front of their Sky TV with their supermarket-own curry struggling to fill the void left by a regular take away. What we all need is a return to the good old days, when life was simpler and people happier, the days when you didn't need to clear half an hour in your diary to navigate the olive aisle of the supermarket, The City and when you ate what was fresh and local, not because it was cheap or you were in the mood, but because it was all they had.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099521121</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adam Phillips|title=On BalanceWorld
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|summary=Essential for a tightrope walkerIn ''The City and the World'', prized Gregor Hens reveals how cities are as much imagined spaces as an intellectual objective, balance is generally considered something to which we can aspirethey are physical ones. We praise someone who makes With a balanced decision, we envy people who deep affection for the urban landscapes that have a 'good work/shaped his life balance' we offer an opinion ', Hens reflects on places like Cologne, Berlin, and Goch on balance' to demonstrate that we have considered various arguments the Lower Rhine with a blend of personal memory and options.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241143888</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Robertson|title=And The Land Lay Still|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The novel starts ..thoughtful observation. His writing, at times abstract, captures not just architectural features but the end. We see the fictional characteremotional and mental geographies tied to each location, photographer Mike Pendreich collating manyfor example, many photographs which his late father took with his trusty cameraperspectives as a child as opposed to as an adult. His father is generally acknowledged as the better From Belgium and Germany to Berkeley and Columbus, Hens traces a map of the two at the craft; he simply had the knack. And what his son is now in charge experiences, turning cities into reflections of are black identity and white photographs charting a social history at that time. And we all know that a picture is worth a thousand wordsbelonging.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024114356X</amazonuk>1804271691
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan GreenPaul B Preciado|title=Murder in the High HimalayaDysphoria Mundi
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|summary=The Himalayan mountains mean many things ''It is never too late to different people. To embrace the people revolutionary optimism of Tibet, trapped under the atheist occupiers from China, who 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 country from historychildhood's prior ravages, but keeping people who want out, very much in. To rich Westerners, they are a sparkling challenge - a task of the highest order, a box to tick on the way to self-fulfilment - something to be climbed, because they're there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1586487140</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SklootJacqueline Feldman|title=The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksPrecarious Lease|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyBiography|summary=In John Hopkins HospitalThe title of this novel refers to a French legal term (''bail précaire'') associated with squatters in France, Baltimoreaffording them temporary suspension from eviction charges and processes, but few scant property rights. Among mentions of other squats dotted around Paris like Le Carrosse and La Miroiterie, Feldman takes particular interest in October 1951, Henrietta Lacksone squat of massive proportions which adopted an almost mythical status for its inhabitants, admirers and detractors alike: Le Bloc. Something like a mother haven for artists and marginal members of five childrensociety (as one character, Le Général, died repeats throughout, ''I live on the margins of cervical cancer at the age margins of 31. However, a sample of her cancer cells taken the same year lived onmargins''), grew and reproduced. Often referred Le Bloc was subject to as HeLa cells, cells with their origins in the original sample are still being used in medical continual threat of eviction and scientific research today, nearly sixty years on. Many of the scientific breakthroughs that have been made using HeLa cells are hugely profitablepressures from above which oppressed its inhabitants' lives. But her children have spent their lives We follow Le Bloc from its opening in low waged jobs and on welfare2012 until its eventual dissolution, unable to afford basic health insurance. Understandably they feel framed as a lot of anger at tragedy in this injusticebook.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230748694</amazonuk>1804271403
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garrett KeizerClaire Dederer|title=The Unwanted Sound of Everything Monsters: What Do We WantDo with Great Art by Bad People?|rating=4.53
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|summary=What is noise? Do we count birdsong at sunrise as noise? And if so, Dederer sets out to unveil what different term would we use to describe she calls a jet aircraft taking off? Why do we respond so differently to ''biography of the two? Even more intriguinglyaudience'' in a deconstructed, would our response change if thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the birdsong woke us old aphorism of separating the art from the artist in the context of contemporary ''cancel culture''. Dederer's work is original and expressive. The reader gets the impression that the thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the page. In particular, the prologue packs a punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an exhausted sleep but artist she personally admires for his art, and yet despises for his actions. This model of ''monstrous men'' as she calls them, is consistent for the aircraft was taking off to jet us on first few chapters, interrogating the likes of Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. Her critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and maintaining her own subjectivity, as she holds it so dearly, and a long awaited holiday?personal, rather than collective voice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1586485520</amazonuk>1399715070
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Douglas RushkoffVirginie Despentes|title=Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it BackKing Kong Theory|rating=3.54|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography |summary=The author of this book was mugged outside his apartment one Christmas Eve. He posted ''King Kong Theory'' is a hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifesto, which can be seen as a note online call to warn his neighbours to be extra careful, and was promptly berated arms for doing something so public that could potentially damage property values women in his local areaa phallocentric society broken at its core. This Originally written in French, the book is a thought-provoking snippetcollection of essays in which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the complex prism of her varied life: from rape to sex work and pornography. Though these discussions are intertwined, and if their placement within the whole book was like thiscan feel somewhat disjointed, I'm sure I would have been grippeda reflection of their original form as independent essays.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099516691</amazonuk>191309734X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Beaumont1009473085|title=The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)
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|summary=Peter Beaumont is the Foreign Affairs editor at Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The ObserverConservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. He joined If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the paper in 1989 and has spent much of inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the intervening time dealing with the kind of book for you. If that'foreign affairss what you' that is better described as re looking for, I don'war reportingt think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Secret Life of WarConservative Effect'' is a distillation of his years in the fieldan entirely different beast. It is 's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book illfollows the well-served by both its title and its cover, except maybe insofar as both might serve to sneak it onto established format: a series of experts from various fields review the bookshelves state of those who really need to read itthe nation when the coalition took over in 2010, but probably wouldn't choose to do so were it more accurately wrappedthe changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520982</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary YoungeAlastair Humphreys|title=Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the 21st Century?Local
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|genre=AutobiographyTravel |summary=Journalist Gary Younge’s Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book draws heavily on his articles for the Guardian newspaper, as he mentions walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his acknowledgementsintroduction, but it isn’t just a collection of his journalism. Who Are We? the book is partly an attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a memoir and partly year exploring a thoughtful and incisive exploration of the politics and political impact of identitysmall map. Nature loss, including racepollution, genderland use and access, language groupsagriculture, religionthe food system, sexuality in various countries around rewilding…'' One of the joys of the book for me was that the world. He sets out to explore biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong'To what extent can our various identities be mobilized , that every upside is likely to accentuate our universal humanity as opposed to separating us off into various, antagonistic camps?'have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670917036</amazonuk>1785633678
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernhard SchlinkEdel Rodriguez|title=Guilt About the PastWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey
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|genre=Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary=ConsiderWe're in childhood, if you will, guiltand we're in Cuba. You might have it tainting youThe revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as 'beyond a saviour of the perpetratorscountry, every person who stands in solidarity with them and maintains solidarity after the fact becomes entangled'. The link might not strictly be has proven himself a legal oneCommunist, but concern 'norms of religion and morals, etiquette and custom as well as day-not done nearly enough to-day communications and interactions'create a level playing field for all. Hence a collective guilt like no other Well, those hours- that witnessed in Germanylong speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator'The assumption that membership to a people engenders solidarity is something Germans of my generation do not easily like to accepts family weren', we read. However difficult it might have been back then t in its daythe happiest of places here, Germany had an uncle refusing to physically renounce anything be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to do with Nazismsome minor pro-Communism skirmish, to actively 'opt-out' of connections to avoid such as Angola) and the solidarity seen connecting the whole nation like a toxic spider webfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. And since then it's linked in all The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the childrenheat, but in a ''bequeathal'' this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of guilt.the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905636776</amazonuk>1474616720
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael WolffSarah Wilson|title=The Man Who Owns the NewsThis One Wild and Precious Life: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdochpath back to connection in a fractured world
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=There can be few people who are unaware of My favourite Mary Oliver line is the name of Rupert Murdochone in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. '' Over four decades heI's built News International into a seventy billion dollar corporation from its original Australian basem lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to. His position in the UK media Sarah Wilson is such equally lucky. In her book that hetakes Oliver's courted by politicians and has what many believe words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an excessive amount of power for someone who is unequivocal ''no, we are not elected and is not even a UK citizen''. HeDon't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's now expanding into Southeast Asia effing furious about the fact that we are not.|isbn=1785633848}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and in his eightieth year wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153050|title=Britain's still difficult Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine when – or where – he what there will stop.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523523</amazonuk>be to come in the 2023 edition?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil MacFarquharB0B7289HKQ|title=The Media Relations Department Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy BirthdayAmerica|author=Kari Loya|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=''What are Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the chances of change in way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the Middle East?'' is the question central period between two jobs seemed like a good time to this bookdo it. Since Neil MacFarquhar spent thirteen years wandering the length and breadth of The decision was made to ride the Islamic stronghold of the Middle EastTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, I feel inclined Virginia to believe his Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in-depth assessment2015. In descriptive and reasoned terms, he identifies conservative forces which predominate in They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the region, primarily the religious and political machinery recommended time - but there were factors which condemns liberalization and modernizationpointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most people who considered taking it on. This discussion of attempts to promote change, for example by individual dissidents or the media, is strengthened in the second half of the book by detailed case studies of six nations with particular reference to their readiness Merv Loya was 75 years old and motivation for changehe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1586488112</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1739593901
|title=22 Ideas About The Future
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Goodall and Douglas RogersAbrams |title=The Last ResortBook of Hope
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|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society |summary=Author Douglas Rogers The done thing is to read a Zimbabwean who moved awayfrom book all the country many years ago, but has never been able way through before you sit down to persuadehis parents – two white farmersreview it. I’m making an exception here, Lyn and Roz – because I don’t want to follow him out lose any oftheir homeland, despite the resettlement policies experience of Robert Mugabereading this amazing book,the hyper-inflation, and the corruption I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in the country. Instead, thepair just wanted to stay on the farm welcoming people to Drifters,their backpackers' lodgetears.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906021910</amazonuk>024147857X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Archie Brown1788360737|title=Artivism: The Rise and Fall Battle for Museums in the Era of CommunismPostmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=4.52|genre=HistoryPolitics and Society|summary='A source of hope for Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a radiant future or…the greatest threat on the face of the earth'vacuum. It is made by people. Whichever of these descriptions you would apply Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to Communism you will find Archie Brown's detailed and largely objective study enlightening and engrossingmodifying the social environment in which he develops’’. On one levelTherefore, all art must be political, this even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is a chronological description art for art’s sake. The recent trend of how a so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political force grew (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to dominate create a third of the world's population then virtually disappeared within a period of less than a centurymore globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845950674</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Eggers1398508632|title=ZeitounThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Flicking through the channels It had been on the TV cards for a while but it was the other night I stumbled across an interview with George Bush's former Deputy Chief week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of StaffNovember, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, Karl Rovein a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. After witnessing an especially cringe making hip hop turn at Wilde had a few advantages: the Washington Correspondents' Dinner (if you haven't seen it take area around her was a known habitat with a look at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo here]variety of terrains. It really is jaw droppingly awful) attention turned She had electricity which allowed her to weightier mattersrun a fridge, most notably Guantanamo Bay freezer and the war on terror dehydrator. She had a car - and the Bush administrations response fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to Hurricane Katrinalive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144841</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Bell1529149800|title=A Very British RevolutionThings You Can Do: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our DemocracyFight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
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|genre=Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=I've long thought it strange that of all We begin with a telling story. All the ills that have befallen birds and animals fled when the country over the last few years it was not really the bankers' follies or the swine flu that never really got off the ground but the venality forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of our MPs which caught the public's attentionanything they could do. Compared The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts required of water and flying back to bail out a bank drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the sums involved were minutehummingbird. And that, but moatsreally, floating duck houses and flipping houses caught is the only way that we will solve the imagination and our elected representatives became just a little wary problem of climate change – by each of admitting us doing what they did for a livingwe can, however small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848311281</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1638485216
|title=Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
|author=Frederick Reynolds
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Salman RushdieMatthieu Aikins|title=Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticisms 1981 - 1991The Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=34.5
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|summary=We read some authors because we know weIt're going to enjoy them. Others, we feel somehow obliged s easy to read. If we consider ourselves ''readersforget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, and certainly if we have because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any pretensions (I use the word advisedly) means a criticism, but rather a testament to being ''how well-read'', then there Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are some books tense moments and more particularly some authors gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with whom we are required a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to become familiarperfectly envisage the environments and people described.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099542250</amazonuk>B09N9157T6
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carole White and Sian Williams1785633074|title=Struggle or StarveStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry
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|genre=AutobiographyHumour|summary=Struggle or Starve Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is a collection run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of autobiographical writings about girlsyou who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime' and women's lives movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in South Wales between the wars. This is a new edition privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of a book first published in 1998 the Covid crisis which was completely contained by Honno, an independent publisher set up to encourage Welsh women writersthe end of 2020. Most of You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the contributors in this book came from miners' families and grew up in real poverty and economic insecurityman to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784094</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett1846276772|title=The Spirit LevelEnd of Bias: Why Equality Is Better For Everyone How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell
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|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=If you asked people why it Anyone who is (or might be) a good idea not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to reduce inequality in which they suffer from it: it's simply a societypart of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, many people would assume that reducing inequality works by making promotions, higher salaries are the life preserve of the poorest better: white man. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the poor are bias but it's not just the ones individuals who benefit from reduction of inequalityare negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141032367</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Shields1529148251|title=Reality HungerMisfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel
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|summary='The Novel is Dead' is not really what a novelist wants How am I able to read first be so transparent on picking up a new book – but I persevered with Shields' manifesto paper about rape, malpractice and Ipoverty, yet still compartmentalise? It'm glad s as though I didwere telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it. This is a thought-provoking wake-up call that any artist, writer or book-lover will enjoy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024114499X</amazonuk>}}''
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008350388
|title=We Need to Talk About Money
|author=Otegha Uwagba
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|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean Hannah Edelstein Richard Brook|title=Himglish and FemaleseUnderstanding Human Nature: Why Women DonA User't Get Why Men Don't Get Thems Guide to Life|rating=4.5
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|summary=Men aren't Martian I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and women don't hail from Venussometimes books choose us. We're all Earthlings apparently; which seems like progress In my case, this is one of a sortthe latter. Even Not so we still very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have trouble understanding each other 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because we speak different languages – Himglish and FemaleseI was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. Luckily Jean Hannah Edelstein is fluent in both and has written this light hearted volume that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to define like the problem and translatebook, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848091729</amazonuk>1800461682
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Hooper1787332098|title=The Tall Man: Life and Death on Palm IslandHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=45
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Cameron Doomadgee – Mulrunji – was just thirty six years old when he was arrested ''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on Palm Island. Quite why he was arrested was never clear. He wasn't drunkAnd we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, although he had been drinking beer – and was walking along the road singing millions of wild animals stay out there, ''Who Let the Dogs Out?somewhere,'' Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley felt that there was reason to arrest Mulrunji for creating as public nuisance and he was taken to hopefully on the police station. What happened next was to be the subject of intense media speculation and legal proceedings over the coming years, but within forty five minutes Mulrunji was deadDavid Attenborough series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520761</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dana Fowley|title=How Could She?|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=From the age of five Dana Fowley was subjected to unimaginable sexual abuse and before long her sister would be subjected to more of the same. She was raped by her mother's partner and taken to the homes of her grandparents where she was abused by them and others. At other 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 eye? It was neither of those.'
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1523092734
|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space
|author=Eliza Van Cort
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicholas SternPolly Barton|title=A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save the World and Create ProsperityFifty Sounds
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|summary=The hardback edition of Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?''A Blueprint Japan has been on my radar for a Safer Planetwhile and if the world hadn' was published early t gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in 2009 as an update to respect of the 2006 Stern Review on question in the economics of climate change. Now here first essay, which is on the paperback editionsound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, published too early to critique Copenhagenamong other things, but nonetheless an interesting read. Stern is an expert witness who presents his evidence understandably for the layman; he is unemotional and very convincingsound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099524058</amazonuk>1913097501
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex Hesz and Bambos Neophytou Stephen Fabes|title=Guilt Trip: From Fear to Guilt on the Green BandwagonSigns of Life|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Did you know that HorlicksI was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, that great sleep aid, is sold in India as a start-I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the-day energy boost? Not another concoction under guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the same brandkind of steady nerve, but ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the Exact Same Productrequisite 'bottle'. In order words I'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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>047074622X</amazonuk>1788161211
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