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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Bremner -->|-{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1009473085[[image:Bremner_Us.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0525533184/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] It wasn't supposed to be like this, was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom and gloom. The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the world, fuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. People keep saying that robots are coming to take all our jobs. Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the world. And inequality is as much of a problem as it ever was – if not more so. [[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer|Full Review]] <!-- Wolff -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wolff Trump.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408711400?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408711400]]  | style="verticalConservative Effect 2010 -align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff]]===2024[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] As I began listening to ''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House'' we were treated to the unedifying spectacle of the President of the United States taking to Twitter to establish that he was ''a stable genius'', as opposed, we must conclude to being an unstable... Well, let's not go there. It's a little too frightening: this is the most powerful man in the world. So what made me listen to this book? Well, Donald Trump didn't want me to read it: US presidents don't often go down that road and rarely to a good destination (I'm thinking of Richard Nixon here) and that made me really want to know what was between the covers. But how did the book stack up? [[Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Anderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Anderson_Fantasyland.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785038656]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]] <!-- Connolly -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Connolly_working.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1911585363?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1911585363]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Simple summary: ''Know Your Place'' is an anthology of essays on the working class by the working class. There are twenty-three disparate pieces talking about everything you can imagine: day trips to the seaside, access to the arts, food poverty, pub culture, glass ceilings, housing estates, vulgarity-as-class-marker, and much more.  And a full disclosure: ''Know Your Place'' was brought to fruition by crowdfunding and I was a contributor. I read the proposed spec and just ''knew'' I would love the book, should it reach its fundraising target, and that's why I stumped up some cash. I think class is both an under- and mis-discussed topic with working class people defined externally and talked about rather than listened to or allowed to define themselves. And I really did love the book just as I thought I would. So you know - there's a possible reviewer bias here that you should know about. I like to think I would have criticised ''Know Your Place'' had it fallen short of my hopes for it but just in case, I'm letting you know. [[Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly|Full Review]] <!-- Smith -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Smith_Dont.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147212345X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147212345X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms by Harry Leslie Smith]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]]  Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms is part autobiography and part rallying call for society to tackle the systemic, endemic and debilitating inequality faced by the people of the United Kingdom, particularly in the North. Through reflecting on his own experiences during his childhood, Harry Leslie Smith has painted a frank and uncompromising picture of the grim, appallingly miserable childhood he had to endure due to the poverty faced by his family contrasted with the, shamefully still, grim and miserable lives many people endure today in a country ravaged by cuts, austerity and political turmoil. [[Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms by Harry Leslie Smith|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Bristow -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Bristow China.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985902?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985902]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a journalist for the BBC, author Michael Bristow decided to write about Chinese history. Having been learning the local language for several years, Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the language teacher, born in the early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of life in Communist China - but added to that, Bristow was greatly surprised to find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in ladies clothing. It soon becomes clear that the tale told here is immensely personal - yet also paints a fascinating portrait of one of the world's most intriguing nations. [[China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-dresser by Michael Bristow|Full Review]] <!-- Landreth -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Landreth_Swell.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472938941?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1472938941]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Swell by Jenny Landreth]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics Anthony Seldon and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Sport|Sport]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] I love Jenny's own description of her book as a waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. This is more than just Tom Egerton (I say ''just''!Editors) a recollection of the author's own encounters with water; it's also a history of women's fight for the right to swim. That sounds absurd until you start reading about it, then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of the absurd. Not a lover of book blurbs myself, I do always seek to give a shout-out to those who get it dead right: in this case I'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the-commute funny''. [[Swell by Jenny Landreth|Full Review]] |} {{newreview|author=Francis O'Gorman|title=Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia|rating=4.5

|summary=After Sometimes it's simpler to explain a glut of books about mindfulness book by describing what it came as something of a relief ''isn't'' and that applies to encounter ''ForgetfulnessThe Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really''happened on certain occasions, Francis Othen this isn'Gormant the book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't 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 Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's thinking on why the twenty-first century is losing touch with seventh book in a series which looks at the past, on why what is likely - or could be impact a government has made and co- to happen is so much more editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important than what . This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Humphreys|title=Local|rating=5|genre=Travel |summary= Alastair Humphreys has gone beforewalked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. The As he says in his introduction, the book is supremely intelligentan attempt ''to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, but with the knowledge worn lightly and itfood system, rewilding…''s eminently readable, regardless One of the joys of how you feel about the conclusions book for me was that the biggest thing he drawslearned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1501324691</amazonuk>1785633678

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stuart MaconieEdel Rodriguez|title= Long Road From JarrowWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating= 54|genre= Travel Graphic Novels|summary= I cancelled my We''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago re in childhood, and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconiewe's columnre in Cuba. His down-to-earth approach The revolution has happened, and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admitlevel playing field for all. Let's be honest Well, though, I picked this one up because those hours-long speeches of his were kind of someone elsetaking his time away. Our narrator's review, family weren't in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know the happiest of) places here, an uncle refusing to be the Jarrow Crusade but when good soldier the country demanded (especially as he talks about it would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being ''a whole matrix frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of events reducible to one word like Aberfanthe heat, Hillsboroughbut in this sultry island country, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part remains the kind of my history too. Tangentially, at least.heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Raymond WilliamsSarah Wilson|title= Culture This One Wild and Society 1780-1950Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating= 43.5|genre= Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary= From My favourite Mary Oliver line is the last decades of one 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.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the eighteenth century way I want to the final words of modernism, this . Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book tracks societal changes through exploring five key that takes Oliver's words: industryas 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 unequivocal ''no, democracywe are not''. Don't care what you're doing, classshe thinks you (we, art and cultureI) could be doing more…And she's 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. The meanings As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of such things, their essence, changes as per their use and exploring the era edges of England in which their implications were consideredan electric car was not totally outrageous.In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784870811</amazonuk>1529153050|title=Britain's 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 what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Patrick WestB0B7289HKQ|title= Get Over YourselfConversations Across America: Nietzsche for our timesA Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya|rating= 14|genre= Politics and SocietyTravel|summary= Get Over Yourself considers Nietzsche's imagined perceptions of modern society and uses our society Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to explain spend some time with his philosophy. I'm sorry if that sounds vague but it's father and the best I can period between two jobs seemed like a good time to do from it. The decision was made to ride the blurb on the back. After reading Get Over Yourself Trans America Bike Trail from cover Yorktown, Virginia to coverAstoria, I am still none the wiser about the purpose Oregon - all 4250 miles of this bookit - in 2015. It appears They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be a series of personal opinions held together with quotes, which donfor most people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer't always appear relevant, from Nietzsche, Chumbawumba and newspaper articless.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409337</amazonuk>

I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cathy Scott-Clark Jane Goodall and Adrian LevyDouglas Abrams |title= The ExileBook of Hope |rating=5|genre=Politics and Society |summary= The done thing is to read a book all the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. |isbn=024147857X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating= 42

|summary= An account Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of the fate Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of Al Qaeda so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been on the Bin Laden family since cards for a while but it was the events week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of 9/11November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, ''The Exile'' plunges into Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the murky waters area around her was a known habitat with a variety of international terrorismterrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, espionage freezer and politicsdehydrator. Detailed She had a car - and meticulousfuel. Most importantly, the book tackles the subject from all angles, providing she had shelter: this was not a panoramic view of the subject and acting plan to ''live'' wild just to enlighten and inform the readerlive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858762</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Clarkson1529149800|title= Things You Can I Speak Do: How to Someone in Charge?Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics Home and SocietyFamily|summary=''Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?'', blogger Emily Clarkson's debut book, is We begin with a fierce, witty telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and laugh-out-loud funny ode to feminism. In a series most of open lettersthem stood and watched, she addresses the issues faced by every modern woman, discussing everything from dealing with body hair unable to being made think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to feel uncomfortable in the gym, as well as more personal issues, like her experiences river and began taking tiny amounts of being water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''catfishedI' and sent abuse onlinem doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. This And that, really, is a vital read for any girl born in the 1990sonly way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exteriorhowever small that might be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471156907</amazonuk>

<!-- Elkin -->{{Frontpage[[image:Elkin_Flaneuse.jpg|leftisbn=1638485216|linktitle=httpsBlack, White, and Gray All Over://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099593378?ieA Black Man's Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=UTF8&tagFrederick Reynolds|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode5|genre=as2&campAutobiography|summary=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099593378]]''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It has everything to do with character. Period.''

[[The murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a forty-four-year-old police officer, in the US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The imageof Chauvin kneeling on George's neck is not one which I'll ever forget and the protests which followed cannot have been unexpected. There was a backlash against the police - and not just in Minneapolis:4starwhatever their colour or creed they were ''all'' tarred by the Chauvin brush.}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthieu Aikins|title=The Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=It's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through.jpgBut it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people described.|linkisbn=Category:{B09N9157T6}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.}}} Star Reviews]] [[{{Frontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias:Category:HistoryHow We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|History]]summary=Anyone who is not an able, [[white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it:Categoryit's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the 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 bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529148251|title=Misfits:AutobiographyA Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|Autobiography]]summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.''

Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: theyBefore you start reading ''re places where you canMisfits't or shouldn't you need to be seen walking; places where, in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking a certain frame of everything from mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-help book. You'Madame Bovary're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel' s 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''Revolutionary Roadreading''). When she imagines the book but you need to herself what the female version of that well-known historical figure, the carefree ''flâneurlisten'', might be, she thinks about women who freely wandered to the worldwords as though you's great cities without having re in the more insalubrious connotation lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of the word exquisite writing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary='streetwalker' applied To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to them. [[Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New Yorkbe seen as less desirable, Tokyoless hireable, Venice less intelligent and London ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Lauren Elkin|Full Review]]<br>Otegha Uwagba

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===[[Surgery on Otegha Uwagba came to the Shoulders UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of Giantsanything: Letters from it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a doctor abroad by Saqib Noor]]===place at New College, Oxford.}}

{{Frontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so 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 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [[image:4star''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{1800461682}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography=5|Autobiography]], [[:Category:genre=Politics and Society|Politics summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and Society]]millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.''

The letters begin I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the fashion wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of any young man away from home, perhaps in a quite exciting country, writing back it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to family animals - and friends I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to tell them choose between the company of his experienceshumans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the sights he's seen and the people he's metanimals. It's just a little different in ''Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants'' thoughI insisted that I read this book: Saqib Noor is a junior doctor, training no one was trying to be an orthopaedic surgeon and over a period of ten years he visited six countries, not as a tourist stop me but to give medical assistanceI was initially reluctant. They're countries which Noor describes as ''fourth world'' - third world with added disaster - I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and their need is desperate. [[Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants: Letters from a doctor abroad by Saqib Noor|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Rebecca Asher|title= Man Up|rating= 5|genre= Politics fish and Society|summary= When a couple of years ago I needed to either do so without guilt or change my university introduced compulsory consent workshops along with an option of 'good lad' sessions for boys, all debate broke loosechoices. Shouldn't consent be self-evident for everyone? Would I suspected that making the workshops reinforce the stereotype of 'laddish' boys? Would it all decision would not be about pointing fingers at boys and victimizing girls? What about non-binary people? In short, how could these workshops be anything else than a mission doomed to failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701807</amazonuk>comfortable.

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[[imageSometimes the reviewing gods are generous:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]]at a time when violence against women is much in the news, [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] ''OutskirtsA Women's Guide to Claiming Space' ' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is an interesting take on not a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of countryside surrounding inner city housing estates. John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960's and how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs'70manual: it'ssomething far more effective, as he puts it, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''I grew up on the last road in London.protected'' Grindrod explores the introduction of the green belt, and the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within I've always thought that women need to rise above this topic, he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart. [[Outskirts by John Grindrod|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Carolina de Robertis|title= Radical Hope|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society|summary= On 8th November 2016be people who don't need protection, Donald Trump was elected as the 46th President of the United Statespeople who claim their own space. Since then many Americans have been overcome with fear If all women did this, worrying about what will become of American society during Trump's administration. Carolina de Robertis was no exception those few men who are violent to this fear and in response to the newly elected President and his policies she put out a call for action. Radical Hope is the outcome to this call. De Robertis reached out women would realise that we are not just an easy target to fellow writers and activists asking for letters, predominantly letters of love, addressed to the citizens of today and those of past and future generations in order be used to help spread hope during times of uncertaintyprove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349010102</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew d'AnconaPolly Barton|title=Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight BackFifty Sounds|rating=34.5

|summary=Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Our own post-truth era is what happens when society relaxes its defence of values that underpin cohesion, namely veracity, honesty and accountability.Why Japan?'' I'm old enough or perhaps naive enough to believe that when making Japan has been on my radar for a decision about political voting, you should be able to rely absolutely on what while and if the candidate tells youworld hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I've been suspicious for a decade or moremay get there later this year, but itI am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don's become difficult t know the answer to ignore the change question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in political attitudes since Brexit and respect of the election of Donald Trump. With regard to question in the latterfirst essay, when Trump was challenged which is on a statement hethe sound 'd made which was subsequently found to be incorrect, his response was 'giro'Who cares if I got it wrong?'' He was able to tap to – which she describes as being, among other things, the fading concept sound of 'the American Dream' - those Americans who were used every party where you have to waiting patiently in line and who had found themselves overtaken by ''women, immigrants and public sector workersintroduce yourself''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785036874</amazonuk>1913097501

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen MossFabes|title= Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's WildlifeSigns of Life|rating= 45|genre= Animals and WildlifeTravel|summary= Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it is an unfortunate byI was brought up on maps and first-product person narratives of human population growthtales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which in was the modern world has increased significantlyguts to simply go out and do it. Through this book Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to bring back some of Britainstrangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottle'. In order words I's wildlife without compromising m not the human way sort of life: we can co-exist with natureperson who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>1788161211