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|isbn=15043213831009473085|title=Single, Again, and Again, and AgainThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Louisa PatemanAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''You canisn't be happy '' and fulfilled on your ownthat applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. You are not complete until If you find a man're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really''happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. This was If that's what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasnyou're looking for, I don't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be best bettered for herthose tumultuous years. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who then marries her so that they can live happily ever afterthinks Johnson should return to politics. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''withoutThe Conservative Effect'' the expectation that they will marry and have childrenis an entirely different beast. It was 's the seventh book in a belief series which looks at the impact a government has made and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. 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 ''a belief is a choice''occurred and the situation in 2024.

|author=Sakinu AhronglongAlastair Humphreys|title=Hunter SchoolLocal|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyTravel |summary= The flyleaf Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to this little collection tells us that home and then wrote about it is a work of fiction. That's possibly misleading. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" As he says in his introduction, the sense that Ahronglong made it all up, or whether it book is as the blurb goes on to say an attempt ''recollectionsto share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, folklore pollution, land use and autobiographical storiesaccess, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…''. It feels like One of the joys of the latter. It feels like book for me was that the stories biggest thing he tells learned about his experiences as a childall of these things was that there are no easy answers, as an adolescentno single 'right or wrong', as an adult are real and true. But memory that every upside is likely to have a fickle thing, and maybe poetic licence has taken over here downside for somebody and that there, and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it. More people shouldare some hard choices ahead.|isbn=19997912821785633678

|author=Frederic GrosEdel Rodriguez|title=Worm: A Philosophy of WalkingCuban American Odyssey|rating=54|genre= Politics and SocietyGraphic Novels|summary= I confess I picked this one up from the library We're in childhood, and we're in my pre-lockdown forage of random stuffCuba. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the pages I have marked country, has proven himself a Communist, and return to its varying wisdom when I need not done nearly enough tocreate a level playing field for all. Some books draw you in slowly Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. This one had me Our narrator's family weren't in the first two pageshappiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is and not a sport''liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=17816883701474616720

|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)Sarah Wilson|title=Tiananmen 1989This One Wild and Precious Life: Our Shattered Hopesthe path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsLifestyle|summary=I never really followed My favourite Mary Oliver line is the events of Tiananmen Square 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 attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you knowbecause my answer is ''This! Precisely this. '' I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests m lucky enough to be living my one wild and hunger strikes from precious life the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, way I didnwant to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and s words as her title (though I didncan't know more than a spit see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the people involved on either sidelife we want – the best life that we could be living. This book Her answer is practically flawless in giving a general browseran unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's context for effing furious about the whole season of protests back in 1989fact that we are not.|isbn=16840569931785633848

|authorisbn=Sharon Blackie1785633457|title=If Women Rose RootedCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|genre= BiographyTravel|summary= I normally say that you can tell how much Clive Wilkinson has a book history of travelling by unconventional means to me by how many pages have corners turned downwith a preference for slow travel. Perhaps an even greater measure As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of impact is setting out to buy my own copy before I've finished reading exploring the one I've borrowededges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although In fact, it is definitely the first two and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist should be a pleasant holiday for a reason Clive and Ihis wife, Joan, shouldn'm not sure I can succinctly put t it any better.|isbn=1912836017?

|authorisbn= Linda Scott1529153050|title= The Double X EconomyBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=54|genre= Politics and SocietyHumour|summary=''Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in Seeking some light relief from the worldcurrent political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''. ItBritain's a bold statement for an opening chapter, but itBest Political Cartoons of 2022''s far from hyperbole as the following pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, and Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the impact on year: the local and world economycartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. What Who can imagine what there will be learnt from the great strides in gender-equalising legislation to come in the west2023 edition? What can be done about the selling of young women into marriage, and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|isbn=0571353606

|authorisbn=Danny DorlingB0B7289HKQ|title=SlowdownConversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya

|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary= We are living in Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’, by the way) wanted to spend some time with his father and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time of rapid change, and we're worried about to do it. Dorling tells us that The decision was made to ride the latter is normalTrans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, natural and probably good for us. We are designed Virginia to worry and with the current state Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of what we're doing it - in the world we have much to be worried about2015. However, over They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the next threerecommended time -hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow the arguments, but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't would be as worried as we are, or in some cases that we're worrying about the wrong things. Mostlyfor most people who considered taking it on. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down Merv Loya was 75 years old and the direction of change will in some cases go into reversehe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's.|isbn=0300243405

|isbn=02414467321739593901|title=Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis22 Ideas About The Future|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg Benjamin Greenaway and Svante ThunbergStephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Malena Ernman was an opera singer Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and Svante Thunberg took on most automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of the parenting of their two daughtersconfessions to make. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happeningforget to return to the book. In such circumstances, itThere's natural got to seek be a solution close very compelling hook to home, but eventually, keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it became clear to 's the technology which takes centre stage along with the family that they were ''burnedworld-out people on a burned-out planet'building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. If they were to find So, what did I think of a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radicalbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it.

|isbnauthor=0648684806Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John HollidayBook of Hope |rating=45|genre=BiographyPolitics and Society |summary=The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated done thing is to read a book all the USAway through before you sit down to review it. At the time she was just three-years-old but I’m making an exception here, because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed I don’t want to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out lose any of school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west experience of the United States and life was hardreading this amazing book, I want to capture it as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the familyit hits me. And it is hitting me. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died This beautiful book has me in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakeningtears.|isbn=024147857X

|isbn=183895015X1788360737|title=A Bit of a StretchArtivism: The Diaries Battle for Museums in the Era of a PrisonerPostmodernism|author=Chris AtkinsAlexander Adams|rating=52|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Documentary filmmakers don't usually get 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 run of establishments within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Groupsocial environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, but after getting involved even implicitly. Alexander Adams in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for a fiveart’s sake. The recent trend of so-year staycalled artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is probably the oldest, largest Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and most dysfunctional prison in Europeprogressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.

|authorisbn=Michael Harris1398508632|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|summary= This is not It had been on the book I cards for a while but it was expecting it to bethe week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to find calmstart, how to step outside in a world where the mainstreamnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, but it is not that at allBrexit and a pandemic. Instead Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of telling us how it is more about the terrains. She had electricity which 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 ''whylive''wild just to live off its produce.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529149800|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=We begin with a telling story. Harries examines how we're eroding solitudeAll the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, which used unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to be a natural part the river and began taking tiny amounts of our human life, water and why flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that mattersdoing. Of course ''I'm doing the best I can'', he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of said the hummingbird. And that, and eventually in really, is the only way that we will solve the final chapter he talks about his own experience problem of climate change – by each of having deliberately sought it outus doing what we can, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways however small that his thinking about this lost art led himmight be.|isbn=1847947662

|isbn=17837843501638485216|title=This Golden FleeceBlack, White, and Gray All Over: A Journey Through BritainBlack Man's Knitted HistoryOdyssey in Life and Law Enforcement|author=Esther RutterFrederick Reynolds

|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary=''Corruption is not department, gender or race specific. It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing has everything to people shedo with character. Period.'' ''One more body just wouldn't matter''d never met and preparing spreadsheets.  The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, on 25 May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel forty-four-year-old police officer, in the length and breadth US city of Minneapolis sent shock waves around the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story world. We rarely see pictures of a murder taking place but Floyd's death was an exception. The image of woolChauvin kneeling on George's history neck is not one which I'll ever forget and how it had made and changed the landscapeprotests which followed cannot have been unexpected. She'd grown up on There was a sheep farm backlash against the police - and not just in Suffolk - Minneapolis: whatever their colour or creed they were '' a free-range child on the farmall'' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her bloodtarred by the Chauvin brush.

|isbnauthor=0008294011Matthieu Aikins|title=How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece TemelkuranNaked Don't Fear the Water

|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought It's easy to forget at times that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question The Naked Don''Discuss t Fear the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasnWater isn't certain whether actually fiction, because it was reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading testament to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided toaccompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. I think now that I do know. We There are in danger tense moments and gripping accounts of losing democracy and whilst border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teethenvironments and people described.|isbn= B09N9157T6

|isbn=17868934521785633074|title=The Ungrateful RefugeeStaggering Hubris|author=Dina NayeriJosh Berry

|genre=BiographyHumour|summary=Here in Members of Parliament like us to believe that the Westcountry is run by politicians, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. But all of those stories are written headed by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to Prime minister - the world ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the situations reality is that refugees find themselves in. Itthe ''prime''s rare that we find out movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the journeys from government. We are in the refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity privileged position of having access to do thatthe memoirs of Rafe Hubris, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone the man who was born in behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the middle end of a revolution in Iran, fleeing 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to America as a ten-year-oldwatch.

|isbn=18460455761846276772|title=Walks In The WildEnd of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|Animals Politics and WildlifeSociety|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: it'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'An instruction manual for t pass the forest'' is how Wohllebenmedical become a part of an organisation it's publisher described the idea for this bookrare that their views are heard, and thattheir concerns are acknowledged. It's basically what it is – although right at personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the author says that bias but it is 's not intended to be a reference book, but an appetiserjust the individuals who are negatively impacted.

{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15"1529148251|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|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.''

<!Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-- de Bois -->help book. You'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 ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|-author=Otegha Uwagba| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"5|genre=Politics and Society[[image:1785903357.jpg|linksummary=http://www''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.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785903357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba

| style="verticalOtegha Uwagba came to the 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-alignworking, 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 anything: top; text-align: left;"|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 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 [[Confessions of ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]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.|isbn=1800461682}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|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 millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.''

[[imageI was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book:4starno one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant.jpg I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.}}{{Frontpage|linkisbn=Category:{{{1523092734|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:=5|genre=Politics and Society|Politics summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and Society]] again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me ''To claim space is to review live the memoir life of a Tory MPchoosing unapologetically and bravely. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject It is to live the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classeslife you've always wanted. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless.

SighSometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.}}{{Frontpage|author=Polly Barton|title=Fifty Sounds|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the world hadn'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 respect of the question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|isbn=1913097501}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephen Fabes|title=Signs of Life|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers 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'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.|isbn=1788161211}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.

Desperate cry into the void overThis was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. Sorry about that. At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[ Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois |Full Review]]  <!-- Leah Hazard -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786331608.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786331608/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Hard Pushed: A MidwifeIt wasn's Story by Leah Hazard]]=== [[imaget unkind:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Over it was simply the past few years, we've had a rash (sorry - no pun intended) of books by medical practitionersadults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. Doctors have been at the forefront, but ''Hard Pushed'' is the first book I've seen It was reinforced by a midwife. It's an unusual profession in that it's one of the few callings within the medical system all those fairy tales where most of the patients are healthy and the only one where one person comes into the system and girl (for the most part) more than one goes out. Itshe's an amazing thing to be able to do - to escort new life into the world - and an enormous responsibility. Leah Hazard came to it after a career in television and ''Hard Pushed'' usually fairly young) is rescued by the story of handsome prince who then marries her career as a midwife - and the title tells more than one story. [[Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story by Leah Hazard|Full Review]] <!-- Reeves -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788312201.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.coso that they can live happily ever after.uk/dp/1788312201/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics by Rachel Reeves]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] ''Women in Westminster have changed the culture of politics and the perception of what women can do'' Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politicswithout'' chronicles the battles the 491 women who have been elected over the course of the past century have fought and highlights their victories. It is remarkable that the history of female Members of Parliament began in 1918, the same year in which women were first given the right to vote but a decade before all women were given suffrage on equal terms with men. Although Constance de Markievicz was the first female elected to Parliament, it was only in 1919 expectation that Nancy Astor became the first women to take her seat in the House of Commons they will marry and pave the way for women of the futurehave children. It was not long after in 1924 that the first female MP, Margaret Bondfield, was appointed into a cabinet position belief and since then women MPs have endeavoured to fight gender inequality and campaign for female rights. Within 100 it would be many years there has been a gradual revolution of change in politics and to date, Britain has been led by two female Prime Ministers. However, such great landmarks have overshadowed the other female MPs whose early achievements, which have paved the way for subsequent women politicians, are consistently overlooked. In before Louisa would conclude that ''Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politicsa belief is a choice'' Rachel Reeves brings the forgotten stories into the spotlight to document the history of British female political history from 1919 to 2019. [[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics by Rachel Reeves|Full Review]]}}