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BOOKBUSTER REVIEW | Roof Less: The Housing Crisis in Words and Pictures
by Christopher HogginsIndependently published, rrp £15REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Four years ago, Chris, of Dweeblings fame, found himself facing homelessness. In his moving, and if you are a tenant yourself,…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Ritual
Published by Weird Walk (in collaboration with StudioCanal & TSPTR)2023, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON ‘Oh, Jesus Christ!’ If you’re a Wicker Man fan, you’ll love Ritual! From the offices…
Bookbuster Review: Leftfield Horror Film Fanzines
The Last Closet on The Left, vol 1Published by the Nottingham Horror Collective, 2023 rrp £ Came from The Closet Edited by Joe VallesePublished by Saraband, 2023 rrp £ BY…
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A Sand County Almanac: & Sketches Here and There By Aldo LeopoldPublished by OUPPaperback £ available at Bookbusters REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Aldo Leopold died in 1948, helping fight a…
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Nature for Sale: The Commons Versus CommoditiesBy Giovanna RicoveriPublished by Pluto PressHardback £, available at Bookbusters Review By Tim Barton “We are simple people, with simple beliefs. We worship the…
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The Fall and Rise of the British LeftBy Andrew Murray Verso Books, RRP , Bookbuster price £ Review by Tim Barton Andrew Murray is Comms Officer for ASLEF, and it’s…
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Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief By Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Antony Lerman and David MillerPluto Press, rrp £ Review by Kay Green There…
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The Coming Silent Seasons?Part Three: Visible and Invisible PlasticsTurning the Tide on PlasticsBy Lucy SiegleTrapeze Books, £ by Tim Barton Since the 1950s consumer boom plastics have encased and comprised…
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The Twittering MachineBy Richard SeymourThe Indigo Press, August 2019, £ (paperback) Review by Kay Green While a frighteningly large proportion of the world has been whiling away hour after hour…
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The Coming Silent Seasons? Part Two: invisible apocalypse – the feminization of natureREVIEW FEATURE BY TIM BARTON Chlorine is a poison, one that can, in the right dilution and in various…
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Fully Automated Luxury CommunismBy Aaron BastaniVerso hardcover in stock at Bookbuster & Printed Matter Bookshop, £ REVIEW BY P. NOTHER According to Theresa May, those of us who are against Brexit…
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The Metal MountainBy John HealyPublished by Etruscan Books (2019) £ Review by Howard Colyer It begins with a party that doesn’t happen – at least not for the young family…
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Horizon By Barry LopezHardback £25In stock at Bookbusters, £20 Review by Tim Barton Arctic Dreams, reviewed last issue, was Lopez’s second book, preceded by the excellent Of Wolves & Men,…
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Rocking & RhymingBuddy Holly: Learning the Game By Spencer LeighPublisher: McNidder & Grace, price £15 (Foreword by Frank Ifield) Joinedupwriting By Roger McGoughPublisher: Penguin Viking, price £ Reviews by John Cornelius…
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The next instalment of ‘Positive views’ book reviews is here – and I’m looking at the late great Ivan Illich. Deschooling SocietyCelebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution Tools…
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The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke Hardback £ Picador The Language of Kindness (A Nurse’s Story) by Christie Watson Paperback £ Vintage REVIEW BY JOHN CORNELIUS THE (BAD) LANGUAGE OF…
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A New Politics From The Left by Hilary Wainwright Published by Polity, rrp £ Review by Tim Barton In the late 60s and 70s there was a refreshing growth of cultural…
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To Tame the Sentry Being by Michael Georgiou Published by Book Guild, rrp £ REVIEW BY THEO PILGRIM This is the first book of The Endless Dreams Saga, by St…
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Wages for Housework by Louise Toupin Published by Pluto Press, rrp £ Review by Jane Sarre This is the strangest book review I’ve offered since that one about the book I refused…
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Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone Published 2012, New World Library Reviewed by Jane Sarre Ecophilosopher Joanna Macy…
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Brexit: Britain’s Great Food Gamble? A brief survey of our current crises, via books by John Humphrys and Dennis Pirages REVIEW BY TIM BARTON In 2000 we had a Kentish…
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The Production of Money How to Break the Power of Bankers By Ann Pettifor Published by Verso, available from Printed Matter Books, price £ Review by Lee Humphries Ann Pettifor…
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Doughnut Economics By Kate Raworth An Exciting Book about Economics REVIEW BY KAY GREEN In 1543, Copernicus drew a new diagram of the sun and the planets. As we all probably…
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The True Cost of Food PDF, available from the Sustainable Food Trust REVIEW BY TIM BARTON In our last issue, HIP 105, Zelly Restorick covered a really great talk and…
BOOKBUSTER BOOK REVIEW – A Party with Socialists in It
A Party with Socialists in It – A History of the Labour Left By Simon Hannah Pluto Press, paperback, available at Printed Matter Bookshop and Bookbuster, at £ – 10% discount with…
Bookbuster Book Review – Poems for Grenfell Tower
Poems for Grenfell Tower Edited by Rip Bulkeley Published by Onslaught Press. Available at Bookbuster, £10 REVIEW BY KAT NIP I’m sure that Theresa May and her government would much…
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What We Are Fighting For: A Radical Collective Manifesto Edited by Federico Campagna & Emanuele Campiglio Pluto Press, hardback, rrp £, Bookbuster price £ REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Compiled after…
Bookbuster Book Review – Turbulent Sisters
Turbulent Sisters: Women’s Fight for the Vote in Hastings & St Leonards By Ann Kramer Circaidy Gregory Press paperback, RRP £, available at Bookbuster REVIEW BY KAT NIP Women today…
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Struggle in a Time of Crisis Edited by Nicolas Pons-Vignon & Mbuso Nkosi Pluto Press, paperback, rrp £, REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Rooting the current crisis in the financial &…
The War on the Old
BOOKBUSTER BOOK REVIEW The War on the Old by John Sutherland Biteback Publishing, hardback, rrp £, Bookbuster price £ REVIEW BY KAT NIP After the result of the last election and the…