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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 POETRY“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness, and…
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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 trends towards small-scale green self-sufficient egalitarian ideas. Many of these…
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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 Leonards resident Michael Georgiou. The author says that ‘the story…
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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 to read. In this case, I didn’t want to read…
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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 has a track record of five decades of activism in…
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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 blockade on refineries that led, after three days, to a…
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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 is an economist best known for predicting the global financial…
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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 learned at school, his world immediately fell apart and he…
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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 discussion, held at The Beacon: Patrick Holden of the Sustainable…
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 1066 Cards/students REVIEW BY LEE HUMPHRIES John McDonnell provides the…