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BOOKBUSTER REVIEW – Disconsolate Dreamers: On Pessimism and Utopia
Published by Zer0 Books, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON ‘Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’, said Romain Rolland, sadly remembered primarily for being a Stalinist. He used the…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Shattered Nation
By Danny DorlingPublished by Verso Books, 2023 rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Halfway through this excellent outline of the decline of the UK, and dismantling of the post-war settlement and…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By Daron Acemoglu & Simon JohnsonPublished by Basic Books, 2023 rrp £25REVIEW BY PATRICK NOTHER On 19 May, on the doorstep of the premises of Alphabet / Google’s Deep Mind…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: The Storm is Here: America on the Brink
By Luke MogelsonPublished by Partisan Books, 2022 rrp £25REVIEW BY KAY GREEN In The Storm is Here, US-born journalist Luke Mogelson starts out, surrounded by the heavily armed members of…
Bookbuster Review: Electrify!
by TIM BARTONThere’s many a slip between a cup and a lip, indeed. Griffiths has subtitled his book ‘an optimist’s playbook for our clean energy future’. He is at pains…
Less is More
REVIEW BY RICHARD PRICE: part two of two In the first part of my review, I related how much of a revelation the book was for me, and in here…
Less is More: a Bookbuster Review
Published by Penguin, RRP £, available from Bookbuster, Queens Rd Review by Richard Price Part One of Two We are in a period of history where we need some optimism…
An Inconvenient Apocalypse
Bookbuster Review of the above title by Wes Jackson & Robert Jensenby. Published by Notre Dame Press, rrp £, available to order from Bookbuster, £20 each. Review by Tim Barton."...and…
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Cracking Humpty Dumpty By Tim Devlin Published by Susak Press, rrp £, available at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton Of ‘Ring a Ring o’ Roses’, Tim Devlin, in his…
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Protest: Stories of ResistanceEdited by Ra PagePublished by Comma Press, at £ Street Spirit: the Power of Protest and MischiefBy Steve CrawshawPublished by LOM Art, rrp £, available at Bookbuster…
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Disaster Anarchy By Rhiannon Firth Published by Pluto Press, at £, available at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton Naomi Klein, in her The Shock Doctrine is paraphrased in the Guardian…
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth By James Lovelock Published by Oxford University Press, 1979 REVIEW BY TIM BARTON James Ephraim Lovelock was born in 1919 and died…
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The Future is Degrowth By M Schmelzer, A Vetter & A Vansintjan Published by Verso at £, available at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton In the last Bookbuster review, we…
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Concepts for a Democratic and Ecological Society By Yavor Tarinski Published by Zero Books at £, available at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton We live in a culture defined by…
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The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right By Terry Eagleton Published by Verso Books, 2022, paperback, rrp £,available at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton With our…
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The Trial of Julian Assange By Nils MelzerPublished by Verso, 2022, hardback, £20 at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road. Review by Tim Barton In HIP194 Nick Pelling gives a satirical perspective…
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Suburban Socialism (or Barbarism) By Oly Durose Published by Repeater Books, 2022, rrp £ from Bookbuster, Queens Road Review by Tim Barton Here is James Meek, in the London Review…
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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We became Postmodern By Stuart Jeffries Published by Verso, 2021 hardback, £20 rrp Review by Tim Barton Jeffries is not seeking to give a…
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COP26 Part 3 Who Owns The Wind? By David McDermott HughesPublished by Verso, 2021 Paperback, £ rrp Review Tim Barton Here we are post-COP26, hopefully angry at the usual greenwash…
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COP26 Part 2 Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is not EnoughBy Holly Jean BuckPublished by Verso, 2021 Paperback, £ rrp Review Tim Barton Here is a warning, from Bill…
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The Starship & the Canoe By Kenneth Brower Published by Mountaineers Books, 2020, £15 at Bookbusters Review by Tim Barton This odd, but rather wonderful, book was first published in…
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The Coming Silent Seasons?Part Five: Kids Edition Phoebe the Bee, Jenny BaileyPublished by Tales From Mother Earth, book and CD with Seeds, £ Kids Fight Climate Change Martin Dorey, RRP £, Bookbuster…
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Oil Be Damned: Part fourBreaking Through: Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic (Editors) Wilfred Greaves & P. Whitney LackenbauerPublished by University of Toronto Press, 2021 Review by Tim…
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Oil Be Damned: Part TwoWhite Skin, Black Fuel: on thedangers of fossil fascism By Andreas Malm and the Zetkin CollectivePublished by Verso, 2021 Review by Tim Barton This is an…
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Oil Be Damned: Part OneCrude Britannia: How Oil Shaped a Nation By James Marriott & Terry MacalisterPublished by Pluto, 2021 Review by Tim Barton The borough I went to school…
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Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy By Göran TherbornPublished by Verso, 2020Review by Tim Barton Therborn has written on the problems of democracy over many decades, and this book brings…
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Privatized Planet By T J Coles Published by New Internationalist, 2019, rrp £, Bookbuster price £ Review by Tim Barton Over a decade ago, Cameron, then opposition leader, complained of…
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Beginners Guides: Anti-Capitalism By Simon TormeyPublished by Oneworld, 2013, price £ at Bookbuster Review By Tim Barton Merry Christmas! To all the parents out there. In theory, we are celebrating…
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A Little Light:20 ways the coronavirus response could make the world better Edited by Tom Whipple et al. Published by Sphere, September 2020,hardback rrp £ Review By Tim Barton This…
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Automation and the Future of Work By Aaron BenanavPublished by Verso, 2020, hardback rrp £ Review By Tim Barton Wandering into town last week, a friend and I got chatting…
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Privatising Justice: The Security Industry,War and Crime Control By Wendy Fitzgibbon and John LeaPublished by Pluto, April 2020, paperback RRP £ By Tim Barton A cartoon potted history might suggest that…
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The Deficit Myth:Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy By Stephanie KeltonPublished by John Murray Review by Lee Humphries I’ve been eagerly awaiting Stephanie Kelton’s book The…
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Human Kind: A Hopeful HistoryBy Rutger Bregman Published by BloomsburyReview by ‘MW’ Human Kind a Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman, has been my choice during the quarantine. I find myself…
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Resist the Punitive State Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and PrisonsEdited by Emily Luise Hart, Joe Greener and Rich MothPublished by Pluto Books, November 2019, paperback £ Review by…
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The Conservation Revolution: radical ideas for saving nature beyond the AnthropoceneBy Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher Verso, RRP £ Bookbuster price £ Review by Tim Barton We face a global…
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The Near Horizon Collapse, TechUtopia, or Small Is Beautiful – Part One: HubrisBy Holly Jean Buck Review by Tim Barton In After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration (Verso, £),…
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A Land By Jacquetta Hawkes A Pelican Book, paperback published 1959; hardback from Cresset Press, 1951 Review by Tim Barton Jacquetta Hawkes Perfidious Albion, the culmination of centuries under the Norman…
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REVIEW BY GILL KNIGHT Ben White’s new book, Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine / Israel, reframes the seemingly unsolvable situation in that land to include all of…
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Charles and Mary Lamb at Hastings By Edward Preston Published by Literatours, available from Bookbuster REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Friends with Coleridge, Wordsworth and Hazlitt, the Lambs, who were brother and…
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Secret Hastings & St Leonards By Tina Brown REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Now here’s a fun little book – unearthing details of smuggling, former famous residents, groovy little places like…