Tag archives for TIM BARTON
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Challenging the Hope Deficit
Making A MovementBy Barney CullumPublished by Acropolis, 2023, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Those paying attention to world affairs today know there is something of a ‘hope’ deficit. It is…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Oil be Damned Part Six
The Future of Agriculture By Sarah BearchellPublished by Icon Books, 2025, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON This book is pretty good on the crises that are coming, yet a bit…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: On the Trail of Jack-In-The-Green
Hellebore : ‘The Green Issue’Available from Bookbuster, £ BY TIM BARTON In 1977 Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull penned his classic song Jack-In-The-Green. His ‘Jack’ ‘quietly sits under every tree’,…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW – Oil Be Damned: Part Five
Extractive Capitalism By Laleh KhaliliPublished by Profile, 2025, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Khalili’s new book is unexpectedly timely. Its subtitle is ‘how commodities and cronyism drive the global economy’.…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Scary Tales and Local Terror
Hollington in Supernatural Tales and Folklore Lowlife Publishing, £ from BookbusterHellebore : ‘The Mirror Issue’ £ from BookbusterREVIEW BY TIM BARTON This time around, we give you another folklore-oriented review!…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Left Behind
By Paul CollierPublished by Penguin Books, 2025, rrp £ (PART 2 OF 2)BY TIM BARTON Part Two of Left Behind is titled ‘Spiralling Up’, and is a detailed look at…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Left Behind
By Paul CollierPublished by Penguin Books, 2025, rrp £ (PART 1 OF 2) BY TIM BARTON Collier’s project here is to discuss what he calls ‘a new economics for neglected…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: The Lie of the Land
By Guy ShrubsolePublished by Penguin Books, 2025, rrp £, Bookbuster price £ BY TIM BARTON Guy Shrubsole is the author of the bestselling The Lost Rainforests of Britain. His latest…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Terminal Transmissions
By Paul GreenPublished by Terminal Press, 2025, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON This new book by locally based author and poet Paul Green channels the spirit of J G Ballard.…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Vassal State
by Angus HantonPublished by Swift Press, 2025, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON In the 1880s, chief Concomly, of the Native American Chinook tribe, “tried to develop a system of equitable…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Practicing Social Ecology
By Eleanor FinleyPluto, 2025, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON It is increasingly obvious that global capitalism, in its industrial mode, is creating an environmental crisis of epic proportions. It is…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: The War Below
By Ernest ScheyderPublished by Ithaka, 2025, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON As the war in Ukraine gets ‘interesting’, And with Trump making bizarre attempts to 'buy' Greenland, with threats and…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Renters Unite!
By Jacob StringerPublished by Pluto Books, 2025, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Hastings, and indeed many places in England, is experiencing a significant rise in rental prices, ‘driven by demand’…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Reclaiming the Future
By Simon HannahPublished by Pluto Books, 2024, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON The foreword to this excellent book is by John McDonnell MP, who contextualises Hannah’s topic by noting that…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Shaping for Mediocrity
By Gibson Burrell, Ronald Hartz, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley ‘and friends’Published by Zer0 Books, 2024, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Over the last few decades, a growing ‘management…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: How To Lose a Country
By Ece TemelkuranPublished by Canongate, 2024, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Canongate have an imprint called The Canons, reprinting important titles. This book is a new edition of a 2019…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Hellebore’s 2024 Yuletide Hauntings & other Occult and Uncanny Zines
REVIEW BY TIM BARTON On December 7th this year, Bookbuster ran a stall at the Mint House in Pevensey. This was a great venue for an esoteric fayre, and this…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: How Migration Really Works
By Hein de HaasPublished by Penguin, £ BY TIM BARTON In the current divisive cultural climate, this book is a great curative to what the author describes as ‘21 myths’…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Another England
By Caroline LucasPublished by Hutchinson Heinemann, £22REVIEW BY TIM BARTON Ex-Green MP Caroline Lucas sets out, in her new book, to suggest ‘how to reclaim our national story’. Reclaim it…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW – This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain
By Will HuttonPublished by Head of Zeus, £ BY TIM BARTON It is close to 30 years since Hutton’s most influential book, The State We’re In, first came out. In…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Crack-Up Capitalism
By Quinn SlobodianPublished by PenguinREVIEW BY TIM BARTON ‘Americans are deeply sceptical of once well-regarded institutions such as universities, the media and the public health system, and do not trust…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW – The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
By George Monbiot & Peter HutchinsonPublished by Allan LaneREVIEW BY TIM BARTON The first wave of ‘neoliberal’ ideology was influenced by a century-long tradition beginning with Charles Gide, and moving…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW – Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
By Nick BanoPublished by Verso, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Nick Bano is a barrister and has a different take on the causes of our current housing crisis than is…
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: The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet
By Brett ChristophersPublished by Verso, rrp £22REVIEW BY TIM BARTON In his memoir, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, author Bill Bryson waxes lyrical about the US consumer…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Fighting for Life
By Isabel HardmanPublished by Penguin, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Edna Thomas gave birth to the first baby born under the aegis of the National Health Service, almost on the…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: One Fine Day
By Ian MarchantPublished by September Publishing, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Ian Marchant, a regular presenter on ‘Open Country’, Radio 4, and diarist for Church Times, is dying. Side by…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Follow the Money
By Paul JohnsonPublished by Abacus, rrp £ BY TIM BARTON The subtitle of this book is ‘how much does Britain cost?’, cost being defined here by the balance of taxes…
The Stamp of Innocence
by Aled Gwyn JôbPublished by Troubadorrrp £ at Bookbusterreview by Tim Barton The 'Post Office scandal' has dominated the news for a few weeks now, yet it goes back a…
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 – Palestinians and Israelis: A Short History of Conflict
Published by The History Press,rrp £ BY TIM BARTON In Deuteronomy, Chapter 31, Moses claims ‘the Lord’ promised a swath of land west of Jordan to the Israelites, saying ‘the…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW – All In: How we Build a Country that Works
By Lisa NandyPublished by Harper North, 2023 rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Lisa Nandy is stuck in a party that is losing public confidence fast, no one appears to like…
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…
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
Hawkhurst: Murder, Corruption, & Britain’s Most Notorious Smuggling Gang By Joseph DragovichPublished by The History Press, 2023 rrp £ BY TIM BARTON In the middle of the eighteenth century existed…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Chums
By Simon KuperPublished by Profile Books, 2023 rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Simon Kuper has a close relationship with his subject, as a former Oxford graduate, albeit, a ‘stain’ as…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: The Cost of Living Crisis
By Costas Lapavitsas, James Meadway, & Doug NichollsPublished by Verso Books, 2023 rrp £ BY TIM BARTON In the most technical sense, we are not in a crisis, as the…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Tommy
By Nick LowlesPublished by Partisan Books,rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Recently, I reviewed The International Alt-Right, a book whose judgement when written seemed insufficiently pessimistic by the time publishing schedules…
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…