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Conversations On Kindness by Bernadette Russell

I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I’m not sure if I’d known what was coming, I would have started it so impulsively. We live in a world where the leader of a major political party (I had to check this was actually true, as I’ve been ill and was concerned I’d had a fever dream where I’d imagined she was a senior politician) describes diversity initiatives as a “poison” , and the presumptive leader of the “free world” (apologies for the liberal use of parentheses, but I’m struggling to overcome deep skepticism about the cultural and political structures which we tend to take for granted and feel powerless to alter for the benefit of us all – i.e. those whose labour is exploited by capital [ more on this later ]) can call the teaching staff at Harvard “woke” and blame the first tragic air disaster in more than 20 years on disabled staff at air traffic control . These are facts, I checked! It’s worth interjecting at this point with a quick definition of woke, as expresse...

Eight Black Horses by Ed McBain

Popular Hits Of The Showa Era by Ryu Murakami

In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction by Gabor Maté

Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism by Herman Pontzer

The Day Of Creation by J.G. Ballard

And So It Goes - Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J Shields

Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

Uncharted by Jon Gower

Breath by James Nestor

The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville

69 by Ryu Murakami