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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...

The Stainless Steel Rat Omnibus by Harry Harrison

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Dress Her In Indigo by John D MacDonald

French Children Don't Throw Food by Pamela Druckerman

Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll

Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care by Lee Server

The Rogue by Joe McGinniss

Hope by Glen Duncan

The Unburied by Charles Palliser

The Map and The Territory by Michel Houellebecq

The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth, aka The Inky Fool

An apology or three

Competition time at Metaliterature

Backlist and backlist and backlist again

Down The Bright Way by Robert Reed

Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis

Crushed Mexican Spiders by Tibor Fischer