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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...

Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts

A Bright Moon For Fools by Jasper Gibson

Here and Now: UK Hyperlocal Media Today by NESTA

The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth

The Last Werewolf Trilogy by Glen Duncan

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

By Blood We Live by Glen Duncan

31 by Calum Kerr

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Prawn Cracker by Will Self

Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

Mindfulness - A Practical Guide To Finding Peace In A Frantic World by Mark Williams and Danny Penman

Freaks by Nik Perring and Caroline Smailes

Conversations With Spirits by E.O. Higgins

The Testimony by James Smythe

Tales From Two Pockets by Karel Čapek

The Quiddity of Will Self by Sam Mills