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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 Axeman's Jazz by Ray Celestin

The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Lights Out In Wonderland by D.B.C. Pierre

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

True Grit by Charles Portis

Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore

The 210th Day by Sōseki Natsume

Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Speechless by Stephen Puleston

The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon