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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...

Nocturnal Animals by Austin Wright

The Ambassador by Bragi Ólafsson

The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance, by Jeff VanderMeer

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Fairyland by Paul McAuley

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Infinite Ground by Martin MacInnes

The Vorrh by Brian Catling

The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray

Acceptance: The Southern Reach Trilogy Book 3 by Jeff VanderMeer

Authority: The Southern Reach Trilogy Book 2 by Jeff VanderMeer

Annihilation: The Southern Reach Trilogy Book 1 by Jeff VanderMeer

Apochryphal Tales by Karel Čapek

Free Fall In Crimson by John D. MacDonald

Kind One by Laird Hunt

Fup by Jim Dodge

Last And First Men by Olaf Stapledon

And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave

The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Bohumil Hrabal

Erasmus Hobart and the Golden Arrow by Andrew Fish

UnAmerican Activities by James Miller