A Country of Refuge Edited by Lucy Popescu
“But history teaches us that our greatest wrongs, crimes against humanity and genocide, arise from cultures where hatred has become part of the air citizens breathe,” writes 2016 Man Booker Prize long...
View ArticleBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Coates is a New York correspondent for The Atlantic, and based on his personal and working experience he has written this award-winning book about the concept of race and its construction as the dark...
View ArticleBad Feminist by Roxane Gay
This book is flawed but heartfelt, and although I have to acknowledge those flaws I want to say straight away that I totally recommend Roxane Gay’s writing to you as it is full of humour and honesty. I...
View ArticleNegroland by Margo Jefferson
This award-winning memoir published earlier in the year documents a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist’s early family life and later personal history. She shows how her inner conflicts were generated by...
View ArticleBlack History by People Who Lived It
For this feature for Black History Month I wanted to read the most authentic stories I could, and so I researched into the most powerful arguments that had been made by former slaves for abolition so...
View ArticleThe View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-Fiction by Neil Gaiman
If I were asked to formulate a list of my favourite authors (which I constantly imagine I am, normally whilst pretending I’m being interviewed after winning some kind of award), Neil Gaiman would...
View ArticleMental Health & Creativity, The Hidden & The Celebrated
A couple of things come together recently that have inspired my writing of this small piece. The first is that in the last few weeks the UK Government has been discussing it’s plans for dealing with...
View ArticleHello, Is This Planet Earth? By Tim Peake
‘It’s impossible to look down on Earth from space and not be mesmerised by the fragile beauty of our planet.’ I’m pretty sure in this day and age that everyone has heard of Tim Peake- first British...
View ArticleGod by Reza Aslan
I’ve seen Reza Aslan on television a couple of times and he had struck me as knowledgeable, passionate and a very good communicator. In this new book of his he is attempting to explain the birth of...
View ArticleHoly Rascals Advice for Spiritual Revolutionaries by Rami Shapiro
This is a book for those that believe in a higher power but are somewhat disillusioned by religion. As the blurb says ‘God is real. Everything we say about God is made up. Holy Rascals is a rousing...
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