Books of 2023

13th May 2023

In Control: Dangerous relationships and how they end in murder By Jane Monckton Smith - Review

This book, accounts from families, friends, and victims, and the work they do with various organizations and charities encourage this misunderstood crime to not be bound up with its false and stereotyped associations.

30th April 2023

Rough by Rachel Thompson - Review

Thompson’s book is a comprehensive study of sex, sexual acts, and the factors that shape sexual interactions both before and during the act. She studies these from the perspective of societal structures that pervade the way people interact sexually, the law (or lack thereof), and consent.

14th April 2023

Buried by Alice Roberts - Review

"(Through) archaeology…we also see ordinary people doing ordinary things, laid out in their graves with their extraordinary ordinary jewellery”.

4th April 2023

The Authority Gap by Mary Ann Sieghart - Review

The Authority Gap between men and women means women are interrupted, disliked, doubted, questioned by themselves and others, ignored, and patronised – it also puts them in danger, means they are not taken seriously, and makes them poorer.

16th March 2023

Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates - Review

Men Who Hate Women is an examination of the manosphere and its many forms. She educates, dissects, analyses, and quotes the many figureheads and forums of the movement.

28th February 2023

Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang – Review

Ha-Joon Chang’s creative novel on the economy uses his contagious love for food, and its history and cultural significance, as an anecdotal springboard to supplement discussions on political and economic theory.

11th February 2023

'Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism’ by Yanis Varoufakis - Review

Varoufakis tells us in the prologue that he wrote this book in 9 days without a plan or provisional table of contents, and loved it. He explains that he let the book write itself at his home in Aegina - thus, it effortlessly and enjoyably reads itself too.

21st January 2023

'First Contact: The Cult of Progress' by David Olusoga - Review

The Cult of Progress moves chronologically and cartographically through interactions, trade, nations, and cultural exchange to create a biography of human history.

9th January 2023

'Ancestors' by Alice Roberts - Review

Alice Roberts strikes a balance between conversational and informative as she takes a reader through a history of prehistoric Britain using seven burial sites.