Natalie is the editor of My London Your London, an independent cultural guide featuring theatre, gallery and museum reviews, and also blogs at Philobiblon, on history, culture, Green politics and all things feminist. She's the founder of the Carnival of Feminists, and Managing Editor and Books Editor on Blogcritics.
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Book Review: Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet by Tim Jackson
Throw out every economic tenet you learned and start again. There's no alternative.
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Book Review: The Fall of the West: The Slow Death of the Roman Superpower by Adrian Goldsworthy
A narrative history informed by the latest research that gets to its theories only at the end.
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Theater Review (London): George Orwell's 1984 presented by the Blind Summit Theatre and BAC
A polished, entertaining, gripping, surprising presentation of Orwell's classic.
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Book Review: Europe's Lost World: The Rediscovery of Doggerland by V. Gaffney, S. Fitch and D. Smith
A lost Mesolithic world at the centre of north-west Europe is explored.
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Book Review: Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
Would it be better if our data storage was as forgetful as the human brain?
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Book Review: The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Troublemaking, From the Normans to the Nineties by David Horspool
Everything from medieval aristocrats to the Greenham Common protest, which makes for a bit of a muddle
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Book Review: Love and Power in the Peasant Family: Rural France in the Nineteenth Century by Martine Segalen
"I can’t do better than compare you to a field of young cabbages before the caterpillars have been through.”
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Book Review: Howard’s End is On the Landing by Susan Hill
For bibliophiles of all kinds.
This performance does justice to a wild, tempestuous, brilliant woman.
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Book Review: Austerity Britain: 1945-51 by David Kynaston
Lively, entertaining, and portraying a country that is wrestling with many of the same problems today.
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