BOOKLOVES

She is eleven. The house has run out of almost everything, so she goes down the garden to the neighbour’s coop and takes four eggs, leaving the rest. She cuts the mould off the bread instead of picking it out. She scrambles them in olive oil because there is no butter, puts half on the […]

She has been on the mountain for about an hour. Her records and her underwear are laid out on blankets in the grass like a yard sale, because everything here is shared. Then the man in the plumed hat counts her cash bill by bill, hands back exactly what she used to pay in monthly […]

He spends the morning being merciful. A young elven magistrate hears an open-and-shut poaching case, three men who freely admit to taking deer from a noble’s estate, and the sentence for that is hanging. He gives them a year in prison instead and considers himself decent for it, then buys their defence lawyer a drink […]

An exhaustive, useful study into how corporations have appropriated many aspects of the American government and how people can reclaim their power Alan Cohen is a Capitalist who believes in a government that does its utmost to help its citizens. That shouldn’t be a big ask. But this compelling book is passionately born out of […]

Two people who have spent their adult lives being looked at drive two hours south, separately, to a county where nobody knows either of them. They park outside a diner, climb down an embankment and sit on a boulder beside a creek the road cannot see. He has brought water and a blanket. She has […]