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This Civilisation Is Finished by Rupert Read and Samuel Alexander
Persuasive and passionate primer about the climate emergency
FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
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PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
EMBODYING the honesty, alarm and radicalism of Extinction Rebellion (XR), This Civilisation Is Finished is short and discursive.
It consists of email exchanges and Skype conversations between Dr Rupert Read, Reader in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and key figure in XR, and Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute in Melbourne.
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