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“Race and Racism in Britain” by John Solomos

By On 8 June 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’m sure that for sociology students, this book is a very valuable text. It’s very methodical and thorough – it looks at its subject from every angle, and almost every paragraph contains at least one reference to a book in the large bibliography at the end.

For me, though, the book was a bit [...]

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“Fire Horses” by Mark Liam Piggott

By On 7 October 2009 · Leave a Comment

Joe Noone seems to have it all – a beautiful house built into a Mallorca hillside, a comfortable lifestyle, a beautiful girlfriend. Yet it’s New Year’s Eve 2007 and as fireworks go off around him and people celebrate, he seems sad and, despite being in the middle of a party, strangely lonely. In the [...]

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