by Leonora Davies | 3 Dec, 2023
Book Review: The Low Road by Katherine Quarmby The reader is drawn into this beautiful story from the first page. We travel together, with the two main characters, on their life- journey through to the final page. It is based on a true story which begins in 1813 in...
by Reg Naulty | 4 Dec, 2022
Book review: The Search For Truth. Information, disinformation and the algorithms of social media This is the the 2022 Quaker Lecture, Aotearoa/New Zealand Verica Rupar is a professor of journalism at the School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of...
by Reg Naulty | 4 Sep, 2022
Book Review: Ideas To Save your Life. Philosophy for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure Many people think that philosophy is about a fixed subject matter like physics, but it is nothing like that. Michael McGirr, early in the book, writes that philosophy is a carnival of...
by Reg Naulty | 5 Dec, 2021
Book review: Escape From Manus. The Untold True Story Jaivet Ealom, a member of the persecuted Rohingya minority in Myanmar, arrived as a boat person at Christmas Island in 2013, after fleeing from his native land. He was bewildered to find that the detention there...
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