Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors | Sustainability, Green Business, Conservation
Podcast
The Trash Talking with Eco-Warriors podcast was created to delve into the inspiring stories of women...
One's Company: A Journey to China in 1933
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Catching all the fascination and humour of travel in out-of-the-way places, One's Company is Peter...
Survival Geeks
Neil Googe, Emma Beeby and Gordon Rennie
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Survival Geeks, a media-savvy sci-fi adventure! A parody of contemporary geek culture, for fans of...
One Young Lads Trainspotting Trips: Bringing Back Those 'Box Brownie' and 'Ian Allan Combined Volume' Days
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Like so many youngsters in the 1950s and 1960s Alan Clarke was a keen railway enthusiast and spnt a...
Lorries of Arabia: The ERF NGC
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This book is a tribute to ERF's world-class long-hauler, especially the Middle East examples, and to...
The Wetland Book: 2017: Volume II: Distribution, Description and Conservation: Volume IV: World Wetlands
C. Max Finlayson, Randy Milton, Crawford Prentice and Nicholas C. Davidson
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In discussion with Ramsar's Max Finlayson and Nick Davidson, and several members of the Society of...
ClareR (5991 KP) rated The Final Strife in Books
Sep 13, 2025
The main character, a Chosen One, misses out on her calling because of a drug addiction. There’s also great deprivation because of the social hierarchy in this world. It’s a caste system based on the colour of a persons blood.
There are themes of oppression, class, division, poverty and addiction. There’s a Trans main character (and others besides), and this isn’t a society that is prejudiced against LGBTQ+ people, in fact there’s support for those who want to transition. Women hold positions of great power in government and on the battlefield - and they’re just as able as their male counterparts. Often better.
This is a chunky book and a fast read regardless of that. I’m really looking forward to reading the rest of the trilogy.
Steam Trains: The Magnificent History of Britain's Locomotives from Stephenson's Rocket to BR's Evening Star
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Most people are under a misapprehension: the Rocket was not the first steam engine. Quite a few were...