My books of the year

This may be of interest - my books of the year, as requested by my old paper, the Sunday Herald:

Pat Kane, writer and musician

Afflicted Powers: Capital And Spectacle In A New Age of War by the Retort collective (Verso, £9.99) is the most intelligent, holistic and well- written leftist critique of our current world disorder that I’ve ever read. The collection Islam, Race And Being British, edited by Madeleine Bunting (Guardian Books/Barrow Cadbury Trust, £9.99) is a vital toolbox for building harmony on these islands. And all not-yet- entirely-jaundiced hacks should read Peace Journalism by Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick (Hawthorn Press, £25), a new paradigm for reporting. For fun, I virtually inhaled Chronicles, by Bob Dylan (Viking, £7.99).

Dearie me: given 100 words to fill, the inveterate old activist comes out... I should also mention Geoff, The Buddha and Me, A Hacker Manifesto, Ulysses (again!?), and Foucault and the Iranian Revolution. The rest of the Sherald list, like all these year end things, makes fascinating reading (and is very useful for Xmas).