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Non-Fiction Audiobook Recommendations

Regular visitors to my blog know that I’m an insomniac with an audiobook habit! Here’s some of the best I’ve listened to recently…

Blog Tour: ‘The Ethical Stripper’ by Stacey Clare

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for ‘The Ethical Stripper’ by Stacey Clare.

Thanks to Random Things Tours and Unbound for inviting me onto the tour and the copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

From the Publisher:

Forget everything you’ve heard about strippers: this book is an antidote to stigma, shame and stereotyping.

How can a feminist also be a stripper? Is stripping sex work? What makes sex work “ethical”?

In this powerful book, Stacey Clare, a stripper with over a decade of experience, takes a detailed look at the sex industry – the reality of the work as well as the history of licensing and regulation, feminist themes surrounding sex work, and stigma. Bringing her personal knowledge of the industry to bear, she offers an unapologetic critique and searing indictment of exploitation and raises the rights
of sex workers to the top of the agenda.

‘The Ethical Stripper’ rejects notions of victimhood, challenges stigma and shame, and unpacks decades of confusion and contradictions. It’s about the sex-work community’s fight for safety and self-determination, and it challenges you to think twice about every newspaper article, documentary and film you have seen about stripping and sex work.

‘The Ethical Stripper’ takes a comprehensive look at sex work, balancing the lived experience of the author with an examination of the different legal frameworks for sex work around the world.

(Audio)Book Review: ‘Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty’ by Patrick Radden Keefe

The opioid crisis in the USA? A drug epidemic killing hundreds of thousands of people? Corporate dodgy dealing at the highest levels? I wouldn’t have said that any of this would be the ideal ingredients for a book that I’d love to read, to be honest.

I was utterly wrong.

(Audio)Book Review: ‘This is Your Mind on Plants’ by Michael Pollan

As an avid reader of books about the Victorian era, I’m no stranger to opium – purely in the context of reading, you understand, rather than personal experience! I am, however, a confirmed and accepting caffeine addict so this book – focused on opium, caffeine and mescaline – sounded absolutely fascinating. I duly downloaded the audiobook and got stuck in…