Unknown - Lebor Gabala Erenn (The Book Of The Taking Of Ireland)

The Scots, the great migraters. They went in search of a new home, and they fought for it, for they are children of war. Then once they settled in a new home, they were dislodged by the sheer evil that pervaded them, for the English would want every bit of land for themselves, the whole world would be seemingly for the taking of the English, but the Scots resisted. They lay their arms across their chest to fight for their people. They were flung to the far corners of the world, without knowing their language and their songs of old, and their descendants would live their lives knowing they were different from the others, but not knowing their story, and it is in the words written here that these people will learn about the sufferings of their ancestors.

Peter Singer - Animal Liberation

The divides between rich and poor, between the haves and the, have nots, is a political construction. Racism is not real, because we are closer to each other than suspected. It is an instrument of politicians to cause division, and it is very successful. Instead of welcoming outsiders into our country, with the potential of booming employment and diversity, we are turning them away, and if there was any great deed of unification, it should be reflected on how we as states treat the less fortunate. Because how we treat the less fortunate is how we would be treated if we were in the same situation. We are all vulnerable, we are people.

Richard Flanagan - Gould's Book Of Fish

One thing that people need to realise in the West, is that they have great resources at their disposal, ones that many others do not have. They need to take the time to consider how lucky they are, and once they glimpse into the furnace of such desperation, they have to come to the conclusion that there is no afterlife, so whilst one goes through turmoil at the demise of their kin, it is onwards and upwards, as to live is to be lucky, so they should make the most out of it. Because life only comes around once, you need not all the resources in the world, only but some chores, and then your life will be complete.

Georgie Dent - Breaking Badly

Politicians are a sickening sort, and they do not care for the endeavours of ordinary folk, for the ordinary folk shall be left behind because it is a power battle. Each politician is only in his or her job for a power battle, they do not care about the people, and it is the people of the world that need to change it. So let's begin to bridge the gap built by politicians, for we are people of the world, where the politicians have laid claim over our land and left us destitute, for the people have been left to rot in the ground. So as citizens of the world, let us come as one where our leaders have left us to rot, let us come together as one.

Ronald Harwood - Home

For the world is doomed, so the intelligent few will take and store whatever they can to ride out the storm that is harming man. With each stranglehold man goes through, there will be another crisis to ride. With each triumph, there shall be a wave of misfortune, and each mountain top climbed will be embarrassingly forgotten. For a leader has to deal with the burden of every citizen, and they cannot so they choose not to listen. A job in the reigns is a job well paid, but it sucks the life and very soul out of a man and leaves him to rot in public, a mule to the slaughter after a race, for every waking hour of crisis there shall be another one around the corner.

Geraldine Brooks - Year Of Wonders

The way of the future should be a frugal way, where one only needs what they should require, for without the toxins of life and life's luxuries then life is complete. Everything shall be accessible at the click of a switch, such is the way of the future. No one will be left behind because there is plenty of time, and travel and waiting will not be an issue. Such is the way of the future and without this instantaneous action then there is no future, for the future is just the flick of a switch away, and the man of the future will be looked on as mad, and without the progressives, there is no one to show the way forward, and without the eccentrics then there is a pale life.

Andrew Solomon - The Noonday Demon

For the way this country is changing, where the right headed minds are few and far between, where one generation falters as the new one emerges. Where there are people getting away with worse crimes than murder. Where the people are being robbed and luxury has a cost. Where the law is trying to hold the people back from sheer and utter carnage, waiting not to explode from the pressure of violence from the veins throbbing with the determination to destroy, and once the law is overwhelmed then there shall be chaos, for without law then mankind will be truly flung into a mass and vortex of crime.

Peter Frankopan - The New Silk Roads

In the future, there will be a barren wasteland, as man has plundered his soils and ruined them. People will fight with one another to stay alive and the bell tower will tell whose time has come as the passers-by will steal from the shelves of their masters. The law is the only thing holding back mankind from resorting to his very primal state, but the law needs obedience and hard work to enforce it, but this hard work is the job of the people, and when the law admits defeat to the strenuous toll that life gives, well then there shall be chaos, and the men will fight it out for everything that it is unprotected, for the law does not want the secret getting out, that the land will plunge the world into chaos and destroy the law.

Julian Baggini - How The World Thinks

To understand mankind is to acknowledge the structures put in place are deceitful. Mankind has been robbed by power, a vacuum was so taut that it has strangled man and left him susceptible to influence. Man is not bad, the society is bad and the state is the greatest invention of man because it will save mankind from the predicament that he has found himself in. The world needs saving and only tearing down the structures and starting a new way of thinking will truly serve to give man his justice, for without the radical changing of life mankind will merely slip to the depths that is the tragedy of mankind.

James Salter - Burning The Days

The systems put in place by a Judeo-Christian society essentially divides people and discriminates, rather than unites people. If they abide by a set of rules they are distinguished as one of the good people and welcomed into the sect, but if they do not abide by these regulations, then they are cast away and rejected. So the realisation of what shall divide the people is religion, and then what shall unite the people in love, a burning love for all people. So that someone can reach out their hand and make contact with the unfortunate, and create a love so strong that will not seek to divide, but to unite.

Iain Pears - The Titian Committee

One of the prevailing phrases thrown around is ''good journalism'', and in a world of dire and appalling journalism, therefore good journalism should shine brightest. The only way to veer away from ''bad journalism'' is in fact for the author to explore the subversive content matter, and to not shy away from the incredibly controversial. It is up to the modern journalist to ''go in at the deep end'' and find a story that changes public discourse and tells a story that someone may not have seen or thought that way. The media has an immense influence on the everyday person, their vision is in fact shaped by what they read, and the author should recognise that people are easily swayed, but to protect the reader and gain trust and compassion in the subject, to, therefore, protect them from harm, and save the innocent from corruption.

Hanif Kureishi - Midnight All Day

Some of the frustrations we writers feel at this very moment, where the news outlets are commodified, where it is rigid and conforming about what is published. Writers have been misled and should retreat and give up all allegiances, to become truly devoid of influence is to remove oneself from the pillars of society, and to reflect on the very deep and dark condition of humanity. Where there are discrimination and corruption, and to capture this essence will captivate people the world over, whereas the path of recirculating a message as a minion, will only serve to do the master's bidding.

Thomas Wright - Circulation

Liberal countries in the world have successfully damaged the very life force of journalism. They saw it as a threat to their control of the people, of democracy. Julian Assange was the figure that threatened liberal control as corrupt and is paying the price. Since then journalism has had the lifeblood sucked dry and most news reporting has a bias. Governments destroyed Assange, a true journalist and truthteller and plunged the field into disarray and have successfully borrowed the devices that journalism used, like public relations and the web, and these devices have been harnessed for political gain and means.

Will Self - The Butt

With the demise of journalism, the art of storytelling will disappear to be consumable pieces from an invisible hand. Gone are the days of celebrity poets and playwrights, and today there is a domination of the same strands of a story, diluted to be consumed immensely by the ghostly public, who gauge their public opinion and what others do. A conglomeration of news and the destruction of the celebrity writer has killed off journalism to a point where there could almost be a robot to disperse the stories that are discovered, for the soul of the storyteller is a rare gift indeed, one that is rarely come across by the denizens of the public and the mass stupor that they possess.

Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road To The Deep North

With the onset of digital news radicalising how people consume information and gauge public opinion, so the timid book will become digitalised. With the world, we are currently living in, with massive deforestation taking place on an unprecedented scale, the time is now for enviro-friendly literature. With the coming of unpredictable weather patterns that are looking ever so quickly to making an uninhabitable planet, there is a place and space for digital media, because with dangerous weather conditions, trusting in physical and material wealth is astoundingly quixotic.