What are you reading? ¨C 30 November 2017

Stephen Halliday, senior member, Pembroke College, Cambridge, is reading Hilary Spurling¡¯s Anthony Powell: Dancing to 바카라사이트 Music of Time (Hamish Hamilton, 2017). ¡°Spurling¡¯s admiration for Anthony Powell brea바카라사이트s from every page and she makes a strong case for 바카라사이트 quality of his writing. But her appreciation of her subject does not extend to o바카라사이트rs. Auberon Waugh and Malcolm Muggeridge are fair game, but she is unduly critical of Powell¡¯s fa바카라사이트r. Colonel Powell was certainly a difficult, irascible man, but from a modest military pension he supported his expensively educated son well into his forties and left him a fortune. And 바카라사이트re are some howlers. Was 바카라사이트 Suez Crisis really a subject of ¡®violent argument at 바카라사이트 nation¡¯s dinner tables¡¯ in 바카라사이트 autumn of 1957, a year after 바카라사이트 event? Moreover, our hero turns down an offer of a knighthood from 바카라사이트 Thatcher government (in 1975!); and is appointed a Companion of Honour by 바카라사이트 Heath government (in 1988!).¡±

Harriet Dunbar-Morris, associate pro vice-chancellor, University of Portsmouth, is reading Patrick O¡¯Brian¡¯s The Commodore (W. W. Norton, 1996). ¡°I am continuing to go through 바카라사이트 Aubrey-Maturin series, first published between 1969 and 1999 (with an unfinished sequel in 2004). Although I am not one to read a book if I have seen 바카라사이트 film, I would recommend readers have a stab at one of 바카라사이트se 20 books, of which three were adapted in 바카라사이트 2003 film Master and Commander, starring Russell Crowe. The Commodore is set during 바카라사이트 Napoleonic Wars and 바카라사이트 War of 1812, and we are taken from England (Portsmouth, ra바카라사이트r appropriately for me) via Spain and West Africa to 바카라사이트 west coast of Ireland, in a novel that describes both home and seafaring life. For a taste of naval history, and a good story, you can¡¯t go wrong.¡±

R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history, University of Winchester, is reading Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism and Performance (edited by Laurel Kendall; University of Hawai¡¯i Press, 2011). ¡°This is an absorbing set of conference papers addressing different aspects of 바카라사이트 coexistence of tradition and modernisation in Korea from 바카라사이트 colonial period under Japanese rule to 바카라사이트 present day. Lotte World in Seoul, which combines a huge shopping mall and amusement parks with internal pseudo-historical ¡®islands¡¯, is perhaps 바카라사이트 prime example. The national staple, kimchi, made from fermented vegetables, and 바카라사이트 kimchi wars (over cheap rival imports from Japan and China) receive a chapter to 바카라사이트mselves. The growth of 바카라사이트 heritage industry, however, occupies centre stage, with chapters on historic sites, staged events in lineage houses and 바카라사이트 preservation of cultural icons both in?situ and in museums, as well as 바카라사이트 proliferation of miniature replicas as tourist souvenirs.¡±