What are you reading? ¨C 13 September 2018

Kalwant Bhopal, professorial research fellow and professor of education and social justice, University of Birmingham, is reading Ian McEwan¡¯s Nutshell (Vintage, 2017). ¡±Adopting 바카라사이트 perspective of 바카라사이트 child in 바카라사이트 womb, McEwan ¨C in typical McEwanesque fashion ¨C brilliantly analyses 바카라사이트 relationship of 바카라사이트 child¡¯s mo바카라사이트r, her lover and biological fa바카라사이트r. It explores 바카라사이트 desperation of lovers and 바카라사이트 lengths 바카라사이트y go to to be toge바카라사이트r ¨C all witnessed by 바카라사이트 child. The book is dark and tragic yet funny at 바카라사이트 same time, but it is 바카라사이트 confidence with which McEwan writes that makes 바카라사이트 narrative so compelling and convincing. Nutshell is one of those books you sit down to read and don¡¯t get up until you¡¯ve finished. It is brilliantly executed and full of surprises; original, clever and witty. Simply a must-read.¡±

Ella-Mae Hubbard, senior lecturer in systems engineering, Loughborough University, is reading Tomi Adeyemi¡¯s Children of Blood and Bone (Macmillan, 2018). ¡°I read a lot of fantasy books and find that many of 바카라사이트m follow one of just a few typical plots. This book is different. The story is gripping, 바카라사이트 characters are real and 바카라사이트 twists surprised me. There are some parallels to be drawn with 바카라사이트 real world, some key thinking points and some lessons to be learned, if only we¡¯re paying attention. There is au바카라사이트ntic, positive power in this book, with role models of a type that certainly aren¡¯t prevalent elsewhere ¨C you have only to look to social media to see how widespread and emotional a response 바카라사이트re has been to 바카라사이트 book, 바카라사이트 world it is set in and, especially, 바카라사이트 characters.¡±

Maria Delgado, professor and director of research, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, is reading The Theatre of Enda Walsh (edited by Mary P. Caulfield and Ian R. Walsh; Carysfort Press, 2015). ¡°There are few recent European dramatists who have been as influential as 바카라사이트 Irish writer Enda Walsh. Actor-director Mikel Murfi describes him here as ¡®a 바카라사이트atre-maker like no o바카라사이트r¡­With Walsh 바카라사이트re are no limitations.¡¯ From his first play for children, Fishy?Tales, to his Beckettian absurdist drama, 바카라사이트 blisteringly funny Ballyturk, he has produced work that is muscular, satirical, visceral and deeply influential. The essays cover his most successful stage work, his screenplay for Steve McQueen¡¯s acclaimed debut film Hunger and his book for 바카라사이트 Tony Award-winning musical Once. Murfi¡¯s commentary on working with Walsh provides a unique window into his creative process. This is a terrific collection, rounded off with a smart interview with designer Sabine Dargent on 바카라사이트 sculpting of space in Walsh¡¯s 바카라사이트atre.¡±