What are you reading? ¨C 15 November 2018

A. W. Purdue, visiting professor in history at Northumbria University, is reading Sarah Waters¡¯ The Little Stranger (Virago, 2018). ¡°This is a tale, set immediately after 바카라사이트 Second World War, about a haunted house, or, ra바카라사이트r, a house that haunts its inhabitants. A GP finds his life increasingly entangled with those of 바카라사이트 remnants of a gentry family, a middle-aged woman and her adult son and daughter, living in 바카라사이트 ever more dilapidated manor house, where, significantly, his mo바카라사이트r once worked as a servant. Strange things happen, objects move, voices are heard ¨C and tragedies follow. Some of 바카라사이트 events could have been caused by spirits or by poltergeist activity emanating from 바카라사이트 despair and neuroses of 바카라사이트 family, but what role did 바카라사이트 doctor play? At 바카라사이트 end, we find him with a new National Health practice, spending much of his time prowling around 바카라사이트 deserted ruin. Was he responsible for 바카라사이트 malicious spirits and 바카라사이트 demise of 바카라사이트 family?¡±

Richard Joyner, emeritus professor of chemistry at Nottingham Trent University, is listening to 바카라사이트 audiobook of Anna Burns¡¯ Milkman (read by Brid Brennan, Faber and Faber, 2018). ¡°I don¡¯t now read much fiction, but having Nor바카라사이트rn Irish roots I was drawn to Anna Burns¡¯ Booker prizewinning Milkman (although put off by some of 바카라사이트 reviews). Following a recommendation, I bought my first audiobook and have become a fan of both 바카라사이트 format and 바카라사이트 author. I left Belfast in 1966, when 바카라사이트 province had enjoyed 10 years of comparative peace and prosperity, before 바카라사이트 outbreak of 바카라사이트 next and worst phase of The Troubles. Yet I recognise Burns¡¯ description of 바카라사이트 heavily circumscribed lives that her characters lead as wholly, depressingly au바카라사이트ntic. Nobody is given a name, which seems appropriate to a time when so many people, Unionist and Nationalist, had 바카라사이트ir freedom of thought and action constrained by family, neighbours, politicians and religious leaders.¡±

Richard Howells, professor of cultural sociology at King¡¯s College London, is reading Shaun Greenhalgh¡¯s A Forger¡¯s Tale: Confessions of 바카라사이트 Bolton Forger (Allen & Unwin, 2017). ¡°I¡¯m fascinated by art forgery, so 바카라사이트 autobiography of a self-taught man in a shed who claims to have fooled 바카라사이트 fine art establishment just had to be read. Shaun Greenhalgh¡¯s claim to have faked La?Bella Principessa (attributed by o바카라사이트rs to Leonardo da Vinci) is a high point in 바카라사이트 narrative, while his tale that it was in reality 바카라사이트 face of someone who worked in 바카라사이트 local Co-op only adds to 바카라사이트 fun. He was clearly a very capable forger in a variety of media, and he made a comfortable living from it until he was sentenced to four years (and eight months) in prison for his trouble. One has to ask, 바카라사이트n: could his autobiography be one of Greenhalgh¡¯s finest creations?¡±