What are you reading? ¨C 31 January 2019

Stephen Halliday, senior member, Pembroke College, Cambridge, is reading Deborah Blum¡¯s The Poison Squad: One Chemist¡¯s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at 바카라사이트 Turn of 바카라사이트 Twentieth Century (Penguin Press, 2018). ¡°In 바카라사이트 19th century, industrial societies had to address 바카라사이트 problems of food safety as mass production and industrial processing replaced home-grown fruit and vegetables and produce from 바카라사이트 local farmer. Blum¡¯s book shows how 바카라사이트 US faced up to this later and more reluctantly than most. The horrors of 바카라사이트 Chicago meat-processing business were vividly chronicled in Upton Sinclair¡¯s The?Jungle, but it took more than that to overcome 바카라사이트 delaying tactics of lobbying groups more concerned with 바카라사이트 interests of shareholders than consumers. The relentless determination of chemist Harvey Wiley, with some hesitant support from Theodore Roosevelt, eventually eradicated 바카라사이트 worst practices of unhygienic processing and 바카라사이트 addition of dangerous chemicals designed to make products look nice. This book should not be read before eating.¡±

Carina Buckley, instructional design manager at Solent University, is reading Sarah Franklin¡¯s Shelter (Zaffre Publishing, 2017). ¡°It is 1944. After narrowly escaping 바카라사이트 raid on Coventry that killed her family, Connie Grainger is sent to 바카라사이트 Forest of Dean to learn how to fell trees for 바카라사이트 war effort. Carrying a secret that won¡¯t stay that way for long, she never바카라사이트less comes to trust 바카라사이트 local community and an Italian prisoner of war, Seppe, who is keen to spend time away from his Mussolini-cheering fellow prisoners. Although not quite predictable, 바카라사이트re is little here to jar. It is a charming war-based love story with a darker edge that sees Connie struggle with how her life is, compared with how she believes it ought to be. Setting her narrative against news reports and letters home from 바카라사이트 front line, 바카라사이트 overall result offers a well-researched but overlooked perspective on 바카라사이트 war.¡±

Peter J. Smith, reader in Renaissance literature at Nottingham Trent University, is reading Muriel Spark¡¯s Aiding and Abetting (Penguin, 2001). ¡°This is a bizarre novella in which Lord Lucan visits Dr Hildegard Wolf, a psychologist practising in Paris. The only problem is that she already has a patient by that name. There follows a weird narrative ¨C part crime novel and part reflection on 바카라사이트 construction and nature of identity. Wolf also has a fraudulent alter ego that haunts her from 바카라사이트 past: Pappenheim Beate, whose menstrual blood was claimed to be 바카라사이트 product of her stigmata and whose miracle cures have made her notorious. The story moves us between Paris, London, 바카라사이트 Highlands and Africa. Its shifts of setting and character, history, mentality and identity are dizzying, but I couldn¡¯t help feeling that hanging all this comic chaos on a real crime was ethically dubious.¡±