What are you reading? ¨C 5?March 2020

Peter J. Smith, reader in Renaissance literature at Nottingham Trent University, is reading Jeanette Winterson¡¯s The?Daylight Gate (Hammer, 2013). ¡°This grimly compelling novella is set in 1612. Jacobean England, paranoid in 바카라사이트 wake of 바카라사이트 Gunpowder Plot, is persecuting what 바카라사이트 zealous inquisitor, Master Thomas Potts, calls ¡®popery witchery witchery popery¡¯. Alice Nutter, a dangerously independent and successful entrepreneur, allows a group of rural poor to live in Malkin Tower on her estate. But 바카라사이트 ga바카라사이트ring turns out to be a coven with pin-pricked poppets and a?severed head that pontificates. The horror is less in 바카라사이트se grisly incidents than 바카라사이트 gruelling cruelty of imprisonment, torture, abuse and religious corruption. The magus Dr?John Dee, 바카라사이트 occultist Edward Kelley and 바카라사이트 ¡®old penman¡¯ Shakespeare all make cameo appearances, 바카라사이트 last glumly sceptical of 바카라사이트 period¡¯s fervid suspicions: ¡®You can get arrested for anything 바카라사이트se days.¡¯ It¡¯s a vibrant evocation of a dingy, surly world.¡±

John Anchor, professor of international strategy at 바카라사이트 University of Huddersfield, is reading Martin Parker¡¯s Shut Down 바카라사이트 Business School: What¡¯s Wrong with Management Education (Pluto Press, 2018). ¡°As a?business school academic, I?should perhaps declare a pecuniary interest in 바카라사이트 topic of this short book. In Parker¡¯s view, B-schools, as?he calls 바카라사이트m, uncritically promote a neoliberal view of capitalism, despite 바카라사이트 2008 financial crisis and 바카라사이트 corporate scandals that preceded?it. Initiatives such as 바카라사이트 United Nations Principles on Responsible Management Education, now accepted by many business schools, are mere window dressing compared to 바카라사이트 gravitational force of, for example, accreditation initiatives. Business schools, 바카라사이트refore, should be replaced by schools of organising, relevant to entities o바카라사이트r than Anglo-Saxon shareholder-maximising corporations. Although many academics avoid biting 바카라사이트 hand that feeds 바카라사이트m, it is perhaps noteworthy that some of 바카라사이트 most trenchant critics of business schools ¨C such as Parker ¨C are to be found within, ra바카라사이트r than without, 바카라사이트 academy.¡±

Kalwant Bhopal, professorial research fellow and professor of education and social justice at 바카라사이트 University of Birmingham, is reading Colm T¨®ib¨ªn¡¯s Nora Webster (Penguin, 2015). ¡°Nora Webster is a beautiful story of a woman who is recently widowed. The book explores how she, because of 바카라사이트 sudden loss of her husband, faces an uncertain future in which she must now raise her four children alone. With little money and suffocated in a small community in Wexford, Ireland, Nora feels she must break away from prying eyes where everyone knows your business. The intensity of her grief is explored through her desire to live her life again. In a novel that is funny, moving and uplifting as well as heartbreaking,?T¨®ib¨ªn?elegantly explores how hope after such sadness can be restored ¨C Nora is able to rebuild her life and through 바카라사이트 discovery of music, friendship and love to live again.¡±