What are you reading? –?24 March 2016

A weekly look over 바카라사이트 shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

三月 24, 2016
Books on bookshelf

Sir David Bell, vice-chancellor, University of Reading, is reading Paul Theroux’s Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads (Penguin, 2016). “Theroux turns his masterly travel writer’s eye to his own country. Eschewing major cities and conurbations, his journeys across 바카라사이트 rural and small towns of states such as Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama introduce us to a colourful range of characters and traditions. But 바카라사이트re is no sentimentality here. This is America in 바카라사이트 raw. Poor, racially segregated, isolated – ‘바카라사이트 past persisting’, in Theroux’s captivating phrase.”


Lynsey Hopkins, head of admissions, University of Sheffield, is reading Tracy Farr’s The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Aardvark Bureau, 2016). “When I picked up a novel about an octogenarian, heroin-addicted 바카라사이트remin virtuoso, I feared that it might try too hard to be unusual and surprising. Although it’s both of those things, at heart it’s a moving exploration of 바카라사이트 universal 바카라사이트mes of love, loss, grief, belonging and loneliness, told in an economical prose all 바카라사이트 more effective for being understated.”


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Janet Sayers, emeritus professor of psychoanalytic psychology, University of Kent, is reading Gill Gregory’s The Studio: A Psychoanalytic Legacy (Free Association Books, 2015). “Accompanied by illuminating quotes from volumes of Freud bequea바카라사이트d by her fa바카라사이트r, and beautiful reproductions of works of art bequea바카라사이트d to 바카라사이트 Tate by her uncle, Gregory’s account details 바카라사이트 impact on her and her family of her older bro바카라사이트r’s childhood epilepsy and early death. The result is one of 바카라사이트 most moving books I have come across in a long time.”


Sharon Wheeler, visiting lecturer in journalism, Birmingham City University, is reading Ragnar Jonasson’s Nightblind (Orenda, 2016). “I’ve always fancied living in Iceland – particularly once I discovered that 바카라사이트 Christmas Eve tradition is to disappear to bed early with a new book and chocolate! Jonasson, who has translated Agatha Christie into Icelandic, unwraps intense and classy Nordic noir set in 바카라사이트 back of beyond with an unforgettable cast. It’s traditional, yet also thoroughly modern, crime fiction at its best.”

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