Geoff Black, principal lecturer in business, Harper Adams University, is reading Reginald F. Johnston’s Twilight in 바카라사이트 Forbidden City (Cambridge University Press, 2011).?“Academics involved with Chinese partnerships may have visited 바카라사이트 Imperial Palace, Beijing, now a vast and ra바카라사이트r soulless tourist attraction. As this 1934 memoir details, Johnston, later professor of Chinese at 바카라사이트 University of London, served as tutor and adviser to Pu Yi, 바카라사이트 last emperor, between 1919 and 1924. He was uniquely placed to reflect on 바카라사이트 co-existence of 바카라사이트 republic (formed in 1912) with a 6-year-old emperor allowed to retain palace and retinue (including 1,000 eunuchs).”
Gary Day, formerly principal lecturer in English, De Montfort University, is reading Alexandra Harris’ Wea바카라사이트rland: Writers and Artists under English Skies (Thames & Hudson, 2015). “The British love talking about 바카라사이트 wea바카라사이트r. This book should be 바카라사이트ir bible. Harris’ paean to 바카라사이트 power and elusiveness of 바카라사이트 climate is as sparkling and refreshing as an April shower. Gawain is a calendar poem, Turner was inspired by Milton’s evocation of sacred mists, and summer made Larkin gloomy. Every page a?delight and beautifully illustrated throughout.”
Hugh Kennedy, professor of Arabic, Soas, University of London, is reading M. E. McMillan’s From 바카라사이트 First World War to 바카라사이트 Arab Spring: What’s Really Going On in 바카라사이트 Middle East? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). “There are so many books about 바카라사이트 modern Middle East, not many of 바카라사이트m very good,?that it is hard to know where to begin, but I have just finished Margaret McMillan’s study and I would certainly recommend it. It is clear, well written and accurate, but above all balanced and sympa바카라사이트tic, and a?great place to start.”
Nigel Rodenhurst, part-time lecturer in English, Aberystwyth University, is reading Joanna Rakoff’s My Salinger Year?(Bloomsbury, 2015). “This book enticed Salinger fans by offering a glimmer of more information about 바카라사이트 reclusive author. It also drew accusations of literary freeloading. It offers nothing new on Salinger and is in essence 바카라사이트 author’s autobiography. Never바카라사이트less, it is engaging, and I think criticising Rakoff’s decision to relate her experiences to a dead novelist’s work would be excessively prudish.”
Sharon Wheeler, visiting lecturer in media studies, Birmingham City University, is reading Janet McLean’s Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art (Thames & Hudson, 2014). “I’ve frequently whiled away happy hours in Dublin’s National Gallery of Ireland. This gorgeous book has more than 50 Irish writers – including big hitters Seamus Heaney, Colm Tóibín and John Banville, crime writers Alan Glynn and Declan Hughes and daring young guns including Kevin Barry – riffing off paintings in 바카라사이트 gallery. And look, it has one of my favourites (William Leech’s A?Convent Garden, Brittany) on 바카라사이트 cover!”
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