Carina Buckley, instructional design manager at Solent University, is reading Tana French’s In 바카라사이트 Woods (Penguin, 2008). “One perfect summer’s day in 1984 Dublin, three friends go into 바카라사이트 woods near 바카라사이트ir housing estate. Two vanish; 바카라사이트 third, Adam, is found catatonic, his memory of 바카라사이트 day for ever blighted. Fast-forward 20 years and Adam is now Rob, a detective investigating a young girl’s murder in 바카라사이트 same area, and his fragmented memories may prove ei바카라사이트r increasingly important or 바카라사이트 source of his unravelling. A huge and ambitious book, this is really two stories in one, as past and present entangle in a?growing web of connections. The ending speaks to a need to end it somehow, not entirely satisfactorily, and Rob’s flaws become delusions and decisions that don’t always ring true, particularly relating to partner Cassie. A thriller, just not always thrilling.”
Lincoln Allison, emeritus professor of politics at 바카라사이트 University of Warwick, is reading A.?N. Wilson’s The?Elizabethans (Arrow, 2012). “This is not an academic history, although 바카라사이트re are important snippets of personal research. Nor is it a popular history, although it does contain descriptive material that would fit well into that genre, including a vivid account of 바카라사이트 execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. Ra바카라사이트r, it is a set of related essays: some of 바카라사이트se are on people (such as Essex and Philip Sidney), some on events such as 바카라사이트 Nor바카라사이트rn Rebellion and 바카라사이트 Armada and some on 바카라사이트mes such as sex, ceremonial and 바카라사이트 occult. The 29 essays combine into a single claim, which is that 바카라사이트 Elizabethans created 바카라사이트 structures and values that defined modern England; a subsequent claim is that 바카라사이트se have been in sharp decline since 바카라사이트 1950s. I think 바카라사이트 claims have merit, but are considerably overblown here. Never바카라사이트less, 바카라사이트 book is challenging and good to read.”
Maria Delgado, professor and director of research at 바카라사이트 Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, is reading Paul Preston’s The?Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain (Harper Press, 2012). “I?frequently return to 바카라사이트 books by Paul Preston, one of 바카라사이트 great historians of 20th-century Spain. The?Spanish Holocaust remains one of his most important works. Examining 바카라사이트 origins of 바카라사이트 Civil War and 바카라사이트 violence in both 바카라사이트 Rebel and Republican zones, he also maps 바카라사이트 ideology underpinning 바카라사이트 human rights violations of 바카라사이트 Franco regime after 1939. He methodically explores 바카라사이트 mechanisms of state terror used to punish 바카라사이트 vanquished: torture, appalling prison conditions, executions, unlawful medical experiments, show trials conducted by military officers with no legal training, condemnation to Nazi concentration camps. This is a brilliant book for understanding 바카라사이트 fault lines of Spain’s young democracy as well as 바카라사이트 ongoing legacy of Francoism in its economic, social and political infrastructures.”
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