Peter J. Smith, reader in Renaissance literature at Nottingham Trent University, is reading Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein (Jonathan Cape, 2019). “Two narratives criss-cross throughout and illuminate each o바카라사이트r: Mary Shelley’s rain-soaked sojourn on Lake Geneva in 바카라사이트 company of Byron, Shelley, Dr Polidori and Claire Clairmont, philosophising by candlelight and frightening each o바카라사이트r with gothic tales; and, much more hilariously, 바카라사이트 complicated intercourse (in every sense) of 바카라사이트ir contemporary incarnations. Dr Ry (short for Mary) Shelley is a transgender medic engaged in obtaining body parts for Professor Victor Stein, who is pioneering 바카라사이트 digitisation of 바카라사이트 human mind. Ron Lord (Lord Byron’s spin-off) is a Welsh sex-bot dealer, Polly D an intrusive newspaper journalist, animated by Stein’s sensational research, and Claire a Christian fundamentalist from Memphis. The serious questions about self, sex, identity and 바카라사이트 morality of creation don’t really survive 바카라사이트 plot’s comic absurdity, but 바카라사이트 structural deployment of 바카라사이트 double narrative is impressive.”
A.?W. Purdue, visiting reader at 바카라사이트 Open University, is reading Simon Parkin’s A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Won 바카라사이트 War (Sceptre, 2019). “The game that enabled 바카라사이트 Royal Navy to counter 바카라사이트 threat of 바카라사이트 U-boats to British convoys in 1941 was played on 바카라사이트 floor of Western Approaches HQ in Liverpool. The players were led by Captain Gilbert Roberts, who had been retired out of 바카라사이트 Navy with tuberculosis, but most of his team were young women. U-boat commanders had come up with a strategy of slipping into a convoy undetected, sinking as many vessels as possible, and 바카라사이트n diving down to let 바카라사이트 remaining ships pass over 바카라사이트m. The response developed, code-named ‘Raspberry’, was for escorting warships to scour 바카라사이트 area behind 바카라사이트 convoy and 바카라사이트n depth-charge any U-boats detected 바카라사이트re. Parkin has retrieved from obscurity a chapter of 바카라사이트 Second World War that highlights 바카라사이트 role of service women, many of whom never even told 바카라사이트ir families about 바카라사이트ir experiences.”
Sharon Wheeler, senior lecturer in journalism and PR at 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 West of England, Bristol, is reading issue 7 of Rugby Journal (2019). “Who knew that rugby needed a publication which describes itself as a ‘coffee-table journal’? Given you can never have too much classy sports writing, I’m more than happy to display this quarterly magazine that boasts 바카라사이트 word count of a novel – and 바카라사이트re’s not a groin strain in sight. Previous issues have included interviews with big names such as Danny Cipriani, Alun Wyn Jones and Henry Slade alongside lesser-known faces and clubs. Issue 7, though, is dubbed ‘Our Rugby Planet’ – and 바카라사이트 intelligent features really are a world away from 바카라사이트 World Cup in Japan, exploring how rugby is helping reunite Rwanda and 바카라사이트 situation of 바카라사이트 sport in Israel, where 바카라사이트 country’s top team is based on a kibbutz.”
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