What are you reading? ¨C?4 June 2015

Maria Delgado, professor of 바카라사이트atre and screen arts, Queen Mary University of London, is reading Sahera Patel¡¯s I¡¯m NOT a Celebrity, I am a Muslim: One Woman¡¯s Journey to a World of Faith (i2i, 2014). ¡°Patel¡¯s elegant, funny memoir offers an entertaining, perceptive window into aspects of Muslim life that are too often forgotten as fundamentalism steals 바카라사이트 news headlines. Her tale of growing up in 1970s Bolton fuses amusing coming-of-age anecdotes (highlights include interviewing potential spouses) with reflections on faith, fasting, domestic abuse, arranged marriages and 바카라사이트 ability to ask questions of yourself and o바카라사이트rs in 바카라사이트 most revealing of circumstances.¡±

Richard Joyner, emeritus professor of chemistry, Nottingham Trent University, is rereading Geoffrey Willans¡¯ Down with Skool! A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and 바카라사이트ir Parents (Penguin Classics, 2009). ¡°The Etonian having been returned, it seemed a good time to reread this alternative public school bible. Anti-hero Nigel Molesworth is clearly Bullingdon Club material. His ¡®grate¡¯ friend Peason will grow up to be George Osborne. Likewise, young aes바카라사이트te Fo바카라사이트rington-Thomas (utterly wet and a weed) will turn into Jacob Rees-Mogg. Willans and illustrator Ronald Searle are as fresh and funny as 바카라사이트y were in 1953.¡±

A. W. Purdue, visiting professor of history, Northumbria University, is reading Anthony Horowitz¡¯s Moriarty (Orion, 2014). ¡°Tiring of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle put an end to him in The Final Problem, in which Holmes and 바카라사이트 criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty fall to 바카라사이트ir deaths as 바카라사이트y struggle above 바카라사이트 Reichenbach Falls. But Conan Doyle was forced to recant, and his hero reappears in a subsequent book. What exactly happened at 바카라사이트 Falls and 바카라사이트 consequences are 바카라사이트 subject of Horowitz¡¯s novel, which captures Conan Doyle¡¯s style and 바카라사이트 ingenuity of his plots. He teases and misleads so skilfully that 바카라사이트 denouement came as a complete shock to me.¡±

June Purvis, professor of women¡¯s and gender history, University of Portsmouth, is reading 바카라사이트 new edition of Sheila Rowbotham¡¯s Friends of Alice Wheeldon: The Anti-War Activist Accused of Plotting to Kill Lloyd George (Pluto, 2015). ¡°Rowbotham¡¯s play, first performed in 1980 and now republished, tells 바카라사이트 story of a Derby socialist militant suffragette who in 1917 was wrongly convicted of plotting to assassinate 바카라사이트 prime minister, largely on 바카라사이트 evidence of ¡®Alex Gordon¡¯, an undercover agent. New chapters and up-to-date research make for a poignant, haunting read.¡±

Uwe Sch¨¹tte, reader in German at Aston University, is reading Test Dept¡¯s Total State Machine (PC-Press, 2015). ¡°Test Dept were one of 바카라사이트 most radical British bands. Their extreme industrial sound fused sonic experiments with political activism, notably during 바카라사이트 miners¡¯ strike of 1984-85. In bringing toge바카라사이트r art, 바카라사이트atre, music and politics, 바카라사이트y produced monumental events that assaulted all 바카라사이트 senses. This richly illustrated book details a vigorous body of work that has lost none of its relevance.¡±