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Sylvia’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Sylvia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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More on identity! Thank you Kwame Anthony Appiah
Do you know how it feels to read thoughts that echo your own? I’ve just read Kwame Anthony Appiah’s The Lies that Bind. My second novel Sculpting the Elephant explores identity and crossing cultures. In Oxford we have the world’s first public museum in the Ashmolean. Before the 2009 rebuild all the departments were little boxes but after the refit th Read more of this blog post »
Do you know how it feels to read thoughts that echo your own? I’ve just read Kwame Anthony Appiah’s The Lies that Bind. My second novel Sculpting the Elephant explores identity and crossing cultures. In Oxford we have the world’s first public museum in the Ashmolean. Before the 2009 rebuild all the departments were little boxes but after the refit th Read more of this blog post »
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Food of Love: Cooking Up a Life Across Gender, Class and Race:
"Silvia Vetta has a very special lens on life at the end of the last century. It may start uncontrovertially with a working class childhood and grammar school education that this reader recognises. However with her mixed marriage, all that changes. Si"
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Thank you Lauren. We need to believe change is possible in the days of Trump.
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| Reactions to novels is personal. I prefer a strong sense of place and relatable characters. Steve Sheppard achieves that in spades in Lazy Town. Idleborough is based in west Oxfordshire which I know well and all the characters are vivid without being ...more | |
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Thank you Joyce. That'sgreat to read because it was my intention that, in a not dumbed down manner, I'd make the exciting recent history of China acce
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Having had personal experience of corruption in planning, I know that the issues raised in this book are relevant and up to the minute relevant too. Its satisfying to enjoy a well told story - a real page turner and surface, at the end, knowing that ...more |
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Food of Love: Cooking Up a Life Across Gender, Class and Race
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Thank you Patricia. You have understood the way white women like me ,who married men of colour when that was regarded with hostility, is written out o
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Thank you Yasmeen. Its important to be honest about the Empire's brutality but without being polemical. I want a page turner of a story that would als
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| 'Magnificent' is an understatement. What an achievement! If you appreciated Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, you’ll love Linda Proud’s series set in C15th Tuscany. Her research is outstanding and her characters rich. What is particularly ‘Magnificent’, giv ...more | |
"Poor Table Manners by Steve Sheppard, the third book in the Dawson and Lucy series, brings the dynamic duo to the vibrant yet treacherous setting of Cape Town. The story quickly escalates as their new employer dies under suspicious circumstances and "
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| Children in Africa rarely see themselves in books.Most of the readers and fiction are Western. Books like This one by Tonia Cope Bowley are much needed. I do hope it makes its way in to schools particularly in villages in Southern Africa. Tonia is th ...more | |
“Austere government buildings lined the edges, standing in the square an individual felt like a speck of dust.”
― Brushstrokes in Time
― Brushstrokes in Time
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
