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Buried Giants
The last book I taught in 2023 was The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is my favourite of his novels. My teaching context is gods,...
Dec 31, 2023


Richard III was Innocent!
Or so claims Philippa Langley in her new book The Princes in the Tower: Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case. I confess I haven’t read it...
Dec 3, 2023


Now for something very old, but also quite new…
This time Beowulf. The oldest surviving poem in the Germanic languages. The only manuscript copy, which can be found in the British...
Nov 18, 2023
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