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El perro de la nostalgia

Pablo Lopez Navarro (Clare 2021)

'El perro de la nostalgia' is my second poetry book. It includes around 50 poems that talk about romance, love, time and breakups. My style has been shaped by the Latin American Boom and follows the style of Mario Benedetti, Jaime Sabines, and Julio Cortazar, among others.

The great theme of the book is time, which is an impassable cell where we submit to the shortness of happiness and the longing for what is gone. Ontologically, the human being will always be incomplete and this book of poems is punctual in pointing out the nature of our being.

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Finding Light in the Darkness - New Edition

Jon Key (Sidney Sussex 1993)

Whether you are part of a team or a leader of an organisation or business, this book is intended to help you reflect on the lessons from the pandemic. The lessons apply to future challenges and crises, including climate change.

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Undeliverable Letters, Unreachable Galaxies - Or, The Man in the Old Bowler Hat

P R Brown (St John's 1972)

The author of these dystopian 'letters' would have us imagine that the unbridled development of Artificial Intelligence, and man's consequent moral and intellectual decline, together with disastrous climatic change and imminent global nuclear war, have all conspired to plunge humanity into chaos and irreversible destruction.

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Exit, Pursued by Death

Keira Willis (Queens' 2008)

The thrilling second instalment in the 'Tib Street Ballroom' series coming October 2024.

Welcome back to the Ballroom...

Manchester, 1987

The Ballroom - an obscure police department on Tib Street known for using unconventional methods to solve cold cases - is once again thrust into a spine-chilling investigation.

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Tib Street Ballroom

Keira Willis (Queens' 2008)

How do you solve an unsolvable murder? Ask the victim...

In January 1986, newly engaged Marnie Driscoll is found dead in her parents' kitchen. With no witnesses, it seems as though the circumstances of her death will remain a mystery.

Six months later, high-flying Detective Inspector Andrew Joyce's career takes an unexpected detour when he finds himself unwillingly transferred to an obscure department within Greater Manchester Police, known as the Ballroom.

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Five Generations at Work: How we win together, for good

Rebecca Robins (Murray Edwards 1991) & Patrick Dunne

For the first time in history, we have up to five generations at work. The problem is that we have been having the wrong conversation about generations, caught up in a divisive discourse fuelled by stereotypes and silos. In the context of a world in flux and polycrisis, our diversity is a powerful force multiplier for good, if we debunk the stereotypes and know how to unlock it.

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From Nowhere to Somewhere: How a Small-Town Dreamer Became an Oxbridge Scholar

Julian Tan L. Y. (Clare 2011)

Ever dreamt of gaining admission to a prestigious university like Oxford or Cambridge?

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Do Sweat the Small Stuff: Harness the power of micro-interactions to transform your leadership

Sarah Langslow (St John's 1999)

You may think it’s small stuff, but it has a big impact.

Great leadership is about people: connecting with them and inspiring them to perform at their best. But leaders under pressure tend to focus on tasks, to-do lists and deadlines. The result? Teams are disengaged, performance and productivity are below expectations, and morale is low.

Building relationships isn’t a one-off task. It happens through every single interaction, and we aren’t paying those everyday moments nearly enough attention.

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Enchanted Islands - Travels through myth & magic, love & loss

Laura Coffey (St John's)

A lyrical odyssey about love, loss, and Greek myth, Enchanted Islands is a memoir that blends together Laura’s experiences navigating heartbreak and grief with her quest to map the real-life islands that inspired the wanderings of Homer’s epic hero, Odysseus. 

Stephen Fry describes it as: "A magical and hugely captivating journey - filled with such beauty, wonder and surprise. A simply marvellous read, hugely recommended" 

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Broken Light

J K Denning (Hughes Hall 1998)

'Broken Light' explores how both the brokenness and beauty of life and love can have enduring significance through relationship and art.

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Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past

Graeme Lawson (Corpus Christi 1974)

Written by one of the world foremost experts in the field of music's origins, the book's fifty short chapters trace the fascinating story of archaeology's exploration of music's prehistory, from the present day back to the first modern humans and beyond.

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King of the Armadillos

Wendy Chin-Tanner (Churchill 1996)

A novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City and Louisiana, following one young man’s quest to survive an often misunderstood disease, and find love, music, and himself, in the process.

Book cover is bright yellow with a black and white image of a middle aged Edward de Bono in a suit and tie.

Edward de Bono: Love Laterally

Sarah Tucker (Homerton 2020)

The first authorised biography to reappraise the life and legacy of writer, philosopher and Nobel Prize nominee, Edward de Bono, best known for inventing the concept of lateral thinking. The book will be launched at The House of Lords on 3 September 2024 at 7pm.

Book cover shows a black and white image of two women standing facing each other in a field at Glastonbury Festival.

Glastonbury: The Festival and Its People

Liam Bailey (Hughes Hall 1986)

'Glastonbury: The Festival and Its People' is the striking distillation of over 30 years’ unprecedented photographic access to the world’s largest green-field music and performing arts festival. In over 120 memorable images, Liam Bailey invites us to share his experiences of being among its diverse tribes.

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The First Question

Alex Fallows (Christ's 1974)

What happened to Annie Wilson? Katy Harrington does not know, but she suspects that her husband does.

Dr Katy Harrington is a university lecturer; intelligent and successful. But she is trapped in a suffocating marriage and rapidly losing control of her life. When a mysterious woman alerts her to the disappearance of a university student, Annie Wilson, eight years ago in Lyme Regis, Katy realises she is being warned about her husband. She desperately needs someone to talk to, but then her best friend does the one thing a best friend would never do.

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Cheek To Cheek

Alex Fallows (Christ's 1974)

Mia Kirkland’s husband is dead. Everyone tells her it was an accident. But she does not believe it.

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Leaving Academia: Ditch the blanket, take the skills

Dr Emma Williams (Christ's 1990)

Have you reached the heady heights of Peak Postdoc? Or are you experiencing the ‘meh’ of the Postdoc Plateau? Or has the doom spiral of the Postdoc Plummet begun?

Book cover shows a starlit sky, transitioning from orange to deep blue, with Chinese lanterns hung above.

The Cry of the Silkworm

Shi Naseer (Trinity 2013)

Growing up in 1990s China, in a village where failure to observe the rigidly enforced one-child policy is deemed tantamount to a crime, Chen Di must fight to get the education she craves in a world in which boys are prioritised. Following her mother's untimely death, 16-year-old Chen Di's thirst for vengeance against those she holds responsible brings about her transformation from a gutsy, marginalised child into an aikido-practising young woman who braves Shanghai.

Book cover shows a blond woman in a red blouse holding a canvas in front of an easel. Beyond is the sky above St Paul's.

The War Artist

Jan Casey (Hughes Hall 1996)

When young painter, Sybil Paige, wins a coveted assignment from the War Artists' Advisory Committee, she is determined to tell the stories of women fighting their own battles on the home front. Armed with her sketchbook, she begins her journey across the country sketching everything from airfields and assembly lines to farms and factories. With each new commission, Sybil grows in confidence. But, like the many people she meets and sketches, she fears the future: will it bring hope or heartbreak?

 

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The Classical Double Copy: New Connections in Gauge Theory and Gravity

Chris D White (Downing 1999)

Our current understanding of nature is in terms of matter that is acted on by forces. There are four fundamental forces, of which three are described by so-called gauge theories, a type of quantum field theory. The fourth force, gravity, is best described by general relativity, and our traditional ways of thinking about gauge theories and gravity look completely different from each other.

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