Chris Vardy Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Teaching modern and contemporary literature | Researching Thatcherism and (newly) prehistory | Writing a book called ‘Remembering the End of History’
Darkmans
Nicola BarkerChris Vardy@KentMaps1 ‘Darkmans’ by Nicola Barker is terrific and about multiple layers of Kent history haunting present-day Ashford
Paperback, 2007
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On Sexuality and Power
Alan SinfieldChris Vardy@SamHoltonBradl1 @Markgatiss The first portrait here is the cover to Alan Sinfield’s excellent ‘On Sexuality and Power, and I never realised it was Minton!
Paperback, 2004
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left
Stuart HallChris Vardy@Samfr Jackson and Saunders ‘Making Thatcher’s Britain’, Stuart Hall ‘The Hard Road to Renewal’, EHH Green, ‘Thatcher’ and the recent collection ‘The Neoliberal Age’ (which critiques that concept in interesting ways).
Paperback, 2021
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Politics: Ideas in Profile
David RuncimanChris VardyHelen Thompson and David Runciman taking about the politics of ‘Dallas’ is a fusion of two of my favourite things that I genuinely never saw coming… I cannot wait @HelenHet20 https://t.co/ngZqXthhKW
Paperback, 2015
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
When The Wind Blows
Raymond BriggsChris VardyRIP Raymond Briggs. ‘Fungus the Bogeyman’ was a favourite when I was a kid (and I loved his exploration of monster mid-life crisis in a re-read a few years ago!) ‘When the Wind Blows’, ‘Ethel and Ernest’, and the below are devastating, moving creative histories. https://t.co/18cPTgcmpo
Paperback, 2015
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Body Lies
Jo BakerChris Vardy@jproache The Body Lies by Jo Baker and ‘A Single Man’ by Isherwood
Paperback, 2020
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book