Dr Caleb Sivyer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Senior Lecturer, researching gender theory, visual culture, women's writing. Administrator @AngelaCarterFan and co-founder Angela Carter Society. Views my own

Rumpelstiltskin
The Brothers Grimm
Just finished my first class of the new academic year! I gave my new cohort of students Rumpelstiltskin, by the Brothers Grimm, and they flooded me with superb ideas, knowledge and insightful readings of this strange tale. Can't wait to hear more from them later this week! https://t.co/8GeBooHfPH
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The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture
Mark Bould
Really enjoyed hearing @MarkBould3 talk about his exciting new book The Athropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture published by @VersoBooks at the book launch event at @bookhaus2 @bristolideas https://t.co/g28pbPXuKq
Hardcover, 2021
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Moomins and the Great Flood
Tove Jansson
"I suppose I prefer it when a storm is raging. I’d best be off out there again before the waves get smaller.” (Tove Jansson, The Moomins and the Great Flood) #StormEunice https://t.co/pqffHUeCgK
Hardcover, 2018
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
“And now a new darkness came sweeping over the water – the great storm itself! She ran toward it and was embraced by the wind. She was cold and fiery at the same time, and she shouted loudly, 'It’s the wind! It’s the wind!'” (Tove Jansson, The Summer Book) https://t.co/zTnedtMcqB
Paperback, 2008
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Companion Piece
Ali Smith
"grammar's as bendy as a live green branch on a tree. [...] if words are alive to us then meaning's alive, and if grammar's alive then the connection in it, rather than the divisions in us, will be energizing everything, one way or another." Ali Smith, Companion Piece (2022) https://t.co/T0QwSnbe1w
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rumpelstiltskin: From the German of the Brothers Grimm
Brothers Grimm
Just finished my first class of the new academic year! I gave my new cohort of students Rumpelstiltskin, by the Brothers Grimm, and they flooded me with superb ideas, knowledge and insightful readings of this strange tale. Can't wait to hear more from them later this week! https://t.co/8GeBooHfPH
Hardcover, 1986
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Villiers de L'Isle Adam: His Life and Works
Robert Du Pontavice De Heussey
Looking forward to speaking about Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve and Villiers de L'Isle Adam's L'Eve future next week. Also, can't wait to hear all of the other fascinating presentations. https://t.co/vTh1qz0DNC
Paperback, 2022
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Solar
Ian McEwan
"'It's a catastrophe. Relax!'" Looking forward to discussing Ian McEwan's novel Solar (2010) with @SRobs_Bristol and others at the Climate Literature Book Club tonight at @OldLibrary_EV https://t.co/FAbjvyQnUq https://t.co/y8udl0nz2C
Paperback, 2011
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki
"Books like each other. We understand each other. You could even say we are all related, enjoying a kinship that stretches like a rhizomatic network beneath human consciousness and knits the world of thought together." Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021) https://t.co/NKi0aNjcQi
Paperback, 2022
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book