John McLeod Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
John McLeod on X
Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption (2015), JG Farrell (2007), Postcolonial London (2004), Beginning Postcolonialism (2000). Spared from exalted origins.
A House Through Time
David OlusogaJohn McLeodA House Through Time in Leeds: Presenter of BBC social history series David Olusoga on Headingley, mills and student memories. https://t.co/E979upLv6U
Paperback, 2021
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Being Singular Plural
Jean-Luc NancyJohn McLeodA sad week just got sadder. As well as mourning the passing of my former colleague and teacher, Professor David Lindley, I’ve learned today of the death of Jean-Luc Nancy, whose work on ‘being singular plural’ transformed my understanding of personhood at large.
Paperback, 2000
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Old God's Time
Sebastian BarryJohn McLeodToday’s reading station. Currently engrossed in Sebastian Barry’s Old God’s Time… https://t.co/14nkvycavM
Out of stock
Foster
Claire KeeganJohn McLeodColm Bairéad’s film The Quiet Girl, adapted from Claire Keegan’s story Foster, is utterly superb in every way. A study of Irish silences that reaches far beyond words. Please watch it.
Hardcover, 2022
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Mothering Sunday: A Romance
Graham SwiftJohn McLeodImpressed by Eva Husson’s adaptation of Graham Swift’s novel Mothering Sunday, not least its figurative rendering of history’s intimization. https://t.co/2M9iKek3ZI
Paperback, 2017
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The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
Joan DidionJohn McLeodThis is very sad news indeed. The Year Of Magical Thinking is an extraordinary book. An enormous loss. https://t.co/sz1lEDvzxp
Paperback, 2007
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We, the Survivors
Tash AwJohn McLeodI do wish Tash Aw was better known at large. I thought his last novel, We, The Survivors, was an important and probing novel for very many reasons. https://t.co/vcB094URTk
Paperback, 2020
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August Blue
Deborah LevyJohn McLeodAnother day, another adoption narrative… https://t.co/A7ltGVmhGR
Paperback, 2024
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