BOOKS READ

(finished, unfinished, skipped through, abandoned, loved, loathed ~ a partial record)

December 2022

• Laura Raicovich, Culture Strike: Art & Museums in an Age of Protest (Verso, 2021)

• Rod Mengham, Midnight in the Kant Hotel: Art in Present Times (Little Island Press/Carcanet, 2021)

• Douglas Watt, Death of a Chief ( Luath Press, 2009)

• D. H. Lawrence, 'The Ladybird' (in Three Novellas (Penguin, 1960 [1923]))

• Arthur Herman, The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World (Harper, 2006 [2001])

November 2022

• Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son (Granta, 1992)

• Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans (Penguin, 2015)

• James Berry, Chain of Days (OUP, 1985)

• Francesca Sobande & layla-roxanne hill, Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland (Bloomsbury, 2022)

- Katie Hickman, Daughters of Britannia (HarperCollins, 1999)

October 2022

• Kate Phillips, Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamiaca and Slavery (Luath, 2022)

• Peter Riley, Passing Measures (Carcanet, 2000)

• Paul Durcan, A Snail in my Prime (Harvill, 1993)

September 2022

• Coles, T. J. Human Wrongs : British Social Policy and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Winchester: Iff Books, 2018){NLS permalink}

• Eve Babitz, Eve's Hollywood (NYRB, 2015 [1972]) {NLS link}

• Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, The Nerves and their Endings: essays on crisis and response (Scribe, 2022)

• Boris Arvatov, Art and Production (Pluto, 2017 [1926])

August 2022

• John Christopher, The Death of Grass (1956)

• Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto (Profile Books, 2010)

• David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (written c.2000-2008; posth. pub. 2011)

• Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company (1977)

• Greg Philo et al., Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party & Public Belief (Pluto, 2019)

• Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (1771)

• Darren McGarvey, Poverty Safari (Luath Press/Picador, 2017)

• Ellie Harrison, The Glasgow Effect. A tale of class, capitalism and carbon footprint (Luath Press, 2019 [2nd ed. 2021])

Spring 2022

• Daša Drndič, Belladonna (MacLehose Press, 2017 [first pub. in Croatian, 2015])

• Vita Sackville-West, Seducers in Ecuador & The Heir (1925/1922)

• Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition (Penguin, 2021)

• Anna Kavan, Ice (1967)

• Remi Joseph-Salisbury & Laura Connelly, Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism (Manchester UP, 2021)

• James Walvin, A Short History of Slavery (Penguin, 2007)

• Svetlana Alexievich, Second-Hand Time (Fitzcarraldo, 2016 (first publ. in Russian, 2013))

• Wilkie Collins, Armadale (1864-66)

• Michael Moorcock, Stormbringer (Panther Books, 1985 [1963])

• J. L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup (Penguin 2016 [1975])

• Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain (2020)

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October 2021

• Tabitha Lasley, Sea State (Fourth Estate, 2021)

• Janneke Adema, Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2021)

• Christina Dunbar-Hester, Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures (Princeton UP, 2020)

• Jon Silkin, Making a Republic (Carcanet, 2002, but written before his death in 1997)