Bookmark
Bookmark is a review of new books by Sussex authors.
James Hampshire (Senior Lecturer in Sussex Centre for Migration Research)
The Politics of Immigration: Contradictions of the Liberal State
Polity Press, £16.99 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780745638997
Randall Hansen, University of Toronto, said: "Not only a brilliant work of scholarship, it is the best book on the politics of migration in decades and deserves to become the standard work."
Celia Hunt, Associate Tutor in Education
Transformative Learning through Creative Life Writing: Exploring the self in the learning process
Routledge, £22.99 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780415578424
The publisher says: “Arising from a research project conducted over two years, Transformative Learning through Creative Life Writing examines the effects of fictional autobiography on adult learners’ sense of self.”
Claudia Siebrecht (Lecturer in Modern European History)
The Aesthetics of Loss: German Women's Art of the First World War
Oxford University Press, £65 (hardback)
ISBN: 9780199656684
The publisher says: “Drawing on a fascinating body of visual sources produced throughout the war years, Claudia Siebrecht examines the thematic evolution of women's art from expressions of support for the war effort to more nuanced and ambivalent testimonies of loss and grief.”
Cedric Watts (Emeritus Professor in English), writing as Peter Green
Final Exam: A Novel
PublishNation, £7.99 (paperback)/£0.97 (e-book)
ISBN: 9781291468991
The publisher says: “This novel is about exams, literature, sex, cancer and time.”