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Ian McEwan’s ‘Black Dogs’. Written in 1982, this concerns the aftermath of the Nazi era in Europe, and how the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s affected those who once saw Communism as a way forward for society. The main characters travel to France, where they encounter disturbing residues of Nazism still at large in the French countryside. The review in The Times Literary Supplement commented that the book is ‘compassionate without resorting to sentimentality, clever without losing its honesty, an undisguised novel of ideas which is also Ian McEwan's most human work’. Zadie Smith likewise commented that it is a ‘brilliant, flinty little novel, bursting with big ideas’.

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Paul will be speaking on, Caleb Femi’s ‘Poor’.

Paul Dominiak is currently Vice Principal at Westcott House and Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity. He has previously served as Dean of Chapel at Jesus College and Chaplain at Trinity College. His research focuses on the reception of philosophical concepts in medieval and early modern theology.

In Poor, Caleb Femi combines poetry and original photography to explore the trials, tribulations, dreams and joys of young Black boys in twenty-first century Peckham..
 

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Andrew will be speaking about Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’.  Made up of three parts—‘Northern Lights’, ‘The Subtle Knife’ and ‘The Amber Spyglass’—this is one of the greatest works of fantasy ever written in the English language. It belongs in the same class as ‘Lord of the Rings’ and the Narnia series.