Univ publications 2021
We are delighted to detail here a selection of books published by our extended Univ family during the last year.
Paul Armstrong (1984, PPE), former聽Match of the Day聽editor, published his second book,聽Why Are We Always Indoors? (…unless we鈥檙e off to Barnard Castle), a personal chronicle of the strangest football close season in modern history.
Brian Allgar (1962, English), author of聽The Ayterzedd, published his second book,聽An Answer from the Past. Brian hopes that it will sell at least as well as his first book, which actually reached double figures鈥�
Dr Martin Yuille (1966, Biochemistry) MA, PhD, FRCPath, Honorary Reader at the University of Manchester, published聽Saving Sick Britain: Why we need the Health Society, with Bill Ollier.
Inscape聽is the debut聽novel of聽Louise Carey聽(2010, English), and has been described as 鈥渃yberpunk rebooted鈥� and as offering a 鈥渃hillingly plausible dystopian future.鈥�
Professor Mark Doel (1969, PPE) published In Soviet Times People Knew Where To Cross The Road, a novel set in turbulent post-Soviet Armenia.
Rebecca F Kuang鈥檚 (2019, Contemporary Chinese Studies) latest book is聽The Burning God, the exciting end to聽The Poppy War聽epic fantasy trilogy.
Retired consultant physician and nephrologist Dr Simon Gibson (1972, Chemistry and Medicine) published his memoirs,聽Tales of a Meandering Medic.
Dr John Godwin FRSA (1973, Classics) published聽Juvenal: Satires Book V.听闯耻惫别苍补濒鈥檚聽fifth and final book of Satires continues and completes his satirical assessment of the Rome of the early second century AD.
Sir Max Hastings (1964, History) published聽Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942.
Owen Jones (2002, History), published聽This Land: The Struggle for the Left, a page-turning journey through a tumultuous decade in British politics.
Dr Nicolas Kyriakides (2011, DPhil & MSt Law) published a book entitled,聽Cyprus Banking Law, a complete guide to the functioning of the Cypriot public and private banking system.
Lucy Fisher鈥檚 (2007, Classics) second book is聽Women in the War聽which weaves together the oral histories often remarkable women who dedicated their young adulthood to the war effort.
Professor Julian Lindley-French (1976, History),聽strategic analyst, author, speaker and commentator, published,聽Future War聽and the Defence of Europe.
Writing as Ali Mercer, Alison Pindar’s (1991, English) new novel is聽The Marriage Lie. It is her sixth novel and her fourth to be published by digital imprint Bookouture, which is part of Hachette.
Dr Victoria Miyandazi (2013, Law), a former Rhodes Scholar, published a new monograph,聽Equality in Kenya鈥檚 2010 Constitution: Understanding the Competing and Interrelated Conceptions.
Dr Kathleen Neal (2001, MSt History), Lecturer in History at Monash University, published聽The Letters of Edward I: Political Communication in the Thirteenth Century. Substantial parts of it were written during visits to Oxford over the last few years.
Professor Fabrizio Nevola (1989, History and Modern Languages), Chair in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, published聽Street 182t福利 in Renaissance Italy
Sir Timothy Noble, Bt (1962, Law), has published his debut novel,聽The First Shadows of Morning.
Dr Nick Smith聽(1976, Education and English) published聽More Bridge Literature, which takes the form of聽a set of parodies of well-known works of English literature.
Professor Raymond Wacks (1971, Law) published聽both Covid-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age and the sixth edition of聽Understanding Jurisprudence: An Introduction to Legal Theory. i
Venetia Welby (1999, Classics) has published her second novel,聽Dreamtime.
Professor Joe Moshenska, Univ鈥檚 Beaverbrook and Bouverie Fellow and Praelector in English,聽has written,聽Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton, it is published by Basic Books.
Dr Graeme Baber (1987, Medicine) has published a new monograph, The British Judges of the International Court of Justice: Overview, McNair and Lauterpacht (Nova Science Publishers, 2021).
Dr Lise Butler (2010, History), Lecturer in Modern History at City University, published Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970.
Dr Claas Kirchhelle (2012, History), Lecturer, History of Medicine, 182t福利 Dublin and Honorary Fellow, Oxford Vaccine Group, recently published two books, Pyrrhic Progress 鈥� which won several prizes over the past year 鈥� and Bearing Witness.
Tim Strickland MBE (1967, Geography) published Strick: Tank Hero of Arras, a biography of his father Major-General Eugene Vincent Michael Strickland CMG, DSO, OBE, MM, CStJ, Star of Jordan.
Professor Raymond Wacks (1971, Law) published National Security in the New World Order: Government and the Technology of Information in September 2021 and ‘The Rule of Law Under Fire?’ in October 2021.
Dr Hugh Watson (1973, Education), published his second novel, The Silo, (Halstead, Australia, 2021), a compelling thriller set in the brutal world of country politics.
Ben Jackson鈥檚, Leslie Mitchell Tutorial Fellow in Modern History and Associate Professor of Modern History, has co-edited The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s. The book is open access and can be downloaded free .
Carolina Academic Press has published Professions and Politics in Crisis, written by Professor Mark Jones (1971, Law).
Published: 15 December 2021