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Hardest working man in teaching. Book reading, quiz teaming woke art lover. He/him. No AI. #Booksky #Edusky libraryrinth.substack.com

The cover of Robert McKee's 'Story'.
The cover of Chester Himes' crime novel 'A Rage in Harlem'.
A photo of my Mum and I when I graduated from my Masters. She's wearing a grey coat, white scarf and is smiling at the camera. I'm wearing a gown and mortar board.
The cover of Gabriel Weston's excellent memoir/anatomy book 'Alive'.
The cover of Chester Himes' novel 'A Rage in Harlem'.
A photo of the comedians Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel, raising their hats and looking into the camera.
The cover of Georges Simenon's Maigret novel 'Yellow Dog'.
The cover of George Orwell's novel 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying'.
The cover of Louise Hegarty's novel 'Fair Play'.
The cover of Marcus du Sautoy's book 'Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity.'
The cover of Joseph Jebelli's book 'The Brain at Rest: Why Doing Nothing Can Change Your Life'.
The cover of Nathan Waddell's excellent book on George Orwell 'A Bright Cold Day'.
The cover of Dickens' final, unfinished novel 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'.
The cover of E. M. Forster's novel 'A Room With a View'.
The covers of the books wot I bought today: 'Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity' by Marcus Du Sautoy; 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood by someone called Charles Dickens; and 'Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell' by Nathan Waddell.
The cover of Shirley Jackson's novel 'The Bird's Nest'.
The cover of Naomi Klein's excellent book 'Doppelganger'.
The cover of George Eliot's novel 'Middlemarch'.
The cover of the special edition of 'Batman: Year One' by Frank Miller, David Mazzuchelli and Lynn Varley.
The cover of 'Crook Manifesto' by Colson Whitehead.
The cover of Helen Vendler's book 'The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets'.
The cover of Michael Clune's book 'Pan'.
The cover of 'Practice' by Rosalind Brown.
The cover of Simenon's first Maigret novel 'Pietr the Latvian'.
The cover of John Boyne's book 'The Elements'.
The cover of Stefan Zweig's memoir 'The World of Yesterday'.
The cover of Stefan Zweig's memoir of the early 20th century 'The World of Yesterday'.
The cover of Georges Simenon's Maigret policier 'The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien'.
The cover of Oliver Burkeman's self-help book 'Four Thousand Weeks'.
The cover of Ruth Franklin's biography 'Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life'.
The cover of David Szalay's book 'Flesh'.
The cover to John Yorke's 'Trip to the Moon'.
The cover to John Steinbeck's novella 'The Pearl'.
The cover of Lemn Sissay's memoir 'My Name is Why'.
The cover of Shirley Jackson's 'The Sundial'.
The cover of 'Our Mutual Friend' by Charles Dickens.
Our tortoise Rocket, who has just come out of hibernation.
The cover of Joseph Campbell's seminal study of myth 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces'
A vase of glorious daffodils on my kitchen table.
The cover of 'Hangsaman' by Shirley Jackson.
Two young girls and an older man, from Joseph Wright's painting 'Experiment with a Bird in an Air Pump'.
The hand of the natural philosopher from Joseph Wright's painting 'Experiment with a Bird in an Air Pump'.
The natural philosopher from Joseph Wright's painting 'Experiment with a Bird in an Air Pump'.
Joseph Wright's painting, showing an orrery - a model of the solar system - with several figures standing around it.
An older man, the god-like natural philosopher from Joseph Wright's 'Experiment with a Bird in the Air Pump'.
A young boy from Joseph Wright's painting 'Experiment with a Bird in the Air Pump'.
A large glass vessel, lit from behind with a candle, which is filled with liquid and which can be seen a human skull.
An older man, from Joseph Wright's painting 'An Experiment with a Bird in the Air Pump'.
A young man and woman from Joseph Wright's painting 'Experiment with a Bird in an Air Pump'.
Two figures from Wright of Derby's painting 'Experiment with a Bird in an Air Pump' - a young boy and a man, both looking away from the viewer.