Louise S

@louises.bsky.social

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Academic teaching law (England and Wales) with obsessive interest in the subject, also general interest in books, philosophy, gaming, history, art. Views my own.

Picture of the book ‘A Shattered Idol: the Lord Chief Justice and his Troublesome Women- the scandal that enthralled Victorian Britain’ by Tom Hughes.
The books I got for Christmas. Ancient Egyptian Magic; Parfit, and also Death in a Shallow Pond by David Edmonds; the DK Sherlock Holmes book; the Bookshop Book - Jen Campbell; What We Owe to Each Other - T M Scanlon; Penny Bloods Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women; One Piece vol 14-16 - Eiichiro Oda (I also got three other One Piece omnibuses); Second Helpings & last scrapings- Simon Brown; Cat and Mouse- Christianna Brand; A Schoolmaster’s War - Harry Ree; Ungovernable- Simon Hart; Rest You Merry - Charlotte MacLeod; Department of Truth vol5- James M Tynion; Hell Screen - Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino.
A small grey, black and white kitten with a pink nose, stretched out on a sofa, staring into the camera with baby blue eyes.
A copy of Hear the Other Side, the autobiography of Dame Elizabeth Lane, the first female High Court Judge in England.
Copy of ‘Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?’ by Lev Parikian.
Copies of three 1960 editions of Nancy Drew books: The Haunted Showboat, The Password to Larkspur Lane, The Secret of Red Gate Farm.
A copy of Winds of Change 1914-1939 by Harold Macmillan.
Nancy Drew
Pyramid Head from the Silent Hill video games.
A still of 1980s tv programme The Scarecrow and Mrs King.
A cup of coffee.
A book, ‘The History of Ideas’ by David Runciman.
Ginger cat on sofa