This week's book is the 2023 Booker Prize winner, Prophet Song by Paul Lynch.

As Ireland slowly succumbs to a devastating civil war, Eilish refuses to leave. With her husband abducted by Ireland's secret police, she is on her own trying to keep her family together. As everything around her falls apart, she realises that the end of the world is not a grand world-wide finale, it's a localised event that happens over and over all the time.

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Article on how power affects the brain, by The British Psychological Society: https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/how-power-affects-brain 

This week's book is the classic science fiction novel, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

Charlie Gordon's life is changed by a group of scientists that develop a treatment that can help increase his IQ, but what happens once Charlie becomes aware enough to see things as they are? Is ignorance truly bliss?

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This week's book: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo. 

Zhuang's life is forever changed after she spends a year abroad in England. She falls in love, travels around Europe, expands her cultural horizons, and learns what true loneliness means. Narrated as journal entries, we watch her struggle to navigate and make sense of a foreign language, as well as a foreign lover. 

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Interview with Xiaolu Guo: https://podcasts.apple.com/jo/podcast/world-book-club/id263658343?i=1000633622386

My research paper on Confronting Persistent Errors in the ESOL Classroom:

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/natecla/esol/2024/00000035/00000001/art00007