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BOOKS AND BOBS LOCAL LITERATURE Lewes resident Mark Perryman, a very active member of the local Labour Party, has edited a collection of essays about the sudden and meteoric rise of Jeremy Corbyn, and its implications. It is called The Corbyn Effect. I nearly gave up on the book during the second essay, The Absolute Corbyn, when academic Jeremy Gilbert managed to shoehorn the words and phrases ‘collectivism’, ‘democratisation’, ‘pluralisation’, ‘condition of responsibility’ and ‘radically participatory and deliberative mechanisms of self-government’ into the same sentence. Thankfully I read on, because the rest of the book isn’t hostage to such demoralising clusters of jargon. There are 16 essays, in total, written by journalists and academics from across the country. Almost all of these commentators write from a left-of-centre perspective, but the book is far more than a triumphalist celebration of Corbyn’s recent power surge. Some writers question what compromises Labour will have to make if they want to win the next election; others ask why it took the party so long to offer up a robust antidote to Thatcher’s neoliberal policies. If you’re interested in the state of play of the Scottish Labour Party in the face of the SNP’s recent decline, this is the book for you; ditto if you’re fascinated by the age demographics of Labour’s target seats in the next election. Meanwhile, Lewes-based popular science writer Dr Michael Brooks came into the office the other day announcing he had just written not one, but two books ready for the Christmas market. The more immediately approachable of the books, which he co-wrote with Rick Edwards, is called Science(ish) 1 and subtitled The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies. It’s a reworking of a successful podcast by the pair, examining some of the ideas thrown out in sci-fi movies and questioning whether they could actually occur. Perhaps you’ll recognise the films, if I precis a handful of the ideas: Are we living in a digital simulation? Can we resurrect dinosaurs from their fossilised DNA? Is it possible to go back to 1955? It’s not as science-lite, actually, as you might imagine, designed to couch complex ideas within a demotic framework to help wash down all that knowledge. Dr Brooks’ other book The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook, which I’ll review at more length in the next issue, is a more serious proposition, a novelistic exploration of the life and times of maverick sixteenth-century Milanese polymath Jerome Cardano. Another book you’ll be hearing more of in the December issue is In an Old House, the fruit of Peter and Sally Varlow’s journey of discovery when they investigated the history of the medieval house, on the outskirts of Chailey, that they bought and caringly renovated in 1982. Full of illustrations, diagrams, and short, headed paragraphs, it’ll be of great interest to anyone interested in architecture and/or local history. Finally, a mention for the latest Frogmore Papers quarterly poetry collection - their 90th edition - with over 40 contributors, and a fine cover by Viva regular Neil Gower. At a fiver, it’s a thoughtprovoking, emotion-triggering snip. AL 15
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