UNIVERSITY HOUSE ECLECTIC READERS: Dates and Booksfor2017

UNIVERSITY HOUSE ECLECTIC READERS: dates and booksfor2017

GROUP 1: BIOGRAPHY

Date Thursday each month, N.B. variable dates.

Time 12:30- 1.30-2 pm (prompt start)

VenueLeather Room, University House

9FebruaryGunn, J. (2013) Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson. Publisher: Simon & Schuster, N.Y. Available:

9 MarchGrant, Stan (2004) Tears of Strange, A Family Memoir.Publisher:Harper Collins.Available:

6 AprilPollard, Justin (2005) Alfred the Great: The Man who made England.Publisher: John Murray, UK.Available at

N.B. EASTER in 2017: 14-17 April

4 MayGeniesse, Jane Fletcher (2008) American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford… Publisher: Anchor Books, N.Y. Available at

1 JuneSmith, Huston (2009)Tales of Wonder AdventuresChasing The Divine -An Autobiography

Publisher: Harper Collins, N.Y. Available at

6 JulyAnand, Anita (2015) Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary. Publisher: Bloomsbury, U.K. Available:

3 August Fitzpatrick, Sheila (2013) A Spy inthe Archives Publisher: Melbourne University Press, Available at

7 SeptemberEITHER: Helm, R. & Helm, M. (1990) Modern Mexican Painters: Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros and Other Artists of the Social Realist School. Publisher: Dover Publications, N.Y. Available: OR:Bauer, Claudia (2014) Frida Kahlo. Publisher: Prestel, Germany. Available at:

5 OctoberReston, James (2001) Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladinin the Third Crusade. Publisher: Available at

16 NovemberVolf, Miroslav (2006) The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World.

Publisher:William B Eerdmans Available:

14 DecemberAnderson, Benedict (2016) A Life beyond Boundaries. Publisher: Verso Press. Available:

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UNIVERSITY HOUSE ECLECTIC READERS: dates and booksfor2017

GROUP 2:HPP (HISTORY, POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY)

Date: Wednesday each month, N.B. variable dates.

Time: 5:0-6:00-6:30 pm (prompt start)

Venue:Leather Room (level one), University House (Parkville campus)

15FebruaryNiall, Brenda (2016) Mannix.Publisher: Text Publishing, Melbourne. Available:

15 MarchSachs, Oliver (2011) Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.Publisher: Picador. Available at:

N.B. EASTER in 2017: 14-17 April

12AprilMukherjee, Siddhartha (2016) The Gene: An Intimate History [science history].Publisher: Vintage, The Bodley Head. Available:

10MaySpencer, N. (2016) The Evolution of the West: How Christianity Has Shaped Our Values. Publisher: SPCK Publishing, London, N.Y. Available:

7JuneSayyid, S. (2015) Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism. Publisher: Zed Books, London. Available:

19 JulyVaroufakis, Yanis (2015) The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy.Publisher: Zed Books, London. Available:

16 AugustKarol, K.S. (1983) Solik: Life in the Soviet Union 1939-1946.Publisher: Pluto Press, ondon. Available:

13SeptemberCorchado, Alfredo (2014) Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey through a Country’s Descent into Darkness. Publisher: Penguin Books/Random House, N.Y. Publisher: Available at:

11 OctoberMaier-Katkin, Daniel (2010) Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship, and Forgiveness. Publisher: WW Norton & Company, N.Y. Available at:

22November Axworthy Michael (2009) Iran: Empire of the Mind: A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day. Publisher: Penguin Books. Available at:

13 December.Murdoch, Iris (1993) ’Conceptions of Unity, Art’ inMetaphysics as a Guide to Morals.(Chapter 1, p.1-25).Publisher: Penguin. Available at: