Christmas Reading List The perfect stocking fillers by Trinity alumni and staff to curl up with over the festive season BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU? Faber & Faber Sally Rooney, BA (2013) Find Out More ‘Written with immense skill and illuminated by an endlessly incisive intelligence.’ The Irish Times Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young - but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They worry about sex and friendship and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world? CREATIVITY: NATURE AND US Bo’s Books Dr Bo Jeffares Sekine, PhD (1977) Find Out More Read an excerpt Nature inspires us. Symbols we use in everyday life provide clues to more esoteric or metaphysical levels of reality. We play with images to link our ordinary and cosmic selves. Everyone’s ideas and emotions contribute to a shared energy field. This contemplative book illustrates universal themes linking many factors from food to stars and demonstrates how spatial progressions help to dissolve mental barriers. It also reflects how internal challenges can be expressed as external adventures. And invisible elements - such as electromagnetic energy and love – can miraculously transform material existence on a living planet. BRIGHT BURNING THINGS Bloomsbury Lisa Harding, BA, MPhil (1994) Find Out More ‘A gripping quest for self-knowledge.’ The Guardian Being Tommy’s mother is too much for Sonya. Too much love, too much fear, too much longing for the cool wine she gulps from the bottle each night. Because Sonya is burning the fish fingers, and driving too fast, and swimming too far from the shore, and Tommy’s life is in her hands. Once there was the thrill of a London stage, a glowing acting career, fast cars, handsome men. But now there are blackouts and bare cupboards, and her estranged father showing up uninvited. There is Mrs O’Malley spying from across the road. There is the risk of losing Tommy - forever.
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