Reilly, I.B., editor (2022) The Lives of Working Class Academics: Getting Ideas Above Your Station. Emerald Publishing

This extraordinary, multi-faceted book of essays is a welcome addition to the literature of workingclass academics.It speaks fearlessly of the difficulties of traveling the fraught terrain from poor and working-class backgrounds to the relative comfort and power of life as academics.Each article deserves a review of its own, there is such richness in each one and in the book as a whole.Packed with ideas from a multitude of perspectives, this book couldn't be more well-arranged and curated by its exceptional editor, Iona Burnell Reilly.