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The Cinema of Norman Mailer
Film is Like Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death not only examines the enfant terrible writer's thoughts on cinema, but also features interviews with Norman Mailer himself. The Cinema of Norman Mailer also explores Mailer's cinema through previously published and newly commissioned essays written by...
Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?
Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy (10th anniversary edition)
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Revised and updated throughout, this 10th-anniversary edition of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? is a significantly expanded guide to key issues and practices in creative writing teaching today.
Challenging the myths of creative writing teaching, experienced and up-and-coming teachers...
Creative Writing Innovations
Breaking Boundaries in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
When teachers experiment, students benefit. When students gain confidence to pursue their own literary experiments, creative writing can become a life-changing experience.
With chapters written by experienced teachers and classroom innovators, Creative Writing Innovations builds on these principles...
Waving at the Gardener
The Asham Award Short-Story Collection
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the
whole world' Virginia Woolf
Asham House in
Sussex was once home to Virginia and Leonard Woolf and is the
inspiration behind the Asham Award. Launched in 1996 to support and
encourage new writers, it is Britain's only prize for short...
by Jacqueline Rose
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German–Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe.
Together these women have a shared story to tell, as...
Farmageddon
The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating – as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens...
MI5 and Me
A Coronet Among the Spooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
From the bestselling author comes a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carré's George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5
It seems to me now that everyone who came to our house in those days was a spy…
When...
by Jon McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
The powerful first collection of short stories by Jon McGregor.
From the publication of his first Booker-nominated novel at the age of twenty-six, Jon McGregor's fiction has consistently been defined by lean poetic language, a keen sense of detail, and insightful characterization. Now, after...
by Sarah J. Maas
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2020
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas launches her brand-new CRESCENT CITY series with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance.
Half-Fae, half-human Bryce...
by Samantha Shannon
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Be aware, my good Reader, that this Pamphlet, no matter how controversial its content, must never fall into enemy Hands.
The most important piece of clairvoyant literature written in the twenty-first century, On the Merits of Unnaturalness is a pamphlet first published anonymously in 2031 by...
Gallipoli
The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, many taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written material from British, Anzac, French and Turkish, including eyewitness accounts of the landings, this is an unrivalled account of what really happened...
Tommy's War
The Western Front in Soldiers' Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Conventional histories of the Great War have tended to focus on the terrible attritional battles of Ypres, of Arras and of the Somme. What they do not tell us is what life was like for the ordinary soldier, what mattered to him, and how he survived, both physically and mentally.
Now for the...
Soldier, Spy
A Survivor's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Beginning in 1946, when Victor Gregg was demobbed after the end of the Second World War and deposited in London Paddington, Soldier, Spy is the story of a soldier returning to civilian life and all the challenges it entails.
Facing a new and ever-changing London, a shifting political landscape...
Law and Disorder
Confessions of a Pupil Barrister
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Litigation is like war, BabyBarista. Read this and learn.
It's BabyBarista's first day as a pupil barrister in chambers. Never mind his legal qualifications; it's his summer working in Starbucks that's going to stand him in good stead, since coffee-making seems to be his chief responsibility...