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Bloodchild: The Godblind Trilogy, Book Three (The Godblind Trilogy #3)
by Anna Stephens’If you’re a fan of the likes of Joe Abercrombie or George R.R. Martin, then you’ll be pleased to learn that Anna Stephens has joined this august pantheon of lovingly horrible and deliciously dark writers’ STARBURST
The First Time Mums’ Club
by Lucie WheelerA gorgeous, heartwarming debut for fans of Giovanna Fletcher, Paige Toon and The Unmumsy Mum! ‘This book captured my heart’ Bestselling author Christie Barlow
Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Ronda Arab Michelle Dowd Adam ZuckerThis collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affect in the early modern theater. While historicist and materialist inquiry has dominated early modern theater studies in recent years, the historically specific dimensions of affect and emotion remain underexplored. This volume brings together these lines of inquiry for the first time, exploring the critical turn to affect in literary studies from a historicist perspective to demonstrate how the early modern theater showcased the productive interconnections between historical contingencies and affective attachments. Considering well-known plays such as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday together with understudied texts such as court entertainments, and examining topics ranging from dramatic celebrity to women’s political agency to the parental emotion of grief, this volume provides a fresh and at times provocative assessment of the "historical affects"—financial, emotional, and socio-political—that transformed Renaissance theater. Instead of treating history and affect as mutually exclusive theoretical or philosophical contexts, the essays in this volume ask readers to consider how drama emplaces the most personal, unspeakable passions in matrices defined in part by financial exchange, by erotic desire, by gender, by the material body, and by theatricality itself. As it encourages this conversation to take place, the collection provides scholars and students alike with a series of new perspectives, not only on the plays, emotions, and histories discussed in its pages, but also on broader shifts and pressures animating literary studies today.
The Secret Art of Forgiveness
by Louisa GeorgeLiving in a big city, means you can escape your past… Until Emily Forrester is called back to Little Duxbury, the chocolate-box English village where she grew up - though it was anything but idyllic for the tearaway teenager. Her estranged step-father, a former high-court judge, is unwell and her step-sisters need her help.
The Lyttleton Case: A Detective Story Club Classic Crime Novel (Detective Club Crime Classics)
by R. A. MorrisThe latest in the series of classic crime novels from the vaults of HarperCollins for the detective connoisseur is the only novel by the Welsh writer R.A.V. Morris.
Murder Gone Mad: A Detective Story Club Classic Crime Novel (Detective Club Crime Classics)
by Philip MacDonaldThe first Golden Age detective novel to feature a serial killer with no rational motive - and surely impossible for Scotland Yard to solve?
The Maze: A Detective Story Club Classic Crime Novel (Detective Club Crime Classics)
by Philip MacDonaldThe ultimate murder mystery - can you find the murderer before the detective?
Dracula’s Brethren (Collins Chillers)
by Richard DalbyNeglected vampire classics - including tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa May Alcott and others. Selected by Richard Dalby and introduced by Brian J. Frost.
Me, You and Tiramisu
by Charlotte ButterfieldThe love story of the year! Fall in love with the perfect feel-good romance for fans of Katie Fforde, Jill Mansell and Carole Matthews.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
by Charlotte ButterfieldYou will LOVE this festive, funny laugh-out-loud romcom for fans of Kirsty Greenwood, Josie Silver and Mhairi McFarlane. *Over 100 amazing reviews on Netgalley*
Mums Just Wanna Have Fun
by Lucie Wheeler‘Heartwarming and poignant’ SUN ‘This book captured my heart’ Bestselling author Christie Barlow
Genre Fiction of New India: Post-millennial receptions of "weird" narratives (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)
by E. Dawson VarugheseThis book investigates fiction in English, written within, and published from India since 2000 in the genre of mythology-inspired fiction in doing so it introduces the term ‘Bharati Fantasy’. This volume is anchored in notions of the ‘weird’ and thus some time is spent understanding this term linguistically, historically (‘wyrd’) as well as philosophically and most significantly socio-culturally because ‘reception’ is a key theme to this book’s thesis. The book studies the interface of science, Hinduism and itihasa (a term often translated as ‘history’) within mythology-inspired fiction in English from India and these are specifically examined through the lens of two overarching interests: reader reception and the genre of weird fiction. The book considers Indian and non-Indian receptions to the body of mythology-inspired fiction, highlighting how English fiction from India has moved away from being identified as the traditional Indian postcolonial text. Furthermore, the book reveals broader findings in relation to identity and Indianness and India’s post-millennial society’s interest in portraying and projecting ideas of India through its ancient cultures, epic narratives and cultural (Hindu) figures.
The Other Us
by Fiona Harper***WINNER OF THE 2018 SPECULATIVE ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARD*** ‘This is a pure joy’ Heat If you could turn back time, would you choose a different life?
The Fourth Monkey (A Detective Porter novel #01)
by J.D. Barker‘The Fourth Monkey has one of the most ingenious openings that I’ve read in years. This thriller never disappoints.’James Patterson ‘Superbly constructed and immaculately paced’The Daily Mail
The Summer Villa
by Melissa HillTHE NUMBER ONE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER Praise for Melissa Hill: ‘I was completely gripped’ Sarah Morgan ‘Addictive!’ Grazia ‘Blissfully escapist’ Marie Claire *************************************************************
Under a Sardinian Sky
by Sara AlexanderSometimes a family’s deepest silences hide the most important secrets.
Wishbones
by Virginia MacgregorFeather Tucker has two wishes: 1)To get her mum healthy again 2) To win the Junior UK swimming championships
As Far as the Stars
by Virginia MacgregorPraise for Virginia Macgregor: 'I defy you not to fall in love' Clare Mackintosh How do you change what’s already written in the stars?
The Beauty of the Wolf
by Wray Delaney‘Amazing’ Meg Rosoff ‘Extraordinary’ Maggie Alderson ‘What some might call beauty, I find monstrous’
The Very White of Love: The Very White Of Love / The Flower Seller / The Bon Bon Girl / Paris By The Book / The Lost Girls Of Paris (Mills And Boon E-book Collections)
by S C Worrall‘A love story told in exquisitely poetic letters’ DAILY MAIL ‘A powerful and tender tale of love and war.’ SUNDAY MIRROR Torn apart by war, their letters meant everything…
White Bodies
by Jane Robins‘The perfect thriller’ Elle ‘Immensely gripping’ Sophie Hannah ‘Gripping, creepy and very addictive!’ BA Paris
A Dark So Deadly
by Stuart MacBrideA detective no one believes in. A killer with nothing to lose… Gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series.
The Last Secret (Scarlet and Ivy #6)
by Sophie CleverlyA brand-new mystery for fans of Harry Potter and Murder Most Unladylike children’s books, The Last Secret is the sixth and final book in the Scarlet and Ivy series.