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A panoramic view of English life from 1919 to 1936, Two Thousand Million Man-Power is no wistful, nostalgic account of this time. Instead, Gertrude Trevelyan shows how even the brightest and most able personalities can be ground down by economic highs and lows and a system in which individuals quickly disappear into crowds and statistics.
The Bitter Roots is a novel full of evocative details of a time and place, a frank, unvarnished portrait of an America struggling with racism, class prejudice, conflicts between labor and capital, and sexual stereotypes. The Bitter Roots will appeal to fans of Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It.
This anthology represents the best work from the 2023 graduates of UEAâEUR(TM)s Prose Fiction MA and the Biography and Creative Non-Fiction cohort. With forewords by Sharlene Teo and Stephanie Bishop and introductions by Andrew Cowan and Helen Smith, this anthology offers a luminous showcase of new writing talent.
As It Was in the Beginning take us into the mind of a woman and her experience of the terrible and mundane moments of her. A searing exploration of identity and personal autonomy.
A merchant seaman is the sole survivor when his ship is sunk in a battle in the South Pacific. Badly burned, he is stripped of every shred of identity and cast into the sea, naked, faceless, nameless. Rescued and lying in a Pearl Harbor hospital, he is mistakenly identified as the missing Lt. Ben Davenant by Davenant's wife. In the moment, the man decides to go along, to take on Davenant's identity, to return with her to California and take on his life.Mortal Leap may remind some readers of the story of Don Draper in the TV series Mad Men. What does it mean to abandon one life completely and step into another in midstream? To step into a marriage, a house, a way of life, all of which are utterly new and unfamiliar? And what do you do when someone from your old life shows up?Decades before Mad Men, MacDonald Harris created a story that we all know but have never heard before. Out of print for decades, Mortal Leap has become a rare and coveted cult classic, the few remaining copies passed along from reader to reader. Now, Boiler House Press's Recovered Books series makes this remarkable book available again.
With an introduction by playwright Steve Waters and foreword by film director Joe Russo, these stories provide a captivating, evocative, and often hilarious preview into the work done by our 2023 MA Scriptwriting cohort.
In turn surreal, funny, and tender, these contributions offer a diverse collection of writing from members of the UEA 2023 MA Literary Translation and Poetry cohorts.
Nine wildly divergent works of crime fiction by nine talented new writers, all carefully crafted to captivate, provoke, absorb, appal and, above all, to entertain.
This is the first annotated anthology of Lydia Maria Child's ground-breaking magazine, The Juvenile Miscellany.
A special edition of the timeless classic published in partnership with Redwings Horse Sanctuary to raise funds for their charitable work in equine welfare
A powerful account of a young woman growing up on a ranch in rural Nevada in the midst of family troubles and a dry, unforgiving landscape. As vivid a picture of the challenges facing young women in 1950s America as Sylvia Plath's classic The Bell Jar.
A classic account of one man's internment by the British as an enemy alien during World War One, Time Stood Still demonstrates in moving terms how dehumanizing even the most "humane" forms of imprisonment can be. Though out of print for over 80 years, it addresses issues about the treatment of refugees that are still relevant today.
A queer-feminist creative critical work centring on the impact of parasites in cultural discourse surrounding visual art, mythology, philosophy and fiction.
A collection of interconnected poems centring on Bonnici's academic research into early modern English witch trials.
Logo Rewind collects over 200 digitally remade trademarks from Medieval Norwich, together with biographic detail recorded in the early 1700s by the antiquarian John Kirkpatrick (1687-1728) and argues for their relevance for modern logo design.
First translation into English of Desesterro, the multiple prize-winning novel by Sheyla Smanioto first published in Brazil, 2015
A haunting account of the emotional abuse experienced by a young woman who marries an older man, an extremely tight-fisted grocer whose avarice gradually takes over her whole world view. A powerful story of psychological degradation that draws the reader in like a vortex.
Genevieve Taggard is recognized as one of the finest American poets of the 20th century. Her work appears in every major anthology of American poetry. Yet this is the first comprehensive collection of her work ever to appear.
Todd, Randy, and Carter come across a boy while roaming the countryside near their town. They take him hostage in a cave in an abandoned quarry and consider what to do next. Written in cool, realistic prose, Quarry pulls the reader into a vortex of violence and inhumanity.
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