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Extreme Deviance
This title takes a look at normative violations that earn the violators a deviant identity in the eyes of the members of mainstream society.
Consumerism and Prestige
This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of taste by examining how the material aspects of literary texts, such as the cover, binding, typography and paper stock, reflect or even determine their cultural status. In many cases, for example, the distinctions between “highbrow” and “lowbrow” taste have little to do with the content of the texts themselves, as books often function as markers of socioeconomic status, like clothing or home décor. One might even go so far as to say that the concept of literary taste is more closely related to fashion sense than critical judgment. The anthology seeks to address this claim by examining how the tensions between consumerism and prestige reflect fundamental historical changes with regard to the development of technology, literacy and social power.
Let Me Show You Crazy
Let Me Show You Crazytells the story of Laura, a young psychotherapist who is on a mission to save humanity. She has clients to counsel, friends to advise, family members to admonish, a husband to analyze, and an entire world awaiting her services. Laura is trying very hard to be a “perfect” helper, but she is discovering that being perfect is not as easy as it looks. In a small North Carolina mill town, Laura and her zany colleagues face the daunting challenge of lifting their child clients from despair, destitution, and delinquency into the salvation of good mental health. Her colleagues provide her with a foundation of support, stimulation, and comic relief. If only she could get such support from her scientist husband, who would rather scrutinize cells under a microscope than examine their relationship. Why is Laura driven to be perfect? What haunts her dreams and pushes her so-called benevolence to ridiculous heights? And how can she ever help her clients if she can’t help herself?Let Me Show You Crazyis the tale of a young woman’s journey from “blissful” ignorance to a humbler and happier understanding of her genuine self.
Three Perfect Liars
From the author of Her One Mistake, hailed as “chilling, captivating” by New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda, comes a riveting new suspense novel about three ambitious women whose lives are turned upside down in the aftermath of a horrifying fire, which destroys a successful advertising agency and threatens to expose a tangled web of lies. Laura has returned to work at Morris and Wood after her maternity leave, only to discover that the woman she brought in to cover for her isn’t planning on going anywhere. Despite her close relationship with the agency’s powerful CEO, Harry Wood, she feels sidelined—and outmaneuvered—as she struggles to balance the twin demands of wo...
The Medicine Tree
When Emily’s mother becomes dangerously ill again, in this sequel to ‘Tolly and the Pirate Ghost’,Emily and the twins, Laura and Harry, time travel with Tobias, the pirate ghost, and his parrot, Tolly, to a tropical island in the year 1660. Their goal is to find the legendary Medicine Tree said to cure any illness, but there are thousands of trees on the island. How can they possibly find the right one? Tobias is reassuring but mysteriously disappears with Tolly, shortly after their arrival, leaving the children to fend for themselves under a scorching sun, with little to eat or drink and no means of getting home. Their problems multiply when they realise a band of ruthless pirates is also hunting for the Tree, and will stop at nothing to gain the prize and make their fortune. Time is running out to save Emily’s mother and dangers press in on all sides. As the situation becomes desperate, the children start to quarrel and then to lose hope. More complications arise and their spirits are in turn raised and then dashed. Can they think of some means of escape or will they be trapped forever on a tropical island hundreds of years in the past?
Number 17, Garamond Road
On the south coast of England sits the little town of Horse-sur-mer. Settled by Huguenots fleeing France before expulsionor worseit seems to attract the strangest people. People like Roddy Lewis, who talks to dead Huguenots; Laura Tregarthan, a vicar who cant quite stick to Anglicanism; and Police Sergeant Eileen Sturgeon, whos not quite sure whats going onbut shes going to fight to protect everyones right to be as weird as they want. But not everyone loves Horse-sur-mer and its unusual ways, and the mysterious stranger with the Jesuit Hat who comes to stay causes problems for the town. Two unexpected deaths bring Gwyneth Gladwell and Gladys Grinski from Llanprytherch to help the Horsefolk and their Celtic cats sort out exactly whats going on and how to fight it. And then there is the dog who can predict the weather, but youll have to read to find out about himor is it her?
Holiday House
A Victorian tale in which two children seek adventure while under the watchful eye of their nanny. The first children's book to show the amusing side of misconduct.
A Year at Nethercombe Ley
Harry Simmonds is a reasonably successful businessman whose comfortable, contented suburban life is shattered when his wife leaves him for another man, and to satisfy her need for a career of her own. Lacking a steadying influence, Harry has sought solace in self-pity and alcohol. His daughter is at university, and his 18-year-old son, tired of bearing the brunt of his father's drunkenness and depression, has left home and fallen under the unsavoury influence of a school friend. Realising he is on a downward spiral, Harry takes the decision to make a dramatic change to his life. To give himself time and space to seek redemption and renewed purpose, he moves to a quiet Dorset village, where he is befriended by the local vicar, who coaxes him from his isolation into village life. During the course of a year, Harry embraces and adapts to a new and unfamiliar environment, and through new friendships and a growing appreciation of nature and the changing seasons, changes his outlook on life. The influence of three women helps him to regain his confidence and self respect and transforms not just his way of life, but his whole attitude to living.
The Ennead
The Nine must return... In one night, the world is struck by a plague of psychic terror. Alien abductions, demon torture and faery glamour lead to mass casualties, as 1% of the population are called to become shaman, intercessors between the spirit world and humanity. Humanity will obey... In the chaos, the lives of four people collide. Unemployed artist, Kel Rodrigues, is one of those chosen to learn the shamanic way. His sister, Dr. Jen Rodrigues, is left running a psychic research institute in the middle of a mental health crisis. Lethe, a stage-show medium, must escape from deep within the spirit world where she was lured by Atumhotep, the herald of The Nine. Meanwhile Harry Wallace, framed for a terror attack in Edinburgh, uncovers corruption and conspiracy in Britain’s shadowy espionage community, and a deep global threat. Together, they must stop the return of The Ennead: the Ancient Egyptian Gods, who have coveted the Earth for millennia.
