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4 Rooms in a Semi-Detached House
Aisha's blood fizzed like an opened can. She was angry, but she also wanted to tell Sam that she too wanted to meet girls, that she in fact was a girl who would like to be met by Sam. The words stuck to her teeth as if saying them aloud meant too many things that she couldn't deal with, not yet. Behind all that, though, was the fear of losing her grandmother's things and therefore her grandmother. She couldn't do it. She had to keep going. Then the screaming began.
The Sharp End of the Rainbow
The Sharp End of the Rainbow can be looked at as a 'Greatest Hits' or 'Best Of' collection from bizarro darling, Madeleine Swann. With prose as sweet as candy, the reader is often lulled into a sense of safety, but when you least expect it, Swann puts a knife right between your eyes.With horror, humor, and whimsy, this collection is chock full of surprises that will surely thrill fans of weird and bizarro fiction.Praise:"Madeleine Swann writes the kinds of stories that expose the grotesqueries behind all the cute and cuddly Disneyfied facades. Punchy. Dark. Hilarious. Sharp End of the Rainbow will cut you like a scalpel. You'll bleed out while reading this and thank her for it in the end."- ...
Fortune Box
No one knows where or what Tower Ltd Surprise Packages is or why it's sending gifts to complete strangers across The City. All they know is that each package is the best thing that's ever happened to them...or the worst. In one box is a packet of seeds that allows you to grow your perfect date. In another there's a cupcake that causes anyone who eats it to grow eyeballs all over their skin. There's also a parcel with a mousetrap that turns all your enemies tiny. Or you could receive your autobiography, which when signed, makes your every thought famous. Or maybe even a key to a secret door that leads to another dimension where all your unfinished and abandoned projects exist. But with each package received comes both fortune and misfortune that will surely result in unexpected consequences. Like a season of episodes from The Twilight Zone or Friday the 13th The Series, comes a collection of dark and humorous stories from the premier British female author of bizarro fiction.
The Filing Cabinet of Doom
What is THE FILING CABINET OF DOOM? It's a surreal comedy set in a black and white world where people communicate via speech bubbles and no sound exists. During a visit by a traveling carnival a psychic informs a village that the world will end soon. Three people make their way to the Head Office of the Council - a distant and dangerous place - to find out what's going on while the psychic stays behind to face the wrath of the villagers. In addition to the novella bearing the collection's title, this book is JAM PACKED with sixteen BONUS short stories of the bizarre for your perusal, including: Amongst the Dust and the Mice Care For a Dance? Dimension Lake Feathers and Fame Girl in the Picture I Can See You Invite Ghosts and Earn Pounds My Own Real Doll One Phone Call Away Son, I'm Afraid I'm a Zombie The Annual Essex Medical Convention The Blue Seashell The Marzipan King is a Dick The Problem Rock Time Tastic Tours We Interrupt With This Message
The Bet
After many years of chasing her dreams she decided to stop being a perfectionist, to stop trying to be the very best in everything she does. Jo wanted to put her big dreams aside for a little while. She had realised that she needed to live life to the fullest and forget about perfection. After all, nobody is perfect. Jo needed to reset and she planned to do this far away from her normal, everyday life. She took a few days off and decided to visit friends, most of whom she hadn't seen for years. That's when the trouble began.
Reluctant Celebrity
In this book, Lorraine York examines the figure of the celebrity who expresses discomfort with his or her intense condition of social visibility. Bringing together the fields of celebrity studies and what Ann Cvetkovich has called the “affective turn in cultural studies”, York studies the mixed affect of reluctance, as it is performed by public figures in the entertainment industries. Setting aside the question of whether these performances are offered “in good faith” or not, York theorizes reluctance as the affective meeting ground of seemingly opposite emotions: disinclination and inclination. The figures under study in this book are John Cusack, Robert De Niro, and Daniel Craig—three white, straight, cis-gendered-male cinematic stars who have persistently and publicly expressed a feeling of reluctance about their celebrity. York examines how the performance of reluctance, which is generally admired in celebrities, builds up cultural prestige that can then be turned to other purposes.
James Bond Will Return
For over six decades, James Bond has been a fixture of global culture, universally recognizable by the films’ combination of action set pieces, sex, political intrigue, and outrageous gadgetry. But as the British Empire entered the final stages of collapse, as the Cold War wound down and the “War on Terror” began, and as the visions of masculinity and femininity the series presented began to strike many viewers as outdated, the Bond formula has adapted to the changing times. Spanning the franchise’s entire history, from Sean Connery’s iconic swagger to Daniel Craig’s rougher, more visceral interpretation of the superspy, James Bond Will Return offers both academic readers and fan...
The Body Onscreen in the Digital Age
This collection examines the peculiarly modern phenomenon of voyeurism as it is experienced through the digital screen. Violence, voyeurism, and power populate film more than ever, and the centrality of the terrified body to many digital narratives suggests new forms of terror and angst, where bodies are subjected to an endless knowing look. The particular perils of the digital age can be seen on, by, and through screen bodies as they are made, remade, represented, and used. The essays in this book examine the machinations of voyeurism in the digital age and the realization of power through digital visual forms. They look at the uses of power over the female body, at the domination and repression of women through symbolic violence, at discourses of power as they are played out onscreen, and at how the digital realm might engage the active/passive dichotomy in new ways.
Love and Let Die
A deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche—the Beatles and the Bond films—and what they tell us about class, sexuality, and our aspirations over sixty dramatic years. The Beatles are the biggest band in the history of pop music. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and Love Me Do, the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day: Friday 5 October 1962. Most countries can only dream of a cultural export becoming a worldwide phenomenon on this scale. For Britain to produce two iconic successes on this level, on the same windy October afternoon, is...
Looking For Madeleine
LOOKING FOR MADELEINE is the must-read account that the online haters tried to silence. Its award-winning authors, Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan, are featured in the NETFLIX series 'The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann'. "EXPLOSIVE" Sun "COMPELLING" Daily Telegraph The book: · Identifies the blunders made during the police search for Madeleine · Draws on confidential police sources · Analyses the thousands of pages of the Portuguese police dossier · Pinpoints the misreading of forensic evidence that - for a time - turned Kate and Gerry McCann into formal suspects · Follows the clues indicating that the McCanns' apartment was watched, that the apartment had been visited by a phoney "cha...
