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The Plain
The chalk grasslands of Salisbury Plain have been used since 1897 as a preparation ground for war. The heart of this ancient English landscape is an eerie and ambiguous space. Riven with contradictions and curiosities, The Plain continues Friend's investigation of everyday militarisation, revealing how war is embedded in this most English of landscapes. The Plain includes an essay by Matthew Flintham, artist and writer. It is co-edited by Pippa Oldfield, Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery and author of Photography and War (Reaktion, 2019).
No Place Like Home
Explores the recent history of Kosovo through photgraphic portraits and landscapes integrated with a wide range of Kosovo's civilians. The book challenges current media representation of both refugees and Kosovars. Melanie Friend's prize-winning work has appeared in Granta, th Guardian, Time Magazine, The Independent, and Marie Claire among other publications. Her photographs of Kosovar Albanian refugees have been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London as well as in galleries internationally, including the US.
Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend
This book in the Scaredy Squirrel series shows our nutty hero making a friend. Scaredy finds that friendship is well worth the risks — and the risks are considerable!
Border Country
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The Home Front
The Home Front examines the relationship between leisure and the military in the UK, in particular the air shows that take place at Royal Air Force bases and in the skies above our seaside resorts. In Friend's photographs the beach and the landscape become uneasy, surreal spaces, temporarily militarised by the fleeting presence and roar of fighter jets. Nostalgia for WWII is evoked by the presence of 'war birds', only to be followed by the 'shock and awe' displays of contemporary fighter jets.
Women are Scary
Let's see . . . this is the part where I convince you that you need this book. This book will massage your feet. This book will bring you a fuzzy blanket at the end of a long day of parenting your tiny little insanazoids. I promise to make you snort laugh at least once. After reading this book, you'll rock jazz hands, be able to sing on-key, and never, ever have to fold laundry again. Okay, they told me I'm actually supposed to tell you a little about the book. Um, right. Look. Here's the thing. Too many of us women are frazzled and lonely, isolated in our minivans while schlepping bags, strollers, and munchkins to and fro across town. It doesn't have to be this way. In this guide to "momlationships," I use a dating analogy to take us "around the bases" to our home-run friendships, the ones that last a lifetime, not just a soccer season. This is our journey to each other, to finding our people and being other people's people, learning how to bless each other and not destroy each other. It's sometimes scary. And always awkward. Let's have some fun.
Photography and War
There are countless books on war photography, most of them focusing on dramatic images made by photojournalists in combat zones. Photography and War instead proposes a radically expanded notion of war photography, one that encompasses a far broader terrain of geographies, chronologies, practices, and viewpoints. Pippa Oldfied considers photography's fundamental role in military reconnaissance, propaganda, and protest, as well as the exposure of war crimes and the memorialization of war, among other themes. While iconic images by well-known names such as Roger Fenton and Robert Capa are included, the viewpoints of people who have historically been overlooked--women and photographers from diasporic and non-Western backgrounds--are significantly gathered here. As a result, this book offers a nuanced and more inclusive understanding of war as a far-reaching undertaking in which anyone might be implicated and affected. Richly illustrated, with some photos published for the first time, Photography and War offers an accessible and well-rounded introduction to photography's perhaps most contested, complex, and emotive subject.
Representations of War, Migration, and Refugeehood
War, migration, and refugeehood are inextricably linked and the complex nature of all three phenomena offers profound opportunities for representation and misrepresentation. This volume brings together international contributors and practitioners from a wide range of fields, practices, and backgrounds to explore and problematize textual and visual inscriptions of war and migration in the arts, the media, and in academic, public, and political discourses. The essays in this collection address the academic and political interest in representations of the migrant and the refugee, and examine the constructed nature of categories and concepts such as ‘war,’ ‘refuge(e),’ ‘victim,’ ‘border,’ ‘home,’ ‘non-place,’ and ‘dis/location.’ Contributing authors engage with some of the most pressing questions surrounding war, migration, and refugeehood as well as with the ways in which war and its multifarious effects and repercussions in society are being framed, propagated, glorified, or contested. This volume initiates an interdisciplinary debate which re-evaluates the relationship between war, migration, and refugeehood and their representations.
Yours Unfaithfully
Surviving a long term marriage requires devotion, dedication, love, oh... and forgiveness? When Melanie realises she’s managed the first two but her love is losing out to her desire she struggles to stay true to her vows. Maybe if she can change Tim into the man she yearns for everything will be good again...? Melanie still loves him, but the fire went out a long time ago. She discovered her true feelings while working with a man who showed a real interest in her, but when she decides to cool the friendship the pressure rises. Will the safety valve lift or will their lives explode? This is a revealing story of love and lust from behind closed doors. You can share their most intimate secrets, those they dare not share with each other. At times funny but with twinges of sadness the outcome is always going to hurt – someone. The moral dilemma of struggling to share her life with two very different men is complicated enough but when someone makes a shocking and very public revelation things develop at the speed of light.
Throw Like A Girl
A New York Times Notable Book | San Francisco Chronical Best Book of the Year A master of short fiction whose "best pieces are as good as it gets in contemporary fiction" (Newsday) returns, as Jean Thompson follows her National Book Award finalist collection Who Do You Love with Throw Like a Girl. Here are twelve new stories that take dead aim at the secrets of womanhood, arcing from youth to experience. Each one of Thompson's indelible characters—lovers, wives, friends, and mothers—speaks her piece—wry, angry, hopeful—about the world and women's places in it. This collection includes the following short stories: “The Brat” “The Five Senses” “It Would Not Make Me Tremble to See Ten Thousand Fall” “The Family Barcus” “Lost” “The Inside Passage” “Holy Week” “A Normal Life” “Hunger” “The Woman Taken in Adultery” “Pie of the Month” “Throw Like a Girl”
