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Death of a Nationalist
Madrid 1939. Carlos Tejada Alonso y León is a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil, a rank rare for a man not yet thirty, but Tejada is an unusual recruit. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and the Republicans has interrupted his legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, and now triumphant, Nationalist. This war has drawn international attention. In a dress rehearsal for World War II, fascists support the Nationalists, while communists have come to the aid of the Republicans. Atrocities have devastated both sides. It is at this moment, when the Republicans have surrendered, and the Guardia Civil has begun to impose order in the ruins of Madrid, that Tejada finds the body of his best friend, a hero of the siege of Toledo, shot to death on a street named Amor de Dios. Naturally, a Red is suspected. And it is easy for Tejada to assume that the woman caught kneeling over the body is the killer. But when his doubts are aroused, he cannot help seeking justice.
Law of Return
"It is 1940. Carlos Tegada, newly promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Guardia Civil, has been transferred from Madrid to Salamanca, a conservative town famed for its university. It has been spared the devastation visited on Madrid, but Tejada finds his transfer is a mixed blessing. He must serve under an unsympathetic superior officer and investigate the disappearance of a political suspect former law professor who is embarrassingly well-connected. To complicate matters, one of the men who may be involved in that disappearance is the father of Elena Fernandez, the woman to whom Tejada is attracted despite her left-wing politics." "Professor Fernandez has just received a letter from Occ...
The Summer Snow
Latest volume in the Edgar Award-winning series. In the Southern city of Granada, Spain, bastion of the Conservative Catholic aristocracy, fear of the Red Menace is still strong in 1945. When a rich, arrogant, elderly lady is found dead and her latest will vanishes, the police must investigate. Influence is exerted to have Lieutenant Carlos Tejada transferred temporarily from Potes to take charge because the rich old lady is his great aunt. When the investigation centres on his father, the family expects Tejada to exonerate its members, but he puts duty first.
Digital Teaching for Linguistics
Digital Teaching for Linguistics re-imagines the teaching of linguistics in a digital environment. It provides both an introduction to digital pedagogy and a discussion of technologically driven teaching practices that could be applied to any field of study. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience of successful delivery of web-based instruction and assessment, this book: • provides extended analysis and discussion of the best practices for teaching in an online and blended context; • features examples and case studies based on current research and teaching practice; • proposes new methods of teaching and assessment in line with innovations in educational technology. This book is essential reading for educators in the areas of linguistics, English language, and education seeking guidance and advice on how to design or adapt their teaching for a digital world.
The Watcher in the Pine
Spain, 1940. A mountain village is Carlos Tejada's first independent command, but he arrives to a far from welcoming reception and he appears to have nowhere to live except the jail. Is it that they are suspicious of an officer with a Republican sympathiser for a wife? Tejada soon discovers that the officer he is replacing was shot to death and that the village is the centre of smuggling and guerilla activity. Then worse befalls: a new outbreak of civil war, financed from abroad, may be about to take place with his post as its epicentre.
Being Material
Explorations of the many ways of being material in the digital age. In his oracular 1995 book Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that social relations, media, and commerce would move from the realm of “atoms to bits”—that human affairs would be increasingly untethered from the material world. And yet in 2019, an age dominated by the digital, we have not quite left the material world behind. In Being Material, artists and technologists explore the relationship of the digital to the material, demonstrating that processes that seem wholly immaterial function within material constraints. Digital technologies themselves, they remind us, are material things—constituted by atoms o...
Her Naked Skin
Love is just fear I suppose. Masquerading as a fever. Then you explore each other and suddenly you have licence to become totally pedestrian. And ultimately abusive. Militancy in the Suffragette Movement is at its height. Thousands of women of all classes serve time in Holloway Prison in their fight to gain the vote. Amongst them is Lady Celia Cain who feels trapped by both the policies of the day and the shackles of a frustrating marriage. Inside, she meets a young seamstress, Eve Douglas, and her life spirals into an erotic but dangerous chaos. London 1913. A crucial moment when, with emancipation almost in sight, women refuse to let the establishment stand in their way. Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Her Naked Skin premiered at the National Theatre, London, in July 2008.
Dying Gasp
The granddaughter of a prominent politician is missing. Silva and his team find her in Manaus, a jungle hellhole on the Amazon where an evil female doctor is making gory snuff films. Silva must overcome his own department’s indifference and the corrupt local cops before he can obtain a semblance of justice for the victims.
A Hell of a Woman
“A Hell of a Woman is not only an exceptionally entertaining anthology, it’s an invaluable resource that will be cherished by aficionados of the genre.”—Paul Goat Allen, Chicago Tribune An original anthology. A collection of twenty-five original female noir stories by some of today’s top crime writers, including Vicki Hendricks, Sara Gran, Christa Faust, Naomi Hirahara, Charlie Huston, and more. Includes a special fifty-page appendix of essays on female noir pioneers. Awards include: Daniel Woodrell’s “Uncle”—Nominated for the Edgar and Anthony awards Cornelia Read’s “Hungry Enough”—Winner of the Shamus Award
The Night Season
I cry in the daytime and in the night season am not silent. Psalm 22Late at night, shoeless, in the rain, a film actor playing the poet Yeats turns up drunk at his appointed Sligo digs. He is met by the grandmother and they dance together to 'Lili Marlene'. In the morning they are discovered, sharing a blanket, by Patrick and his three daughters. Patrick craves tobacco, whiskey and a date with the local barmaid; the sisters yearn for sensation and escape.A funny, modern, intoxicated tale of love and loss, The Night Season premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2004.
