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Stories We Tell Ourselves
Frank and Joan's marriage is in trouble. Having spent thirty years failing to understand each other, Joan's frustrations have finally reached boiling point. But it's Christmas, and their three children are coming home for the holiday. So Joan determines to make things work. With the Christmas tree up, plates of mince pies artfully arranged and the obligatory poinsettia in situ, the stage is set for a traditional family Christmas. If only this family were up to the challenge. Told with wit, understanding and disarming honesty, this is a novel about the thorniness of family love and its capacity to endure.
Sarah - A Lost Mother
Sarah is a little girl of five. She is precocious and her parents don't know always what to do when faced with the predicaments she gets them all into. And others, finding her sometimes difficult to understand, often treat her as an adult, since her behavior tends to be quite adult-like. That is how Sarah found herself at the police station one day reporting « a lost mother », for according to her, her mother had got lost. This story ushers young readers into the world of an uncommon heroine with more adventures to follow. And as eagerly requested by Françoise Duval's faithful readers on her forum http://francoiseduval.wifeo.com/forum.php many more episodes of the intrepid Sarah will soon be flowing from her pen for their further enjoyment. This flowingly written and intriguing initial tale will entertain its readers as they accompany Sarah in her exciting escapades.
Stories We Tell Ourselves
A family comes together for Christmas - the parents' marriage at breaking point, and their grown-up children faring little better in love themselves. A novel exploring the thorniness of familial love and its capacity to endure. Frank and Joan's marriage is in trouble. Having spent three decades failing to understand each other in their unfinished house in the French alps, Joan's frustrations with her inattentive husband have reached breaking point. Frank, retreating ever further into his obscure hobbies, is distracted by an epistolary affair with his long-lost German girlfriend. Things are getting tense. But it's Christmas, and the couple are preparing to welcome home their three far-flung children. The children, though, are faring little better in love themselves. Maya, a gender expert mother-of-two, is considering leaving her family and running off with a woman; Wim is considering leaving his girlfriend; and Lois, who spends her time turning war documentaries into love poems, is facing a change of heart. Written with a rare precision and insight, the author explores the thorniness of familial love and its capacity to endure with warmth, wit and disarming honesty.
Natural Breaks And Rhythms
An intense portrait of friendship, betrayal and the birth of jungle music Beats and Cold, two ambitious DJs, are gaining a serious reputation in the music industry. They have found a new sound – jungle – and it's going to be massive! At first the chemistry between them produces gold . . . but as Beats turns into an ambitious producer, and Cold, the 'bedroom genius', fights for the space to be a true artist, the tension builds beat by beat. In the background are the boys' Trinidadian fathers, struggling together to make a life for their two sons, and caught up in the middle of their conflict. It is an intense portrait of friendship, betrayal and the impact one generation has on the next set against the backdrop of nineties Britain.
Holocaust Mothers and Daughters
In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted in six works by women who experienced the Holocaust, sometimes with their mothers, sometimes not. The daughtersÕ memoirs, which record the Òall-too-humanÓ qualities of those who were persecuted and murdered by the Nazis, show that the Holocaust cannot be used to neatly segregate lives into the categories of before and after. ClementiÕs discussions of differences in social status, along with the persistence of antisemitism and patriarchal structures, support this point strongly, demonstrating the tenacity of traumaÑindividual, familial, and collectiveÑamong Jews in twentieth-century Europe.
A Decolonial Feminism
For too long feminism and multiculturalism have been co-opted by the forces they seek to dismantle. However, in this manifesto, Francoise Verges argues that feminists should no longer be handmaidens of capitalism, colonialism and imperialism and fight the system that created the boss, built the prisons and polices women's bodies.Attuned to the temporalities of contemporary struggles, the book incorporates issues such as Eurocentrism, whiteness, power, inclusion and exclusion, within feminist discourse. Throughout we touch upon feminist and anti-racist histories, as well as assessing contemporary activism, including #MeToo and the Women's Strike.Centring colonialism and imperialism within intersectional Marxism, this is an urgent demand to free ourselves from the capitalist, imperialist forces that oppress us.
Dear Sarah Bernhardt
This experimental biography of the actress Sarah Bernhardt is structured in the form of a correspondence from the grave between the author and her subject. Francoise Sagan has also written the worldwide bestseller Bonjour Tristesse and Aimez-Vous Brahms.
A Feminist Theory of Violence
The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safety
