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The Treatment
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. ‘A wonderful novel. Big ideas wrapped in a plot that moves like a freight train’ Stuart Turton 'Compelling and complex, but still emotionally charged and devastating' Helen Fields 'A Clockwork Orange for the modern cohort. A terrifying near future imagined perfectly' Imran Mahmood The future of law enforcement has arrived, courtesy of private health contractor Janus Justice. Their ground-breaking ‘Offender Treatment Programme’ has been hailed as the most effective way of tackling crime yet. As offenders move through the four-tiered system, their needs are dealt with, each tier more drastic in its methods: Tier One: Low-risk crimes. Physi...
Witness X
Uncover the past. Survive the present. Save the future. Fourteen years ago, the police caged a notorious serial killer who abducted and butchered two victims every February. But, in the present day, when another body is discovered, they soon realise that the culprit is still at large. Neuropsychologist Kyra Sullivan, still traumatised by the murders, wields a new technology that accesses the minds of the witnesses, working with the police to unearth the truth. But how much of herself is she willing to lose to ensure justice is served? A dark and gripping futuristic crime thriller, perfect for fans of John Marrs and Claire North.
Awakening Verse
Introduction: Revival Poetry -- Chapter One: "The Sound in Faith": The Calvinist Couplet and the Poetics of Espousal -- Chapter Two: "A Lady in New England": Forms of the Poet-Minister -- Chapter Three: Evangelical Harmony and the Discord of Taste -- Chapter Four: The Ethiop's Verse: The Limits of Poetic Capacity and Espousal Piety -- Chapter Five: A Revivalist Ars Poetica for an Itinerant Coterie: Evangelical Wit, Punctiliar Revision, and Poetic AddressConclusion: Conversions of Poetic History -- Appendix A: Revival Poets and Poetry -- Appendix B: Selected Verse
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World
The first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the late sixteenth century to abolition in 1888.
Witness X
Uncover the past. Survive the present. Save the future. Fourteen years ago, the police caged a notorious serial killer who abducted and butchered two victims every February. But, in the present day, when another body is discovered, they soon realise that the culprit is still at large. Neuropsychologist Kyra Sullivan, still traumatised by the murders, wields a new technology that accesses the minds of the witnesses, working with the police to unearth the truth. But how much of herself is she willing to lose to ensure justice is served? A dark and gripping futuristic crime thriller, perfect for fans of John Marrs and Claire North.
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.
Garden of Her Heart
When Holly Bush is made redundant with gardening leave after a brutal attack, she decides to visit a retreat. There, she finds friendship and a garden in need of love, she ends up doing literal gardening leave, bringing the community of guests together. Holly works on both her mental and physical scars and discovers an inner strength.
Portraits of Resistance
A highly original history of American portraiture that places the experiences of enslaved people at its center This timely and eloquent book tells a new history of American art: how enslaved people mobilized portraiture for acts of defiance. Revisiting the origins of portrait painting in the United States, Jennifer Van Horn reveals how mythologies of whiteness and of nation building erased the aesthetic production of enslaved Americans of African descent and obscured the portrait's importance as a site of resistance. Moving from the wharves of colonial Rhode Island to antebellum Louisiana plantations to South Carolina townhouses during the Civil War, the book illuminates how enslaved people's relationships with portraits also shaped the trajectory of African American art post-emancipation. Van Horn asserts that Black creativity, subjecthood, viewership, and iconoclasm constituted instances of everyday rebellion against systemic oppression. Portraits of Resistance is not only a significant intervention in the fields of American art and history but also an important contribution to the reexamination of racial constructs on which American culture was built.
