Grotesque in Contemporary British Fiction, Paperback - Robert Duggan

This book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary British writing and provides an illuminating picture of often co...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Sarah GodfreyIllustration(s): 15 B/W illustrationsNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensi...

A study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the ear...

This work examines the notion of Europe as expressed in Romanian and British fiction. It surveys symbolic notions of the common cultural links whic...

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Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo. Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had seemingl...

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Unites literature written by members of the far-flung black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizing novels as 'African American', 'black Cana...

Former steel worker Harry Perkins, has, against all the odds, led the Labour Party to a stunning victory at the general election. His manifesto inc...

The annual collection of the best British short stories of the year, now in its 7th year. Last year's edition was chosen as a }Guardian{ Book of th...

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Publisher: Peepal Tree Press LtdNumber of pages: 212Collection: InscribePublication date: 2015Dimensions: 206 x 135 x 21Cover type: Paperback / sof...

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A second volume celebrating the British short story, from P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith. Includes rare finds, stories from unusual sources that hav...

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Provides a collection of in-depth readings of British writers that have come to prominence in the 21stcentury. -- .

DescriptionFrom Wall Street Journal best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills comes a new full-length stand-alone romance A smokin' hot British player....

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain, comes a powerful novel about how the Vietnam War divided families, ...

Zen and the Art of the Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig's worldwide bestseller, holds a unique and unforgettable place in modern Western li...

Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a...

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A Schoolboy’s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser’s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Ope...

One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. ...

Description"Aficionados of British crime fiction can't get enough, and this fresh mystery will satisfy their cravings"Library Journal Starred Revie...

The narrative grotesque introduces a new framework for reading medieval texts that rupture conventional poetic boundaries and create unsettling fus...

Reducere. DescriptionPrincess Camilla Fitzcharles is willing to risk everything to escape her gilded cage of her life. She's secured an invitation to partici...

DescriptionAhoy, muties - the X-Men sail at dawn Mutantkind has begun a glorious new era on Krakoa, but some nations' human authorities are prevent...

X OF SWORDS may be over, but there are still difficult waters ahead for the Marauders! Double-dealing and backstabbing are the order of the day in ...

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DescriptionThe Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, an...