Gillian: 813 books

Before The Hunger Games—even before Battle Royale—there was the Galax-Arena, where children are pitted against each other for the benefit of a shadowy audience that feeds on their fear. A Children's Book Council of Australia Honour Book for Older Readers, Galax-Arena is a dark, uncompromising...

The history of labour in Canada is most often understood to mean – and presented as – the history of blue-collar workers, especially men. And it is a story of union solidarity to gain wages, rights, and the like from employers. In Contracting Masculinity, Gillian Creese examines in depth the white-collar...

Gillian King Mijn ex en ik De relatie tussen Suus en Tom is op een niet al te prettige manier op de klippen gelopen. Hij ruilde haar zonder pardon in voor een andere vrouw. Suus weet zeker dat ze nooit meer iets met hem te maken wil hebben. Tot ze hem tegenkomt op de bruiloft van gezamenlijke vrienden.

Verliefd worden is geen optie! Gillian King, auteur van onder meer Zestig dagen en O, o, Olivia, schrijft met Zwart-wit opnieuw een chicklit die je in één ruk uitleest! Elin is op zoek naar werk, niet naar een relatie. Vicky is achttien jaar jong en volkomen onbezonnen. Nick is bijzonder aantrekkelijk,...

Neem een scheutje zon, giet er romantiek overheen en maak het af met een flinke dosis humor. Geef zeven ervaren cocktailauteurs deze opdracht, even schudden, en voilà: een heerlijke Summer Cocktail! Een lekkere bundel vol verhalen van chicklitschrijfsters Iris Boter, Marijke van den Elsen, Gillian King, Petra Kruijt, Carlie van Tongeren, Rianne Verwoert en Anne West.

In het verhaal Acht minuten van Gillian King hebben Vera en Matthijs een nogal ingedutte relatie. Mede daardoor is Vera erg gevoelig voor de aandacht van een knappe man op het schoolplein. Een beetje flirten kan geen kwaad, toch?

The 'New Women' of late nineteenth-century Britain were seen as defying society's conventions. Studying this phenomenon from its origins in the 1870s to the outbreak of the Great War, Gillian Sutherland examines whether women really had the economic freedom to challenge norms relating to work, political...

Most employers will at some time need to monitor, record and read e-mails sent and received by their staff, or check on their employees' use of the telephone and internet, or access business correspondence received at work but addressed to a member of staff. There may also be clear cases where covert...

Debussy's Mélisande examines the colourful lives of Georgette Leblanc, Mary Garden and Maggie Teyte, and their involvement with Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, illustrating the prejudices and difficulties women singers of their era faced. The three women presented here were not only remarkable...

In a Venn diagram of Jane Austen, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Marie Brennan, you'll find Gillian Murray Kendall's fantasy-of-manners, The Book of Forbidden Wisdom right in the middle.** In a world of blood and betrayal, love is the only redemption.  But that knowledge can only be reached by...

Death stalks Seth MacGregor's clan in their otherworld exile. Kate NicNiven is close to ultimate victory, and she is determined that nothing will keep her from it. Not even the thing that took her soul: the horror that lurks in the sea caves. But Kate still needs Seth's son Rory, and his power over...

Quand Evie Johnson arrive au pensionnat de Wyldcliffe, elle est loin de se douter que sa vie sera bientôt complètement transformée: elle y apprend sa parenté avec Lady Agnes, elle forge un lien privilégié avec Helen et Sarah, et découvre l’étonnant secret de la Voie mystique. Mais plus que...

The war that ended the world has been over for a hundred years, but nobody knows it. The League, a powerful organization of wizards, have rewritten history, claiming that the ruined earth is exactly the way it should be. For the struggling ordinary people beyond its gilded gates, every day...

Matt Reid, an ex British Special Forces soldier, arrives in Australia in search of his biological father. He meets Alan Fletcher, a retired war correspondent, whose story about the disappearance of a Rhodesian SAS soldier in 1980, sends Matt off to Zimbabwe on a mission to find the truth. What he...