L A Kennedy: 50 books

From award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, an original Doctor Who novel featuring the beloved Fourth Doctor, as played by Tom Baker. “I shall make you the jewel at the heart of the universe.” Something distinctly odd is going on in Arbroath. It could be to do with golfers being dragged...

Mary Margaret Hamilton was educated in Scotland. She was born there too. These may not have been the best possible options, but they were the only ones on offer at the time. Although her father did his best, her knowledge of life is perhaps a little incomplete. Margaret knows the best way to look...

Features a prestigious list of contributors including Kamila Shamsie, Noam Chomsky, A. L. Kennedy, Matt Haig, Louise Doughty and Preti Taneja among others. Charles Fernyhough is a professor of psychology at Durham University. He is also the acclaimed author of The Baby in the Mirror...

Vampires have fascinated mankind for centuries. These creatures of the night enthrall us, terrify us, and seduce us. The Vampire Super Pack brings together 42 vampires stories spanning almost 200 years. With over 225,000 words of fascinating fiction this is the Vampire anthology you’ve been waiting...

"Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book Review A brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists. Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening,...

David Almond (Je m’appelle Mina), Tracy Chevalier (La jeune fille à la perle), Timothée de Fombelle (Le livre de Perle), Michael Morpurgo (Cheval de Guerre)… Les plus grandes signatures de la littérature racontent la Première Guerre mondiale à partir d’objets emblématiques.  Un superbe...

Rhode Island's contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size. Narragansett Bay was an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facilities. They included the country's most important torpedo production and testing facilities at Newport and the Northeast's largest naval air station at...

Manchmal ist Glücklichsein so schön, dass es fast weh tut Gleißendes Glück ist etwas, was Helene Brindel nicht kennt. Für die schüchterne Frau ist ihre Ehe ein Gefängnis, dennoch kann sie ihren groben Mann nicht verlassen. Als sie in ihrem Unglück auch noch ihr Vertrauen in Gott zu verlieren...

ZEITREISEN - Eine einzigartige Serie von Kurzgeschichten neuer Doctor-Who-Abenteuer von einigen der besten Autoren, die das uns bekannte Universum zu bieten hat! Im Golf Spa Hotel der Fetch-Brüder geht etwas Seltsames vor. Bryony Mailer hat unter den Gästen eine gewisse Tendenz zum Verschwinden...

Trinken ist das Paradies, Trinken ist die Hölle Das Paradies ist Hannah Luckraft nicht fremd: Einen Hauch davon spürt sie auf der Haut ihres Liebhabers und in jedem Drink, den sie zu sich nimmt. Hannah Luckraft ist Ende dreißig und Alkoholikerin. Ihr Leben ist alles andere als eine Erfolgsgeschichte,...

Generating Transworld Pedagogy: Reimagining La Clase Mágica lays the foundation for addressing one of the greatest challenges in the 21st century: meeting the educational needs of a diverse society living in a complex, technology-driven world. It extends bilingual and bicultural transformative critical...

Alfie Day, RAF airman and former World War II POW, never expected to survive the war. Now, five years later and more alone than ever, Alfie finds himself drawn to unearth those strange, passionate days by working as an extra on a POW film. What he will discover on the set about himself, his loves...

Inspired by the need for interpretations and critiques of the varied messages surrounding what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives. Contributors...

Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, Harmony presents Jane Austen as a self-conscious artist, a woman keenly aware that literature and aesthetics were to play an important role in the education and development of British society. The scope of the book is interdisciplinary and international,...