Moving West—from Singapore to America, from New York to California—a woman examines the myth of “finding home” even as she comes to terms with its impossibilities.When Trisha Low moves West, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better”—someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose values she has difficulty sharing, and America’s casual r...

Trisha Low is just another feminist, confessional writer trying to find a good way to deal with all her literary dads. She siphons the remix culture of social media into the binge and purge cycle of an engrossing read, with the emphasis on gross. She reads the diaries of teenage girls, their blog comments and love letters; she dresses like one in performance then throws up fake blood on herself. She once surveyed the reactions of Catholic fathers to scripted confessionals she made reg...

When Trisha Low moves West, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better” — someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose values she has difficulty sharing, and America’s casual racism, sexism, and homophobia. In this book-length essay, the problem of how to account for one’s life comes to the fore — sliding unpredictably between memory, speculation, self-critici...

Esther wrote down her fantasies about her tutor, but she never intended for him to read them.Once they cross the line there's no going back.Esther has always been an average student. She coasts through life on a sea of Bs, until a fatal mistake jolts her out of mediocrity and into something else entirely. She accidentally leaves a story in an essay for her teacher — one that no teacher should ever see. And especially not Professor Halstrom....

I Want To Have Sex With You is a light-hearted and humorous look into some of the words and actions men portray in order to simply get laid. It's a well-known fact that men constantly have sex on the brain and everything in life seems to lead to wanting sex. This novelty book takes a look at some typical scenarios where males are hoping to get sex and get it now.

Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone. A mock-elegy for the heady joys of old-time Soho, The Song of Lunch displays the full range of Christopher Reid's wit, craft and human sympathy.

A gothic twist on the classic tale of innocents abroad, The Zero and the One is a meditation on the seductions of friendship and the power of dangerous ideas that registers the dark, psychological suspense of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley and the intellectual and philosophical intrigue of John Banville's The Book of Evidence.A shy, bookish scholarship student from a working-class family, Owen Whiting has high hopes of what awaits him at Oxfo...

A dream of desolation and death. A nightmare vision of a looming end, surrounded by hidden enemies and desperate strangers.His love taken. His hope lost. His life forfeit because of his failures, his inadequacies.How can this end be a beginning? And how can a dream seem so real?

The Full Flight series of reading books are for children and young adults aged 8 to 14 and over who are struggling to read. Each book has been carefully written for those with a reading age of approximately 7 to 8, but are packed full of adventure and brilliant illustrations to really grab the reader interest.Cara, Jodie and Jamie-Lee have somehow found themselves in the middle of a fairground. However, there is no fun to be found at this fair.

What this book lacks in quantity, it more than makes up in quality. These are the best poems I have written over the last twenty plus years. While I love making stories, poems has always been a mistress I return to from time to time. One of these poems was written when I was only sixteen, while another was written less than a month ago. I dare you to figure out where those poems are.

A gift to humanity for education empowerment in the form of poetry for children and teenagers. Consisting of fifty original poems and illustrations, this chapbook draws to light the experiences of how life is viewed from an artistic and creative point.

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, an autobiographical account of his life with locked-in syndrome following a massive stroke at the age of just 43. His entire body is paralysed apart from his left eyelid, but he miraculously learns how to express himse...