Women's Experimental Writingconsiders six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Kathy Acker, Theresa Cha, Chantel Chawaf, Jeanette Winterson, and Lynda Barry.These writers all share a commitment to combining extreme content with formally radical techniques in order to enact varieties of gender, sex, race, class and nation-based experience that, they suggest, m...

The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, sexual politics, and body politics. The nexus of these three forces is highly charged in any culture, at any time in history, but especially so among cultures in which rapid, even cataclysmic, changes in material realities and national self-conceptions are eroding or overwhelming previously secure boundaries.The p...

This wide-ranging and provocative study traces Gertrude Stein's production of avant-garde texts that radically disrupted traditional notions of how fiction should be defined, valued, and read. The book combines feminist and postmodern perspectives to illuminate new facets of Stein’s novels and to situate them within an expanded definition of the postmodern. The author argues that if we fail to consider the contexts within which postmodern innovations occur, and if we subsume all formal dis...

Take a trip to the Yorkshire village of Burley Bridge, where a very special little cookbook shop is about to open its doors…In the beginning…Kitty Cartwright has always solved her problems in the kitchen. Her cookbooks are her life, and there isn’t an issue that ‘Cooking with Aspic’ can’t fix. Her only wish is that she had a book entitled ‘Rustling Up Dinner When Your Husband Has Left You’.Forty years later…On Rosemary Lane, Della Cartwrigh...

Curl up with this uplifting festive read – perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley and Carole Matthews.‘This wonderful story put a huge smile on my face’ Lucy ColemanLast winter she had a plan.Lucy fell in love with tumbledown Rosemary Cottage as a child. So thirty years on, when she loses her city job and discovers the cottage is for sale, it feels like fate. She’ll raise her children in Burley Bridge and transform the cottage into a B&B...

[To come]Last winter she had a plan.Lucy fell in love with tumbledown Rosemary Cottage as a child. So thirty years on, when she loses her city job and discovers the cottage is for sale, it feels like fate. She’ll raise her children in Burley Bridge and transform the cottage into a B&B with her husband.But a year can change everything . . .Now Lucy is juggling two children and a B&B, but on her own. Christmas looks set to be ...

‘As comforting as a slice of homemade apple pie’ RedPrepare to fall in love with beautiful village of Burley Bridge.Growing up in a quiet Yorkshire village, Roxanne couldn’t wait to escape and find her place in the world in London. As a high-powered fashion editor she lives a glamorous life of perennial singlehood – or so it seems to her sister Della. But when Roxanne gets her heart broken by a fashion photographer, she runs away, back to Della’s w...

Take a trip to the Yorkshire village of Burley Bridge, where a very special little cookbook shop is about to open its doors…In the beginning…Kitty Cartwright has always solved her problems in the kitchen. Her cookbooks are her life, and there isn’t an issue that ‘Cooking with Aspic’ can’t fix. Her only wish is that she had a book entitled ‘Rustling Up Dinner When Your Husband Has Left You’.Forty years later…On Rosemary Lane, Della Cartwrigh...

The Adventures of Carmelo is a series of children's learning stories. These stories help them to understand new adventures, teaching respect, listening, following instructions, to be brave, and that it's OK to be scared when facing a new adventure like going to the dentist.

Ten Cents a Dance takes us on a hunt for an obsessed serial killer with a strange biblical fascination. Homicide Detective, Johnny Vero, travels to France & workds with Interpol to hunt this serial killer that targets dance hall girls who charge ten cents for a 3 minute dance. The story takes a bizarre turn when it is discovered they are murdered in the Budapest Hotel in certain room numbers which have biblial meanings to the killer.

A Spiritual Autobiography is the deeply personal account of the life, faith, and formation of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Berry McKinney, one of the Pacific Northwest's most influential religious and civil rights leaders. Written in 1972 as a requirement for his doctorate while he studied in the Martin Luther King Fellows Program at Colgate Rochester Divinity School, the manuscript was then stored away for more than fifty years. Its rediscovery offers an extraordinary opportunity to hear ...

‘Perfect summer reading in a nutshell’ – Rachel GilbeyThe ovens are pre-heating, the Prosecco is chilling…and The Sunshine and Biscotti Club is nearly ready to open its doors.But the guests have other things on their minds…Libby: The BloggerLife is Instagram-perfect for food blogger Libby…until she catches her husband cheating just weeks before her Italian cooking club’s grand opening.Evie: T...