Negotiating Nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged their soldier-patients within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female force during the Second World War, were essential to recovering men from the battlefield and for the war, despite concerns about women’s presence on the frontline. Using personal tes...

This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular with British women. In the years preceding the Second World War, hospitals in Britain suffered chronic nurse staffing crises. As the country faced inevitable war, the Government and the profession’s elite courted refugees as an antidote to the shortages, but many hospitals refused to employ Contine...

BRITISH BONZAI BITCHES consists of four erotica stories.DEATH ORCHID: A stunning blond British hit woman takes down an Italian/British mobster. She then ends up in London, where she has a torrid affair with a mysterious African woman and her cohort, an even more Mysterious American. Why she is there, is exposed in the chilling ending.SAVAGES: A wealthy English females daughters are set up in a Heroin bust in Jakarta. Thus Clare moves into a dangerous and shadowy world by her friend, Oba, a...

A mysterious e-mail, an antique, carved Japanese birch cane and an even more mysterious man at the train station Gare du Nord in Paris, as well as a stunning waif-like British female passenger, who finds her destiny in a Paris warehouse after she is abducted by a master of perhaps the unthinkable, all come together to create a most unusual novella. Pain, denial, and an enigma of a story, read to its conclusion, is a journey where absolutely nothing is as it seems. “He wore leather gloves f...

Book Three in the Mistress Taz series provides a stunning finale to this Femdom saga. Mistress Taz is a harsh lifestyle domme, but has she met her match in Machin? He changed her life after a chance encounter, bringing occasional switch evenings into her routine, which she enjoys far more than she could have imagined. But her domination of Machin becomes more fractious as she deals with changing emotions. Meanwhile Freda, the sexually irrepressible maid, continues to submit to her mistress...

Kenna Grey a quirky beautiful, kinda Ellen Barkin looking 22-year-old modern dance savant at Juilliard, brilliant mind, generous, kind, depressed, so alone almost dies in a loft fire in Chelsea. She’s a gay girl in her heart, and to the moment, has been terrified to come out. That is until a huge firefighter, the Nordic-looking blonde giant of a female Alex Brown crashes through her walls with an axe and saves her when her loft is engulfed in flames. Alone and sick of the Metro Male shallo...

Jane is a Mensa genius, stunning and wealthy. A tall, quirky, queer girl. She’s a weapons and martial arts expert, and though vicious and troubled, she’s got a heart of gold. Jettisoning a life of East Coast privilege to become a PI/Bounty hunter in dangerous N. Las Vegas, she’s dedicated her life to fighting for the LGBTQ world. She takes down violent men and woman in this case two violent butch females, sadists along the eco system of the private sex and fetish scene in Vegas. When an ex...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Dive into the extraordinary career of one of Hollywood's most beloved actors, Denzel Washington. This captivating biography goes beyond the red carpets and awards ceremonies to unveil the man behind the iconic roles. From his humble beginnings in Mount Vernon, New York, to his meteoric rise to international fame, you'll experience Denzel's journey as a gifted storyteller who has captivated audiences for over four decades. Delve into the...

LAS VEGAS, not THAT Vegas, but N. Vegas, a dangerous black hole of sexual depravity, acid etched freedom, consenting sex, crime, private sex clubs, BDSM, gay, straight, young, old, Goth, Punk, Hip hop kids. Also, lawyers, sport stars, doctors, preachers, rich bi sexual divorcees, and cops, needing release from the 24/7 mass death and carnage. There are top predators, Alpha females and males. One is Mandal, 27, bi sexual, a gorgeous tall blonde ex-grifter, thief, whore, at 25 a contract kil...

LAS VEGAS, not THAT Vegas, but N. Vegas, a dangerous black hole of sexual depravity, acid etched freedom, consenting sex, crime, private sex clubs, BDSM, gay, straight, young, old, Goth, Punk, Hip hop kids. Also, lawyers, sport stars, doctors, preachers, rich bi sexual divorcees, and cops, needing release from the 24/7 mass death and carnage. There are top predators, Alpha females and males. One is Mandal, 27, bi sexual, a gorgeous tall blonde ex-grifter, thief, whore, at 25 a contract kil...

Immerse yourself in the unnerving world of the paranormal with these tales of horror curated by Bram Stoker Award-nominated Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson, editors of the #1 bestseller Peel Back the Skin and the critically acclaimed Dark Visions series.It's here in Death's Realm where the spirits of the dead and monstrosities that should never exist torment the souls of the living they've left behind in sixteen disquieting tales of the supernatural from horror's...

From electro-convulsive therapy to epilepsy, from criminal lunacy to community care, Unfortunate Folks: Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992, opens windows on to the history of mental health treatment in New Zealand.