"The strong, authentic voices of the women sharing their own narratives and awakenings from life without fathers is the power of this book." — EsmeAAMBC Non-Fiction Self-Help Book of the YearAAMBC Breakout Author of the YearHe Never Came Home is a collection of twenty-two personal essays written by girls and women who have been separated from their fathers by way of divorce, abandonment, or death. T...

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities…* WINNER * Sir Julius Vogel Award 2019 (SFFANZ) for Best C...

Over its 143-year history, St. John's has been a remarkable and enduring part of Brighton's educational landscape.This book charts the way in which Sister Jane Borradaile, its tireless and resourceful foundress, raised money to build a home for the care of less-fortunate children in Victorian England. They were predominantly victims of deprivation in the East End, who went to St. John's to convalesce. Also taken in were orphan girls who were trained for domestic service. The home adapted i...

Have you been hearing about QAnon or Q in relation to U.S. or world politics and wondered what it is all about, who make up the outfit and what impact it has had (or has) on the social, political and religious landscape?And are you looking for a guide that will uncover everything, from what you may have heard to the deep stuff that you may probably have no idea about even thought about?If you've answered YES, keep reading…You Are About To Discover The Ins And Outs O...

Rapid advances in computing have enabled the integration of corpora into language teaching and learning, yet in China corpus methods have not yet been widely adopted. Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts aims to advance the state of the art in the use of corpora in applied linguistics and contribute to the expertise in corpus use in China.

Are you eager to learn about the QAnon, the New World Order, Illuminati and other names depicting the biggest conspiracy theories in history but have never found definitive answers to all the questions you've always had?And are looking for a guide that could literally cover every recent conspiracy theory, in depth and widely so you can have a broad and deep understanding of all the concepts and ideas?If you've answered YES, keep reading…You've Just Discovered A Comp...

The censuses that have been conducted in Britain since 1801 have provided an invaluable insight into Britain's social, political and economic history over the past 200 years.From their original purpose to assess how many men were fit for military duty in the Napoleonic wars, to being a necessary tool for determining government policy, the 10-yearly census return is a fascinating snapshot of the state of the population on a particular moment in each decade.I...

You've probably heard about the QAnon Conspiracy theory that has taken the world by storm, right? Are you ready to discover the hidden secrets of this theory?If the answer is yes, then read on…You are about to step into the world of conspiracies and discover one of the most talked-about, THE QANON CONSPIRACY.QAnon has gained a lot of traction in the US and now Spilling over to the UK. It is a conspiracy theory that claims of the existence of a cabal that is comprise...

Presupposing no specialist musical knowledge, this book offers a fresh perspective on the dramatic role of music in the plays of Shakespeare and his early seventeenth-century contemporaries. Simon Smith argues that many plays used music as a dramatic tool, inviting culturally familiar responses to music from playgoers. Music cues regularly encouraged audiences to listen, look, imagine or remember at dramatically critical moments, shaping meaning in plays from The Winter's Tale to A Game at...

Crystal Simone Smith’s new poetry collection, Runagate, reimagines the experiences of enslaved and formerly enslaved persons in a stark and chilling response to the archives of chattel slavery: bills of sale, interviews, narratives, and fugitive runaway ads. Embodying the aesthetics and Japanese poetic forms haiku and tanka, her poems bear witness to the brutal and horrifying treatment of enslaved people and contrast their humanity with the inhumanity of their enslavers. In these ...

The Golden Jubilee year of Queen Victoria. The British Empire is on its way to spanning almost a quarter of the Earth and controls almost a fifth of the world's population. The British Empire is the foremost world power. Britannia rules the waves... Returning home for Christmas after three years away on the China Station, HMS Britannia stops in Egypt. While enjoying the pleasures of Alexandria, a sailor of her company steals a figurine from a market stall and unwittingly...

After falling in with an old school friend he's not seen for thirty years, Nick Robinson's down at heel life enjoys a fantastic transformation. A job to die for leads to love and a new life. A bright future seems assured. But then a shocking betrayal has catastrophic consequences. Overnight, Robinson's life becomes a hallucinagenic runaway roller coaster ride that plunges him headlong towards insanity. He escapes to the Undine Resort on the island of Tuscarora, a tropical paradise that hid...