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The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 35.00Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery and the novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore Holdstock's varied output by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their spatiotemporal order, and examining them as psychic... more...
The Madness of George III
Faber and Faber 2009; US$ 14.57George III's behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government wavers and the Prince Regent manoeuvres himself into power. Alan Bennett's play explores the court of a mad king, and the fearful treatments he was forced... more...
Zwischen den Stühlen: Psychisch kranke Frauen in Einrichtungen der Wohnungslosenhilfe
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 26.95Hauptbeschreibung Aktuelle Zahlen belegen, dass der Anteil der psychischen Erkrankungen in der Allgemeinbevölkerung in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich zugenommen hat. Ungleich schneller wächst die Zahl von psychisch Kranken in Einrichtungen der Wohnungslosenhilfe - eine Tatsache, auf die soziale Dienste und Einrichtungen häufig weder inhaltlich,... more...
Seasonal Suicide Notes
Short Books 2010; US$ 11.65?The most brilliantly funny and genuinely thought-provoking book of the year.? Sunday Times For some years, the biographer Roger Lewis has been entertaining his friends with an annual letter, in which he records details of the joys and frustrations of his life as it is actually lived. Updated with a new section for spring, this ?cult classic?,... more...
Dear Austen
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; US$ 22.64Accidents happen to other people. But on On May 10th 2002, Nina Bawden discovered what it feels like to be one of the 'other people'. It was to be a lovely outing to Cambridge for a friend?s birthday party. Nina Bawden and her husband Austen Kark boarded the 12:45 from Kings Cross and settled down with their books and papers. A few minutes later... more...
Fall from Grace
Destiny Image, Inc. 2011; US$ 15.99"GRACE fights the lump RISING in her throat. For a MOMENT she is LOST in thought, remembering WHAT IT HAS TAKEN to get TO THIS POINT..." Grace Cambridge is a young Black Christian with a new husband, old friends, and a shocking moral dilemma. A proverbial "cat fight" opens the story and draws you into a... more...
Romulus, My Father
The Text Publishing Company 1999; US$ 22.99Romulus Gaita fled his home in Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Their story is one of passion, betrayal and madness, about friendship and the joy and dignity of work, about character and fate, affliction and spirituality. more...
Civil Elegies
House of Anansi Press 2011; US$ 14.95Civil Elegies is Dennis Lee's uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called Civil Elegies one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country. It was the inner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1972. more...
The Plays of Harold Pinter
Tectum Verlag 2011; US$ 21.56Hauptbeschreibung The plays of Harold Pinter, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, have been widely discussed by critics and theatregoers for the last 50 years. While his early plays are regarded as classical pieces of the Theatre of the Absurd, which is said to be apolitical, his later works are recognized as manifestations of... more...









