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An Andrew Crozier Reader
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2012; US$ 29.99Reintroducing the poetry and prose of a remarkable poet, editor, and critic, this is a comprehensive selection of Andrew Crozier?s work. A definitive anthology, it offers insight into Crozier?s influences and praises him for championing writing excluded from the familiar canon, and for helping to create a space for new voices within English poetry.... more...
Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy
Bloodaxe Books 2012; US$ 16.04Staying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, and have helped poetry lovers to discover the little known riches of world poetry. Each anthology in the Staying Alive trilogy has 500 poems to touch the heart, stir the mind and fire the spirit. These books have been enormously popular... more...
Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00Fiction by writers of Muslim background forms one of the most diverse, vibrant and high-profile corpora of work being produced today - from the trail-blazing writing of Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi, which challenged political and racial orthodoxies in the 1980s, to that of a new generation including Mohsin Hamid, Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie.... more...
Collar to Cleavage
Troubador Publishing Ltd 2012; Not AvailableCollar to Cleavage is a compelling read, a book that invites the reader to share a series of interweaving ?life? journeys. more...
Diaries and Journals of Literary Women
Palgrave Macmillan 1990; US$ 48.00This highly original book investigates the part played by their personal writings in the lives of eight literary women. Can private journals provide information about their authors' public works? Do diaries dramatise the development of an individual literary `voice'? What was the special attraction of the diary form for women, and why has it been so... more...
Oranges and Lemons
Michael O' Mara Books 2012; US$ 9.99Presents a collection of the most well-known and best-loved nursery rhymes, along with some that may be less familiar. This book examines the history of rhymes, how they have evolved through the centuries, and the controversies surrounding their origins. It looks at classic favourites such as "Humpty Dumpty", "Ring O' Roses" and "Georgie Porgie". more...
Steven Berkoff
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 90.00Steven Berkoff has been variously described as controversial, thrilling, electric and dynamic. A Renaissance man of the theatre, he is known equally for his writing, directing and acting. Collecting together nineteen one-act plays, this volume presents never-before-published material. Abusive, shocking and endlessly surprising, these sharply written... more...
In Other Words (RLE Feminist Theory)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 115.00This is a book for all women writers, professional, amateur or aspiring, in which forty women talk about writing and the part it plays in their lives. Self-discovery, work, personal liberation, communication, hope for change ? all these motives inspire these short and direct personal statements. The contributors come from very different backgrounds:... more...
East is East
Nick Hern Books 2012; US$ 13.11The play that gave birth to the smash-hit film - a wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford. The six Khan children, entangled in arranged marriages and bell-bottoms, are trying to find their way growing up in 1970s Salford. They are all caught between their Pakistani father's insistence on Asian traditions, their English mother's... more...
Postcolonial Witnessing
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 80.00Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement. more...









