Language: en
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
Crime Uncovered: Antihero is a fascinating and timely collection of essays that all examine the antihero in crime fiction, television and film. The antihero has enticed readers and audiences for generations: why is it that we root for characters such as Tom Ripley, Dexter Morgan and Walter White, despite our
Language: en
Pages: 626
Pages: 626
Recounts the novelist's early years as a teacher in London, and reveals how his sexual experiences, which included an intense relationship with an older married woman, affected his literary career
Language: en
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot is a novel set in Morocco in the 1940s and weaves a story around the well-known writers, Paul and Jane Bowles. Paul was a composer and author of The Sheltering Sky, and Jane was the author of Two Serious Ladies. This mesmerising novel
Language: en
Pages: 219
Pages: 219
To be fat hasn’t always occasioned the level of hysteria that this condition receives today and indeed was once considered an admirable trait. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture explores this arc, from veneration to shame, examining the historic roots of our contemporary anxiety about fatness.
Language: en
Pages: 178
Pages: 178
This book is about my wife Sandi’s dad Jack Waddell and his heritage. It includes Family History of Waddell, Anderson, Allen, Turkington, Taylor, Watling, Laws, Elliott, Collings, Wilthy, and Goddard families of England, Ireland, and Canada