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Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition.<BR><BR>What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? <BR><BR>What constitutes a 'telling' detail? <BR><BR>When is a metaphor successful? <BR><BR>Is realism realistic? <BR><BR>Why do most endings of novels disappoint?<BR><BR>In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions. <BR><BR>Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Beatrix Potter, from the Bible to John Le Carré, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Playful and profound, it incisively sums up two decades of bold, often controversial, and now classic critical work, and will be enlightening to writers, readers, and anyone interested in what happens on the page.<BR><BR>'Should find a place on every novel-lover's shelf. It has the quality all useful works of criticism should have: refined taste, keen observation, and the ability to make the reader argue, passionately, with it' Financial Times

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR<BR><BR>“I want to take the fact that I’m here seriously, because it’s serious. That lesson is so much harder than I thought.” – from Necessary Fiction<BR><BR><BR>In Eloghosa Osunde’s powerful novel, Lagos, Nigeria is the dynamic backdrop to the ambitions and desires of a vast array of characters, each of whom refuse to be defined by others. There is Ziz, a hardcore hustler. Maro and his elusive father, Tega. May and her steady rotation of lovers. Nollywood power couple Ifechi and Tajudeen Adams. They and dozens more — of varying generations and sexualities — grapple with the stories they carry within themselves to survive. In Necessary Fiction, award-winning author Osunde has created a vividly queer world that is at once tumultuous and intense, intimate and tender, and above all deeply human.<BR>

'A vital work for our times'IRENOSEN OKOJIE'Radical, gorgeous ... a queer love song, honouring chosen family'BIG ISSUE'Beautiful ... this is prose worth spending time with'MARIE CLAIRE'A gorgeously deeply humane book' NICOLE DENNIS-BENN'A vivid, stirring revolution'YRSA DALEY-WARD'The ink practically hovers off the page'KAVEH AKBARWhat makes a family? How is it defined and by whom?Across Lagos, a rolling cast of unforgettable characters seek out love in all its forms, daring to push all other relationships - with partners, relatives and friends - to the brink in the process. Stubbornly alive and brazenly flawed, they work to establish themselves in the worlds of art, music, entertainment and creativity in the city, all while reckoning with desire, fear, death and God. To build a queer community, they must all grapple with the necessary fictions that they carry for survival.'Both deeply earnest and unique'VULTURE'Unabashedly queer, complicated and occasionally outright hopeful'NPR'Osunde is brilliant at character, giving the cast rich, knotty backstories that unfold in bursts of revelation'TLS'Necessary Fiction's Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive' MARLON JAMES, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings'Osunde's writing shines ... It's not just beautiful - it's transformative'BASSEY IKPI, author of I'm Telling the Truth But I'm Lying

Argues that our experience of becoming engrossed in the fictional world of a novel is connected to the fundamental condition of human being: our capacity for language in all its broadest shapes. <BR><BR>Unlocking the subtle riches of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and working across phenomenology, analytic philosophy, and literary criticism, The Experience of Fiction argues that our capacity for language is the bedrock of fiction and of our experience of its worlds. <BR><BR>By harnessing the general structure of fictional worlds that our minds navigate when we read, masterworks of fiction expose our capacity for language for what it is: a capacity to be otherwise and to exceed ourselves. Charting the worlds of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Thomas Jurkiewicz explores the pressures and opportunities that the impulse for coherence places on interpretive experience, arguing that it is finally left to each individual to commit themselves to the actual world.<BR><BR>The Experience of Fiction injects new verve into the burgeoning conversation between literary scholars and philosophers of art and language, bringing hermeneutic philosophy decisively to bear on literary studies. It clears a way between critics invested in critique and those looking for new modes of thinking, appreciating, and taking works of literary fiction seriously, by showcasing how an attitude of openness to experience lays bare both our capacity to reach out towards alterity and to dominate it.

Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom and Australia. Literary texts, so adept at revealing the experiences and emotions of individuals within communities, are also important vehicles for exploring the complex relationships between individuals and the wider social, economic and political forces that lead to urban transformations including gentrification. These complexities are best revealed, this book argues, by proceeding from a forensic examination of characters' domestic buildings and spaces.<BR>Examining novels from a broad range of writers, including Zadie Smith, Jonathan Lethem, Aravind Adiga, Michael Chabon and Irvine Welsh, this book makes a powerful case for the importance of literature in helping to understand the lived experience of gentrification.

From Blade Runner to The Hunger Games, this book explores costume and dress in science fiction cinema and their impact on fashion and popular culture far beyond the films themselves. <BR><BR>Therèsa Winge considers not only the films' stylistic choices but also their representations of technology and their socio-cultural, political, and philosophical ideologies in order to trace their significant influence on popular trends, culture, and consumption. Fashion Adventures in Science Fiction Cinema looks at sci-fi films such as Barbarella, Mad Max: Fury Road, Dune, and The Matrix in order to understand the intersections between this eclectic genre and society and culture at large. <BR><BR>By exploring the visual and material cultures of the films, Winge reveals the importance of characters' costumes and dress in establishing their identities, story arcs, and style. She examines selected science fiction films' aesthetics that impact popular culture beyond the films, influencing designers such as Hussein Chalayan, Alexander McQueen, and Paco Rabanne to create fashion collections, promotional campaigns, virtual environments, and more. Winge's expertise in fandom and fan culture extends the reach of her analysis to reveal the enormous collective power of the consumer of science fiction, demonstrating the role of sci-fi in popular culture and fashion. <BR><BR>Giving an incisive account of the complex relationship between dress in science fiction and broader culture and society, Fashion Adventures in Science Fiction Cinema is essential reading to all those interested in cinema, popular culture, fashion, and identity.

From Blade Runner to The Hunger Games, this book explores costume and dress in science fiction cinema and their impact on fashion and popular culture far beyond the films themselves. Therèsa Winge considers not only the films' stylistic choices but also their representations of technology and their socio-cultural, political, and philosophical ideologies in order to trace their significant influence on popular trends, culture, and consumption. Fashion Adventures in Science Fiction Cinema looks at sci-fi films such as Barbarella, Mad Max: Fury Road, Dune, and The Matrix in order to understand the intersections between this eclectic genre and society and culture at large. <BR><BR>By exploring the visual and material cultures of the films, Winge reveals the importance of characters' costumes and dress in establishing their identities, story arcs, and style. She examines selected science fiction films' aesthetics that impact popular culture beyond the films, influencing designers such as Hussein Chalayan, Alexander McQueen, and Paco Rabanne to create fashion collections, promotional campaigns, virtual environments, and more. Winge's expertise in fandom and fan culture extends the reach of her analysis to reveal the enormous collective power of the consumer of science fiction, demonstrating the role of sci-fi in popular culture and fashion. <BR><BR>Giving an incisive account of the complex relationship between dress in science fiction and broader culture and society, Fashion Adventures in Science Fiction Cinema is essential reading to all those interested in cinema, popular culture, fashion, and identity.

In this book, Jennifer Kelso Farrell investigates the way in which L. Ron Hubbard used his background in science fiction to create a language for his religion that served to gatekeep outsiders out and insulate insiders.<BR> Examining the works of science fiction authors such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, and Samuel Delany, Farrell explores the relationship between language and reality and the role language can play in reprogramming individuals. The author also draws upon high profile biographies from former members such as Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology and My Billion Year Contract to display how indoctrination into such language often causes a language barrier between those within Scientology and those outside of it, thus further isolating members and perpetuating Scientologese within their inner circle. Bridging the gap between fiction and reality, Farrell illustrates how this language came to be, and how it continues to persist today.

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett - this book is the first substantial study of the interrelations between microscopy and modernist fiction.<BR><BR>Illustrating ways in which optical instruments had the capacity to change, displace and reframe ideas of what the world is like, this book argues that encounters with the microscopic are often depicted as thresholds between the human and the non-human, in ways that reverberate through modernist fiction.<BR><BR>Exploring a period of significant developments in microscopical tools and techniques, from the light microscope to the electron microscope, this book traces a shift that reconfigured the limits of the observable.

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China.<BR><BR>Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary approaches the book casts new light on texts by writers from the Cultural Revolution generation, including Ken Liu, Yiyun Li and Geling Yan among others. Meng Xia demonstrates how these writers construct collective identity in the contexts of transnational experiences of migration and historical trauma. The book delves into the possibilities and problems of transposing memory across borders and engages with debates over the unspeakability and politicization of trauma across public and private lines.

In this comprehensive study, Stephen Knight documents the writing career of Ernest Jones, one of the primary figures within the Chartist movement.<BR><BR>While much has been said about Ernest Jones as a political leader and activist, little attention has been paid to his fiction. This study delves deep into this body of work, analyzing the novellas, short stories, and novels penned by Jones throughout his career. Knight expands upon this fiction in detail, exploring and contextualizing the social and political themes that develop through each narrative. The chapters further examine the recurrent use of Jones's characteristic analytic comments on the politics of his world. Those interested in 19th century British history and literature will not only learn about Jones's fictional contributions to the Chartist movement, but also will glean new insights into tthe radical and political fiction of the period.

Analysing an expanding body of theatre and performance works, Science Fiction and Contemporary British Theatre examines how the themes and images of science fiction are enabling practitioners to intervene on the most urgent social and political issues of the present moment.<BR><BR>By exploring the genre's impact on the live theatrical event, the book presents an original and topical interrogation of issues that remain at the heart of the national and global political agenda, including military conflict, social injustice, economic inequality, migration, nationhood, anti-democratic populism, and climate collapse.<BR><BR>The author draws upon a wide range of dramatic forms, from critically acclaimed plays by writers such as Alistair McDowall, Caryl Churchill, Dawn King, Anne Washburn and Ella Road, to devised work, site-specific performance, Shakespearean drama and physical theatre. <BR><BR>The book's chapters are based on some of the genre's most resonant images, including post-apocalyptic wildernesses, dystopian regimes and artificial lifeforms. Furthermore, by placing examples in dialogue with a range of theories and scholars, this book constructs an innovative interdisciplinary framework comprised of theatre studies, sociology, philosophy, economic and political science.<BR><BR>Providing an engagingly written, intellectually rich and uniquely compelling analysis, Science Fiction and Contemporary British Theatre charts a new and growing landscape of scholarly research, and establishes science fiction as an exciting, expanding and urgent dramatic and political practice.

Canine Death in Canonical American Fiction investigates the presence of dogs in literature <BR>through an analysis of classic and popular novels. The author interrogates the validity <BR>of the "man's best friend" trope by using fiction as a telling source of cultural attitudes <BR>towards animals and questions why dog death is so pervasive in literature. From sentimental <BR>tearjerkers like Fred Gipson's Old Yeller to canonical classics like Toni Morrison's The Bluest <BR>Eye and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, this book examines the wealth of human-dog <BR>relations that the literary archive does not currently address and complicates prevalent <BR>assumptions of this relationship as inherently altruistic and symbiotic. Amelia Labenski <BR>argues that dogs carry a heavy symbolic weight in and outside of literature, where they <BR>often function as moral alibis or romantic stand-ins for our other, more explicitly harmful, <BR>relationships with animals. These arguments bring to bear a useful discussion about the <BR>role fiction can play in how we re-envision our relationships with animals of all kinds and the <BR>environment which we all share.

In this study, Keli Masten advocates for a new approach to the study of popular fiction in the United States, positioning the detective story as an offshoot of the American Gothic and grounding its conflict in the social anxieties surrounding race, class, and gender in the US.<BR><BR>With deep roots in regional American Gothic literary traditions, detective fiction serves as a source of both macabre entertainment and a cultural critique of corruption and the abuse of power in the United States. Weaving together familiar elements like hostile environments, extreme jeopardy, and intuitive investigators, Masten contests that the way authors draw from multiple genres in American Gothic detective mysteries allows them to examine how the struggles between civility and savagery, authenticity and pretense, and order and chaos have evolved in response to regional American social values and concerns.<BR><BR>Across five chapters, Dark Logic features an influential representative author--Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Katharine Green, Mark Twain, and Dashiell Hammett--and offers unique regional perspectives on transgressive crimes and their disentanglement. Readers will not only gain a deeper understanding of gothic detective fiction, but of how these stories serve as a dialogue between the society which created them and the society which consumes them, targeting the values and anxieties of American culture and preventing its people from achieving the tranquility they struggle to impose.

This wide-ranging and timely collection of essays is ideal for readers who want to incorporate speculative fiction into their teaching and research across disciplines.<BR><BR>The terms speculation and speculative fictioning are increasingly used in education and interdisciplinary research methods to describe approaches grounded in asking "what if" questions that can unsettle the assumed certainties of the past, present, and future.<BR><BR>An Introduction by editor Sarah E. Truman and a Foreword by Steven Shaviro describe what speculative fiction is and examine its critical implications, offering a theoretical framework for understanding its applications to research and pedagogy. The chapters that follow explore these modes of thinking in practice by drawing on speculative fictions to examine disciplinary concerns related to climate justice, disability justice, racial justice, prison abolition, genetics, AI, the future of work, educational technologies, and gender. Through reflective narratives and critical analyses, twenty-five international contributors engage literary works by authors such as Octavia Butler, Jorge Luis Borges, Ted Chiang, and N. K. Jemisin, alongside films and television series including Gattaca, The Matrix, Severance, and Star Trek, connecting these texts to their own research and thinking. Each chapter also includes discussion and writing prompts for use in classrooms and research seminars.

This wide-ranging and timely open access collection of essays is ideal for readers who want to incorporate speculative fiction into their teaching and research across disciplines.<BR><BR>The terms speculation and speculative fictioning are increasingly used in education and interdisciplinary research methods to describe approaches grounded in asking "what if" questions that can unsettle the assumed certainties of the past, present, and future.<BR><BR>An Introduction by editor Sarah E. Truman and a Foreword by Steven Shaviro describe what speculative fiction is and examine its critical implications, offering a theoretical framework for understanding its applications to research and pedagogy. The chapters that follow explore these modes of thinking in practice by drawing on speculative fictions to examine disciplinary concerns related to climate justice, disability justice, racial justice, prison abolition, genetics, AI, the future of work, educational technologies, and gender. Through reflective narratives and critical analyses, twenty-five international contributors engage literary works by authors such as Octavia Butler, Jorge Luis Borges, Ted Chiang, and N. K. Jemisin, alongside films and television series including Gattaca, The Matrix, Severance, and Star Trek, connecting these texts to their own research and thinking. Each chapter also includes discussion and writing prompts for use in classrooms and research seminars.<BR><BR>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Melbourne.

Focusing on the long-running series Doctor Who and Star Trek, Fantastic Acting examines the non-naturalistic techniques and approaches employed by actors to realize non-human, alien, or monstrous characters on the small screen. <BR><BR>The book draws upon a combination of detailed textual analysis, archive material, and original interviews with actors and directors to unpack the processes required to portray a variety of science fiction archetypes, from the non-human humanoid (humanoid aliens, androids, "possessed"/duplicate humans), through the demonstrably alien or monstrous (other-worldly characters for which prosthetics or visual effects are incorporated as part of the performance) to the robotic or mechanical (for which voice acting plays a more significant role, often in combination with props or CGI). Examining the relationship between this long-established genre and its associated acting styles, Fantastic Acting fills a major gap in the emerging field of television performance studies, shining a much-needed light on a key, yet little-considered aspect of the screen actor's craft.<BR><BR>Utilising long-running television series from both the UK and the US - both of which have now arguably become global phenomena - avoids placing the focus on one particular national performance style. The result is the serious examination of what an actor does with their body, face, and voice to accomplish the fantastic. Ultimately, this study unpacks the relationship between genre and performance in two of television's longest-running and most popular science fiction franchises.

Former lovers turned rival tour guides must join forces to overcome scandal—in this steamy second-chance romance from the author of Secret Nights and Northern Lights.<BR><BR>Sadie Stockton has the almost-perfect job leading tours through the former home of her favorite author, the enigmatic recluse Hazel Wilmont. But when the owners of the Wilmont House announce plans to increase the estate’s revenue by hosting an overnight murder mystery set in a cocktail lounge, Sadie is less than thrilled. Yet again, Hazel’s legacy is being tarnished by the fictitious, decades-old rumors she poisoned her husband(s).<BR><BR>Worse? The new tour will mean working with none other than Ryan Pearson—local mixologist, owner of Pearson’s Pub Crawls, and Sadie’s long-standing professional rival and personal regret. She can’t stand him. Or his smug grin. Or his boastful T-shirt declaring his pub crawl the city’s number-one rated tour. And no, she doesn’t still think about their short-lived, meaningless college fling. Ever.<BR><BR>With a potential promotion on the line, Sadie must play nice with Ryan in order to make the “Mixtures & Murder” tour a success. But over late nights and cocktail tastings, all clues indicate a reigniting attraction between the two. And as new discoveries at the mansion unfold, Sadie is forced to confront her own narratives about Ryan, about Hazel, and about the past she’s tried for years to bury.

Establishing mid-20th-century queer fiction as both text and book object made up of crucial para-textual elements, this book explores the effect of post-Second World War politics and society on queer novels of the time and the circumstances surrounding their production, marketing and distribution.<BR><BR>In a largely intolerant climate, post-Second World War British publishers issued hundreds of works of fiction featuring queer characters or plotlines; but, against a backdrop of notions of discretion and laws prohibiting homosexuality, both the books and the texts were 'toned down'. Exploring how these products were sites of containment and resistance, and representations of disrupted social, political, and economic conditions of the time, The Publishing Closet calls for us to re-examine and re-define our understandings off mid-century queer fiction and literary culture. With close readings, case studies and analysis of elements such as dust jackets alongside new evidence from the archives of publishing businesses, authors, literary agents, and editors, Christopher Adams covers works by Denton Welch, Francis King, Mary Renault, Martyn Goff and Gore Vidal and events including the accusations of censorship against the retailer W. H. Smith and the obscenity trial of Radcylffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. Casting fresh light on queer literary history by mapping the confines of the 'publishing closet', this book demonstrates that in viewing queer fiction as book objects we might more fully understand them as products of constricting and competing social, legal, and economic forces that cohered around mid-century conceptions of the queer.

Looking into the implications of the changes made to Enid Blyton's children's stories to omit problematic passages surrounding race and imperialism, this book examines her fiction in its original and revised forms to assess the evolution of her work against evolving political, imperial, and cultural developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. With detailed explorations of Blyton's highly successful magazine Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories, the Adventure and The Secret Seven series among her other popular works, Siobhan Morrissey contextualises Blyton's fiction within multiple literary and historical contexts, including 20th-century magazines, the Second World War, imperial adventure fiction, the decline of the British Empire and contemporary conceptions of race and whiteness in children's literature. Calling upon critical race theory, white and postcolonial studies, the book models how these ideas can be applied to literature studies and analyses the imperial, racial hierarchies of Blyton's texts and how these can be remedied. Then, taking a broader survey of how contemporary children's publishers are amending authors' works from Roald Dahl to P. L. Travers to Hugh Lofting and to what effect, the book makes a case for an intervention in current editing practices and a reappraisal of how work should be censored and rebranded.

Analyzing the horror genre across literature, film, and television, Rebecca Gibson unveils the hidden horrific undercurrents of the mundane.<BR><BR>Gibson argues that while many people are excited to cohabitate, marry, have children, or grow older together, others do so because that is what they are expected to do-and often they do so not with excitement, but with a sense of dread. Normative Lifecycle Milestones Examined Through Horror Fiction examines the progression of a human life, and the expectations of the milestones we are meant to meet, through the lens of horror fiction. Across nine chapters, this book examines fundamental phases of life (birth and childhood, adolescence/independence, courtship, cohabitation, marriage, parenthood, old age, and death), and the often dreadful aspects and outcomes of what is purported to be periods of joy and ambition. Incorporating various theories from the fields of anthropology, philosophy, sociology, and gender studies, this book not only serves as an analysis of contemporary horror, but as a guide to examining human behavior and emotions about our daily lives.

An exploration of how the corset is employed to construct character and narrative in mid-Victorian sensation fiction and contemporary Neo-Victorian literature, this book re-contextualizes the Victorian corset within its own cultural narratives and treats these as a primary context for Neo-Victorian fiction. Re-centring Victorian responses to the corset that both vilified the garment and defended its virtues in periodicals and conduct manuals, Emma Butler-Way digs into the co-textual relationship between Victorian corset narratives and mid-Victorian sensation fiction as well as the reliance of Neo-Victorian writers upon a mixture of Victorian and modern social and sartorial sensibilities. Split into two parts, the first half examines the Victorian corset in situ whilst the latter considers how modern writers engage with both current stereotypes and Victorian contexts to reconstruct and reinterpret the corset and its meaning for modern readers.<BR><BR> Employing twin lenses that engage with fashion and the body, Butler-Way takes readers on a chronological journey from 'first generation' sensation writer Wilkie Collins, through the more risqué 'second generation' writer Rhoda Broughton to 21st-century approaches to the Victorian corset offered by Sarah Waters, Laura Purcell, Kady Cross, and Nancy Springer. Tracing the natural and strange progression of the discussions surrounding the corset across 3 centuries, the book covers works such as The Woman in White, No Name, Not Wisely, but Tool Well, Fingersmith, The Corset, The Girl in the Steel Corset, and the Enola Holmes series. Engaging with context and co-text and borrowing from the methodologies of historicism and new historicism, this book determines the use of the corset as a symbol and textual apparatus across Victorian and Neo-Victorian writing.

In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between humanity, environment and technology. In this book, cultural historian Gerry Smyth focuses on English genre fiction of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, exploring the ways in which popular novelists of the period engaged with debates relating to environment (England), culture (English language and literature) and identity (Englishness). In sixteen case studies, the author covers examples of fantasy, science fiction, murder mystery and children's stories in order to trace the prehistory of modern environmentalism, especially as experienced in a key 50-year period running up to the start of the Second World War.<BR><BR>Environment and Genre Fiction, 1890-1940 offers new approaches to a variety of well-loved English novels, seeking and describing an unlikely but important alternative genealogy for both modern English literature and modern ecocriticism. Case studies include The Island of Dr Moreau, Heart of Darkness, The Wind in the Willows, Cold Comfort Farm, Brave New World and The Hobbit. In these and other popular novels Smyth examines themes such as evolution, industrialisation, the growth of technology, Britain's fading imperial status, assaults on traditional discourses of class, gender and sexuality, animal rights, artificial intelligence and war. The central focus is on the ways in which popular genre authors responded to a variety of changes that were overtaking the idea of England itself during this period. Accessible and innovative, this book reconfigures modern English literary history from an environmental perspective, insisting that questions of environment were always already embedded in the field of modern cultural debate.

A new, post-#MeToo critical approach to reading and recuperating the gendered representations of women in a selection of Roth's novels.<BR><BR>Women, Sexuality, and Empowerment in Philip Roth's Fiction intervenes in the current critical conversation about Philip Roth and his depictions of women. Some critics have determined that Roth portrays women in a misogynistic manner. However, these same critics have ignored women who are sexually empowered or rebellious in a few of his most recognizable novels. With this study, Hirth argues that despite Roth's evident male gaze towards the women he creates for the page, these women reorient the sexualized power dynamic in the relationships in which they participate and thereby problematize the assumption that Roth is a sexist author.<BR><BR>Each chapter details some of Roth's most dynamic female characters from his most recognizable novels at different periods of his literary career, including Goodbye Columbus, The Dying Animal, Sabbath's Theater, and Indignation, and demonstrates how Roth crafts complex women. This analysis illuminates how Roth's women operate against the social constraints that limit their power and potential. In short, the in-depth analysis of a few of Roth's characters disproves the overly generalized claims that Roth cannot write women and advocates for a reading that illustrates how he not only creates empowered women but can also inspire them.

Mona Ashour offers an interdisciplinary exploration of how climate change and gender-based violence intersect in contemporary literature. <BR><BR>Bridging together literary studies, environmental humanities, and gender studies, this book examines how climate fiction not only reflects ecological and social anxieties but critiques power, privilege, and systemic violence. Ashour draws upon narratives from both the Global North and Global South, including Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake," Arundhati Roy's "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower," and Nnedi Okorafor's "Who Fears Death" to trace how women's bodies and lives become contested sites of vulnerability and resilience in times of environmental crisis. Through the framework of ecofeminism, posthumanism, and critical fabulation, it demonstrates how cli-fi narratives reimagine survival, reverse traditional othering, and highlight women's agency in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic settings. Ultimately, The Politics of Violence Against Women in Climate Fiction positions climate fiction as a critical cultural force that not only registers the layered violence of climate collapse but also envisions alternative futures rooted in equity, care, and feminist resistance.

This book is a career-long retrospective of the Irish writer Ian McDonald and his complex, compelling representation of our contemporary global condition. <BR><BR>Ian McDonald is a celebrated writer within the science-fiction community whose rich and urgent body of works, span over a quarter of a century. The author claims McDonald's work functions as vital, troubling allegories, which both refuse the Orientalist euphemizing of colonial atrocities, while still at the same time envisioning a transformative global alterity, seeking an ethical and political embrace of systematically silenced subaltern voices in the neoliberal world-system. The book follows McDonald as the globe-trotting writer travels from Ireland to Kenya, to India, to Brazil, to Turkey, to a proliferating multiverse and beyond. Along the way, the author analyzes McDonald's science fiction as a salient contribution to the flourishing cosmopolitan literature of postcolonial developing nations at the crossroads of the global imaginary.

Adrian Tait argues that late-Victorian stories represent an important but still neglected part of a green literary tradition, setting up a dialogue with modernity that is no less relevant today.<BR><BR>Late-Victorian literature is full of fascinating examples of what was then called the "scientific romance," an emerging form of science or speculative fiction whose concern with the liveliness - or "agentiality" - of the nonhuman animal and more-than-human, natural world today makes it particularly noteworthy. In a succession of short stories and novels, many now forgotten, writers such as Grant Allen, John Davidson, George Griffith, and Henry Marriott Watson dramatized the possibility that "Nature" had not been "conquered" by industrial modernity, but might instead be reacting to it with an unexpected dynamism. Long before environmental issues such as climate change came to the public's attention, they asked whether humankind might one day inadvertently create existential threats to its own survival. In so doing, these pioneers of sf depicted their world in terms that anticipate the recent new materialist focus on a mutable and dynamic reality, responsive and perhaps resistant to human endeavor.

THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017<BR><BR>SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER<BR><BR>When he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, international lawyer Philippe Sands begins a journey on the trail of his family's secret history. In doing so, he uncovers an astonishing series of coincidences that lead him halfway across the world, to the origins of international law at the Nuremberg trial. Interweaving the stories of the two Nuremberg prosecutors (Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin) who invented the crimes or genocide and crimes against humanity, the Nazi governor responsible for the murder of thousands in and around Lviv (Hans Frank), and incredible acts of wartime bravery, EAST WEST STREET is an unforgettable blend of memoir and historical detective story, and a powerful meditation on the way memory, crime and guilt leave scars across generations.<BR><BR>* * * * * <BR><BR>'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision' John le Carré<BR><BR>'One of the most gripping and powerful books imaginable' SUNDAY TIMES<BR><BR>Winner:<BR>Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction<BR>JQ-Wingate Literary Prize<BR>Hay Festival Medal for Prose

Shortlisted for the 2025 Wolfson History Prize<BR>Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-fiction<BR>A Times Best History Book of the Year 2024<BR><BR>'Every page glittering with insight... [a] wonderful book' Dominic Sandbrook<BR>'Brilliantly written... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland<BR>'Takes us beyond the familiar into a real, visceral, far more satisfying Viking world.' Dan Snow<BR><BR>'A fascinating tour ... Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of history' The New York Times<BR><BR>It's time to meet the real Vikings. A comb, preserved in a bog, engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system. A pagan shrine deep beneath a lava field. A note from an angry wife to a husband too long at the tavern. Doodles on birch-bark, made by an imaginative child.<BR><BR>From these tiny embers, Eleanor Barraclough blows back to life the vast, rich and complex world of the Vikings. These are not just the stories of kings, raiders and saga heroes. Here are the lives of ordinary people: the merchants, children, artisans, enslaved people, seers, travellers and storytellers who shaped the medieval Nordic world.<BR><BR>Immerse yourself in the day-to-day lives of an extraordinary culture that spanned centuries and spread from its Scandinavian heartlands to the remote fjords of Greenland, the Arctic wastelands, the waterways and steppes of Eurasia, all the way to the Byzantine Empire and Islamic Caliphate.

A collection of literary essays investigating how diverse aspects of metamodernism manifest in 21st-century English-language fiction.<BR>The authors whose essays are collected in the volume analyze how various theories of metamodernism apply to contemporary fiction and thereby encourage readers to critically engage with this cultural phenomenon.<BR>The collection opens with a discussion of the original construal of metamodernism proposed by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker and its subsequent development by other theorists, and closes with two polemical essays asking questions about the name and status of the new cultural movement as well as its relation to postmodernism - its direct predecessor. <BR>Literary Manifestations of Metamodernism allows for a new appreciation of various aspects of contemporary fiction - such as its thematics (e.g. ethical concern with social justice and care, ecology, the real, the sense of engagement) and its form (e.g. metafiction, complex narrative structure, autofiction, hopeful tone)-while reinforcing metamodernism as a promising phenomenon that takes advantage of postmodern heritage yet surpasses it to explore the responsibility humans bear for socially-constructed reality.

A new title from Dr Naomi Fisher, author of the bestselling books Changing Our Minds, When the Naughty Step Makes Things Worse and The Teenager's Guide to Burnout.

This book examines 25 well-known and well-studied options for combating anxiety. These include first-line treatments such as benzodiazepines, SSRIs, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), as well as complementary modalities such as animal therapy, exercise, and dietary supplements. Utilizing a standardized structure, each entry discusses a particular treatment's origins and underlying principles, how and in what contexts it's used, and potential side effects and risks. Summaries of key research studies are included to help readers better understand the scientific community's findings. An introductory essay offers a broad overview of anxiety disorders and explains how these conditions are different from the day-to-day worries all individuals experience. The introduction also highlights different assessment tools clinicians use to gauge the presence and severity of various anxiety disorders. A further readings section at the end of each entry points readers toward additional resources to expand and deepen their knowledge.

From bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing.Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake revision? The good and bad news is that in fiction writing, there are no definitive answers to such questions: writers must come up with their own. Elizabeth McCracken, author of bestselling novels, National Book Award long-listed story collections, and a highly praised memoir, has been teaching for more than thirty-five years, guiding her many students through their own answers.In A Long Game, she shares insights gleaned along the way, offering practical tips and incisive thoughts about her own work as an artist. The book covers:

• - Understanding and developing characters- Plot, and what to do if it eludes you- Her thoughts on common writing “rules”- And of course, the Butter Cow Lady of the Iowa State Fair and her work as it relates to revision

Writing “is a long game,” she notes. “What matters is that you learn to get work done in the way that is possible for you, through consistency or panic. Through self-recrimination or self-delusion or self-forgiveness: every life needs all three.”
As much a book about the life of a working artist as it is a guide to thinking about fiction, A Long Game is a revelatory and indispensable resource for any writer.

The Times decided in 1891 that 'Germany does not excite in any class among us the slightest feeling of distrust or antipathy' - the zenith of a century in which Britons admired German culture and our monarchy was closely involved with Germany royalty. Yet twenty-five years later began the era of world wars in which Britain and Germany were twice pitted against each other. After 1945, it seemed that Britain would learn to co-exist on happier terms with newly democratic Germany, yet persistent memories of 1940 have slowed that process, hesitations reinforced by the showing of war films on television, chants on the terraces, and populist tabloid gibes.<BR><BR>John Ramsden's groundbreaking book looks at every aspect of Anglo-German relations for the last 100 years: from the wars themselves to how they have been seen by the tabloids as re-enacted in subsequent football matches. And he askes 'What is the British problem with Germany?' As Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin once said 'I tries 'ard, but I 'ates 'em'.

This book presents the first major collection on the intersection of videogames and detective fiction, bringing insights on a variety of topics from a range of leading scholars in this exciting, emerging field.<BR><BR>Although known primarily as a literary genre, detective fiction thrives in contemporary forms of media, such as videogames, where designers experiment with a variety of mechanics and formats. While detective fiction has a rich history in literature, much less has been written about detective fiction in videogames and this is one of the primary objectives of this book.<BR><BR>Each chapter places detective fiction into dialogue with videogames, covering a variety of topics from remediation and adaptation, participatory culture and transmedia storytelling, transcultural exchange-especially between the Anglo-American and Japanese games industries-and the well observed tension between gameplay and story, known as the ludology/narratology debate. <BR><BR>The book takes an experimental and interdisciplinary approach, and by borrowing insights from each field, this fusion sheds new light on the fields of narratology and game design more broadly. As the dominant popular culture of our age, videogames are also uniquely positioned to explore the reasons behind the renaissance of detective fiction in contemporary culture, placing the genre into the wider socio-political landscape.

An interdisciplinary team of humanities scholars examine how identities are narrated, constructed, and aesthetically represented in Chinese art and culture around the world.<BR><BR> Featuring contributions from cultural studies, film and literature, history, and media arts, this collection is organized around three interrelated themes: Narrating Chinese Diaspora, Posthumanism in Chinese Science Fiction, and Collective Chinese Cinephilia. Each section connects contemporary Chinese culture with recent work in gender studies, literary theory, and visual culture.<BR><BR> The first section explores representations of identity, cultural hybridity, and transnational belonging. The second critically engages with emerging narratives in popular Chinese sci-fi, challenging conventional notions of subjectivity, boundaries, and relationality. The final section investigates how spectatorship and filmmaking practices contribute to community-building and shared cultural memory. Chapters offer timely insights through case studies on museum exhibitions, science fiction literature, and cinema.<BR><BR>This unique interdisciplinary approach to identity narration captures the dynamics of changing cultural worlds. It uses analysis of new aesthetic forms to shed light on the ongoing dialectics of identity formation and presents an original framework for understanding Chinese diaspora in the 21st-century.

Examining the works of prominent New Wave science fiction authors from the 1950-1960s, Sang-Keun Yoo highlights the underexplored connection between American science fiction and Asian religions, such as Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism.The book considers how the major world wars of the 20th century-Second World War, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War- repositioned Asian culture in relation to the science fiction genre in the period.<BR><BR> Underpinning this study, Sang-Keun Yoo argues that "Speculative Orientalism" emerged in American science fiction during the 1950s and 60s. This concept adopted various aspects of Asian religions to envision alternative worlds, unburdened by the constraints of colonialism, totalitarianism, racism, and sexism present in contemporary American society.<BR><BR> Bringing fresh perspectives to the works of William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin and Samuel R. Delany, this book offers an insightful examination of the role of Asian religions in American science fiction and their impact on the genre's history.

*THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN, Matt Haig's new novel from the world of The Midnight Library, is out now*<BR><BR>THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON <BR>READERS' MOST LOVED BOOK OF 2021<BR>WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION<BR><BR>'BEAUTIFUL' Jodi Picoult, 'UPLIFTING' i, 'BRILLIANT' Daily Mail, 'AMAZING' Joanna Cannon, 'ABSORBING' New York Times, 'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Independent<BR><BR>Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite choices, what is the best way to live?<BR><BR>*** This book has been printed with two different colour cover designs, in deep blue and silver foil, available for limited time only. Colours will be assigned at random when your order is dispatched, and cannot be altered. ***

Bringing together J. M. Coetzee's sustained interests in language, animals, music, and dance, this book explores the role of non-verbal communication in the Jesus novels, arguing for its central role in shaping a distinct vision of his late style.<BR><BR>The Jesus novels are read as a metalinguistic experiment in which the loss of the mother tongue exposes the fragility of language. Drawing on Daniel Heller-Roazen's concept of echolalia, fractured speech emerges as the residue of a once stable, referential language, allowing alternative, embodied forms of connection to emerge. Such forms become prominent in encounters between humans and animals that bypass shared language yet still create the impression of dialogue. Music extends the exploration, producing affect and knowledge beyond verbal expression. Coetzee's transposition of J. S. Bach reveals the composer as a musical presence and an aesthetic and ethical principle. The novels also reimagine the body as a site of creativity, a vision shaped by Central European Modernism, from Rudolf Steiner's spiritual pedagogy and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze's eurhythmics to Robert Walser's Jakob von Gunten.<BR><BR>The book concludes that the novels mark a late style experiment where fiction becomes less a vehicle for representation than a space of experimentation. By aestheticizing linguistic failure and turning to non-verbal modes of communication - hallmarks of Coetzee's late style - he produces a fiction in which words seem to take flight from the page, leaving behind resonances that gesture toward new beginnings beyond ordinary language.

A fascinating examination of the real-world possibilities behind famous YA dystopian fiction, and what teens can do to stop them from actually happening.<BR><BR>Could the countries of North America collapse in the wake of a series of environmental disasters, as they did in the world of The Hunger Games? It might happen if we don't correct course and reduce carbon emissions. Will we fall prey to a fungal infection like in The Last of Us? Maybe-but we could also take steps to minimize the chances of a not-so-friendly fungi takeover. <BR><BR>In A Dozen Dystopias and How to Dodge Them, A.J. Van Belle dives into twelve dystopian fiction scenarios that have gripped our collective interest, the real science of how those not-so-desirable futures could come about, and what we can do to prevent them from happening. Each chapter features relevant current events and lively explorations of related environmental science and cutting-edge technology. <BR><BR> With discussions of some of YA literature's most beloved dystopian novels and thoughtful interviews with well-known authors, including Lois Lowry and Scott Westerfeld, A Dozen Dystopias and How to Dodge Them is as gripping as our favorite futuristic fiction, with an added dose of grounded, science-informed hope.

This collection showcases the speculative writing of Scottish-born and California-based writer Robert Duncan Milne (1844-99) whose works mark him as one of the forgotten pioneers of early science fiction. Hailed as the first full-time science fiction writer in America, this critical edition draws together the most expansive collection of his writing ever published and places his life, works and themes into their historical, literary and scientific contexts. With his writing touching on nearly every subset of the genre, including climate catastrophe, utopia, cryogenics, molecular re-engineering of the body, personality transfer, drone warfare, remote surveillance, and satellite phones, this book offers an overdue correction to the science fiction canon. Grouped thematically and with volume and story introductions that connect Milne's work to his peers and science fiction scholarship, this is the essential guide to a crucially overlooked writer. Astonishingly prescient and fulfilling the missing link in science fiction literary history that bridges the gap between the likes of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, Milne makes clear the often-obscured contribution of both Scotland and California in the development of the science fiction genre.

This open access book argues for a closer look at applications of ecofeminism in current popular genre fiction. As discussions of the development of climate change and new understandings of the term "Anthropocene" are being circulated in the public now more than any other time, creators have been using their fictional spaces to perform thought experiments of moral, scientific, and social approaches to addressing our future. While engaging with aspects of environmentalism in fiction is not new, the conversations are increasing across media spaces. This project approaches these works by centering intersections of gender and the environment. This book seeks to generate new conversations of ways popular media inspires conversations, ideas, and approaches to living and surviving within the Anthropocene.<BR><BR>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a standard CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective

Exploring current debates in creative writing about the borders between fiction and creative nonfiction, this collection of essays draws on concepts of the uncanny and hauntology to challenge, subvert and transgress the boundary between forms. Hauntology, as originally defined by Derrida, challenges the certainties of ontology, in a similar way to debates about truth in creative nonfiction; by bringing together authors that undermine the fiction/nonfiction binary, Haunted Writing considers the ways in which real events and experiences haunt writers as they craft their work. Offering insight into how the past - both personal and historical - is experienced and understood in the present, this book includes writing from a diverse group of established and emerging authors who situate their work on genre boundaries and discuss their own creative practice to show how their writing 'haunts' real events.<BR><BR>With essays covering a range of ideas from subjectivity, intersectionality and challenging dominant versions of history, to braiding personal and researched stories, playfulness, experimentation and creating stories from archival documents, this beautifully written collection intervenes in contemporary discussions in creative writing and culture surrounding ownership, appropriation and ethics. Bringing a fresh voice and new perspectives to ever-present questions within creative writing, Haunted Writing uncovers how the past is a spectre that disrupts contemporary writing.

Exploring current debates in creative writing about the borders between fiction and creative nonfiction, this collection of essays draws on concepts of the uncanny and hauntology to challenge, subvert and transgress the boundary between forms. Hauntology, as originally defined by Derrida, challenges the certainties of ontology, in a similar way to debates about truth in creative nonfiction; by bringing together authors that undermine the fiction/nonfiction binary, Haunted Writing considers the ways in which real events and experiences haunt writers as they craft their work. Offering insight into how the past - both personal and historical - is experienced and understood in the present, this book includes writing from a diverse group of established and emerging authors who situate their work on genre boundaries and discuss their own creative practice to show how their writing 'haunts' real events.<BR><BR>With essays covering a range of ideas from subjectivity, intersectionality and challenging dominant versions of history, to braiding personal and researched stories, playfulness, experimentation and creating stories from archival documents, this beautifully written collection intervenes in contemporary discussions in creative writing and culture surrounding ownership, appropriation and ethics. Bringing a fresh voice and new perspectives to ever-present questions within creative writing, Haunted Writing uncovers how the past is a spectre that disrupts contemporary writing.

* LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 *<BR>* A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 *<BR><BR>Sara is at the airport, travelling home from a work conference. Out of nowhere she's pulled aside by agents from the Risk Assessment Administration. Their algorithm has determined that she's an immediate threat to her husband, and must be kept under observation at a retention centre for twenty-one days.<BR><BR>The evidence? Data collected from her dreams.<BR><BR>When she arrives at the centre, she discovers that each deviation from their strict and ever-changing rules - loitering in the hallway, a 'non-compliant hairstyle' - results in her stay being extended. Desperate to return to her family, Sara must make a choice. Does she play by their rules, or risk taking matters into her own hands?

This open access book undertakes a close reading of four contemporary novels which employ the themes of artificial intelligence and mind uploading in order to explore alternative and more constructive ways to situate ourselves in the world.<BR><BR>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a standard CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Step into the dark heart of small-town Australia in this gripping follow-up to the award-winning The Unbelieved – perfect for fans of Chris Hammer’s Scrublands and Jane Harper’s The Dry. <BR><BR> After a calm start to the summer holiday season, the small coastal town of Deception Bay is rocked by a report of a missing baby. Detective Antigone Pollard steps up to lead the team searching for the kidnapper, but the case is complicated by the return of her old boss, Bill Wheeler, who seems determined to thwart her progress.<BR>  <BR> To make matters worse, the frantic investigation is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Antigone’s mother in need of her help. As family secrets threaten to spill over, and with time running out to find the missing baby, Antigone finds herself fighting on two fronts and facing the same two questions. Who’s protecting the women? And what happens when we don’t believe them?<BR>  <BR> ‘Delivers on absolutely every page. Vikki Petraitis is the real deal!’ HAYLEY SCRIVENOR, award-winning author of Dirt Town <BR>  <BR> ‘Crackles with tension’ CHRISTIAN WHITE, author of The Ledge<BR>  <BR> ‘A must-read’ JACQUELINE BUBLITZ, author of Before You Knew My Name

* From the author of the magnificent, award-winning GILEAD comes a masterpiece novel that returns to the people and places of Gilead. Winner of the ORANGE PRIZE

From the author of Housekeeping, Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by one of America's finest writers. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the top 6 novels of 2004. 'A beautiful novel: wise, tender and perfectly measured' Sarah Waters

Everyone loves Johanna Bell:<BR><BR> 'A heartwarming story of women discovering their inner strength . . . I couldn't put it down' Vicki Beeby<BR><BR> 'I absolutely loved this book series, it's one of those where you feel lost when you've finished, like what am I going to do now? A definite must read' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'This is a story that needed to be told . . . I love Johanna Bell from the bottom of my heart for giving a voice to the women who first made a way for me and countless others' Penny Thorpe<BR><BR> 'Outstanding once again! When does the next book come out?! This is an exceptional series . . . lots of little twists and turns that make it hard to stop reading' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'Filled with richly drawn characters that leap from the page, and a plot that's so well researched and well written you will believe you are in the thick of wartime . . . A must-read for all saga fans' Fiona Ford<BR><BR> 'I'm so taken with the Blitz girls . . . The pacing was perfect and I was on the edge of my seat with the unravelling of plot lines and story development - I was super invested. The ending was perfection' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'If you haven't read any of this author's books you are missing out so much' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'Absolutely mind-blowingly good' 5 star reader review<BR><BR> 'Oooh what a book! Couldn't put it down, amazing characters and the storyline was great, felt as if I was there' 5 star reader review

Exciting and intriguing new literary fiction coming soon from Fleet.

This open access book examines the relations between human and nonhuman subjects in recent literary works through three distinct parts of what the author have called anthropoforming. The first focuses on the relationship between human groups and the geological planet, looking in particular at how the nonconscious planetary has reflexive responses to unrestrained processes of consumption and waste expulsion. The second part moves into physiological connections between human groups and nonhuman inhabitants of the planet and examines how the nonhuman relationships here reshape the way one understands what the human is and how that human relates to a wider world. As these relationships sometimes force actual evolutions, this part of the project investigates how evolution comes about due to a changing relationship first with the planet, then the plant kingdom, and finally with the technological. In the final, third part these are realized as the nonhuman relationship in built and naturally forming ecologies restructure the human relationship to the total planet, seen here as a cognizant entity-a geological consciousness.<BR><BR>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a standard CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective

From the multi-award-winning author - a beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel telling the story of a young girl's battle for survival and search for the truth in occupied Vienna <BR><BR>**WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026**<BR><BR>'A shimmering masterwork' Alice Austen<BR>'An extraordinary novel about resilience' Amanda Craig<BR>'A mesmerising tapestry woven across history' Gina Rippon<BR>'Gripping and profound. A masterful work of rare complexity that lingers and haunts' Christine Leunens<BR><BR>Adelheid Brunner does not speak. She writes and draws instead and her ambition is to own one thousand matchboxes. Her grandmother cannot make sense of this, but Adelheid will stop at nothing to achieve her dream. She makes herself invisible, hiding in cupboards with her pet rat, Franz Joseph, listening in on conversations she can't fully comprehend.<BR><BR>Then she meets Dr Asperger, a man who lets children play all day and who recognises the importance of matchboxes. He invites Adelheid to come and live at the Vienna paediatric clinic, where she and other children like herself will live under observation.<BR><BR>But the date is 1938 and the place is Vienna - a city of political instability, a place of increasing fear and violence. When the Nazis march into the city, a new world is created and difficult choices must be made.<BR><BR>Why are the clinic's children disappearing, and where do they go? Adelheid starts to suspect that some of Dr Asperger's games are played for the highest stakes. In order to survive, she must play a game whose rules she cannot yet understand.

This volume of collected short fiction gathers and celebrates the work of one of Australia's most loved authors.<BR><BR>These stories that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life - are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner's mastery of the form.<BR><BR>A W&N Essential

Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction.<BR><BR>In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his book "More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction". Originally, he did so in order to explicate the manifold connections between Afrofuturism and Techno, connecting them to Jazz, Breakbeat and Electronica. His argument, his narrations and his explorative language operations however inspired researchers, artists, and scholars since then. Sonic Fiction became a myth and a mantra, a keyword and a magical spell. <BR><BR>This book provides a basic introduction to sonic fiction. In six chapters it explicates the inspirations for and the transformations of this concept; it explores applications and extrapolations in sound art and sonic theory, in musicology, epistemology, in critical and political theory. Sonic fiction is presented in this book as a heuristic for critique and activism.