Crime Fiction and the Law
Maria Aristodemou, Fiona Macmillan and Patricia Tuitt
Book
This book opens up a range of important perspectives on law and violence by considering the ways in...
Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience
John McAleer, Sarah Longair, Andrew Thompson and John MacKenzie
Book
Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and...
Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England
Book
On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of...
Shalimar the Clown
Book
Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter...
Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather: Typhoons, Hurricanes, and Cyclones: 2017
Anne Collett, Russell McDougall and Susan Thomas
Book
This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones,...
A Perfect Crime
Anna Holmwood and A. Yi
Book
On a normal day in provincial China, a teenager goes about his regular business, but he's also...
A Welcome Murder
6.0
Rate It
Book
After his unspectacular professional baseball career ends with a knee injury in Toledo, Ohio, Johnny...
American Pastoral
4.0
Rate It
Book
In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all...
Atomised
Book
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular...
Reputations
Anne McLean and Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Book
A taut new novel by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling - 'one of the most...