Examining contemporary literary depictions of environmental disasters through a North South axis, this book explores the resonances and dissonances between environmentalisms of marginalized communities in the U.
Examining contemporary literary depictions of environmental disasters through a North South axis, this book explores the resonances and dissonances between environmentalisms of marginalized communities in the U.
The second book in the hugely acclaimed Martin Beck series: the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime fiction and influenced writers from Stieg Larrson to Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell and Lars Kepplar.
In The Representation of Business in English Literature, five scholars of different periods of English literature produce original essays on how business and businesspeople have been portrayed by novelists, starting in the eighteenth century and continuing to the end of the twentieth century.
La relación entre imagen y memoria con base en la novela Terra nostra (1975) de Carlos Fuentes abre distintas posibilidades de reflexión y debate que contribuyen a pensar América Latina desde nuevas lecturas.
The Woman in Black, Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, A Little Bit of Singing and DancingIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Susan Hill.
From 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteriesfrom character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers';this is a writing guide that readers and writers will turn to again and again' (Booklist, starred review).
A brilliant, inventive and endlessly delightful memoir from Fay Weldon, one of our most respected commentators on sex, relationships and gender, that picks up where her acclaimed Auto da Fay left off.
A tremendously vivid, page-turning and plausible novel that depicts the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, the most spirited, independent and courageous of Henry's queens, as viewed from both the bedrooms and the kitchens of the Tudor court.
The breakthrough novel from one of the greatest comic writers in the language - one of the twenty selected by Granta as the Best of Young British Writers 2003.
Roark Bradford's 1931 novel and 1939 play dealing with the legendary folk-hero John Henry (both titled John Henry) were extremely influential in their own time but have long been unavailable or extremely hard to find.
The final classic installment in the excellent Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.
A gripping psychological suspense readA family near breaking point hire a nanny with secrets of her own in this gripping novel from an exciting talent.
"En México gané mi nombre", dijo alguna vez José Saramago, y no parece que fuera sólo por compromiso con sus anfitriones desde Morelia hasta Guadalajara o Chiapas, o en los diversos recintos universitarios que recibieron al novelista.
