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  • The Public on the Public

    The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and Political Foreclosure

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In Britain, the resistance to popular determination allowed by the financial construct of the public has been so successful that this term, public, must be re-read as politically paralyzing. The problem, our problem, is the public - which we are so often told will bring us together and provide for us - and it is this we must move beyond. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cross-Gendered Literary Voices

    Appropriating, Resisting, Embracing

    Edited by R. Kim, C. Westall ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between these crossings and specific psychological, social, historical and political contexts. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Literature of an Independent England

    Revisions of England, Englishness and English Literature

    Edited by C. Westall, M. Gardiner ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Some of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on the importance of devolution, the uncertainty of the British union, the place of English Literature within the union, and the need for England to become a self-determining literary nation. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Blitzcat

    Blitzcat by Robert Westall is the Smarties Prize-winning book about one brave cat's experiences during World War Two. Now with a brilliant refreshed cover look.*She made her way down the cliff, and on to the beach. At the edge of the waves, she stopped, shaking her wet paws. She knew that somewhere ahead was her person, but far, far away. She miaowed plaintively; stood staring at the moving blur ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Machine Gunners

    Series series Macmillan Collector's Library
    Celebrate 50 years of adventure in Carnegie Medal-winner Robert Westall's compelling first novel for children set during World War Two, with a powerful introduction by Michael Morpurgo.'Fifty Years on this remains the greatest WW2 novel ever penned.' Phil EarleChas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth but wants it to be the best. When he stumbles across the wreckage ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Break Of Dark

    Is there a barrier that divides the dark unknown from the everyday world around us?If so, is it broken sometimes by the dead returning, by the undead, or by alien creatures?What else could account for the chance meeting (or was it?) between a young student and hitch-hiker who turns out to be so much stranger than she seems? Why else should three successive crews flying a Second World War bomber - ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Kingdom by the Sea

    Narrated by Ron Keith ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 24 min

    The air raid siren that pierces the English night sky comes as no surprise to young Harry Baguely. Ever since Hitler began sending his warplanes to raid London, Harry has become an old hand at running to his family's bomb shelter and waiting for the attacks to end. This time, though, Harry's family doesn't make it to the shelter. A war orphan with no where to go and only a lonely dog for a friend, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral

    Narrated by Ron Keith ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 6 min

    Steeplejack Joe Clark climbed his first factory chimney when he was four years old. Steeplejacking had been in his family for five generations. Not much frightened him. Certainly not stone. So when Joe is offered the lucrative job of repairing the weathercock and stonework on one of Muncaster Cathedral's spires, he can't believe his good fortune. But from the moment he saw the medieval gargoyle ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Motherhood and Postnatal Depression

    Narratives of Women and Their Partners

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Globally, postnatal depression (PND) is a growing public health problem. PND affects 10 to 15% of women in Western society. It caused by a combination of biological, psychological and social factors. Two models have attempted to define and explain PND; the biomedical and the sociological models. The traditional biomedical model views PND as a medical condition which implies there is individual ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Avenge

    by Roy Westall ...
    Most of the characters in the book were real seventeenth century people, the majority living in Manchester, a town that did not have a Member of Parliament. Charles I was an autocratic king who believed that there was no one above him but God, and so when Parliament asked for a greater say in running the country he refused, leading to disenchantment in many parts of the country, especially in the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Antique Dust: Ghost Stories

    Series series Valancourt 20th Century Classics
    'Creepy . . . develops a sense of palpable evil . . . well worth the time of readers who prefer slyly civilized British ghost stories' - Kirkus Reviews'Fiendishly clever, spine-tingling short fiction' - Publishers Weekly'Marvelous M. R. Jamesian-style ghost stories' - Michael Dirda, Washington Post'Dealers are undertakers of a sort. When a man dies, the undertaker comes for the body, and the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Urn Burial

    Life is simple where Ralph lives, up in the Pennines. It's peaceful. Ordinary.Until one day, when out with the sheep, he finds something strange, too strange to be from Earth.The alien grave holds secrets of the past, but also draws Ralph into the middle of an epic war between two alien races, taking place among the stars above his head. Has he thrown his planet into a battle it can't possibly ... Read more

    $3.99 USD