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Dominic Dean

Killing Children in British Fiction

Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.

Dominic Dean

Killing Children in British Fiction

This book stems from a simple yet disturbing observation: contemporary British fiction is full of children killing or being killed. Thoughtfully considering novels and films, alongside actual murder cases…

The Cambridge Companion to British Postmodern Fiction

The most comprehensive study available of key postmodern British fiction and its legacy in contemporary British writing. Informs readers about postmodern fiction's engagement with social and cultural issu…

Lauren Gillingham

Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Offering a revisionist account of the history of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lauren Gillingham contends that nineteenth-century novelists found in fashion a temporal model for ar…

Lisa Hopkins

Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction

From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for ways of seeing, and that t…

The 1920s

A wide-ranging critical re-evaluation of British fiction of the 1920s, this book examines writers from Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster to A. A. Milne and Naomi Mitchison.

The 2010s

This volume relates the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received in order to examine and explain contemporary trends, such as the rise of a new working-class fict…

Rania M Mahmoud

Female Voices and Egyptian Independence

"This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist project in its struggle against British hegemony in the aftermath of two revol…

Amanda Auerbach

Getting Lost in the Novel

"Focusing on the psychological needs that drew readers in the past - and that still draw readers today - to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, Amanda Auerbach reveals the conditions within re…

Doctor Who Season 8

Die legendäre britische Science-Fiction-Serie kehrt mit einem neuen Doktor zurück auf den Bildschirm. Im letztjährigen Weihnachtsspecial, das in England über 13 Millionen Zuschauer erreichte, verabschiede…

Nik Turner

The Final Frontier

Die Space Rock-Legende und Mitbegründer von Hawkwind, Nik Turner, startet dieses neue Solo-Projekt, das weiter geht als der Weltraum erlaubt! Der aus Oxford stamme britische Musiker (Saxofon, Flöte, Gesan…

Elbow

The Best Of Elbow (Deluxe Edition)

Elbow veröffentlichen eine handverlesene Auswahl der besten Stücke ihrer bisherigen sieben Studioalben. Die Best Of-Zusammenstellung erscheint als Standard (1CD) und Deluxe-Version (2CD). Während die …

Die Teufelswolke von Monteville (Blu-ray)

Als es in den Schweizer Alpen zu unerklärlichen Todesfällen und manch anderen seltsamen Vorkommnissen kommt, will der amerikanische Wissenschaftler Alan Brooks der Sache auf den Grund gehen. Auch die über…

The Times

My Picture Gallery: The Artpop Recordings

Madeleine Gray

Green Dot

A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN STYLIST, DAILY MAIL, THE I, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND REDHera is in her mid-twenties, which seems young to everyone except people in their mid-twenties.Since leaving school, she…

Roman Alexander Barton

The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination

How is it that we feel with fictional characters and so approve or disapprove of their actions? For many British Enlightenment thinkers writing at a time when sympathy was the pivot of ethics as well as p…

Luke Elliot

Let 'Em All Talk (180g)

Der britische Pop-Noir-Künstler und Schauspieler (Exit, Wisting), Luke Elliot, glänzt auf seinem dritten Studioalbum mit einer eklektischen Mischung von Einflüssen, die von Jazzikonen (John Coltrane, Duke…

The The

The Comeback Special

2018 gingen The The auf große »Comeback Special«-Tour mit mehreren Konzerten rund um den Globus. Dabei machte die britische Rockband auch Halt in London, wo die verjüngte Formation mit Sänger und Songschr…

The The

The Comeback Special (180g)

2018 gingen The The auf große »Comeback Special«-Tour mit mehreren Konzerten rund um den Globus. Dabei machte die britische Rockband auch Halt in London, wo die verjüngte Formation mit Sänger und Songschr…