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He asks what she thinks. She says it's hard to imagine the same thing he imagines. No matter how close you are, it is impossible to get into someone else's head. Another wonderfully varied selection of shorter stories this time featuring the tribulations of a successful filmmaker, a young couple who visit a nudist beach while on holiday and gain a new perspective, a woman who has lost her husband and an insurance salesman who finds himself obsessed with the voice of a client on the phone. Autorid: Akvil Kavaliauskait, Erika Lastovskyt Frittoli

When Jane marries the elderly grocer William Chirp, she thinks she has moved up into the comfort of middle class. Instead, she discovers that William exerts a control over her life that forces her to live like a prisoner. His tight fistedness and suspicions so affect Jane that even after his death, she finds herself trapped in a penny pinching paranoia and resorts to scavenging for food out of garbage bins and taking her silverware with her everywhere in a shopping bag. Utterly forgotten for over 80 years, neither the book nor its author are mentioned in any history of 20 th century English literature. Yet Trevelyan is arguably the finest novelist of the generation to follow Virginia Woolf and Williams Wife is one of the most powerful psychological portraits in all fiction. As a story about a woman at the mercy of a domineering and abusive husband, Williams Wife is a novel still resonant and relevant in todays world. Even more, its one of the most effective accounts of the onset and experience of mental illness, of a paranoia and miserliness that gradually takes over Jane Chirps life and leads her to move to ever more cramped and dingy flats where she surrounds herself with her belongings like a besieged hermit. Autorid: Gertrude Trevelyan

Archive Fevers offers a new generation of psychologically-engaged readers a playful queer/feminist interpretation of Jaques Derridas Archive Fever (1995). Through its creative critical form, the book demonstrates the unconscious life of research while interrogating the often misunderstood, overlooked or misrepresented landscape of individual gender-queer experiences of therapy. Utilising the framework of experimental narrative fiction, Blake elucidates Derridas concept of archive fever, Freuds seminal concept of the death drive and Avita Ronells concept of haunted writing. The relationship between anthropology, psychoanalysis and surrealism during the early 20th century is examined throughout. Surrealism, though shunned by anthropology and psychotherapy, asserts an urgent contemporary usefulness. The role of technology in psychotherapy comes under necessary scrutiny, the ever-chainging backdrop of a global pandemic adding yet another layer of relevance to current phsychotherapy practice. The resulting narrative brings to the fore the bizarre, messy, disturbing, sometimes gruesome aspects of archival and ethnographic research that are usually left out of formal accounts. Autorid: Tara Blake

Hinterland is a quarterly, print and digital magazine dedicated to creative non-fiction. Hinterland's fourth issue celebrates the art of a beautifully turned piece of flash writing, with our Flash Non-Fiction Special: 40 pages of the best bite-sized writing around. Mark Cocker leads with a piece on the army ant, others consider topics as varied as migrant youth, New York through the decades, the troubling life of pets, inter-racial relationships, and the fall of dictators. Inside a stunning cover, created exclusively for Hinterland by artist Mia Hague, is an outstanding line-up of new creative non-fiction plus all our great regular features, including a beautiful photo essay by Lily Bungay and an interview with Tessa McWatt. Autorid: Mark Cocker

The latest volume of creative writing from the prose fiction strand of UEA's world-renowned Creative Writing MA, from the 2020/21 student cohort. Autorid: Nathan Hamilton

A family prepares for Assessment. Two brothers haggle over the legacy of their parents. A computer game designer aches with curious longings. Amidst it all, sisters, heroines, rebels, lunar moths and a not insignificant number of rabbits play out their lives under the strange grips of technology, governments, corporations and the capricious planets on which we all, in our different ways, just about manage to live. This Paradise is a rare and beautiful collection of stories about people fleeing towards places or times or situations they hope might be better trying to outrun their nature, to deny the undeniable. Written with an arresting eye for detail, a rich sense of compassion and a darkly comic understanding of the human psyche, the stories in this volume propose a series of haphazard questions, not least of which is: where do we run to when theres nowhere left to run? Autorid: Ruby Cowling

Throughout these stories, Maartje Wortel plays an ingenious game with her readers. Small events have major consequences, while the major events fade into the background. Her stories are alienating and completely logical at the same time, chaotic and orderly, funny and loud all written in her characteristic idiosyncratic prose. Autorid: Maartje Wortel

'The Sick List operates on the far side of literature.' John Schad In this novel, an unnamed academic in an unnamed contemporary university, relates his obsession with his tutor, Gordon. He pores over the increasingly bizarre mis-readings in Gordons annotations in a strange selection of stolen library books. Is Gordon unraveling a mystery? Or is his own mind unraveling? Meanwhile, an epidemic of catatonia breaks out; academics are found slumped and unconscious at their desks. Is reading itself the cause of this sickness? Is the only escape to return to illiteracy? Witty, moving, and beautifully written, The Sick List plays with the dividing line between deploring and exemplifying what it most despises. Inspired by the work of the Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard, it considers how the minds of educated people are moulded by both the breadth of literary culture and the narrowness of academic institutions. The Sick List is about menace, about a menace (Gordon), and is written in the voice of a menace. It reads like one of the pen-portraits of surreal ultra-violence in Bernhard's Gargoyles, where education turns out to be the most deceitful panacea of all.' Katharine Craik Autorid: Ansgar Allen

A classic English novel rediscovered after 85 yearsWith an introduction by Rachel Hore and an afterword by Brad Bigelow.A panoramic view of English life from 1919 to 1936, TWO THOUSAND MILLION MAN-POWER is no wistful, nostalgic account of this time. Instead, Gertrude Trevelyan shows how even the brightest and most able personalities can be ground down by economic highs and lows and a system in which individuals quickly disappear into crowds and statistics. One year, Robert and Katherine are enjoying the consumer comforts of a radio, a car, a house in the suburbs. The next, they are struggling to make ends meet in a tiny, squalid East End flat as Robert trudges hopelessly into London each day in hopes of finding work. The result is a savage portrait equaled only by George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier. TWO THOUSAND MILLION MAN-POWER follows Robert, a chemist, and Katherine, a schoolteacher, through two tumultuous decades in English history. From New Year's Eve 1919 to the funeral of King George V in 1936, they experience youthful radicalism, economic boom and bust, comfortable middle-class life in the suburbs and grinding poverty and the debilitating experience of looking for work where there is none to be found. Gertrude Trevelyan sets their story against the backdrop of newspaper headlines, radio broadcasts and advertising slogans, contrasting the promises of progress and technology with the brutal effects of economic upswings and downturns. The result is one of the finest fictional portraits of English life in the 1920s and 1930s--the equivalent for England of John Dos Passos's epic, U.S.A.. Utterly forgotten for over 80 years, Gertrude Trevelyan is finally being rediscovered. The stylistic and imaginative daring of her fiction arguably makes her one of the finest English novelists of the generation that followed Virginia Woolf.Fiction. Autorid: Gertrude Trevelyan

An exciting and eagerly anticipated full-collection debut from a hugely talented poet. Exuberantly raw and playful, Samantha Waltons first collection Self Heal engages passionately with questions of identity, consumerism, gender, and humanitys relationship to the natural environment. To self heal means to live amid a dizzying array of worldly demands, requiring all the abundance of humour, compassion, and intelligence this debut has to offer. Carrie Etter Here it is, the long-awaited collection by Samantha Walton! Self Heal is infused with passion and politics -- you could say that the poems are love poems, but unlike any youve read. With exhilarating wit, Walton declares the exchanges, vital or aggrieved, between the living stuff of the world: the swabbed mystery of the connection/ between your body & the gross/ understatement of your environment. These brilliant, acutely beautiful, deliciously mordant poems will tendril their way into your psyche. Lila Matsumoto "You can open up your head and rub these poems on your brain when you want to feel better about the wreck: theyre heal poems, as the title says: Samantha Waltons Self Heal opens to what blows between working streets and windy sky: under the scolded / boots of the Poor Law / press the kissed field and out comes love to rub a mind across a meadow in the company of saucy language bodies saying call me / x." Lisa Samuels, author of Symphony for Human Transport and Foreign Native Autorid: Samantha Walton

This collection of five subtly wrought stories from Amatmoekrim brings her short fiction into the English language for the first time. Ranging from the speculative Jacques dOr to the radical De Radicaal, this collection is a journey through Amatmoekrims pre-occupation with what kind of world we are creating. Her often cheerful and entertaining writing is threaded with threatening undertones, creating a haunting effect on the reader. Autorid: Karin Amatmoekrim

The long-awaited third collection from one of the UKs finest, most virtuosic of modern lyric poets. These poems take the reader on surprising journeys of healing, hard-won amid personal and social vicissitudes including triumph over addiction, and alcoholism -- and open spaces in which to share in emotional, quasi-spiritual transcendence despite. Who could ask for more? When poetry is the centre of your life the strength of some poets will get fixed in the orbit of your day, their poems settled into the memory of mind and body. Sophie Robinson is one of my absolute favourites, her lines returning to me, visceral, unsettling, exacting, and stunning! If you read one book of poems this year, let it be this! Shes a gateway drug, keeping you wanting all books of poetry to be as genius to make part of your waking life. CA Conrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death. Autorid: Sophie Robinson

A book censor is on the look-out for objectionable content; a daughter mourns her father during her journey to fulfill his final wishes; a desperate man runs around a city to pay off his debts. Critical of regimes and nonetheless nostalgic for their home countries, Mo(a)t is a compendium of stories from six different authors reflecting on the paradoxical demands of our day-to-day lives. Each story is written with the authors unique style, highlighting their skills in contemporary Arabic literature. What binds the stories of Mo(a)t together is the fact that they are transnational. The stories in this anthology are not centered around a theme, but rather, a concept. Each author lives outside their birth country whether by choice or exile yet, as writers, theyve chosen to continue to express themselves in their mother tongue, rather than in the language of their adopted countries. From South Sudan to the Western Sahara, the authors in this collection reveal the symbiotic relationship between ourselves and our communities, and the freedom to step beyond these boundaries. Autorid: Sawad Hussain, Nariman Youssef

An acid-sharp novella of longing and language, in which the past comes up hard against the present, from Jonathan Gibbs, acclaimed author of Randall, or The Painted Grape (Galley Beggar, 2014): It was not the only painting in the room, but it was the one that drew the eye. It was a Golden Age interior, the like of which you might see a dozen times in the Rijksmuseum, Jenny guessed, and once or twice in any gallery in Europe or America with a half-decent collection. Simple, domestic: a woman and a man in a room, the striking yellow and black tiled floor spread in expanding diamonds towards the viewer. There were paintings on the walls of the room in the painting, and a mirror on the left wall, tilted, that reflected the tiles, in a masterful flourish of perspective When Jenny Thursley, a 40-year old linguistics lecturer, returns to Europe for a conference in Amsterdam, she finds herself pitched back into the presence of a life she had fled: a once-inspirational mentor now dying, a former lover again within reach, the flickerings of new desire. Over little more than twenty-four hours Jenny must write a keynote conferene speech, face up to her own mortality, and to the consequences of the bad choices she has made while finding the nerve to make new choices that might be no better. Witty, sexy and provocative, The Large Door is a meditation on life and living, and on ages golden and otherwise that recalls the sparkling mid-century work of writers such as Muriel Spark and Brigid Brophy. Autorid: Jonathan Gibbs

KESHIKI is a series of exquisitely designed chapbooks, showcasing the work of eight of the most exciting writers working in Japan today. Yuki has not slept in two months. He's been infected with genuine insomnia a condition spreading throughout the city's high-profile businessmen. At first, this is a condition worth boasting about: the less Yuki sleeps, the better he feels, and he gathers with the city's elite in clubs and bars to compare how long they've been awake. It is only when he visits a sanatorium that Yuki is told his memory is quickly deteriorating, and, suddenly, Yoshida's fragmented style starts to make sense... Dream-like, sensual and unnerving, these offerings by Kyoko Yoshida, a Japanese author writing in English, surprise the reader with their texture and imagery. Spring Sleepers, the title story, frames insomnia as the contemporary condition the narrative sliding from metropolitan hyperawareness to delirious exhaustion in the space of a few pages. Spring Awakening, a koan-like mediation, describes a newly born eel emerging from then returning to its home. Finally, Yoshida reflects on her time spent in Norwich, the City of Writing. Autorid: Kyoko Yoshida

CLICK & COLLECT is a sequence of poems that explores the shape and shaping of consumerism, internet culture, queerness and emotion. How do we brand the world around us and how does it brand us? Across lyrics and half-story-poems, CLICK & COLLECT gives advice on how to frighten your friends, weighs up the pros and cons of cream jeans, questions the efficacy of algae as a face mask, gives dental hygiene tips and ideas for floral arrangements. Theres even a poem from the perspective of the crocodile on Lacoste-branded clothing. If click & collect is the new cause & effect, how can realignments of brands-as-objects and objects-as-brands create queer spaces for new orientations and arrangements? Autorid: Colin Herd

Returning to her archetypally fresh and clear (Faithful) nonfiction, Mountain is a moving and memorable autobiographical account of a young woman making a trip to the mountains she visited so often as a child. Now grown and with her partner, past and present collide to create an impressive consideration of love and childhood, nostalgia and hope. Never before published in any language, this will also be Hofstedes English language debut. Autorid: Bregje Hofstede

A virus inflames a woman with mortal desire; a colonial naturalist seeks an impossible specimen; invisible violence stalks a safari; and a childs bullying summons archaic armies. Ranging from taut human drama to phantasmagoria, these scenes make rich and strange connections between ancient and new, human and animal, Africa and Europe, reality and dream. Includes prize-winning stories as well as previously unpublished works from one of South Africas foremost novelists. Autorid: Henrietta Rose-Innes

A collection of essays and other texts by eleven internationally acclaimed writers, critics and artists. Over a decade after his death W.G. Sebald remains a major presence in world literature. He has a devoted readership in many different countries. This lively and accessible collection offers a series of different illuminations on why Sebalds work continues to fascinate. Follow Ali Smith as she gets loosed in the translation of his work. Discover with Robert Macfarlane the arguments for and against Sebalds reputation. Find out from Will Self why British readers might find him a "good German". Think with John Coetzee about the recurrent psychological crisis that haunts Sebalds imagination. These are just a few of the many discoveries, insights, and imaginative responses that this collection offers its readers. This is the book that readers of Sebald, new or old, need to take with them as they journey through his work. It speaks of and to the different experiences involved in reading Sebald, whether responding to the relation between word and image, or the question of what can and cannot be remembered, or the resonant character of voice and voices, or the strange networks and connections that make up Sebalds texts. And then there are personal memories by Tess Jaray of working with Sebald, Tacita Dean's own version of Sebaldian connectedness and an enigmatic memorial by Richard Long. The book is edited and has an introduction by Jon Cook, a Professor of Literature and Director of the Centre for Creative and Performing Arts at the University of East Anglia, who was for a number of years a friend and colleague of W.G. Sebald. Autorid: Gillian Beer, John Coetzee, Jon Cook, Tacita Dean, Tess Jaray, Richard Long, Robert Macfarlane, Clive Scott, Will Self, Ali Smith

Time: The Present collects the best short stories of one of the finest American writers of the 1930s, Tess Slesinger. An Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Tess Slesinger was one of the most innovative and original short story writers of her generation. She dealt with issues of sexuality, economics, race, and the complex relationships between men and women in and out of marriage that remain highly relevant today. Slesingers stories can be satirical, comic, bittersweet, or tragicbut most of all, always immediate. As Vivian Gornick puts it in her eloquent introduction, Slesingers feeling for lifes unavoidable sorrow remains haunting. Taking great stylistic risks, Slesinger freed her stories of the constraints of period and place and created works that are timeless in their impact and approach. Time: The Present restores Slesingers rightful place as one of the greats of the 20th century short story form. It includes numerous stories from The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other magazines collected here for the first time. Time: The Present continues Recovered Books mission to bring long forgotten books of exceptional merit and resounding relevance to todays readers. Autorid: Tess Slesinger

Pull Devil, Pull Baker is one of the oddest autobiographies ever written. The novelist Stella Benson first encountered an eccentric Russian nobleman, Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec De Savine in the paupers ward of a Hong Kong hospital. Striking up a friendship, she found herself fascinated by the Counts garrulous memoirs, written in a unique blend of English, French, and Russian. The Counts adventures included a stint as a Russian cavalry officer, gold mining in California, a failed attempt to establish himself as Czar of Bulgaria, get-rich-quick schemes, and countless romantic entanglements. Were these all inventions of his fervid mind, like a latter-day Baron Munchausen? Were they true? Could they be both? In Pull Devil, Pull Baker, Stella Benson not only collected the Counts recollections but provided a running commentary that reflects on the nature of memory, truth, and the power of storytelling. In the process, she created a book that anticipates by decades the new nonfiction school of such bestsellers as The Lifespan of a Fact and the work of Geoff Dyer, W. G. Sebald and others who weave together fiction and fact. Pull Devil, Pull Baker exemplifies the unique and remarkable books being brought back to print by Recovered Books, the new series from Boiler House Press that celebrates the gems that have been lost to thechanging tides of critical and popular taste. Pull Devil, Pull Baker is easily the most exceptional and genre-busting reissue of 2022. Autorid: Stella Benson

That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise. And yet we have so far failed, collectively and individually, to begin the kind of action necessary to shift our path away from catastrophic climate collapse. In this stark and startling little book, Rupert Read helps us to understand the direness of our predicament while showing us a metaphor and a method a way of thinking by which we might transform it. From the relatively uncontroversial starting point that we love our own children, we are introduced to a logic of care that iterates far into the future: in caring for our own children, we are committed to caring for the whole of human future; in caring for the whole of human future, we are committed to caring for the future of the natural world. Out of such thinking, hope emerges. As Read demonstrates in this urgent call to action, accepting that we care for our own offspring commits us to a struggle on behalf of us all. Autorid: Rupert Read

Out of print for over seventy years, Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis is being rescued for todays readers to launch Boiler House Presss new series, Recovered Books. Halfway between Honolulu and Panama, a man slips and falls from a ship. For crucial hours, as he patiently treads water in hope of rescue, no one on board notices his absence. By the time the ships captain is notified, it may be too late to save him... Rediscovered in 2009 by Brad Bigelow as part of tireless research for his popular Neglected Books website, Gentleman Overboard has since achieved the status of a cult classic and even become something of an international phenomenon, having seen translations into Spanish, Hebrew, and Dutch. The newspaper Haaretz has called it A miniature masterpiece that emerged from oblivion; the Spanish magazine El Cultural dubbed it una perlita: a little pearl. A masterful piece of narrative tension, and way ahead of its time, Gentleman Overboard sets the question of existence in its most basic terms. The story speaks fiercely to the contemporary moment and for all who share a sense of loneliness through having found themselves isolated by politics, disease, economics or indeed just sheer accident and bad luck. The fate of the novel's hero even has ironic parallels with that of the author, Herbert Clyde Lewis, who died forgotten and alone in 1950, a victim of Hollywoods black list, and who has since slipped beneath the waves of fashion and time, but now hopefully is to be recovered from the murky depths for the readership he posthumously deserves. Autorid: Herbert Clyde Lewis, George Szirtes

For fans of Modern Lovers and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a tender queer romance about one woman’s rediscovery of choice, hope, and wild love in the wake of her husband’s coma.When Lacie Johnson’s husband, Derek, suffers a stroke at forty-seven and falls into a coma, her plans come to a screeching halt—asking Derek for a divorce, going back to school to get her master’s, and starting over as a single woman now that their children have grown up. But what begins as a disaster brings an unexpected blessing in the form of Quinn, a kind stranger whom Lacie meets in the halls of the hospital.This is just a stop-over for Quinn, who is traveling up to the British Columbia coast to live in a co-op of grief survivors on a remote island after the loss of her young daughter. She's also the former singer of a post-riot grrrl band who fled the group and the public eye more than fifteen years ago for reasons unknown. Lacie thinks she's discovered in Quinn the life and the person she’s always wanted. But Quinn harbors a secret that connects her to Derek. And if Derek wakes up, Quinn must come clean and risk destroying her growing relationship with Lacie.Told in alternating points of view, All This Can Be True follows Lacie and Quinn as they make the journey to each other—and then grapple with the fallout. For fans of Modern Lovers and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a tender queer romance about one woman’s rediscovery of choice, hope, and wild love in the wake of her husband’s coma. Autorid: Jen Michalski, Amanda Hudson

From the author of Poor Ghost comes a poignant road trip novel following two middle-aged brothers, Chris and Andy Fairley, as they attempt an unlikely musical comeback in Japan. From the author of Poor Ghost comes a poignant road trip novel following two middle-aged brothers, Chris and Andy Fairley, as they attempt an unlikely musical comeback in Japan.Chris and Andy Fairley couldn’t be more opposite—Chris, an uptight, ever-pessimist, and Andy, a go-with-the-flow hopeful. Their glory days seemed long behind them since their moderate success as a folk-rock duo and their relationship with each other fizzled out in the mid-1980s. But when their hit song is unexpectedly chosen for a Japanese car commercial, the men are given one last shot to revive their fame and friendship.They embark on a tour across Japan, but soon find their venues are far from glamorous: a wedding reception where they're asked to play their hit on repeat, a flower farm gift shop, a windy sculpture park, and a restaurant where customers catch their own fish. As tensions between the brothers rise and a strange reporter begins following them all around the country, the men aren’t sure if the band or their relationship will survive. With echoes of Andrew Sean Greer’s Less, The Fairley Brothers in Japan is a gently comic exploration of aging, family, and belonging. It’s a tale of two brothers, not just hitting the road, but rediscovering themselves along the way. Autorid: David Starkey

For the modern world, it seems as if sexuality and spirituality have always been at odds. But what if the two are actually deeply connected? And what if science could prove this connection?From neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, Sex, God, and the Brain argues that our religious and spiritual experiences derive directly from our sexual being. While others have speculated on a connection between religion and sex, Newberg is the first to demonstrate—with groundbreaking brain scan research gained through Orgasmic Meditation studies—that the underlying biological mechanism of religious, spiritual, and sexual experiences are identical.With research technical enough for academics, but explained simply enough for the everyday reader, Sex, God, and the Brain, will reframe our understanding of the link between spirituality and sexuality. While others have speculated on a connection between religion and sex, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, in Sex, God, and the Brain, is the first to demonstrate—with groundbreaking brain scan research—that the underlying biological mechanism of religious, spiritual, and sexual experiences are identical. Autorid: Andrew Newberg

In a poor West Virginia town decimated by the opioid epidemic, teenagers Henry and Jane have it worse than most. Their father is Hollis Lusher, a convicted serial killer known as “the Blind Spot Slasher.”Despite being bullied and ostracized, the siblings maintain their father’s innocence. But now, a popular true-crime podcast is coming to town, and their presence turns all eyes to the Blind Spot Slasher’s case . . . and Henry and Jane.Meanwhile, an eager young officer, Lieutenant Elena Garcia, is put on the case of a missing girl. Despite warnings from her superiors, Garcia begins to dig deeper into the case and realizes there may be other mysteries buried in the flood of opioid-related crimes. With many deaths quickly labeled as overdoses, or “No Human Involved,” she fears the drug epidemic has created the perfect storm for a Blind Spot Slasher copycat to thrive. Unless that is, they never caught the real Blind Spot Slasher.An amateur private investigator is also on the case: Henry’s new friend, Otis. A home-schooled genius with his own family issues and a suspicion their father might be innocent, Otis makes it his mission to help Henry and Jane find the real killer. As the three probe into the evidence, they discover a possible connection between the killings and a doomsday, snake-handling cult—propelling them all down the dark backroads of Appalachia to find justice for Hollis and themselves. The teenage children of a convicted serial killer try to prove his innocence when a true-crime podcast reinvigorates interest in the case. Their fate intersects with cults, killers, cops, and convicts on the backroads of West Virginia in one brutal, unforgettable crash. Autorid: Rob Rufus

“With a scholar’s commitment to accurate detail, and the heart of a lover of beauty, Kathleen B. Jones’s engaging and well-crafted parallel story is as colorful and lucid as the illuminated manuscripts at the center of her novel.” —Laurel Corona, author of The Mapmaker’s DaughterA deeply affecting dual narrative separated by several centuries, Cities of Women examines the lives of women who dare to challenge the social norms of their days, risking their reputations and livelihoods for the sake of their passions.In the twenty-first century, we meet Verity Frazier, a disillusioned history professor who sets out to prove that the artist responsible for the illuminated artwork in Christine de Pizan’s medieval manuscripts was a remarkable woman named Anastasia. As Anastasia’s story unfolds against the exquisitely-rendered medieval backdrop of moral disaster, political intrigue, and extraordinary creativity, Verity finds her career on the brink of collapse by her efforts to uncover evidence of the lost artist’s existence.Inspired by a decade of research, Jones has woven together a luminous and incisive masterpiece of historical fiction, evoking the spare joys and monumental pitfalls facing medieval women artists and a contemporary woman who becomes obsessed with medieval books. Verity Frazier, dissatisfied with her own life, pushes past the point of obsession to prove the existence of a certain female artist in the fifteenth century. Autorid: Kathleen B. Jones

Cheer: A Liquid Gold Holiday Drinking Guide is the quintessential drinking guide for the biggest entertainment seasons of the year. Enjoy 125+ beginner-friendly recipes for cocktails inspired by Halloween, Dia De Los Muertos, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Dry January, and more. Raise your holiday spirit (and a glass of your favorite holiday spirits) with Cheer: A Liquid Gold Holiday Drinking GuideFrom expert mixologists and the hosts of the hit drinking podcast Liquid Gold comes the most complete holiday cocktail book with 125+ recipes to delight drinking enthusiasts of all kinds throughout the busiest entertainment seasons of the year. The beginner-friendly recipes are perfect for mixing drinks with friends and family, or preparing refreshments in advance to maximize your time spent with loved ones. Enjoy recipes for every season, including: The first chill in the air with whiskey cocktails, apple brandy, and pumpkin spice drinksHalloween cocktails and punches Thanksgiving pairings, wines, and apéritifsChristmas and holiday whiskey cream, eggnog drinks, and ice cream cocktailsNew Years sparkling wine cocktails and champagnes Dry January non-alcoholic cocktails, and a guide to making cordials that allow you to make beautiful non-alcoholic drinks. . . and more! From alcoholic cocktails of all shapes and sizes to non-alcoholic drinks ranging from seasonal coffees to cider, hot chocolate, and teas, Cheer: A Liquid Gold Holiday Drinking Guide is an invaluable holiday resource and quintessential companion for the holiday season. Autorid: Mike Wolf

A 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Best First Novel“Debut novelist Tector captures European life and her characters beautifully as she interweaves the perspectives of four women seeking fulfillment and success in this satisfying adventure. Keep an eye on this author.” —BooklistAlice Ahmadi has never been certain of where she belongs. When she discovers a famed emerald necklace while interning at a struggling Parisian magazine, she is plunged into a glittering world of diamonds and emeralds, courtesans and spies, and the long-buried secrets surrounding the necklace and its glamorous former owners.When Alice realizes the mysterious Honeybee Emeralds could be her chance to save the magazine, she recruits her friends Lily and Daphne to form the “Fellowship of the Necklace.” Together, they set out to uncover the romantic history of the gems. Through diaries, letters, and investigations through the winding streets and iconic historic landmarks of Paris, the trio begins to unravel more than just the secrets of the necklace’s obsolete past. Along the way, Lily and Daphne’s relationships are challenged, tempered, and changed. Lily faces her long-standing attraction to a friend, who has achieved the writing success that eluded her. Daphne confronts her failing relationship with her husband, while also facing simmering problems in her friendship with Lily. And, at last, Alice finds her place in the world although one mystery still remains: how did the Honeybee Emeralds go from the neck of American singer Josephine Baker during the Roaring Twenties to the basement of a Parisian magazine? Alice Ahmadi, a shy intern at a struggling Parisian magazine, finds herself drawn into decades-old secrets when she discovers a priceless necklace previously owned by some of history’s most iconic and glamorous women. With the help of her closest friends, Alice embarks on a bold journey to uncover the necklace’s history to save the magazine, and taps into her own passions along the way. Autorid: Amy Tector

"An ancient evil lurks on the American frontier, and seven contestants from around the world must compete to eradicate it. In 1865, from a law office in Paris, seven ornate envelopes are sent to the most fearsome killers around the world, a samurai, sharpshooter, war hero, and serial killer among the recipients. Inside the gilded envelopes is a letter inviting each of them to participate in the contest of a lifetime. On the cold plains of the American frontier there roams a beast. Kill it and the milliondollar prize is theirs. Despite mystery shrouding the competition's host, each man agrees to participate. But when the contestants arrive for the hunt, they soon realize there's more to this Contest than meets the eye. Strange sounds float across the plains, warning of otherworldly threat. Their target is not a mere animal but a fearsome beast of legend hunting them in return. Can the contestants survive the cold, creatures, and each other long enough to kill the beast? Or will they soon find they were right to fear the dark?"-- An ancient evil lurks on the American frontier, and seven contestants from around the world must compete to eradicate it. An ancient evil lurks on the American frontier, and seven contestants from around the world must compete to eradicate it.In 1865, from a law office in Paris, seven ornate envelopes are sent to the most fearsome killers around the world, a samurai, sharpshooter, war hero, and serial killer among the recipients. Inside the gilded envelopes is a letter inviting each of them to participate in the contest of a lifetime. On the cold plains of the American frontier there roams a beast. Kill it and the million dollar prize is theirs. Despite mystery shrouding the competition's host, each man agrees to participate. But when the contestants arrive for the hunt, they soon realize there's more to this Contest than meets the eye. Strange sounds float across the plains, warning of an otherworldly threat. Their target is not a mere animal but a fearsome beast of legend hunting them in return. Can the contestants survive the cold, creatures, and each other long enough to kill the beast? Or will they soon find they were right to fear the dark? Autorid: David Golemon

In the 1860s, on Virginia’s Appalachian frontier, the fates of five people are forever linked as they navigate love, loss and the cost of buried secrets amid the strife and turmoil of an unimaginable civil war. In the 1860s, on Virginia’s Appalachian frontier, the fates of five people are forever linked as they navigate love, loss, and the cost of buried secrets amid the strife and turmoil of an unimaginable civil war.In 1854, on the lawless western edge of Virginia, Elizabeth Young stands among the throngs and watches as her beloved uncle is hanged for murder. She can tell that there is more to this spectacle than meets the eye, and she vows then and there she’ll discover the truth then leave these godforsaken mountains. She’ll go where the land is flat, where life is in the open, where dreams have room to roam.But fate has another idea. Three strangers with dreams and secrets of their own come into her life: Patrick Hagan, Irish Catholic immigrant and a bright young attorney with a dogged determination to do good and make good; Mary Lenore Kitchens, the sophisticated teacher who’s come to Virginia’s hinterlands, for who knows why; handsome Ben Grubb, local boy, banjo prodigy, a mischievous sort who wants only to play. Soon their lives become inextricably linked, along with that of Red Hopkins, an old friend to Elizabeth’s Papa, and in marches the Civil War.Punctuated by class and the realities of a devastating conflict, That Which Binds Us is a broad work of historical fiction that celebrates our best and explores our worst, serving to remind us that across continents and cultures and generations, love holds the greatest power of all. Autorid: Cathy Rigg

"Hoarding Henny Wiley returns in the highly anticipated sequel to Dumpster Dying! Henny Wiley isn't just a collector, she's a hoarder. And her collection, er, hoard, keeps growing - and attracting all the wrong attention. Her nosy neighbor, her family, the sheriff, and Adult Services are all putting on the pressure for her to clean up her property - but she ain't cleaning without a fight! However, her dumpster cache is the least of her concerns when her no-good rotten-to-the-core brother, Cash Cooper, shows up on her crowded doorstep. Wherever Cash appears, trouble is sure to follow. Within days of his arrival, Henny's friend dies, jewels go missing, a gun store is robbed, and Henny's own collection is threatened. Most people in the small town of Plum Springs, Kentucky, are certain Cash is to blame, but Henny isn't convinced. Cash may have always had sticky fingers, but there's no way he's a murderer! Worse, the sheriff begins to think Henny may be assisting her brother's criminal activities. With the help of her husband, Walter - rather, his ghost - and her sister, Ida Mae, Henny aims to clear her and her brother's names. That is, if she isn't killed first!"-- Hoarding Henny Wiley returns in the highly anticipated sequel to Dumpster Dying!Henny Wiley isn’t just a collector, she’s a hoarder. And her collection, er, hoard, keeps growing—and attracting all the wrong attention. Her nosy neighbor, her family, the sheriff, and Adult Services are all putting on the pressure for her to clean up her property—but she ain’t cleaning without a fight!However, her dumpster cache is the least of her concerns when her no-good rotten-to-the-core brother, Cash Cooper, shows up on her crowded doorstep. Wherever Cash appears, trouble is sure to follow. Within days of his arrival, Henny's friend dies, jewels go missing, a gun store is robbed, and Henny’s own collection is threatened. Most people in the small town of Plum Springs, Kentucky, are certain Cash is to blame, but Henny isn't convinced. Cash may have always had sticky fingers, but there's no way he’s a murderer! Worse, the sheriff begins to think Henny may be assisting her brother's criminal activities. With the help of her husband, Walter—rather, his ghost—and her sister, Ida Mae, Henny aims to clear her and her brother’s names. That is, if she isn’t killed first! Henny Wiley works to solve a murder and a string of thefts that her nearly-estranged brother is suspected of—while trying to keep Adult Services off her back about cleaning up her house. Autorid: Michelle Bennington

"A former cop turned minister is forced to bring back his old skills when his church is rocked by a murder within its hallowed walls. Asa Carter was once one of Chicago's best homicide detectives. But he left that world behind to go into the ministry. When he's offered a pastorate position in his wife's hometown of Glen Pines-a small, quaint, and quiet town that is a far cry from Chicago-he accepts, hoping the slower pace will bring him much-needed rest. Asa's first day as Pastor of Grace Gospel Church is shattered, however, when the body of a young woman is found floating face down in the church baptistry. The small police force is inexperienced and unequipped to handle the investigation. The Chief wants Asa's help, but the mayor doesn't. It's clear there are secrets in this town-perhaps secrets worth killing for. It's up to Asa to bring back the skills he thought long forgotten and find the person who would kill on holy ground"-- A former cop turned minister is forced to bring back his old skills when his church is rocked by a murder within its hallowed walls. A former cop turned minister is forced to bring back his old skills when his church is rocked by a murder within its hallowed walls.Asa Carter was once one of Chicago’s best homicide detectives. But he left that world behind to go into the ministry. When he’s offered a pastorate position in his wife’s hometown of Glen Pines—a small, quaint, and quiet town that is a far cry from Chicago—he accepts, hoping the slower pace will bring him much-needed rest.Asa’s first day as Pastor of Grace Gospel Church is shattered, however, when the body of a young woman is found floating face down in the church baptistry. The small police force is inexperienced and unequipped to handle the investigation. The Chief wants Asa’s help, but the mayor doesn’t. It’s clear there are secrets in this town—perhaps secrets worth killing for. It’s up to Asa to bring back the skills he thought long forgotten and find the person who would kill on holy ground. Autorid: Rick Nichols

Five years after the horrific murder of an entire family, locals believe that the family’s vacant farmhouse is haunted.Jessica Calvert, a journalist from Washington, DC, is sent to the sleepy town of St. Clair, Pennsylvania to investigate claims of a light randomly turning on and off in an upstairs bedroom. After digging too deep, she discovers that the only way out of a frightening and gruesome situation is to keep digging. Autorid: Nick Allen Brown

Ten years ago, retired astronaut Jim Mayfield closed himself up inside Bear Creek Inn, and he hasn’t been seen since.Just when the small town of Bear Creek had almost forgotten about their reclusive and mysterious resident, a man from out-of-town flies in on a private jet to meet with the astronaut. The visit prompts the good people of the small town to begin asking questions. Who is Jim Mayfield? Why did he lock himself away? And who is the stranger that visited him? While the small town asks these questions, the most puzzling thing of all occurs when Bear Creek Inn takes in two guests for the first time in ten years. Autorid: Nick Allen Brown

Hit Mom Grace Adair returns to court to help her lawyer husband Michael defend Sherri Romano, the widow and accused killer of Nicky the Used Car Czar. When Michael introduces Grace to their new client, Sherri, and her purse dog, Precious, Grace is less than thrilled to be working with a "Karen at volume eleven." But that bad feeling immediately gets worse when Grace recognizes the name of Sherris first husbandbecause Grace killed him. In Hound of the Bonnevilles, Grace must now defend an alleged black widow in the midst of the busy holiday season, dealing with shopping, celebrations, and Scotchie the Giant Dogs annual war with inflatable snowmen and grinchesnot to mention a background check on her handler Madges fiancé, who turns out to have a few secrets of his own. With all this holiday madness, will Grace be able to prove Sherris innocence, when even she herself has doubts? Autorid: Nikki Knight

"Get ready for a wild ride where danger and hilarity intertwine, and where the line between friend and foe blurs under the scorching Florida sun. As the band sets the tropical soundtrack, investment advisor Tom McCall aims to bring some cool to the sizzling scene. But is he who he claims to be? Enter Florida Freddi and Missy Mudd, the dynamic duo of real estate known as the Bikini Real Estate team. Their latest sale to Jules Armand takes an unexpected turn when suspicions arise-is Armand truly who he says he is, or is he the notorious Russian scam artist Boris Nabokov? Tom, alias for former cop turned private investigator Rick Dante, is on the case, unraveling a web of deceit that intertwines with Freddi's secret life as Sabrina, agent for exotic dancers. But their investigations lead to a darker truth-a female trafficking ring operated by ruthless Russians. As Freddi and Rick's paths collide, sparks fly in more ways than one, igniting a magnetic attraction despite their mutual suspicions. With a colorful cast of characters, including Boomer the horse and The Squid, their journey will have you holding on tight as you barrel towards a chaotic and uproarious showdown"-- Get ready for a wild ride where danger and hilarity intertwine, and where the line between friend and foe blurs under the scorching Florida sun.As the band sets the tropical soundtrack, investment advisor Tom McCall aims to bring some cool to the sizzling scene. But is he who he claims to be?Enter Florida Freddi and Missy Mudd, the dynamic duo of real estate known as the Bikini Real Estate team. Their latest sale to Jules Armand takes an unexpected turn when suspicions arise—is Armand truly who he says he is, or is he the notorious Russian scam artist Boris Nabokov? Tom, alias for former cop turned private investigator Rick Dante, is on the case, unraveling a web of deceit that intertwines with Freddi's secret life as Sabrina, agent for exotic dancers. But their investigations lead to a darker truth—a female trafficking ring operated by ruthless Russians.As Freddi and Rick's paths collide, sparks fly in more ways than one, igniting a magnetic attraction despite their mutual suspicions. With a colorful cast of characters, including Boomer the horse and The Squid, their journey will have you holding on tight as you barrel towards a chaotic and uproarious showdown. One Beach, Two Babes, and the Squid is a comedic thriller that takes readers on a wild ride as undercover cop Rick Dante tracks down the notorious Russian scam artist Boris Nabokov, all while falling for a bikini-clad real estate agent who may not be who she says she is. Autorid: Buck Buchanan

The Devil Hath a Pleasing Shape portrays the further adventures of Stephen Robbins as he immerses himself in the dark regions of Asheville, North Carolina in search of the human devil who has been killing local prostitutes. Walk the dark halls and threatening streets of 1920s Asheville in this thrilling third installment of The Stephen Robbins Chronicles, as fan-favorite Robbins confronts the dangerous contrast between appearance and reality at the exclusive Grove Park Inn.It’s the autumn of 1924, and Benjamin Loftis has a problem. A college girl is discovered—naked and dead—in one of the finest rooms of his beloved Grove Park Inn. To protect the reputation of this jewel in the crown of North Carolina and all the Southern mountains, Loftis calls in Stephen Robbins, a local man famous in some circles for finding missing people and solving unsolvable crimes.Robbins, now scarred and battered by life’s wars, would rather retreat from the world than dive headfirst into a new mystery. But he agrees to help and is quickly swept into the social hierarchy of Asheville’s complex and harshly stratified society, running head-on into the financial and political elite who control this mountain town—those who want a murderer caught but not necessarily the murderer.With so many socialites focused on reputation over truth, will Robbins be able to find the devil walking among them and bring them to justice? Find out in The Devil Hath a Pleasing Shape, a thrilling noir set against the backdrop of the jazz age in America.Want more Stephen Robbins? Read more of his story in A Short Time to Stay Here and My Mistress’ Eyes are Raven Black. Autorid: Terry Roberts

Enter the magical maze of mathematics and explore the surprising passageways of a fantastical world where logic and imagination converge. For mathematics is a maze--a maze in your head--a maze of ideas, a maze of logic. And that maze in your mind is a powerful tool for understanding an even bigger mazehe maze of cause and effect that we call "the universe." That is its special kind of magic. Real magic. Strange magic. Infinitely fascinating magic. In this adventure of a book, acclaimed author Ian Stewart leads you swiftly and humorously through the junctions, byways, and secret passages of the magical maze to reveal its beauty, its surprise, and its power. Along the way, he reveals the infinite possibilities that arise from what he calls "the two-way trade between the natural world and the human mind." On your travels you will encounter number magic--both the stage-act variety and the deeper magic of animals, plants, and the physical world. You will come to understand the amazing pattern-forming abilities of the humble slime mold, the numerology of flowers, and the feeding habits of pigs and panthers. You will discover how to solve puzzles the algorithmic way, the artistic way, and the army way. You will be amazed by the deep connections between the founding of Carthage, soap bubbles, and communications networks. You will discover how to use a toy train set as a computer, and find out why this implies that there are unavoidable limits to mathematics. You will join the controversy over cars and goats, find out the terrible truth about confessions, and win endless bets about birthdays. You will see how a new idea about ferns can lead to a multi-million-dollar computer graphics company, and how Jupiter and Mars can combine forces to hurl cosmic rocks at Earth. And you will never again be able to watch a kitten, a kangaroo, or a Chihuahua without noticing the delightfully rhythmic patterns with which they move their feet. If you've always loved mathematics, you will find endless delights in the twists and turns of The Magical Maze. If you've always hated mathematics, a trip through this marvelous book will do much to change your mind. Autorid: Ian Stewart

"Locked away for over a century, this machine holds an alluring secret. After remaining sealed for generations, a hidden room is discovered in the basement of the famed Biltmore Estate. Within the musty, decaying confines of the hidden room, a large mechanical machine comes to light. Crafted with intricate gears, levers, and sophisticated mechanisms, the contraption is hailed as a significant archaeological discovery. The esteemed board of directors overseeing the operations of the Biltmore Estate enlists the expertise of Professor Dr. Daniel Garrison to unravel the purpose and origin of this enigmatic machine. While Dr. Garrison investigates, readers are transported back to the year 1906, when George Vanderbilt II commissions an inventor to construct this mysterious apparatus. What secrets lie within this machine? Why was it brought into existence? This compelling tale unfolds across intertwining narratives - the investigation of the machine in the present day and its creation back in 1906 - to deliver a captivating and riveting ending"-- Locked away for over a century, this machine holds an alluring secret.After remaining sealed for generations, a hidden room is discovered in the basement of the famed Biltmore Estate. Within the musty, decaying confines of the hidden room, a large mechanical machine comes to light. Crafted with intricate gears, levers, and sophisticated mechanisms, the contraption is hailed as a significant archaeological discovery. The esteemed board of directors overseeing the operations of the Biltmore Estate enlists the expertise of Professor Dr. Daniel Garrison to unravel the purpose and origin of this enigmatic machine.While Dr. Garrison investigates, readers are transported back to the year 1906, when George Vanderbilt II commissions an inventor to construct this mysterious apparatus. What secrets lie within this machine? Why was it brought into existence?This compelling tale unfolds across intertwining narratives—the investigation of the machine in the present day and its creation back in 1906—to deliver a captivating and riveting ending. After a hidden room is discovered in the basement of the famed Biltmore Estate, an expert is summoned to examine a machine found inside. Locked away for a century, the machine holds an alluring secret. Autorid: Nick Allen Brown

With her reputation on the line, one woman must make the ultimate gamble to save her career, her client, and a young boy's life. With her reputation on the line, one woman must make the ultimate gamble to save her career, her client, and a young boy's life.Jacqueline Stone is an accomplished criminal defense attorney whose tenacity to uncover the truth has earned her the reputation as the one lawyer who can win unwinnable cases. But when a mysterious car accident kills both her son and husband, leaving her the sole survivor, she is exiled from her prestigious firm. Battling personal demons, Jacqueline finds herself at a crossroads, ready to give up law altogether, until accused murderer Ryan Mitchell seeks her counsel and she sees an opportunity for redemption.But with evidence mounting against her client, a child witness too traumatized to provide information, and a mysterious photograph leading to more questions than answers, this case will be no easy feat. Jacqueline must navigate treacherous waters to not only save her career but also protect Ryan’s young son from a relentless killer. In a high-stakes gamble, she must rely on the wisdom of a deceased woman, as she races against time to solve the murder and unravel a web of deceit that threatens to consume them all. Autorid: Mary V. Slinkard