The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative st...

Sarah Kay is one of the most influential medievalists of the past fifty years, making vital, theoretically informed interventions on material from early medieval chansons de geste, through troubadour lyric, to late medieval philosophy and poetry, in French, Occitan, Latin, and Italian. This volume in her honour is organised around her six major monographs, published between 1990 and 2017. Its essays engage in critical, constructive dialogue with different aspects of Kay's work, and envisag...

The Law of Shipbuilding Contracts examines the principles of English contract law as these apply to shipbuilding. The leading text on shipbuilding and marine construction, widely used by the global maritime community, this new edition is updated to account for the "long tail" effects of the global economic crisis on the sector.The authors provide expert analysis on the key shipbuilding contract forms, including sections dealing with agreements ancillary to the shipbuilding...

COMING SOON TO CHANNEL 5 as a six-part drama series **starring Anna Friel!**There is nothing as powerful as a mother’s love. But how far will Ellen go to protect her son? From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Other Passenger and Our House comes a nail-biting story about a mother’s obsession with revenge.‘I didn’t read The Heights**, I inhaled it’** LISA JEWELL'Co...

Pure escapism on every page, The Distant Shores tells the story of a family torn apart, and the woman who will bring them back together.Margot Hart travels to Ireland to write a biography of the famous Deverill family. She knows she must speak to the current Lord Deverill – JP – if she is to uncover the secrets of the past. A notorious recluse, JP won’t be an easy man to crack. But Margot is determined – and she is not a woman who is easily put off.What she never e...

A young woman searches for the truth about her sister, who boarded a ship headed to the frozen Arctic and never returned in this “engrossing historical mystery” (The Washington Post) f****rom the author of The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives and Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter**.**Twenty-year-old Constance Horton has run away from her life in Victorian London, disguising herself as a boy to board th...

Dark secrets and hidden sorrows abound in Santa Montefiore’s spellbinding novel set in war-torn Italy and the streets of New York.'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYES‘A wonderful story, beautifully told. I absolutely tore through it!’ KAREN SWANNew York, 1979.It is Thanksgiving and Evelina has her close family and beloved friends gathered around, her heart weighted with gratit...

Sometimes your biggest mistake can also be a blessing . . .Madison has always known she had a different father to her siblings. But it wasn’t until she turned eighteen that she learned his name. And now she wants to meet the man who shares her fair hair and blue eyes.Robert is a very lucky man. A big house, beautiful wife, three handsome sons. Eighteen years ago, he made a mistake. A brief fling that resulted in a daughter ...

From million-copy bestselling author Liz Kessler comes the powerful new landmark World War II novel for fans of Michael Morpurgo and Phil Earle.When Liv finds a secret box from her grandmother’s childhood she uncovers an extraordinary war-time story of bravery, betrayal and daring defiance. A story that will change Liv and her family forever…Holland, 1942. The world is at war and as the Nazis’ power grows, Jewish families ...

Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to literature composed in medieval French from its beginnings in the ninth century until the Renaissanc...