"Now you must do something much scarier. You must dare to be yourself. ***Live as you!***"Detention is a character-driven ensemble novel (90.5K words including 1 map and 7 illustrations) about fighting for freedom against tyrannical laws. Hugo Rank, an empathic detective who longs for epic tales, interrogates eight young outlaws, arrested for rioting:Sanchx, a gender-fluid con artist,Bastian, an irreverent flame-da...

"Exciting . . . a comprehensive account of an overlooked campaign in which an outnumbered imperial army destroyed Mussolini's dream of a new Roman Empire." —Ashley Jackson, author of ChurchillSurprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, this is the story of the British and Commonwealth forces who, against all odds, completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa against an overwhelmingly superior Italian opponent in 1941. A hast...

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Tribunal of Unseeing is a poetry collection about consciousness under pressure: the struggle to remain human within cultures that classify, condition, commodify and reduce the individual.Across six movements, the collection constructs a tribunal in which the structures of contemporary life are brought into evidence. The body becomes specimen, commodity and social sign. Desire is manufactured. Identity is organised through inherited categories. Politics becomes spectacle. W...

What happens when the ability to see through illusion becomes an inability to believe in anything at all?Cocoon Corpus is a collection of poems concerned with perception, falsity, cultural construction and the dangerous seductions of negation. Moving through fractured images of politics, sexuality, authority, technology, consumer life, intimacy, art and social belonging, the poems repeatedly test the structures through which human beings create meaning.Nothing is a...

Fragments from the Leper Colony is a novel of consciousness told through 131 interlocking fragments.Its unnamed narrator inhabits the Colony: a world of unemployment, meaningless labour, rented rooms, political meetings, television schedules, computer courses, cultural debris and relationships that repeatedly fail to provide connection. The Colony is not merely a location. It is a condition entered when time loses its shape, meaningful work disappears and the future contra...

As threats to the security of information pervade the fabric of everyday life, A Vulnerable System describes how, even as the demand for information security increases, the needs of society are not being met. The result is that the confidentiality of our personal data, the integrity of our elections, and the stability of foreign relations between countries are increasingly at risk.Andrew J. Stewart convincingly shows that ...

*Introduced by Rory Stewart*What makes a person good? What does it mean to be evil? And what does it tell us about being human?Philosophers have been grappling with these questions for thousands of years, and they remain as vital as ever in our present moment. Here, in a selection of essays each written by a different world expert, we explore the ideas of twelve strikingly different philosophers. From Hannah Arendt’s 'banality of evil' to N...

Acid Testimonies is a collection of thirty-five poems organised into six interconnected movements exploring complacency, social degradation, sexuality, institutional power, historical recurrence and metaphysical reflection.Moving from the intimate textures of everyday life towards broader questions of civilisation and identity, the collection examines recurring patterns of authority, alienation, aspiration and belief. The poems inhabit spaces between observation and testim...

Cosmetic Guillotine is a poetic anatomy of contemporary civilisation and its hidden interiors.Across five interconnected movements, Veneer, Contagion, Apparatus, Fracture and Residue, the collection traverses glamour, ideology, empire, desire, cultural illness, psychological dislocation and the search for meaning beyond systems that appear increasingly exhausted.These poems move be...

Post-Flesh Exhibits is a poetic journey through identity, civilisation, spectacle and the search for meaning in an increasingly mediated world.Across eight interconnected movements, the collection traces the transformation of the individual from manufactured identity to urban alienation, social exhaustion, spectacle, ritual and spiritual inquiry before arriving, unexpectedly, at cultivation, discipline and renewal. Cities become museums of forgotten lives. Progress mutates...

In "Beauty and the Beast," Stewart Andrew McDowall deftly reinterprets the classic fairy tale through a contemporary lens, exploring the intricate dynamics of love, acceptance, and transformation. The narrative intertwines lush, evocative prose with vivid imagery, capturing the tension between inner beauty and societal judgment. McDowall's literary style pays homage to traditional fairy tale conventions while infusing it with modern psychological depth, shedding light on the characters' in...