It is expected that after life comes some peace in death, but for Koen Pike death holds only new frustrations. Awakening in the world of Dolzaeth, a fantasy land rife with otherworlders such as himself, after an accident involving an unsavoury cousin and a poorly wired moonshining rig, the hapless Koen struggles to find his place. Swindled into the employ of the Questant Guild and suffering the companionship of his new partner Wellington Hardy, all while tasked with a first job that is les...

For a few years at the beginning of this millennium, the commercial real estate industry experienced a moment. It was an absurd moment, because the world had lost its mind.This is Daniel Keen's honest recounting of his first years out of college, when events conspired to take him on a journey beyond anything he had ever imagined to be possible.This is a tale of absurdity, of heightened sentiments and disillusionment in equal measure, a tale of tech millionaires and industri...

Mother is a one-woman play that tells the story of Christie, a homeless woman in a world detached, unforgiving and destructive. It gives voice to the fallen and dispossessed, to those who exist at the edge of safety, at the point of being undone. It speaks of madness, denial, ignorance and free-falling poverty.Utterly devastating, yet written with Daniel Keene's characteristic lyricism, Mother is wrought with tenderness, violence and loneliness in equal measure.

"I've got all the feelings. And feelings are trouble."Dez is different from the other fleshers struggling to survive in the outskirts of Newport. She's a living quantum computer, the missing link between human and artificial intelligence.If Newport City OpSec knew about her abilities, she'd be dead meat. And when she accidentally kills a cop during a routine raid, everything begins to unravel.From award winning writers Alison Croggon and Dan...

'The past is ... the past. What's left? This day, this hour, this garden ... as it is, not as it was.' Gilles has lived a life amongst the rambling beauty of the old family home. Now he's gone blind, and his children Hélène and Michel have returned for a few days to move him to a secure apartment. On the outside Gilles is stoic, resigned to his fate, but inside he silently rages against the darkness. Hélène feels the weight of responsibility - for both her father and her own family. The fr...

If you don’t know who you are and you don’t know where you’re headed, you might find yourself spiralling in ever-tightening circles until you come to rest in a nondescript part of town in a crummy two-star hotel, where the service is churlish, the lift doesn’t work, the toast is burnt and the pot plants set off your allergies. But keep your expectations low, really low, and, who knows—you might be pleasantly surprised by how everything works out.A hotel with reservations. Award-win...

In Citizens, set at the dividing wall of a war-torn country, conflict is an unseen force which disrupts the everyday tasks of people battling to survive.Soldiers is set in an Air Force hangar far from the battlefield. But for five families who have gathered to receive the bodies of their sons, brothers and friends, war does not seem so far away.Daniel Keene's astute and probing insight into the insidious effects of global tensions gives us cause to reflect...

Widening the perspective offered by the traditional canon, this history reveals the poetry of Italy between 1200 and 1600 as a site of plurality of genre, form and even language, including not just written texts but also those presented in performance. Within this inclusive framing, poetry's content, its cultural and geographical contexts and its material media of transmission are given equal weight. Decentring major figures and their texts while recognising their broad influence, the inno...

The revolution has begun. But where does it end?The stakes have never been higher.The banns are in lockdown, making it all but impossible for Dez, Bo and their friends to resist the authoritarianism of Newport City. Bo believes that the mysterious power of the water is the key to winning their struggle, but Dez is deeply troubled about his increasing obsession.Meanwhile up-and-coming soap star Erin Saba is in trouble. And in Newport City, there's no...

Does the Septuagint have authority for the church today?Numerous scholars have explored what the Septuagint is and its history and uses, but less scholarship has engaged with the ways it exercises authority within the Christian tradition. In the first multicontributor volume of its kind, biblical scholars Greg Lanier and Will Ross bring together experts from a variety of disciplines to explore the nature of the Septuagint's authority over the ages.Discover ...

There are few areas of economic policy-making in which the returns to good decisions are so high—and the punishment of bad decisions so cruel—as in the management of natural resource wealth. Rich endowments of oil, gas and minerals have set some countries on courses of sustained and robust prosperity; but they have left others riddled with corruption and persistent poverty, with little of lasting value to show for squandered wealth. And amongst the most important of these decisions are tho...

The taxation of extractive industries exploiting oil, gas, or minerals is usually treated as a sovereign, national policy and administration issue.This book offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of the theory and practice involved in designing policies on the international aspects of fiscal regimes for these industries, with a particular focus on developing and emerging economies.International Taxation and the Extractive Industries addresses key topics that are not frequently co...