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2023
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From the author of The End of the World is FlatThe Terg wars are over. Now meet the Yerfs'Brilliant! Perfectly captures both the absurdity and horror of this madness'. Gareth Roberts.When Tara Farrier returns to the UK after a long spell as an aid worker in war-torn Yemen, she's hoping for a well-deserved rest.But a cultural battleground has emerged while she's been away, and she's unprepared for the sensiti...
The Hurtle of Hell
An Atheist Comedy Featuring God and a Confused Young Man from Hackney
2018
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When gay, pleasure-seeking Stefano Cartwright is almost killed by a wave while at the beach, his journey up a tunnel of light convinces him that God exists after all, and he may need to change his ways if he is not to end up in hell. When God happens to look down his celestial telescope and see Stefano, he is obliged to pay unprecedented attention to an obscure planet in a distant galaxy, and ends up on the greatest adventure of his multi-eon existence. The Hurtle of Hell combines...
A Right Royal Face-Off
A Georgian Comedy Featuring Thomas Gainsborough and Another Painter
2020
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A hilarious Georgian romp through the art world's most famous rivalry. It's 1777, and Thomas Gainsborough, England's second-greatest portrait artist, contends with social climbing and royal commissions. He loathes pandering to grandees, but everything changes when he paints King George III and discovers a taste for royal company. Will he be chosen as court painter over his rival, Sir Joshua Reynolds?Two centuries later, a damaged painting surfaces ...
2020
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A hilarious clash of history and politics unfolds! Underneath a ruined abbey's tennis courts, St. Edmund's remains ignite a national identity crisis. Culture Secretary Marina Spencer, with her advisor Mark Price in tow, seizes the moment, but their ambitions are built on Mark's little white lies. Can dig volunteer Hannah expose the truth before it's too late?Simon Edge's witty novel skewers Westminster's power games, blending ancient relics with modern-day satire. ...
2021
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'Skewers the trans rights row with some nifty, often snort-inducingly funny satire' THE TIMES'A bracingly sharp satire on the sleep of reason and the tyranny of twaddle' FRANCIS WHEENMel Winterbourne's modest map-making charity, the Orange Peel Foundation, has achieved all its aims and she's ready to shut it down. But glamorous tech billionaire Joey Talavera has other ideas. He hijacks the foundation for his own purpose: to convince the wor...
The Hopkins Conundrum
A Tragic Comedy About Gerard Manley Hopkins and Five Shipwrecked Nuns
2017
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A literary mystery with a twist of Welsh charm! Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales and hatches a plan: enlist an American pulp novelist to fabricate a mystery around poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. The Hopkins Conundrum blends Hopkins' real life and the tragic tale of the shipwrecked nuns from "The Wreck of the Deutschland" with a contemporary love story, all while satirizing the Dan Brown-esque conspiracy industry.Can Tim pull off his scheme and sa...
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Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives, 1540–1740
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A broad-ranging exploration of the everyday lives of women—from social calls to medical needs—during one of English history's most fascinating periods.Maids, wives, and widows were the official classifications of women according to English law in the early modern era, immediately following the medieval period. In this fascinating study of the time, historian Sara Read shows "how varied, rich, joyous, and sociable early modern women's lives were, not to mention just...
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When Ideology Meets Reality
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and a Times, Spectator and Observer Book of the Year 2021‘In the first decade of this century, it was unthinkable that a gender-critical book could even be published by a prominent publishing house, let alone become a bestseller.’ Louise Perry, New Statesman‘Thank goodness for Helen Joyce.’ Christina Patterson, Sunday Times‘Rea...
Feminism for Women
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Material Girls
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2021
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PREORDER KATHLEEN STOCK'S NEW BOOK DO NOT GO GENTLE: THE CASE AGAINST ASSISTED DEATH (APRIL, 2026)'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday TimesMaterial Girls is a timely and trenchant criti...
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- Walden of Bermondsey
2018
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Judge Walden is back, to preside over five new cases at Bermondsey Crown Court.Retired resident judge Peter Murphy takes us back to the world of criminal trials in South London for another session with Charlie keeping the peace between his fellow judges - Marjorie, 'Legless' and Hubert - while fighting off the attacks of the Grey Smoothies, the civil servants who seem intent on reducing the court's dwindling resources to vanishing point in the name of 'business cas...
Walden of Bermondsey
Comic Tales from a South London Crown Court
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- Walden of Bermondsey
2017
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When Charlie Walden took on the job of Resident Judge of the Bermondsey Crown Court, he was hoping for a quiet life. But he soon finds himself struggling to keep the peace between three feisty fellow judges who have very different views about how to do their job, and about how Charlie should do his.And as if that's not enough, there's the endless battle against the 'Grey Smoothies', the humourless grey-suited civil servants who seem determined to drown Charlie in paperwork and stri...