A biography of the prolific and controversial English author of the classic children book series Famous Five, Noddy, Secret Seven and many others.A remarkable woman who wrote hundreds of books in a career spanning forty years, Enid Blyton could never have predicted her enormous global audience. Now, more than fifty years after her death, Enid remains a phenomenon, with sales outstripping every ...

The true story of the man who created Winnie-the-Pooh—yet struggled to enjoy the overwhelming success that it brought him.Thanks to a phenomenally popular collection of whimsical children's stories about a boy named Christopher Robin and his beloved teddy bear, A.A. Milne remains a household name in almost every corner of the globe. Generations have grown up loving the tales of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood.But though his work b...

A revealing and surprising biography of the woman who defied Victorian expectations and gave the world Peter Rabbit.Beatrix Potter's children's books have enchanted generations of young readers who adored the characters she created as well as her distinctive illustrations. Born into a typically repressed Victorian family, Beatrix was expected to achieve little more than finding herself a rich husband, and thus her parents felt there was no point in bothering to edu...

Although his hilariously entertaining stories have touched the hearts of generations of children, there was much more to beloved author Roald Dahl than met the eye.His fascinating life began in Norway in 1916, and he became a highly rebellious teenager who delighted in defying authority before joining the RAF as a fighter pilot. But after his plane crashed in the African desert he was left with agonising injuries and unable to fly.He was dispatched to New York where, as a dashing young air...

JENNIFER LAWRENCE is the reigning queen of lots of things: Hollywood, the awkward award-ceremony-stumble, and hundreds of priceless BuzzFeed pages - to name a few.She announced herself to the world at a young age in The Burning Plain and Winter’s Bone, gripping dramas set in America’s deprived heartland. Ironic, then, that such a gifted character actress has become a household name through two of the biggest fantasy roles in the business: the deadly shapeshifting assassin Mystique f...

From starring as the ruthlessly ingenious drug lord 'Stringer' Bell in the iconic HBO series The Wire, to playing Madiba himself in the long-awaited biopic of Nelson Mandela, it has been some journey for Idris Elba. From humble beginnings, a second generation immigrant born in Hackney, London, Elba set up his own wedding DJ business at the age of 14 but, encouraged by his drama teacher to pursue his natural talent, won a place at the National Youth Music Theatre. Although possessed of a br...

THEY HAVE BECOME KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD AS THE ULTIMATE POP-CULTURE POWER COUPLE.Favourites of the paparazzi, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are both worth millions in their own right. She is the queen of reality TV and an all-round business mogul. He’s a rapper, fashion designer and outspoken award show favourite. Together they are Kimye - glitzy, globetrotting icons and parents of one very stylish kid, North West.Without question they are the biggest news in entertainment to...

The Real Beatrix Potter is a fascinating and revealing biography of one of the world's most cherished children's authors.Beatrix Potter's famous little white books have enchanted generations of young readers who adored the characters she created and of course her own distinctive illustrations.Born into a typically repressed Victorian family it was assumed that Beatrix would achieve little more than finding herself a rich husband, and so there was no point in bother...

While some people study globalization, others live their lives as global experiments. This book brings together people who do both. The authors or subjects of these studies are of diverse national, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. What they have in common is a connection to Morocco. It is from this shared space that they draw on personal stories, fieldwork, and literary and linguistic analysis to provide a critical, socially reflexive response to the conceptions of culture, identity, and...

Marcela A. País Andrade y Belén Igarzábal, junto a RGC Ediciones, presentan el libro De la cultura al feminismo, que nos invita a conocer distintas experiencias artísticas/culturales (colectivas e individuales) llevadas a cabo por mujeres, disidencias, diversidades, colectivas (trans)feministas u otres que se vienen desarrollando en los últimos años, en total cuenta con más de 40 colaboraciones.Los relatos que aquí se tejen muestran las formas de expresar inequidades y viol...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:“A Performance for Painted Bones” by Kelly Stewart“Girl, I Love you” by Nadia Bulkin (reprint)“A Lasting Legacy” by Osahon Ize-Iyamu“Harvest” by Michael Harris Cohen (reprint)

The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist assumptions hold that social solidarity and social plurality are compatible, offering a path to guarantees of individual rights, social justice, and tolerance for minority voices. Yet today, challenges to the liberal-democratic sovereign nation-state are proliferating on all levels, from multinational corporations and international institutions to populist na...