The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read nowWinner of the Dylan Thomas Prize for new writersA Times Children's Book of the WeekA Guardian Top Teen Read of 2015"Happy birthday, Stanly. We hope you like your present…"Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird is a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend is a talking beagle named Daryl, and that he gain...

In this one-off short story set in the Bitter Sixteen universe, everyone's favourite wise-cracking beagle Daryl gets a slightly more violent Christmas than he bargained for…

How do you find out the truth in a world where the concept no longer applies?A dame walks into a detective’s office and asks him to find a missing girl. A familiar setup. You might have seen it before.Or maybe not. Because this detective is woken every morning by a talking magpie, and the reflection he sees in the mirror doesn’t belong to him. And before he can start looking for the girl, he needs to find out if she ever existed in the first place.W...

The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read nowStanly is frustrated. Having set himself up as London's protector, he's finding that the everyday practicalities of superheroism are challenging at best, and downright tedious at worst. So it's almost a relief when an attempt is made on his life and Stanly finds himself rushing headlong into a twisted adventure, with enemies new and old coming out of the woodwork. However, even with his friends and his ever-...

The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read nowCynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. And the superpowered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now he's not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after savi...

The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now"This is my story. This is my story. All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental. All mistakes are intentional, except for those that aren't" —LucyStuff is a story about stuff, and about Stuff. Told from the increasingly fragmented perspective of Lucy, a writer hopelessly adrift in her early twenties, it's a story about confusion, loneliness, love and weird substances. Abou...

The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read nowTwenty-three-year-old Vanessa is adrift in London. A year out of university and marooned in a quietly deflating relationship, she can't work out where her passion and creativity went – and on top of that, she is experiencing frightening visions, and an overwhelming sadness that doesn't seem to belong to her.Then something impossible happens: her best friend Mark, who vanished without a trace seven ye...

Leaving the comfortable world of just sitting and talking carries a certain risk with it. But the idea of risking something proves valuable for therapy, counseling, coaching and supervision: Standing up and doing something unexpected can be a good thing. Change demands having new experiences, and therapy should thus become the place to have insights," the "place to experience new things" - new thoughts, new feelings and new actions, the latter in a very physical sense.This volume introduce...

Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever.This accessible work examines various approaches that theorise, practise and nurture a creative construction towards varieties of democratic planning. Drawing from current socio-economic and ecological movemen...

It is the turn of the century in an England that never was. Bright new aqua-plants are generating electricity for the streetlights; news can be easily had on the radio-viz; and in Gundisalvus’s Land, the war is over and the soldiers are beginning to trickle home. Amongst these is Lt. Benjamin Braddock, survivor of the massacre that ended the war, and begrudgingly ready to return to a world that, well, doesn’t seem to need him any more than it did in peacetime. His friends have homes and fa...

Das Handbuch bündelt alle wichtigen aktuellen Themen- und Arbeitsfelder in der psychosozialen Versorgung geflüchteter Menschen: von stationären Behandlungskonzepten über diagnostisches Fallverstehen bis zu Social Trauma. Fundiert und verständlich aufbereitet rüstet die kompakte Handreichung professionell und freiwillig Tätige für ihre vielfältigen Aufgaben umfassend aus und nimmt insbesondere die psychosozialen Bedarfe in den Blick. Die Autor:innen verknüpfen theoretisches Hintergrund- und...

Dschihad – Heiliger Krieg. Seit dem 11. September 2001 ist dieser Begriff gleichbedeutend mit islamischem Terror und mit der Angst des Westens. Aus Anlass des zehnten Jahrestages von 9/11 dokumentieren Guido Knopp, Stefan Brauburger und Peter Arens, dass der Heilige Krieg keineswegs auf den Islam beschränkt ist. Ein Blick in die Geschichte lehrt, dass die blutigsten Kriege im Namen Gottes von und zwischen christlichen Konfessionen geführt wurden.Durch die Jahrhunderte – von der Aus...