Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity and representation in video games, including journalists and bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the discrimination routinely endured by female gamers, queer gamers, and gamers of color. Video game developers are responding to these critiques, but scholarly discussion of representation in games has lagged far behind. Gaming Representation examines portrayals of race, gender, and sexuality in a range o...

The mushroom-like growth of new media technologies is radically challenging traditional media outlets. The proliferation of technologies like DVDs, MP3s and the Internet has freed the public from what we used to understand as mass media. In the face of such seismic shifts and ruptures, the theoretical and pedagogical foundations of film and TV studies are being shaken to their core. New Media demands a necessary rethinking of the field. Writing from a range of disciplines and perspectives,...

Brought to you by Penguin.IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year Winner 2018WINNER of the Dead Good Books Award for the Book That You Can't Put Down!She's not who you think she is . . .'I could probably have been an actress.It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else.Isn't that what I've been doing for most of my life?'Cordelia Russell has ...

The Rogerenes is an ambitious anthology that explores the rich tapestry of narratives surrounding the Rogerenes, a unique religious sect from 18th-century America known for their radical approach to spirituality and community life. This collection brings together essays, stories, and historical accounts, presenting a kaleidoscope of voices that inspect the sect's influence on American religious discourse. With works ranging from reflective and contemplative to fervently radical, the anthol...

Brought to you by Penguin.The No. 1 Bestseller'My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it.'Lydia Fitzsimons lives in the perfect house with her adoring husband and beloved son.There is just one thing Lydia yearns for to make her perfect life complete, though the last thing she expects is that pursuing it will lead to murder. However, needs must - because nothing can...

Brought to you by Penguin.Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin.Will, Brian and Luke grow up competing for their mother's unequal love. As men, the competition continues - for status, money, fame, women . . .They each betray each other, over and over, until one of them is dead.But which brother killed him?'Liz Nugent is a force to be reckoned with' Lisa Je...

Brought to you by Penguin.WINNER - IBA Crime Fiction Book of the YearBy the author of the No. 1 Bestselling Strange Sally Diamond'I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her.'Oliver Ryan is a handsome and charismatic success story.He lives in the suburbs with his wife, Alice, who illustrates his award-winning children's books and gives him her unstinting devotion....

Brought to you by Penguin.**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023****WINNER Crime Novel of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023****SHORTLISTED for The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award****SHORTLISTED for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2024**Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father to...

For fans of Marian Keyes, Dolly Alderton and Holly Bourne, ALMOST LOVE is one of the most addictive and heartbreaking reads of the year'Compulsive' Sunday Times*'*Breaks another boundary' Irish Times'A must-read' Image'Honest and poignant' Elle**'Intelligent and compelling' Daily Mail...

Perfect for fans of Tana French, Jane Casey and Gillian Flynn'Mesmerizing . . . murder, betrayal, and secret lives . . . Everything you need in a great thriller' Lisa Gardner'Really slick . . . A proper page-turner' Jo Spain'A writer you will read with your breath held' Jess KiddTOO SOON TO SEEPolished. Professional. Perfect. Dead. Respected scientist Dr Eleano...

Brought to you by Penguin.*THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*The deliciously dark new suspense novel from the international bestselling author of Strange Sally DiamondIf my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened.Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s ...

'Clever, pacey, compulsive' Sunday Mirror********One family. One night. Ten years of lies.It's June 2008 and twenty-one-year-old Adam Lattimer vanishes, presumed dead. The strain of his disappearance breaks his already fragile family.Ten years later, with his mother deceased and siblings scattered across the globe, Adam turns up unannounced at the family home. His siblings return reluctantly to Spanish Cove, but Ada...