Tova Adler is tired, having devoted more than three decades raising three children, including a son with severe autism. This observant Jewish woman believes it is time to transition him to a home of his own. Her husband Alex disagrees. This conflict is at the heart of a story that also touches on what it means to be the child of Holocaust survivors and offers a look at the beauty and wisdom of Judaism. (Proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Nationa...

The fires of the Spanish Inquisition burned without mercy, consuming the innocent alongside the guilty, tearing apart families who dared to hold onto their faith in secret. In fifteenth-century Spain, to be Jewish was to live under the shadow of the stake, the dungeon, and the torturer's hand. Against this terrifying backdrop, Marcus Lehmann brings to vivid life the story of the Family y Aguilar, a courageous Jewish family whose devotion to their heritage and to one another becomes a testa...

This book examines Charles Dickens's underappreciated engagement with Classical knowledge and its role in his cultural commentary. By treating his novels as collaborations with illustrators, particularly Phiz, it explores how Dickens drew on Ancient Greek and Roman myths, history and art to engage with 19th-century debates. Through detailed analysis of both text and illustrations, the book reveals the complexity of Dickens's Classical references and their significance in s...

This book examines how parties voice voter preferences in plenary debates—an often-overlooked dimension of parliamentary politics. Combining theoretical insights with an innovative process model of representation, the book empirically tests how party positions shift between elections and legislative action. Using machine learning to analyse manifestos and speeches, it provides new data and methods for assessing substantive representation. This work will appeal to theorists of ...

In a peaceful village where every new invention needs a name, the Wordsmith is the trusted keeper of language-crafting words with care using his magical set of alphabet letters. But one windy morning, disaster strikes: the bag of letters tumbles open, and the most important ones-the vowels A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y-are whisked away by the wind!Without these "windy letters," the Wordsmith can only create strange, breathless words like Cpck, Hmwrk, and Brth...

‘Original, audacious. . . A must-read for lovers of history, magic and revenge’ Erin KellyDisgraced. Beheaded. Revived . . .When Anne Boleyn wakes up after her execution she finds she is not yet ready for death. She has unfinished business with the king who had her murdered and is determined to secure her daughter, Elizabeth’s, future. She escapes the tower, sews her head back on, and sets out on a quest for justice.But Anne’s path ...

Brought to you by Penguin.Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . .When Anne Boleyn wakes up after her execution she finds she is not yet ready for death. She has unfinished business with the king who had her murdered and is determined to secure the future of her daughter, Elizabeth. Discarded by Henry for failing to produce a male heir, reviled by the court for being too smart for her own good and beheaded on trumped-up charges, Anne ...

In Silence: The Psychology and the Craft for Emotional Wellbeing, the author―a psychotherapist, university professor, educator, and researcher―takes the listener into a thought-provoking and heartfelt journey. She offers original perspectives and vulnerable stories from her clients, students, and personal life. Drawing on, among others, ethnographic and autoethnographic accounts, Lehmann serves the listener with psychological insights, offering a timely, critical, and thorough vie...

INTRODUCED BY LUCY CALDWELL'With brilliant dialogue and intense passages of elation and despair, The Weather in the Streets takes you on the rollercoaster of their relationship' ESTHER FREUD, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes' ENGLISH PEN'The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings & perceptions' ANITA BROOKNER

**ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings and perceptions' ANITA BROOKNER**'I cannot doubt that this is Miss Lehmann's best and most permanent book' RAYMOND MORTIMER'Unconventional in structure, in characterisation and development of story . . . Unforgettable' NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNEThe tale of the unlikely friendship betwe...

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'The lyrical, sensuous quality . . . puts her immediately into the front rank of English writers' THE TIMES'It will consume you . . . transforming your whole inner life for the time it takes to read' JONATHAN COE'She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD'Mamma was fast ...

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'A love triangle of bruising intensity, with a highly intricate and elegant structure' CLARE CHAMBERS'Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD'Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love' MARGARET DRABBLETwo sisters: Madeleine and Dinah. One husband: Rickie Masters. Fo...