Winner: Fringe First Award 2024'I loved being a Mum. Until he started to get a personality'Son of a Bitch is a brutally honest and darkly funny monologue about a woman who is caught on camera calling her 4 year old son a c*nt during an air-rage incident.When the video goes viral, Marnie's life violently unravels. Now the whole world knows her darkest secret, but what happened before someone pressed record and captured the w...

Jonathan Joseph Jackson, Jr. was born in Alaska, but he’s not an Eskimo.

He is rage personified.The amplifier of calamitous thoughts.The darkener of souls.He is Wrath. Worst of the Seven Deadly sins.Fueled by negative emotion, Wrath can transform even the slightest of human annoyances into pure blinding, homicidal rage. Influencing and corrupting even the kindest, most loving, mortal souls from once happy and carefree, to hateful, and damned where the Father of all evil, Lucifer, could claim them. Preying upon unsuspecting mortal...

What better way for girls to get to know themselves and their friends than with The All-New Teen Quiz Book? This fun book quizzes over all of the important and trendy things in a girl's world: guys, style, friends, family, school, and, of course, you!You know that boy who sets your heart aflutter—how can you tell if his moves mean “I like you, too”? What about your friends; are they true and here to stay, or is it time to find a new group of buds? How do you handle peer pr...

Lisette and Natalia are perfect. What all the other girls want to be. Beautiful and famous as their alter egos online, they revel in the joy of sexual exploration, and exhibitionism online. The view, the likes, the followers. It’s addictive. Almost as addictive as the forbidden fruit of their new teacher, John May.With a dark past of his own, he see’s Lisette for exactly what she is. Both tempting, and troubled. Will he surprise her, or will it be the other way around?Deali...

Fans of My Dark Vanessa will LOVE The Nymphetamine GirlsLisette and Natalia are perfect. What all the other girls want to be. Beautiful and famous as their alter egos online, they revel in the joy of sexual exploration, and exhibitionism online. The view, the like, the followers. It's addictive. Almost as addictive as the forbidden fruit of their new teacher, John May.With a dark past of his own, he see's Lisette for exactly what she is. Both tempting, and ...

The state is increasingly experienced as both intrusive and neglectful, particularly by those living in poverty, leading to loss of trust and widespread feelings of alienation and disconnection.Against this tense background, this innovative book argues that child protection policies and practices have become part of the problem, rather than ensuring children’s well-being and safety.Building on the ideas in the best-selling Re-imagining child protection and drawing together ...

These twenty-three papers focus on recent research into the Upper Palaeolithic of the Levant, a murky period of human history (ca 45,000 to 20,000 years ago) during which modern patterns of human behaviour and communication became the norm. The vast majority of archaeological data from this period relates to chipped stone tools and most contributors focus on defining and distinguishing the two main traditions in lithic technology - the Levantine 'Aurignacian' and the 'Ahmarian'. Some paper...

Environmental journalist Alix Morris spends an eye-opening year getting to know these elusive, intelligent creatures, investigating the effects of their extraordinary return from the brink of extinction and how we can try to bring nature back into balance.It might be their large, strangely human eyes or their dog-like playfulness, but seals have long captured people's interest and affection, making them the perfect candidate for an environmental cause, as well as t...

Dive into the legendary world of the Volsunga Saga, the Norse epic that has inspired generations. This saga weaves tales of gods, legendary heroes, and cursed treasures in a gripping narrative of power, betrayal, and destiny. Follow the heroic deeds of Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, entangled in a tragic love triangle that leads to a cycle of vengeance spanning generations.Experience a saga where honor and treachery, love and hate, loyalty and betrayal blur, in a world where g...

Matthew Holness stars in this superbly silly Scandinavian detective yarnKnut Ångström is a brooding, alcoholic, maverick Swedish detective from the mean streets of Oslo. Following the deaths of his beloved wife Christa, and cheeky duck Elvin, he is posted to the Njalsland peninsula, where he becomes embroiled in a labyrinthine mystery which bears an eerie similarity to the Askeladden killings - a case from his distant past.Arriving at a secluded valley afte...

The Future Is Here.“The series successfully showcases future voices representing the vast spectrum of the speculative fiction genre.” —Library Journal“The L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest has quietly been shaping the next wave of genre storytellers—with a legacy that’s as cosmic as the stories themselves.” —SciFiNow.co.uk“The gangbuster of science fiction short story collections. Outstanding.” —Midwest Book Review