Critical Responses About the Black Family in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child explores the integral role of what Kobi Kambon has called the “conscious African family” in developing commercial success stories such as those of Morrison’s protagonist, Bride. Initially, Bride’s accomplishments are an extension of a superficial “cult of celebrity” which inhabits and undermines the development of meaningful interpersonal relationships until a significant literal and metaphorical journey helps ...

Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic spaces, and rural women’s experiences, including Mormon pioneer women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadia...

As World War One brings women unexpected new freedoms, bookbinder Peggy has the chance at a new future.'Vivid and moving ... I absolutely loved it!' Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things'Charming, original and beautifully researched' Rachel Hore, author of A Beautiful Spy*'*When the men leave for the Western Front, Peggy and her friends must shoulder the burden at home.As she moves...

From the winner of the Genre-Busting Book of the Year 2024 comes the second fantastically original and twisty crime thriller.A fortune teller predicts her own murder.Will a detective see his coming?Former CID detective Scott Jericho is done with murder. Done with puzzles. Done with the dark rage that seems to haunt him.That is until a vicious serial killer targets someone close to him.Now Jericho is back, his thirst ...

**WINNER OF THE GENRE-BUSTING BOOK OF THE YEAR FINGERPRINT AWARD 2024****SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024**'One hell of a ride' - THE TIMES'Revelatory' - VAL MCDERMID'A must-read' - JANICE HALLETT'A genuine triumph' - IAN MOORE'What more could a reader ask for?' - JOHN CONNOLLY...

Shattered by the events of his last case, Scott Jericho has returned to the darkest shadows of his past. With Harry in a coma and critically ill, and the truth of his mother's mysterious death finally revealed, nothing and no one can rein in those violent impulses Jericho has striven for decades to control.Remorseless, he now hunts a man who, it seems, has been haunting his life for longer than anyone could have guessed. But as a final confrontation with the killer known only as 'P...

MURDER WON'T STAY BURIED.The brand-new 2025 thriller from award-winning crime writer William Hussey, author of Killing Jericho, the Genre-Busting Crime Novel of the Year award winner 2024 and Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year shortlisted breakout hit.While Scott Jericho is tasked with investigating the most baffling case of his career, his partner Harry is set upon his own fateful path.In a rundown sea...

Former CID detective Scott Jericho is done with murder. Done with puzzles. Done with the dark rage that seems to haunt him.That is until a vicious serial killer targets someone close to him.Now Jericho is back, his thirst for justice remorseless.But time is running out. Fortune tellers and psychics are being slaughtered and everything points to a link with a live TV event due to be broadcast on Halloween night. But what is the significance of the macabre wax effigie...

Brought to you by Penguin.What is lost when knowledge is withheld?Oxford, 1914. When the the young men are drawn away to fight, it is the women who must keep going. Twin sisters Peggy and Maude work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambitious and dreams of studying - but is often reminded that her job is to bind the books, not read them. Maude, meanwhile, is extraordinary a...

Welcome to the thrilling universe of "Chronicles of the Space Marauders: Jericho's Odyssey," a gripping sci-fi adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.Plot Overview: In a galaxy teetering on the brink of chaos, the crew of the Desperado-a band of rebels and outcasts-embark on a daring mission to dismantle a sinister brainwashing facility operated by the United Stars. Led by the fearless Jericho, the team must navigate treacherous ...

Scott Jericho thought he'd worked his last case. Fresh out of jail, the disgraced former detective is forced to seek refuge with the fairground family he once rejected.Then a series of bizarre murders comes to light - deaths that echo a century-old fairground legend. The police can't connect the victims. But Jericho knows how the legend goes; that more murders are certain to follow.As Jericho unpicks the deadly mystery, a terrifying question haunts him. As a direct descenda...

Peggy og hendes tvillingesøster Maude arbejder i bogbinderiet hos Oxford University Press. Hver dag folder de ark, som senere skal blive til bøger. Peggy drømmer om en dag at kunne læse bøgerne, mens Maude er fint tilfreds med kun at folde. De bor sammen på en husbåd i forstaden Jericho, som grænser op til Oxford.Da Første Verdenskrig bryder ud, drager størstedelen af mændene fra Oxford University Press mod Vestfronten. Efterladt tilbage er kvinderne, der må holde forlaget og reste...