A lavish wedding, a guest list full of secrets, and a bride plunged to her death.Ivy Stone is excited to spend a weekend helping her friend manage a gorgeous wedding on a private Scottish isle. Before the couple can say, ‘I do’, the bride falls to her death, and speculations abound. Is it an accident? Suicide? Or murder?Trapped together while the investigation is underway, Ivy finds herself in a thickening plot of intrigue among the bridesmaids, guests, and a mysterious str...

'A systematic and engaging approach to creative writing' - Carla Harryman, Wayne State UniversityBy suggesting that students who are not born poets can yet learn to become good ones, Smith performs a very important service.' - Professor Susan M. Schultz, University of HawaiiThis is an impressive book, because it covers areas of creative writing practice and theory that have not been covered in published form It links radical practice with radical (but bett...

This ambitious book is constructed to provide the reader with unusually broad and deep insight into North Korea, illustrating how the Kim Jong-un regime calculates, balances, and addresses the various key policy challenges it faces. This will be accomplished through the extensive experience of the authors—Korean, European, and American—in North Korea and with North Koreans. There is no substitute for such direct experience in order to address the numerous myths and misconceptions that have...

In this historically grounded, richly empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea, Hazel Smith evaluates the 'marketization from below' that followed the devastating famine of the early 1990s, estimated to be the cause of nearly one million fatalities. Smith shows how the end of the Cold War in Europe and the famine brought radical social change to all of North Korean society. This major new study analyses how marketization transformed the interests, expectations a...

This book explores the relationship between words and music in contemporary texts, examining, in particular, the way that new technologies are changing the literature-music relationship. It brings an eclectic and novel range of interdisciplinary theories to the area of musico-literary studies, drawing from the fields of semiotics, disability studies, musicology, psychoanalysis, music psychology, emotion and affect theory, new media, cosmopolitanism, globalization, ethnicity and biraciality...

First Published in 1997. The authors’ purpose in this book is to dissect developments in improvisation in the arts since 1945, with a particular emphasis on process and technique. The approach is analytical and theoretical but is also relevant to practitioners and their audience. Their key argument is that improvisation has been of great importance and value in the contemporary arts, particularly because of its potential to develop new forms (often by breaking definitions).

Now that Soviet style socialism has collapsed upon itself and liberal capitalism offers itself as the natural, necessary and absolute condition of human social life on a worldwide scale, this book insists that the potentially emancipatory resources of a renewed, and perhaps reconstructed, historical materialism are more relevant in today's world than ever before. Rather than viewing global capitalism as an eluctable natural force, these essays seek to show how a dialectic of power and resi...

A lavish wedding, a guest list full of secrets, and a bride plunged to her death.Ivy Stone is excited to spend a weekend helping her friend manage a gorgeous wedding on a private Scottish isle. Before the couple can say, 'I do', the bride falls to her death, and speculations abound. Is it an accident? Suicide? Or murder?***Trapped together***while the investigation is underway, Ivy finds herself in a thickening plot of int...

From hidden clues to old secrets, mysteries don't stand a chance when Pru, Pip, and Teddy are on the case!While Martha is busy in Hollywood pitching her retired lady detective TV series, Pru—and Teddy—find themselves in a mystery of their own.Pru, and fluffy Coton de Tulear Teddy, have their hands full at Rose Leaf House, an old Victorian mansion whose extensive library of books has been donated to the local library. As Pru sorts through a collection of dus...

Raising butterflies is peaceful and calm, until someone dies.Majestic Monarch Butterfly Farm might flitter away forever. That is, unless Seneca James acquires the property next door. She and Winifred, her costume-wearing cat, have a fight on their hands. Their land sits next to a milkweed-covered field, essential for monarchs. If she's unsuccessful in buying it, her precious, winged friends won't survive. When people end up dead on her farmland, Seneca is suspected of murder. What ...

Dinner is served with a side of danger — can Pru and Pip solve the case before it's too late?When assistant librarian Pru gets an urgent call for help from her best friend Pip, she doesn't hesitate. Pip's working a shift at a local pop-up restaurant, and one of the servers has mysteriously cancelled, leaving her in a pinch.The night is supposed to be special: Joss, a rising star artist, is debuting his first exhibition, with a menu designed around his art, ...

Murder doesn’t pair well with Merlot…When former Hollywood actress Sam Jones and her boyfriend, Jordan, visit a quaint Colorado winery, they expect wine tastings and mountain views—not murder. During their tour, wine barrels come crashing down, killing their enthusiastic guide, Penelope. But was she the intended target, or was someone after Sam?With a suspicious small-town sheriff questioning their every move, Sam and Jordan discover Penelope had plenty of ...