The anthology comprises 43 stories, non-fiction pieces, flash fiction and poetry, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of Queer writing today. This is writing that explores characters, stories and experiences beyond the mainstream. Celebrating the fascinating, the forbidden, the subversive, and even the mundane, but in essence, the view from outside. The book will be dedicated to the memory of Lucy Reynolds, the trans daughter of Sarah Beal, Publisher a...

The best of Queer writing from around the world. Championing new and emerging writers alongside established authors, the anthology features voices across all narrative forms including fiction, poetry, memoir, essay and flash-fiction. The anthology will comprise of 40 pieces, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of queer writing today. The first volume, published by Muswell Press in November 2021, has reprinted five times and praise was widespread, This ...

This accessible and entertaining guide introduces Sigmund Freud's life and ideas, from dream analysis to the superego.Sigmund Freud's theories on the unconscious revolutionised the way we approach human behaviour. This essential introduction explores his theories and the implications they had for understanding an array of psychological issues, including trauma, repressed memory, childhood development and more.It also explores Freud's life as a scientist - t...

The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller IN THE FINAL RECKONING, CHOOSE YOUR SIDE CAREFULLY… The epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series.After years fighting to reclaim his rightful home, Uhtred of Bebbanburg has returned to Northumbria. With his loyal band of warriors and a new woman by his side, his household is secure – yet Uhtred is far from safe. Beyond the walls of his impregnable fortress, a battle for power rages.To the south, King Æthelstan h...

The Sunday Times BestsellerA new assessment of the West’s colonial recordIn the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and China rising to challenge the post-1945 world order, the liberal West faces major threats.These t...

New York Times Bestselling AuthorIn the frozen Northlands of Midkemia, Captain Dennis Hartraft’s Marauders have just had a disastrous encounter with their sworn enemy, the Tsurani. Wounded and disheartened, the Mauraders set out for the shelter of a frontier garrison. They don’t know that a Tsurani patrol is sent to support an assault on that same garrison. Arriving simultaneously, the Marauders and Tsurani find the outpost already overrun by a dark enemy whose ferocity is legendar...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by The New York Times, LitHub, BookBub, Goodreads, and many more!Janice Hallett, “the new queen of crime” (Electric Literature), returns with a fresh, edge-of-your-seat mystery that takes place at a pub’s weekly trivia night, revealed through quiz categories, phone messages, and email correspondence.Sue and Mal Eastwood run an i...

The dropping of two atom bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their shocking aftermath finally ended World War II in the eastern theatre. But they weren't the only experimental weaponry at the time.In this fascinating account, Chris McNab examines the development of a range of hitherto unknown and at times shockingly effective weapons that were developed and unleashed on an unsuspecting world over the course of the war.They include the bouncing bomb, t...

In this fantastic tale, legendary author Raymond E. Feist returns to the city of Krondor and one of his most loved characters from the Riftwar Cycle, Jimmy the Hand.The Crawler: a name whispered in fear. . .In the crime-ridden back alleys of Krondor a rival gang has sprung up to threaten the Upright Man’s Mockers. Does the Crawler control the rival gang? Where does his power come from? And does it threaten the peace of the Kingdom?James, personal sq...

"It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."When first published, Jude the Obscure (1895), caused a public outcry over its challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships. Its title character, Jude Fawley, is a young lower-class man with dreams of being a scholar, whose hopes of an academic career are dashed when he is trapped into marriage by a woman who later abandons ...

"Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain."The Thomas Hardy Collection: Six Novels brings together some of Hardy's most powerful novels—stories of love and longing, ambition and ruin, resilience and heartbreak—all set against the haunting landscapes of his vividly imagined Wessex in southwest England.The titles included here are:Far From the Madding CrowdTess of the D'UrbevillesThe Ret...

'Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.'Published in 1886 and widely considered Thomas Hardy's masterpiece, The Mayor of Casterbridge is a profound meditation on fate, guilt and redemption.After selling his wife and child at a country fair in a drunken rage, the proud yet regretful Michael Henchard swears to atone for his actions. Years in the future, now a new man in his sobriety, Henchard is a prosperous merchant and the respe...