by Amy Butler Greenfield (2014)
"Lucy, a chantress who works magic by singing, is called to court to find a lost instrument of Alchemy. But her magic isn't working properly"--
Julie Hearn
In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions.
Leanna Renee Hieber
After Percy Parker found her true love, she discovers that her destiny has more in store for her and with the help of magical beings, must stand against a deadly host who plan on overrunning London.
David Collings
According to David Collings, Wordsworth interpreted the outbreak of war between England and France in 1793 as a cataclysmic event, one whose utterly disfiguring effect he would trace in his work over the next decade. Expanding upon this extravagant interpretation of events, Collings argues, Wordsworth constructed a poetics of cultural dismemberment - a way for culture to imagine that it survives in the midst of its own destruction. In Wordsworthian Errancies, Collings challenges prevailing critical approaches to Romantic poetry by describing and critiquing this deconstructive account of culture in Wordsworth's poetry. Drawing ideas from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, and queer theory, Collings's reading reveals a radically new Wordsworth, one who is far more concerned with various "queer" modes of sexuality than previously suspected. In a provocative reading of The Prelude, for example, Collings argues that Wordsworth associated his poetic power with homoerotic masochistic fantasies and with his involuntary delight in traumatic events. He also redefines the debate concerning the politics of Wordsworth's poetry: disputing recent critics who claim that Wordsworth retreated from history into a poetry of the self, Collings argues instead that the very notion of the solitary, autobiographical subject derived from Wordsworth's sense of cultural trauma. The suspect dimension of Wordsworth's poetry, Collings concludes, is not its retreat from history but rather its claim that history is disaster.
David Dickinson
"In 1902, Queen's Inn is the youngest and most fashionable of London's Inns of Court. On 28th February, at a Queen's feast, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his soup and dies. He has been poisoned. Soon afterwards, his friend Woodford Stewart is shot dead and Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to resolve the matter of the murdered barristers."--Jacket.