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'Deep-diving and elegant' Margaret Atwood 'Takes the gothic genre
by the scruff of the neck' Bernadine Evaristo ----- 'They say I
must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me
to confess. But how can I confess what I don't believe I've done?'
1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates
of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs
Benham, goes on trial for their murder. The testimonies against her
are damning - slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the truth.
But they are not the whole truth. For the first time Frannie must
tell her story. It begins with a girl learning to read on a
plantation in Jamaica, and it ends in a grand house in London,
where a beautiful woman waits to be freed. But through her fevered
confessions, one burning question haunts Frannie Langton: could she
have murdered the only person she ever loved? A haunting tale about
one woman's fight to tell her story, The Confessions of Frannie
Langton leads you through laudanum-laced dressing rooms and
dark-as-night alleys, into the heart of Georgian London. WINNER OF
THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2019 SHORLISTED FOR HWA
DEBUT CROWN 2020 WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH ----- 'A dazzling
page-turner' Emma Donoghue 'A star in the making' Sunday Times
'Gothic fiction made brand new' Stef Penney 'Dazzlingly original'
The Times 'A heroine for our times' Elizabeth Day
Feminist writers come together to respond to the crisis of 2020 in
this unique collection of essays, interviews, and fiction. Spring
2020. When everything changed. As life around the world retreated
behind closed doors, gender inequalities and systemic racism were
brought to new and shocking prominence. Womxn of all backgrounds
and experiences were disproportionately affected by the crisis.
Essential debate and action was, for a time, silenced. Then we
re-emerged in protest and started to rethink our fight for
equality. So, what happens now? Challenging, inspiring and fiercely
optimistic, This Is How We Come Back Stronger is an intersectional
feminist collection for our times. Published on the one-year
anniversary of lockdown, writers from both sides of the Atlantic
reflect on what matters most in these difficult days, and what the
future can hold for us all. 20% of every sale will be donated to
charities Women's Aid and Imkaan in the fight to end domestic abuse
and support survivors. Featuring contributions from Akasha Hull,
Amelia Abraham, Catherine Cho, Dorothy Koomson, Fatima Bhutto, Fox
Fisher, Francesca Martinez, Gina Miller, Helen Lederer, Jenny
Sealey, Jess Phillips, Jessica Moor, Jude Kelly, Juli Delgado
Lopera, Juliet Jacques, Kate Mosse, Kerry Hudson, Kuchenga, Laura
Bates, Lauren Bravo, Layla F. Saad, Lindsey Dryden, Lisa Taddeo,
Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A. Carter, Michelle Tea,
Mireille Cassandra Harper, Molly Case, Radhika Sanghani, Rosanna
Amaka, Sara Collins, Sarah Eagle Heart, Shaz, Shirley Geok-lin Lim,
Sophie Williams, Stella Duffy, Virgie Tovar, Yomi Adegoke
This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the
legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a
unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen.
The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on
contemporary arthe is, in fact, a contemporary artist, working
alongside artists across disciplines in the 1960s, 1970s, and
beyond. The volume explores Becketts formal experiments in drama,
prose, and other media as contemporary, parallel revisions of
modernisms theoretical presuppositions congruent with trends like
Minimalism and Conceptual Art. Containing interviews with and
pieces by working artists, alongside contributions of scholars of
literature and the visual arts, this collection offers an essential
reassessment of Becketts work. Perceiving Becketts ongoing
importance from the perspective of contemporary art practices,
dominated by installation and conceptual strategies, it offers a
completely new frame through which to read perennial Beckettian
themes of impotence, failure, and penury. From Becketts remains, as
it were, contemporary artists find endless inspiration.
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