In Iron Man, Lynne Bryan writes in such an insightful, thought-provoking and moving way about disability, the vulnerability of the body and of the mind, and about the frailty and also the strength of our corporeality. She also writes so thoughtfully about the ways in which women's access to head space and physical and economic space for creativity can be restricted, limited, blocked - sometimes by the people they love best and who love them best; but also of course sometimes by themselves.

This year's anthology is an eclectic collection of high quality prose, a rich and vivid read of startling, compelling and moving texts set across the world and close to home. Explore the unexpected: belly-dancing in Japan, the collapse of bricks and mortar in an ordinary street in an ordinary town, drugs buried in a Norfolk beet field or sample a still life on Brixton Station. Why does a canary sing in Kabul? What is the significance of the calf born in the snow? Infidelity and re-visited virginity, sinister origami and movie-making, the true nature of Jane Austen's dog and murder in Mexico. This is a book for the curious featuring winning entries from our annual new writing competition. This year's guest judge Emma Healey, author of 'Elizabeth is Missing,' has selected a range of texts that show us what it is to be human. Ann Abineri, Deborah Arnander, Susan K Burton, Caroline Davison, Sharon Eckman, Sarah Evans, Victoria Hattersley, Danusia Iwaszko, Sara Keene, Julie Kemmy, Isabelle King, Kathy Mansfield, C.G. Menon, Margaret Meyer, Nicola Miller, Antoinette Moses, Patricia Mullin, Glenys Newton, Dani Redd, Sarah Ridgard, Claudine Toutoungi and Louise Tree.

Word and Women: Four is an eclectic collection of high quality prose, a many-layered read of subtlety, passion, and depth. There are startling, compelling and moving texts: an insight into the dark and crippling relationships between husbands and wives, and the love between a father and daughter. Nocturnal visitors bivouac on the edge of vision, the lost follow a winter's map. There is a rapid intellectual joy ride with a Komodo dragon. There are memories of haunted trees, the struggle for recognition and change, of living with the threat of sectarian violence, and so much more. This book reflects the way we live, hope and love now. This is a book for the reader who wants to peel back the layers and wander through rich and complex worlds featuring winning entries from our annual new writing competition. This year's guest judge Naomi Wood, author of The Godless Boys, has selected a range of texts that show us what it is to be alive in a time of change. Jamilah Ahmed, Kate Harmond Allan, Deborah Arnander, Margaret Callaghan, Tricia Cresswell, Louise Dumayne, Kate Feld, Lilie Ferrari, Melissa Fu, Pia Ghosh-Roy, Guinevere Glasfurd, Sara Gowen, Anna Metcalfe, Clare Morgan, Helen Morris, Shiona Morton, Nasrin Parvaz, Marianne Picton, Ronne Randall, Kate Robinson, Cherise Saywell, Victoria Shropshire, Penny Simpson, Mary White

In 1889 an unknown but determined Jane Addams arrived in the immigrant-burdened, politically corrupt, and environmentally challenged Chicago with a vision for achieving a more secure, satisfying, and hopeful life for all. Eleven years later, her "scheme," as she called it, had become Hull-House and stood as the template for the creation of the American settlement house movement while Addams's writings and speeches attracted a growing audience to her ideas and work. The third volume in this acclaimed series documents Addams's creation of Hull-House and her rise to worldwide fame as the acknowledged female leader of progressive reform. It also provides evidence of her growing commitment to pacifism. Here we see Addams, a force of thought, action, and commitment, forming lasting relationships with her Hull-House neighbors and the Chicago community of civic, political, and social leaders, even as she matured as an organizer, leader, and fund-raiser, and as a sought-after speaker, and writer. The papers reveal her positions on reform challenges while illuminating her strategies, successes, and responses to failures. At the same time, the collection brings to light Addams's private life. Letters and other documents trace how many of her Hull-House and reform alliances evolved into deep, lasting friendships and also explore the challenges she faced as her role in her own family life became more complex. Fully annotated and packed with illustrations, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 3 is a portrait of a woman as she changed-and as she changed history.

Words And Women: Two is the second showcase collection of short prose by women writers in the East of England and the first appearance in print of four specially-commissioned texts for the page and performance, 'About.' The memoir, fiction, creative non-fiction and performance texts inside reflect the brilliance, boldness and depth of women's contemporary writing in the region. The book, published by Unthank Cameo, builds on the success of last year's inaugural competition and anthology, shortlisted for a Saboteur Award and praised as "a bold and insightful collection containing much vigorous writing - " by Mark Bond-Webster inthe Eastern Daily Press. This year, the winning entries - including the delightful narrative Cornflake Girl by first prize winner Lora Stimson - embody vivid imagination and ambiguity, delicate and subtle prose coupled with strong images and deep emotions. A young woman ponders how she has mysteriously wronged a professor. A wife compelled to spy on her husband is caught out in her own intrigue. We follow a child of the tideline. And, in a fevered night, a mother lingers in a river while danger gathers on the bank. What do you say to Kurt Cobain's son? How does it feel to be an 'outside woman' at the tropical funeral of a lover, and what does it mean to climb Mount Sanitas? The four specially commissioned texts in Words and Women: Two explore women's relationship to place. 'About', supported by Arts Council England, brings to life the voices of Jane Sellars hung in Norwich for being 'idle at Trowse', a woman who walks the Bungay Straight on a pilgrimage of grief, 18 year old prostitute 'Anguish' locked up in a mental asylum for life, and Station Mistress Appleton and her wartime fight for the right to wear a company coat. This is a book for readers who love to explore different worlds in time and space. It contains winning entries from: Tricia Abraham, Melinda Appleby, Jenny Ayres, Sarah Baxter, Ceridwen Edwards. Louise Ells, Abby Erwin, Lilie Ferrari, Melissa Fu, Hannah Garrard, Hannah Harper, Caitlin Ingham, Tess Little Jane Martin, Holly McDede, Anna Metcalfe, Marise Mitchell, Anthea Morrison, Patricia Mullin, Radhika Oberoi, Julianne Pachico, Bethany Settle, Thea Smiley, and Lora Stimson. Edited by Lynne Bryan and Belona Greenwood, with a preface by novelist and competition judge Sarah Ridgard.

Words And Women One is the inaugural showcase collection of short prose by women writers in the East of England. The memoir, fiction and creative non-fiction inside reflects the brilliance and boldness of women's contemporary writing in the regions. Here are 21 pieces of vivid prose that candidly explore every subject imaginable. A daughter discovers decades of infidelity at an exhibition. A young woman faces a terrible diagnosis. A lover mourns her loss through a sensory feast of recollection, and an old man is reminded that the weight of love is exactly 159 mangoes. A child is snared in futuristic sleep, while a life rushes past in a pattern of violence. This is a book for adventurous minds who like to mix subtlety with verve and originality with imagination. The book contains the winning entries from Words And Women's first short prose competition. Deborah Arnander, Sarah Baxter, Susan Dean, Anni Domingo, Layn Feldman, Wendy Gill, Caroline Jackson, Alice Kent, C.G. Menon, Lily Meyer, Patricia Mullin, Karen O'Connor, Judith Omasete, Bridget Read, Dani Redd, Elizabeth Reed, Bethany Settle, Kim Sherwood, Nedra Westwater, Rowan Whiteside, and Lois Williams.

Understanding Bible Prophecy is an easy-to-read overview of significant Biblical prophecies. It demonstrates the accuracy and authenticity of the Bible, explains the reason for prophecy, and helps the reader to understand world events. It also shows that despite wars, natural disasters, and the suffering caused by human beings, there is hope for the future.

Gull Stones and Cuckoos is a clear-eyed, passionate and honest book of life-writing about contemporary country living in Norfolk. Lost halls, early morning walks, stillness, fairy-light skies, telescopes on allotments, the loneliness of grief and the adventure of new places in rural Norfolk. The writers in this book are new to writing but their stories and observations are compellingly authentic. This book has grown out of an Arts Council England project Rural Writes, a partnership between Norfolk Library and Information Service and Words and Women.

Venturing into Usefulness, the second volume of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, documents the experience of this major American historical figure, intellectual, social activist, and author between June 1881, when at twenty-one she had just graduated from Rockford Female Seminary, and early 1889, when she was on the verge of founding the Hull-House settlement with Ellen Gates Starr. During these years she was developing into the social reformer and advocate of women's rights, socioeconomic justice, and world peace she would eventually become. She evolved from a high-minded but inexperienced graduate of a women's seminary into an educated woman and seasoned traveler well-exposed to elite culture and circles of philanthropy. Artfully annotated, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams offers an evocative choice of correspondence, photographs, and other primary documents, presenting a multi-layered narrative of Addams's personal and emerging professional life. Themes inaugurated in the previous volume are expanded here, including dilemmas of family relations and gender roles; the history of education; the dynamics of female friendship; religious belief and ethical development; changes in opportunities for women; and the evolution of philanthropy, social welfare, and reform ideas.

Filling a void in Jane Addams scholarship, this first volume of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams collects extant documents from the formative years of this major American historical figure, intellectual, social activist, and author. Documenting the early development of Addams's social principles, the documents reveal the leadership skills that led her into a life of public commitment.

For all her public compassion and visibility as an outspoken pacifist, Progressive reformer, and founder of Hull-House, Addams was an intensely private person who revealed her personal side only to family and close friends. Drawing on letters, diaries, and other writings from her childhood in Cedarville, Illinois, and her education at the Rockford Female Seminary, this volume provides heretofore unavailable insight into her developing ideas, educational experiences, and personal relationships.

More than just biographical records, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams defines the era in which Addams lived. Unique yet representative of the spiritual ideals and political sensibilities of post-Civil War women and society, Addams's lesser-known, personal writings are necessary reading for scholars and historians. The volume explores important themes, including the migration of families westward, the first generation of college women, and the religious and domestic lives of nineteenth-century Americans. The editors' rich annotation of individuals and events featured in the documents and biographical profiles represent a trove of primary research and place the documents in historical context.

The correspondence, diary entries, poetry, speeches, debates, school essays, and other published and unpublishedwritings included in this volume were culled from repositories across the country. Documents were selected from key special collections housed at private colleges and major public universities in Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and other states. Material was also drawn from historical societies, archives, public libraries, and the personal holdings of individual donors and collectors. Volume I of the printed edition focuses on the years 1860 through 1881, from Addams's birth through her seminary education. Subsequent volumes will address later periods in her life.