Alison: 1980 books

Condemned to an honour killing after Uday Hussein and his henchmen rape her during the 1990s Iraqi-Kurdish war, Evin Feili flees to the northern Iraqi camp of Kurdish guerrilla fighters. Distinguishing herself in combat and intelligence operations in eastern Turkey, she returns to find the...

THIS TIME, FOREVER The truth will out! The first time: Hope had always been strongly attracted to Guy, but she did the right thing and turned her back on him…until that fateful weekend, when their desire boiled over. In-between times: Hope tried to put her short-lived, misguided...

A drop-dead gorgeous man walking into the hospital with a newborn baby in his arms should be all in a day's work for emergency pediatric surgeon Jane Walters. But this isn't work-related--this tiny little girl is the daughter Jane never knew she had! When Jane donated her eggs to a friend,...

Cloddia loves to dance under the stars while they sing to her each night. Then one day Spits shows up and declares that dancing is a waste of time. Spits is training to become a famous racing camel. As Cloddia’s world changes around her, a sudden sandstorm rearranges the landscape—and Cloddia’s thinking! But what about Spits?

Naomi was always the geeky hanger-on at uni, but now her social networking app Snog has taken the internet by storm and suddenly she's rich and famous and running a huge company. It's more than her jealous friend Jeni can bear, and it's all too easy to set up a fake online profile and start making...

Little Consequences An illegitimate baby was fodder for the local gossips-especially when the identity of the baby's father was uncertain. But Riona knew that Cameron Adams, the wealthy American who owned the farm she managed in Scotland, was her son's father. He was also the man who'd left...

This diverse anthology features eight contemporary plays founded in testimonies from across the world. Showcasing challenging and provocative works of theatre, the collection also provides a clear insight into the workings of the genre through author interviews, introductions from the companies and...

From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly innocuous garments we find hats laced with mercury,...

What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401,...

This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson's claim that Shakespeare had 'small Latin and less Greek' and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare's texts: a group whose generic hybridity (tragic-comical-historical-romance) exemplifies the hybridity...

The man she has been waiting for… Jake Logan may be ex-military, but recently he'd been more at home among the glitterati of Hollywood's finest. So different from where he is right now: seeking shelter from a powerful storm with the most beautiful woman he's ever met. She's a breath of fresh...

What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, actually wrote a novel—and the manuscript still existed? This tantalizing possibility drives The Summer Guest, a spellbinding narrative that draws together, across two centuries, the lives of three women through the discovery of a diary. During...

Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international...

Sisters Jennifer and Sarah were once part of a happy, stable family, but their idyllic life comes to an abrupt halt with the death of their mother. Unable to cope with his grief and the needs of his two young daughters, their father finds comfort in alcohol, gets fired from his job, and loses his...