Anne Walsh: 23 books

Who killed Alfred de Maine, Lord Farnton? Highwaymen on the backroads of Ireland, as his pretty widow Eleanor claims? One of the traveling folk camped near the village where Eleanor fled? A resident of Glenscar, protecting the village's hidden power? Or did John Marlowe, the son of Glenscar's squire,...

For this Cinderella, midnight is only the beginning... Avani of Shroca has never danced at a ball. Her world is her bad-tempered cousins' kitchen, and her only pleasure her escapes to the nearby forest, though she must be back by midnight. One night near the beginning of autumn, she overstays her...

What if Little Red Riding Hood asked the wolf to save her from the woodcutter? Why would Hansel and Gretel run away from their home to seek out the witch’s oven? These and other questions are answered in the Marrain Chronicles, which take a playful approach to retelling well-known tales without...

Jonathan Brinwald, manservant to his half-brother Nathaniel, idly speaks aloud his greatest wish one wintry night under the stars: a new home, where both he and his brother could find a place to belong, and be healed from the sorrows of their past. The land of Olechna, where magic is common and the...

New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...

Global Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries_each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity. A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows how, in different nations, identity...

  This collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and...

Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or...

In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been characterized by debates about collective and historical memory, stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship. This growth of so-called memory...