Claire Taylor: 25 books

Who needs a hero when there's a scapegoat? Laurel Sapphire’s dinner parties have never been a huge hit. But that all changes when her guests discover that it never warmed up after winter ... and it’s now the middle of August.  As word spreads from Wimbledon, Kentucky, to the rest...

Road trips, feral hogs, and humiliation. Everything’s bigger in Texas. Ride along with Natalie, a bitter-before-her-time city girl, as she travels from one side of the Lone Star State to the other, searching for the One and gathering important travel tips every single gal should know before...

'The clear intention of the authors is to motivate, persuade and give confidence to those who might otherwise think that research can only be carried out by teams of university staff' - ESCalate Most Teaching Assistants (TAs) studying for Foundation Degrees need to do Action Research projects. This...

This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and online...

This volume explores one of the central issues that has been debated in internet studies in recent years: locality, and the extent to which cultural production online can be embedded in a specific place. The particular focus of the book is on the practices of net artists in Latin America, and how...

This is the first book-length study of the genre of 'artist-opera', in which the work's central character is an artist who is uncomfortable with his place in the world. It investigates how three such operas (Pfitzner's Palestrina (1915), Krenek's Jonny spielt auf (1926) and Hindemith's Mathis der...

A rookie cop in a city of shifters. He may not have fangs or claws… but he’s got a badge. In a precinct jam-packed with paranormal officers, newbie cop Norman Green is pint-sized, nose blind, and relatively hairless. And if being human wasn’t enough of a shot in the foot, his training...

Paranormal gang wars. Exploding leprechauns. This cop won’t survive any more rookie mistakes. Officer Norman Green would kill for a slow night on the job, but another body would only add to this caseload. When a leprechaun spontaneously combusts into purple goo in the midst of a turf war,...

Notmie Reel Job is a fraud. A very good-looking fraud, that is. His unearthly beauty has been his meal ticket for most of his life, until one day he sees his own vanity reflected back at him and begins to wonder if there isn't more to life than powerfully good looks. And thus begins his quest to break...

As public and private sectors become stakeholders, nation-states become corporations, interests become strategic objectives, and identities become brands, branding emerges as a key feature of the pervasiveness of market logic in today’s world. Branding Latin America: Strategies, Aims, Resistance...

Poverty in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens was a markedly different concept to that with which we are familiar today. Reflecting contemporary ideas about labour, leisure, and good citizenship, the 'poor' were considered to be not only those who were destitute, or those who were living at the...

Woken by the horrific image of a young girl being killed, Felicity Lawrence puts it down to nothing but a terrible nightmare. But when the body of the same girl is found a week later, Felicity feels she has no choice but to contact the police. Although initially sceptical, police officer...

“It’s an autobiography! If I tell you what’s in it you won’t read the book.” — Claire Drainie Taylor Or would you? Maybe you’d be intrigued by the progression of a life begun as an unexceptional little girl born to a middle-class Jewish Canadian couple in a small prairie town...

The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British...