Julian: 1621 books

There is a tainted play written by a genius who killed himself when it was completed. Any who read it will experience epiphanies beyond endurance.Countless centuries of its malign influence are spanned by the stories in this book.From seventeenth-century buccaneers to twenty-first century soldiers,...

One night in future London town, where a theft goes awry and nobody is ready for what follows. The eternal truth of any capitol city is that there are a lot of people not doing so well. These 'streets of gold' are tidal in places. Body modifying went from labs to back streets a long time ago....

GUARDIANS INC. BOOK 2: THUNDERSWORD The search for the Book of Concord is on the brink of failure. Guardians Inc. can’t move without being followed by the Azure Guard, and the balance between Magic and Technology has begun to shift giving Magical creatures a stronger hold in our world. With new enemies...

Philip Larkin's favourite novel? That might be an exaggeration but it is one that not only exercised a lasting fascination for him but was also an influence on his own novel writing. Larkin famously wrote about it in a 1982 Spectator article (republished in Required Writing) under the wonderfully...

This is the first comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Covering both familiar extinct birds and more obscure species, some known from just one specimen or from traveller's...

The world doesn’t know her secret; the Lady of Cheatem Manor, the beautiful Lady Amanda Longleigh, is driven by an insatiable lust for sex – her kind of sex. She rules in Baronial splendor, and to all the world appears to be the model of a respectable aristocrat. Little do they know of her closely...

Marco Pazzolini always dreamed of being a professional musician. Virtually overnight he found himself with a wife, a daughter, and a lucrative record deal.  He soon discovered that fame and celebrity was a far cry from how he ever imagined it would be and on the brink of popularity, gave it all up...

What would they do once the fire goes out?     Two lifelong friends, Gianni Mazzaro and Matteo Radicci, set off on their summer travel, an annual ritual since their college days. This year it’s the Mediterranean, the first stop being a small village in the mountains of southern Italy...

Brandon and Olivia, two goth/emo kids alienated from their idyllic Long Island neighborhood, only have one another to depend on. Brandon's parents are careerists, often too busy to pay any attention to him. Olivia is dealing with her abusive mother, who often body shames her and chastises her over...

'[The White Father] was to be a State of the Nation novel, about the end of Empire, contrasting the last generation of men who'd served it, and the new one which was just breaking out from the long dullness of the post-war years, but didn't really know where it was going...' Julian Mitchell, from...

An exerpt from the book: One of the staple events of trips that the plantation owners enjoyed while being in Port Royal, were the fights in the factories.  An ‘arena’ was chosen, a molasses factory where the centre was cleared for a ‘ring’ and enough room for spectators all around...

Living in a house of his own in a peaceful place has been John’s dream since childhood, so finding a secluded house in the woods overlooking a river makes him ecstatic. However, after John moves in, the house and its inhabitants turn out to have their own agenda. Unwilling to part with his dream, John is thrown into a dilemma…

The tyrant King Zephra has waited nineteen long years to meet his destiny. In the deepest corner of his hidden lair he has finally found a way to break the laws of magic. His malevolent scheme will forever ensnare the world. And the Feldonian nation will be powerless to stop him. Yet destiny...

Julian Wolfreys introduces students to the central concept of transgression, showing how to interpret the concept from a number of theoretical standpoints. He demonstrates how texts from different cultural and historical periods can be read to examine the workings of 'transgression' and the way in which it has changed over time.