Sex Crimes in the Fifties (Featherstone Lisa)(Paperback)

Sex Crimes in the Fifties (Featherstone Lisa)(Paperback)

The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-2017) has given national consciousness to the problematic treatment of sexual offences in Australia's past. Yet there has been little historical research into the policing, prosecution and punishment of those

Sex and Crime (Fanghanel Alexandra)(Paperback)

A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, this book sensitively confronts the surrounding issues of nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures. To expose and explain how sex and

Kingston in the Fifties (Sampson June)(Paperback / softback)

Making Sense of Neuroscience in the Early Years (Featherstone Sally)(Paperback / softback)

Sex and Crime (Fanghanel Alexandra)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, this book sensitively confronts the surrounding issues of nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures. To expose and explain how sex and

The Fifties (Halberstam David)(Paperback)

The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but

Downstate (Norris Bruce)(Paperback)

In downstate Illinois, four men convicted of sex crimes against minors share a group home where they live out their lives in the shadow of the offenses they committed. A man shows up to confront his childhood abuser--but does he want closure or retribution? Bruce Norris's new play Downstate zeroes

Wonder Woman in the Fifties (Various)(Paperback)

The Fifties...The world was still rebuilding itself after the Second World War and American patriotism was at an all-time high. The public, in turn, demanded champions who reflected and defneded their ideals. Beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, swifter than Mercury, and stronger than Hercules,

Darkness Within (Stone Lisa)(Paperback / softback)

A gripping new crime novel from the global bestseller Cathy Glass writing as Lisa Stone You know your son better than anyone. Don't

Birmingham: The Fifties Revisited (Douglas Alton)(Paperback / softback)

The fifties was the decade that saw Birmingham getting back to its feet, shaking off the dust and demolition of the war years and slowly getting on with the business of 'Life as normal'. This title features more than 300 street scenes from Birmingham's past, in which, lots of firms jostle for

Sex Object: A Memoir (Valenti Jessica)(Paperback)

New York Times Bestseller'Sharp and prescient... The appeal of Valenti's memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it...Sex Object is an antidote to the fun and flirty feminism of selfies and self-help.'

Dud Avocado (Dundy Elaine)(Paperback / softback)

A hugely entertaining novel of sex, lies and Americans in Paris, dripping with the sarcasm those Americans are not supposed to have. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern

Complete Novels (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Provides a glimpse of the bright young things of the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties in the city and in the shires; firmly ensconced at home or making a go of it abroad; and what the upper classes really got up to in peace and in

Havana Year Zero (Surez Karla)(Paperback)

Sex, lies, and scientific history collide in 1993

The Lies and Crimes of Sweet Caroline (Wills Darren)(Paperback)

Born to a mother who doesn't want her, Caroline lives in a world that doesn't understand her and she's fuelled by anger and hatred. She dreams of a different life. To survive the one she's been given, Caroline channels that anger and hatred, and behind her fragile, beautiful exterior hides a woman

The Twin Knights (Tezuka Osamu)(Paperback)

A gem from the fifties when the legendary master was most deeply involved in girls' comics, Twin Knights is more than just a sequel to the shojo manga milestone Princess Knight. More close addressing issue of station as well as gender, this one-volume tale has all the antic innocence of the early

Incredible Crime - A Cambridge Mystery (Austen-Leigh Lois)(Paperback / softback)

Another in the Crime Classics

Everyday Fashions of the Fifties as Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Olian Joanne)(Paperback)

This scrupulously researched, meticulously rendered collection spotlights multiple generations of a family for each decade of the twentieth century. Apparel includes everything from ankle-length tennis outfits and men's formal wear of the 1910s to military outfits from both World Wars, high-fashion

Collision of Lies (Threadgill Tom)(Paperback)

'Threadgill plunges a detective from the San Antonio Property Crimes Division into a deep-laid plot involving murder, kidnapping, and myriad other crimes above her pay grade.'--Kirkus ReviewsThree years ago, a collision between a fast-moving freight train and a school bus full of kids led to

Choral Society (Leith Prue)(Paperback)

Three single women in their fifties meet when they join a choir. Lucy, recently widowed, is a cook and food journalist; Joanna, a successful business woman, never married; Rebecca is a divorced interior decorator. Each of the women is at a crossroads and they quickly form a bond. The trio decide to

Uneasy Lies the Crown (Alexander Tasha)(Paperback / softback)

In Uneasy Lies the Crown, the thrilling new mystery in Tasha Alexander's bestselling series, Lady Emily and her husband Colin must stop a serial killer whose sights may be set on the new king, Edward

A Crime in Holland (Simenon Georges)(Paperback)

'The matchless French crime novelist' -- Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.' --The Guardian Georges

Scandal in Spring (Kleypas Lisa)(Paperback / softback)

From the New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas comes Scandal in Spring, the fourth title in the beloved romance series The Wallflowers - perfect for fans of Sarah MacLean, Julia Quinn and Eloisa

Soho in the Eighties (Howse Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

In the 1980s Daniel Farson published Soho in the Fifties. This memoir is a sequel from the Eighties, a decade that saw the brilliant flowering of a daily tragi-comedy enacted in pubs like the Coach and Horses or the French and in drinking clubs like the Colony Room. These were places of constant