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  • Eve Bites Back

    An Alternative History of English Literature

    by Anna Beer ...
    Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen.Warned not to write – and certainly not to bite – these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history.‘Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.’ A.L. KennedyEver since Sappho first put stylus to papyrus, women who write have been labelled mad, undisciplined and dangerous. Funny and provocative, Eve ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Death of an Englishman

    An Oxford Mystery

    by Anna Beer ...
    A quest for a valuable manuscript turns into a hunt for its author’s killer. Meet Oxford’s Eve Brook, literary detective, as she tackles her first mystery.David Morrow, Oxford don and controversial media pundit, is found dead in his college rooms. Eve Brook is recruited to complete his latest book, a dazzling takedown of "woke" history. But the manuscript is missing, and everyone Eve meets seems ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare

    by Anna Beer ...
    Series series The Life of the Author
    Discover an invigorating new perspective on the life and work of William ShakespeareThe Life of the Author: William Shakespeare delivers a fresh and exciting new take on the life of William Shakespeare, offering readers a biography that brings to the foreground his working life as a poet, playwright, and actor. It also explores the nature of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Milton

    Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot

    by Anna Beer ...
    John Milton (1608-1674) is best known as the author of the masterful epic retelling of fall of man, Paradise Lost. But he was more than just the 17th century voice of Satan. Wise and witty scholar Anna Beer traces his literary roots to a youthful passion for ancient verse, especially Ovid. She also rounds out parts of his life that have been, until now, little studied. Milton was deeply involved ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sounds and Sweet Airs

    The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

    by Anna Beer ...
    The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man’s world.‘Lucid, engaging and exuberant... [Sounds and Sweet Airs] is terrifically enjoyable and accessible, and leaves one hankering for a second volume.’ The Sunday TimesFrancesca Caccini. Barbara Strozzi. Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Marianna Martines. Fanny Hensel. Clara Schumann. Lili Boulanger. Elizabeth Maconchy.Since the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Patriot or Traitor

    The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

    by Anna Beer ...
    A BBC History Magazine Book of the YearA writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time. The fifth son of a Devonshire gentleman, he rose to become Queen Elizabeth’s favourite, only to be charged with treason by her successor.Less than a year after the death of his Queen, Ralegh was in the Tower, watching as the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Life of the Author: Shakespeare

    by Anna Beer ...
    Narrated by Susan Ericksen ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare delivers a fresh and exciting new take on the life of William Shakespeare, offering listeners a biography that brings to the foreground his working life as a poet, playwright, and actor. It also explores the nature of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and family, and asks important questions about the stories we tell about Shakespeare based ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Comics, Activism, Feminisms

    Edited by Anna Nordenstam, Kristy Beers Fägersten, Margareta Wallin Wictorin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics
    Comics, Activism, Feminisms explores from both historical and contemporary perspectives how comic art, activism, and feminisms are intertwined, and how comic art itself can be a form of activism.Feminist comic art emerged with the second-wave feminist movements. Today, there are comics connected to social activist movements working for change in a variety of areas. Comics artists often respond ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    Patriot or Traitor

    The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

    by Anna Beer ...
    Narrated by Marian Hussey ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 36 min

    Sir Walter Ralegh’s life is romantic, irresistible, and of central importance to our island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh’s famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents his stranger-than-fiction life in all its richness.How could a man once the Queen’s favorite find himself consigned ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Eve Bites Back

    An Alternative History of English Literature

    by Anna Beer ...
    Narrated by Anna Beer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 32 min

    Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literatureWarned not to write—and certainly not to bite—these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history.From the fourteenth century through to the present day, women who write have been understood as mad, undisciplined, or dangerous. Female writers ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Sharing the Burden of Stories from the Tutsi Genocide

    Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire

    by Anna-Marie de Beer ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
    This book deals with literary representations of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. The focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled ‘Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire’ (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine African authors. This work emphasizes the Afropolitan cultural frame in which the texts were conceived and written. Instead of using ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Poiesis Review #1-5

    A Literary Journal Archive

    by T. Kilgore Splake, Robert Schuler, Pamela Annas, Sherry Asbury, Timothy Beer, Michael S. Begnal, Guy R. Beining, John Berbrich, Janice Brabaw, April Michelle Bratten, Ferruccio Brugnaro, Dan Buck, Julie Buffaloe-Yoder, P. B. C., CEE, Terry Clarke, Glenn W. Cooper, Bill Costley, Henry Denander, Jim DeWitt, Joseph Dorazio, R. Emolo, Michael Estabrook, Gary Every, Jason Fisk, Ashley Gatewood, Lila Goodman, Mary Guckian, George Held, Kevin M. Hibshman, Jack Hirschman, Stephanie Hiteshew, Zoe A. Jaimot, Mignon Ariel King, Arthur Winfield Knight, Zack Kopp, Michael Kriesel, Ray Larsen, Father Luke, Giovanni Malito, William Martinez, Patrick McKinnon, Bruce McRae, Jason Monios, Rod Naquin, Normal, K. Nuzzo, Kez Panel, Alvin Park, Simon Perchik ...
    Poiesis Review #1-5 is a collected archive of poems that comprises the first five issues of the print journal from 2008-2012, with poems dating as far back as 1991. The journal contains 119 poems in 164 pages of writing by 73 of the best poets in the independent press, including those at the turn of the new millennium.Poiesis Review is one of the only literary journals in existence that features a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus