Product Description: Just as rivers have their salt point, where the comforting saline of the sea gives way to fresh water, so too do our lives have their salt point, where comforting youth gives way to the realities of adulthood. Set amid the hurly-burly of Paris, in the aftermath of mass migration and terrorism, Naked on the Danube looks at the lives of a group of twenty-something friends, as they struggle to find meaning in their brave new world...read more

Product Description: I Did Not Die unreels to cinematic life in genteel, affluent Riverside, California amid the Great Depression and the beginnings of a new California, dominated by the false glitter of Hollywood. With the highest per-capita income in California, thanks to Eliza Tibbet's famed seedless Bahia naval orange, Riverside dreamed magical dreams of a different Southern California than the one that Hollywood destroyed...read more

Product Description: Patience Exquisite unreels to cinematic life in genteel, affluent Riverside, California amid the Great Depression and the beginnings of a new California, dominated by the false glitter of Hollywood. With the highest per-capita income in California, thanks to Eliza Tibbet's famed seedless Bahia naval orange, Riverside dreamed magical dreams of a different Southern California than the one that Hollywood destroyed...read more

Product Description: Silent Screams is a cycle of short stories and poems on the theme of love ... real and illusory. It is threaded with the motif of judgment, even bias, offering insight into the many ways we misinterpret loved ones, friends, family, partners, spouses...read more

Product Description: This book brings together the ever-increasing UK legislation, case law, and extra-statutory material that tax advisers need to be aware of when purchasing and selling shares in private companies in the UK. Practical and user-friendly, the book provides tax planning solutions that are found from a commercial and tax perspective, and it strikes a happy medium between the buyer's and the seller's expectations...read more

Product Description: A biography of the metrosexual. By his dad. Back in the flaky-skinned early Nineties Mark Simpson predicted the future of men was metrosexual. A couple of decades on even he’s shocked by what hussies today’s males have become – and the shameless, fatal Jersey Shore that masculinity has washed up on...read more

Product Description: A Grape Story: From Raisin to End by Mark Simpson

Product Description: Blackstone's Handbook for the Special Constabulary is a timely and comprehensive guide to the role and work of this unique group within the UK police force. Drawing on the new National Strategy for the Special Constabulary, it provides an invaluable, practical resource for all Special Constables, from new recruits to seasoned officers or even those who simply want to find out more about the role...read more

This biography contains original contributions from more than 30 actors and actresses including, Sir Ian McKellen, Ronnie Corbett, Ian Carmichael, Derek Fowlds, John Standing, George Cole, Stephen Fry, and John Fisher. It is supported by extensive research including an interview with the playwright Christopher Fry, information from people who worked on the film sets with Alastair, material from museum archives, and original reviews from theatre magazines, newspapers, and various other publications. It examines Alastair's roles in the Quota Quickie films of the 1930s and 1940s before he became established as the most idiosyncratic star in such famous British comedies as The Happiest Days of Your Life and The Belles of St Trinians. It goes on to explain why his popularity suddenly waned as the cinemagoers taste for the risqué evolved during the latter part of the 1950s. This book also explores Alastair's life outside of films including his marriage to Naomi Sim—whom he first met when she was 12—his extensive work on stage, including his theatrical endeavors with James Bridie, and his stalwart refusal to sign autographs. It is the only book in the market dedicated to Alastair Sim, and includes a bibliography and film section.

A portrait of the contemporary music icon explores his enigmatic personality in light of the author's own fan obsession, tracing his rise as the front man of The Smiths in the 1980s through his solo career.

Product Description: This report provides a detailed picture of the processes that shape 'poor transitions'. The authors argue that understanding social exclusion and devising effective policies to reduce it requires immersion in the experiences of the socially excluded...read more

Product Description: Simpson (English, U. of Alberta, Canada) begins with a reading of the Confessions of Nat Turner and explores the legal discourse of human movement under the institution of slavery. Shifting to fictional discourses of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville, he discusses the commercial power of travel narratives in the emergent capitalist publishing in...read more

Product Description: There is no other contemporary artist who is so famously difficult, so apparently enigmatic, and so passionately, religiously loved by his fans as Morrissey.However, as Mark Simpson argues in his wickedly funny and deeply sacrilegious portrait, Morrissey isn’t quite so enigmatic as he might at first appear...read more

Product Description: This book will change the way you think about sex. It may even put you off it altogether. In his full-frontal follow-up to his widely acclaimed It's a Queer World, Mark Simpson dispenses with the monkey business of sexuality and gets to grips with the organ grinder itself: SEX...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Intended as an antidote to feel-good politics, this text aims to give readers the strength to admit they are not glad to be gay after all. The author considers topics including why most contemporary gay culture is trash and why being gay is like being in a religious cult, except not so open-minded...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this hilariously perverse collection of essays, celebrated British writer and satirists Mark Simpson takes a wittily warped look at a fin de siecle world of pop culture where nothing is as straight -- or as gay -- as it seems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Intended as an antidote to feel-good politics, this text aims to give readers the strength to admit they are not glad to be gay after all. The author considers topics including why most contemporary gay culture is trash and why being gay is like being in a religious cult, except not so open-minded...read more