Bloomsbury

MappingMultiple Literaciesbrings together the latest theory and research in the fields of literacy studyand European philosophy, Multiple Literacies Theory (MLT) and the philosophicalwork of Gilles Deleuze. It frames the process of becoming literate as a fluidprocess involving multiple modes of presentation, and explains these processesin terms of...

Lucas and Tessa’s friendship is the stuff of legend in their small Midwestern town. So it’s no surprise when Lucas finally realizes his feelings for Tessa are more than friendship and he asks her to prom. What no one expected, especially Lucas, was for Tessa to come out as a lesbian instead of accepting his heartfelt invitation....

Cricket’s greatest legends. Sport’s fiercestrivalry. Wisden’s fakest diaries.CrickiLeaks charges headlong onto the players’ balcony and imagines 40cricketing diaries of rare wit and invention, along with the illustrated bookcovers they might have inspired. Featuring spoof journal entries drawn from throughout Ashes...

Jenny Oldfield’s As You Like It is a fresh, youthful retelling of Shakespeare’s comedy. When half of the royal court end up abandoning their luxury lifestyles for the back-to-basics life of the forest no one really knows who they are anymore - let alone who anyone else is! In the midst of all this, the young people are trying to find love...

When magistrate Matteo Arcontis namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings in Piazza Clodio, its a coded warning to the authorities - a clear message of defiance and intimidation.Commissioner Alec Blume, all too familiar with Romes criminal underclass, knows little of the Calabrian mafia currently under...

Autumn 1940. London is being firebombed, unable to strike back as the Luftwaffe drones overhead. Jack Finlay, a young man notorious for his ability to fight fires, is given the task of preventing five buildings vital to Britain's war effort from being engulfed by the flames.But resources are scarce and the mood is bleak, and Finlay himself...