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Established in 1948, UQP is a dynamic publishing house known for its innovative philosophy and commitment to producing books of high quality and cultural significance. UQP publishes books for general readers in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, Indigenous writing and youth literature as well as scholarly works. Our books and authors have received national and international recognition through literary prizes. These include the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the ABIAs, the CBCAs, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and the White Raven awards.
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The ArtsNovember 2025Queen Henrietta's Men and the Cockpit Repertory
Drama on the Drury Lane Stage, 1626–36
by Eleanor Collins
This book offers the first extended study of Queen Henrietta's Men, one of Caroline London's most important professional playing companies. The drama that the company performed at the Cockpit between 1626 and 1636 includes many underexplored and neglected plays from the period alongside more celebrated works by dramatists including James Shirley and John Ford, and a number of Elizabethan and Jacobean revivals. Queen Henrietta's Men and the Cockpit Repertory explores the material and cultural conditions under which the company operated, and offers an account of the dynamics that held between new drama written for the company and the revivals staged alongside that fare. In doing so, this account illuminates the ways in which an appreciation of the work of Queen Henrietta's Men can offer new perspectives on theatre history and the categories of company and repertory that have shaped it.
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March 2025RuPaul
Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre | Die Königin der Dragqueens
by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Wednesday Holmes, Silke Kleemann
RuPaul wuchs mit seinen drei Schwestern und seiner Mutter in San Diego auf. Er war anders als die Jungs in seiner Klasse, die ihn immer hänselten, denn RuPaul verkleidete sich gern – als Mädchen. »Tu das, was sich für dich richtig anfühlt, und lieb dich für das, was du bist«, sagte die Mutter zu ihm. Er schmiss die Schule und zog nach Atlanta, um darstellende Kunst zu studieren. Und weiter nach New York, wo er als Schauspieler, Singer-Songwriter, Model und Performer rasch zur glänzenden »Queen of New York« aufstieg. Sich nicht in eine Schublade stecken lassen, sich lieben für das, was man ist, dafür ist RuPaul das beste Beispiel. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Philosophin, Forscherin oder Sportler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
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May 2026Die Queen von Mayfair
In den feinsten Kreisen zählt nur der Schein – und sie kennt das Spiel wie keine andere | Very British! | Mit exklusivem Farbschnitt in der ersten Auflage
by Alex Hay, Regina Rawlinson
London, 1898: Eine geheimnisvolle junge Frau ist strahlender Mittelpunkt auf den Bällen der Saison. Die High Society erliegt ihrer Schönheit, ihrem Charme und Witz. Niemand ahnt, wer sich hinter dem makellosen Lächeln verbirgt. Quinn Le Blanc, ist Meisterin der Verkleidung und in der Halbwelt als »Queen von Mayfair« bekannt. Ihr Ziel: sich den begehrtesten Junggesellen Londons, den Duke of Kendal, angeln – samt seinem stattlichen Vermögen. Ihr Plan ist kühn, das Spiel riskant. Und sie hat nur fünf Tage Zeit. Quinn gleitet zwischen funkelnden Kronleuchtern, knisternder Seide und geflüsterten Intrigen durch die feine Gesellschaft. Doch immer mehr verstrickt sie sich in ein kompliziertes Netz aus Liebe, Lügen und Loyalität, denn sie ist nicht die Einzige, die mit falschen Karten spielt … Ein charmanter Gesellschaftsroman voller Spannung, Eleganz und Witz – mit einer Heldin, die man nicht mehr vergessen wird. Für alle, die das Spiel lieben.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2020Imagining Caribbean womanhood
Race, nation and beauty competitions, 1929–70
by Pamela Sharpe, Rochelle Rowe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie
Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions, spanning from Kingston to London. It traces the origins and transformation of female beauty contests in the British Caribbean from 1929 to 1970, through the development of cultural nationalism, race-conscious politics and decolonisation. The beauty contest, a seemingly marginal phenomenon, is used to illuminate the persistence of racial supremacy, the advance of consumer culture and the negotiation of race and nation through the idealised performance of cultured, modern beauty. Modern Caribbean femininity was intended to be politically functional but also commercially viable and subtly eroticised.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2024Spenserian tracts
'A Brief Discourse of Ireland' and 'The Supplication of the Blood of the English' from the Munster revolt of 1598
by Hiram Morgan
Morgan's study of key texts situating Edmund Spenser and the plantation in Munster in the late 1590s reveals not only a hatred and abiding fear of the Catholic Irish but also disturbing tensions with the state in England including the Queen herself. In doing so, he has combined traditional historical and literary methods with stylometric document testing to reveal the authorship of these controversial contemporary tracts. Overall this insightful book reimagines the English colonial mentality of the period by examining its underbelly of anonymous texts.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2017The divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga
Hincmar of Rheims's De divortio
by Rachel Stone, Charles West
In the mid-ninth century, Francia was rocked by the first royal divorce scandal of the Middle Ages: the attempt by King Lothar II of Lotharingia to rid himself of his queen, Theutberga and remarry. Even 'women in their weaving sheds' were allegedly gossiping about the lurid accusations made. Kings and bishops from neighbouring kingdoms, and several popes, were gradually drawn into a crisis affecting the fate of an entire kingdom. This is the first professionally published translation of a key source for this extraordinary episode: Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims's De divortio Lotharii regis et Theutbergae reginae. This text offers eye-opening insight both on the political wrangling of the time and on early medieval attitudes towards magic, penance, gender, the ordeal, marriage, sodomy, the role of bishops, and kingship.The translation includes a substantial introduction and annotations, putting the case into its early medieval context and explaining Hincmar's sometimes-dubious methods of argument.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2021Photographic subjects
Monarchy and visual culture in colonial Indonesia
by Susie Protschky
Winner of the ASAA mid-career book prize in Asian Studies 2020 and joint winner of the 2020 Royal Studies Journal Book Prize Photographic subjects examines photography at royal celebrations during the reign of Queens Wilhelmina (1898-1948) and Juliana (1948-80), a period spanning the zenith and fall of Dutch rule in Indonesia. It is the first monograph in English on the Dutch monarchy and the Netherlands' modern empire in the age of mass and amateur photography. Photographs forged imperial networks, negotiated relations of recognition and subjecthood between Indonesians and Dutch authorities, and informed cultural modes of citizenship at a time of accelerated colonial expansion and major social change in the East Indies/Indonesia. This book advances methods in the uses of photographs for social and cultural history and provides a new interpretation of Queens Wilhelmina and Juliana as imperial monarchs.
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March 2024Mein Leben voller Feenstaub und Konfetti (schön wär’s!)
Kinderbuch ab 10
by Emma Flint, Eva Schöffmann-Davidov
Meine neue Schule und ich: eine explosive Mischung! Lenis Plan an der neuen Schule: Bloß. Nicht. Auffallen. Schließlich ist dort ihre ältere Schwester Fiona der unangefochtene Star und Leni will sie auf keinen Fall blamieren. Leichter gesagt als getan, wenn man eine große Klappe hat … Erst wird Leni zur Klassensprecherin gewählt, dann muss sie vor der gesamten Schule einen gewagten Wetteinsatz einlösen. Ein Leben voller Feenstaub und Konfetti? Schön wär’s! Stattdessen Schwesternzoff ohne Ende. Um sich mit Fiona zu versöhnen, beschließt Leni, sie mit ihrem Schwarm zu verkuppeln. Doch Lenis Chaos-Magnet lässt einfach nicht locker … Witzig, charmant, frech und mitten aus dem Leben: Das perfekte Lesefutter für alle ab 10! Von Emma Flint, der Spezialistin für Beste-Freundinnen-Romane - mit süßen Bildern und einem Glitzer-Cover von Eva Schöffmann-Davidov!
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