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Penned in the Margins
Penned in the Margins creates award-winning publications and performances for people who are not afraid to take risks. From modest beginnings as a reading series in a converted railway arch in south London, Penned in the Margins has grown over the last 15 years into an award-winning independent publisher of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and cross genre work. "A marvellously exciting venture, bringing together the worlds of experimentalism and performance, always looking for new ways to present the spoken and written word in a time of artistic flux. The mainstream will, in the future, be redefined and enriched by companies like Penned in the Margins." Ian McMillan, poet and broadcaster
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The ArtsMay 2026Reframing Margaret Thatcher
Genre, form, and the making of post-Thatcherism in British film and TV
by Felipe Espinoza Garrido
Against the backdrop of Britain's historically anti-Thatcherite films of the 1980s and 1990s, Reframing Margaret Thatcher outlines a decisive shift in the collective imagination of Thatcher. Drawing on genre, trauma, and queer studies, it demonstrates how post-Thatcherite films reflect upon their own entanglement in the polarization of the Thatcher years but also rewrite the clichéd Iron Lady. Chapters on The Iron Lady, This is England, Doomsday, 9 Dead Gay Guys, and the Sherlock TV series investigate various Thatcher imaginations, ranging from Thatcher as a lesbian mob boss, as prime minister in apocalyptic England, to Thatcher as an empty bust. This innovative study shows how the apparent depoliticization of British film makes visible new relations between genre, cinematic form, and imaginations of the past and offers fresh perspectives that both critique and reinterpret Thatcher's enduring impact.
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January 1991Tips für die Wildnis
Short Stories
by Atwood, Margaret / Englisch Franke-Winheller, Charlotte
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2015Margaret Cavendish
by Emma Rees
Margaret Cavendish was one of the most prolific, complex and misunderstood writers of the seventeenth century. A contemporary of Descartes and Hobbes, she was fascinated by philosophical, scientific and imaginative advances, and struggled to overcome the political and cultural obstacles which threatened to stop her engagement with such discourses. Emma Rees examines how Cavendish engaged with the work of thinkers such as Lucretius, Plato, Homer and Harvey in an attempt to write her way out of the exile which threatened not only her intellectual pursuits but her very existence. What emerges is the image of an intelligent, audacious and intrepid early modern woman whose tale will appeal to specialists and general readers alike. ;
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June 2020Blitzverliebt!
Die schnellsten Liebesgeschichten der Welt
by Clara Paul
Manchmal geht es ganz schnell: ein Blick, ein Blitzeinschlag – man ist verliebt. Und schon beginnt: eine Liebes-Geschichte. Diese Anthologie versammelt die schönsten Sekundenstorys und Minutennovellen über die Liebe: romantische, heftige, überraschende, intensive, atemberaubende, tieftraurige und sehr, sehr lustige Lovestorys, die einem zum Lachen, Grübeln oder Seufzen bringen; manche sind nur sechs Worte lang, andere lassen sich mehr Zeit für den Blitzeinschlag der Liebe – und allem, was dann folgt ... Mit Geschichten von Margaret Atwood, Peter Bichsel, Julio Cortázar, Nora Ephron, Eduardo Galeano, Elke Heidenreich, A. L. Kennedy, Yasunari Kawabata, Haruki Murakami, Joyce Carol Oates, Dorothy Parker, Roger Willemsen und vielen, vielen anderen.
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March 2019Eine kleine Bosheit zwischendurch
Böse, böse Geschichten
by Clara Paul
»Edel sei der Mensch, hilfreich und gut.« Ja, klar, wer möchte das nicht sein? Aber leider, leider ist das Leben kein Wunschkonzert und die Welt kein Ponyhof, und solange man sich mit eher unerfreulichen Zeitgenossen herumschlagen muss, ist eine kleine Bosheit zwischendurch doch sehr erfrischend. Denn ein wenig Schadenfreude hier und ein diebischer Spaß dort heben einfach ganz ungemein die Laune. Wie man sich der Anmaßungen seiner lieben Mitmenschen erwehrt und dabei seinen Humor und die Oberhand behält – davon erzählen in diesen lustigen, durchtriebenen, bissigen, garstigen, amüsanten, frechen, tolldreisten Geschichten zum Kichern: David Albahari, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Thomas Bernhard, Julio Cortázar, Rachel Cusk, Roald Dahl, László Darvasi, Elke Heidenreich, Franz Kafka, Luigi Malerba, Dorothy Parker, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Clemens J. Setz, Oscar Wilde u.v.a.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2016EcoGothic
by Elisabeth Bronfen, William Hughes, Andrew Smith, Steven Bruhm, Ken Gelder, Jerrold Hogle, Avril Horner, William Hughes
This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse - images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical, this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus explores writing and film across various national contexts including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global context.
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May 2015Überraschung!
Die besten Sekundenstorys
by Clara Paul
Manche Geschichten bedürfen nicht vieler Worte. Manchmal reichen ein, zwei Zeilen, um das Glück oder das Drama eines ganzen Lebens zu umreißen: »Die erste Liebe: eine Javanerin – seitdem liest er noch heute die javanischen Zuckerkurse.« (Kurt Tucholsky) Diese Anthologie versammelt die besten Sekundenstorys und Minutennovellen der Welt: verblüffende, atemberaubende, rasante, tieftraurige und knallkomische Geschichten. Mitunter nur sechs Worte lang, nie länger als eine Seite. Ob Lovestory, Gruselgeschichte oder Thriller, ob Momentaufnahme oder Lebensbilanz, eines haben all diese Geschichten gemeinsam: Sie sind kurz, intensiv, überraschend – und man bekommt sie nicht mehr aus dem Kopf. Mit Geschichten von Friedrich Ani, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Bichsel, Bertolt Brecht, Julio Cortázar, Robert Gernhardt, A. L. Kennedy, Sarah Kirsch, Alexander Kluge, Joe R. Lansdale, Dorothy Parker, Monica Sabolo, Clemens J. Setz, Uwe Timm, Kurt Tucholsky, F. K. Waechter und vielen, vielen anderen.
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2025The Gothic in times of crisis
by John Whatley
The Gothic in times of crisis reflects contemporary society, showing how the Gothic modes continually resets its own forms to encompass each new reality, each new apocalypse, each new plague or crisis. This collection expands oncurrent scholarship to show how the Gothic challenges our understanding of both older and recent crises and, in turn, disturbs all genre complacencies to expose and confront the problems and contradictions in what our world has been, has become, or is in danger of becoming. This collection explores Gothic's current relevance to the contestations of ideas and the underlying and visible conflicts it dramatizes across a wide range of media. In various ways, it reveals what happens to Gothic modes now they confront the increasingly Gothic realities of our times, sometimesby recalling earlier crises and ideological contestations leading up to them.
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August 2022Frauen 70+ Cool. Rebellisch. Weise.
Von Nancy Pelosi über Helen Mirren bis Élisabeth Badinter. Mit einem Vorwort von Iris Berben | Mit zahlreichen Fotografien
by Rita Kohlmaier, Iris Berben
»70 and female is the new cool«, schrieb jüngst die New York Times über diese großartige Generation der Frauen 70+. Frauen, die sich mit Energie und Kraft Gehör verschaffen und durch ihre Haltung inspirieren: Sie sind längst in der zweiten Lebenshälfte angekommen – und aufrecht, ehrgeizig, willensstark. Sie sind entschieden in ihrer Haltung wie die Richterin Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sie sind Kämpferinnen wie Erika Pluhar und Tina Turner, und für sie alle ist »unbequem« zu sein ein Kompliment. Viele der Frauen sind Kult, sie sind Wegbereiterinnen und immer Vorbilder. Frauen, die wissen, wer sie sind, was sie geleistet haben und morgen noch bewegen können. Frauen, die cool, rebellisch und klug oder manchmal auch »schräg« sind, die ihren eigenen Kopf haben. Sie alle sind Frauen, die uns viel zu sagen haben. Mit Juliette Gréco, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jane Fonda, Charlotte Knobloch, Letizia Battaglia, Erika Pluhar, Herlinde Koelbl, Margaret Atwood, Tina Turner, Vivienne Westwood, Nancy Pelosi, Annie Ernaux, Élisabeth Badinter, Elfie Semotan, Alice Nkom, Marina Abramović, Helen Mirren, Carla Del Ponte, Shirin Ebadi, Marianne Birthler.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2024Ireland and the Renaissance court
by David Edwards, Brendan Kane
Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c. 1450-1650. Chapters are contributed by both established and emergent scholars working in the fields of history, literary studies, and philology. They focus on Gaelic cúirteanna, the indigenous centres of aristocratic life throughout the medieval period; on the regnal court of the emergent British empire based in London at Whitehall; and on Irish participation in the wider world of European elite life and letters. Collectively, they expand the chronological limits of 'early modern' Ireland to include the fifteenth century and recreate its multi-lingual character through exploration of its English, Irish and Latin archives. This volume is an innovative effort at moving beyond binary approaches to English-Irish history by demonstrating points of contact as well as contention.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2014Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530
by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small
This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony.
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Business, Economics & LawMay 2020Medicine, patients and the law
Sixth edition
by Margaret Brazier, Emma Cave
Embryo research, cloning, assisted conception, neonatal care, saviour siblings, organ transplants, drug trials - modern developments have transformed the field of medicine almost beyond recognition in recent decades and the law struggles to keep up. In this highly acclaimed and very accessible book, now in its sixth edition, Margaret Brazier and Emma Cave provide an incisive survey of the legal situation in areas as diverse as fertility treatment, patient consent, assisted dying, malpractice and medical privacy. The book has been fully revised and updated to cover the latest cases, from assisted dying to informed consent; legislative reform of the NHS, professional regulation and redress; European regulations on data protection and clinical trials; and legislation and policy reforms on organ donation, assisted conception and mental capacity. Essential reading for healthcare professionals, lecturers, medical and law students, this book is of relevance to all whose perusal of the daily news causes wonder, hope and consternation at the advances and limitations of medicine, patients and the law.
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October 2000Eine starke Verbindung
Mütter, Töchter und andere Weibergeschichten
by Oelker, Petra; Atwood, Margaret; Dückers, Tanja; Erpenbeck, Jenny; Frame, Janet; Franck, Barbara; Held, Annegret; Jenny, Zoë; Khan, Sarah; Korn, Carmen; Poppe, Grit; Scheib, Asta; Weldon, Fay
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Medical & healthcare lawAugust 2016Medicine, patients and the law
Sixth edition
by Margaret Brazier. Series edited by Simona Giordano
Embryo research, cloning, assisted conception, neonatal care, saviour siblings, organ transplants, drug trials - modern developments have transformed the field of medicine almost beyond recognition in recent decades and the law struggles to keep up. In this highly acclaimed and very accessible book, now in its sixth edition, Margaret Brazier and Emma Cave provide an incisive survey of the legal situation in areas as diverse as fertility treatment, patient consent, assisted dying, malpractice and medical privacy. The book has been fully revised and updated to cover the latest cases, from assisted dying to informed consent; legislative reform of the NHS, professional regulation and redress; European regulations on data protection and clinical trials; and legislation and policy reforms on organ donation, assisted conception and mental capacity. Essential reading for healthcare professionals, lecturers, medical and law students, this book is of relevance to all whose perusal of the daily news causes wonder, hope and consternation at the advances and limitations of medicine, patients and the law.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2024A neoliberal revolution?
Thatcherism and the reform of British pensions
by Hugh Pemberton, James Freeman, Aled Davies
This book examines the Thatcher government's attempt to revolutionise Britain's pensions system in the 1980s and create a nation of risk-taking savers with an individual stake in capitalism. Drawing upon recently-released archival records, it shows how the ideas motivating these reforms journeyed from the writings of neoliberal intellectuals into government and became the centrepiece of a plan to abolish significant parts of the UK's welfare state and replace these with privatised personal pensions. Revealing a government that veered between political caution and radicalism, the book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolutionary changes that ministers salvaged from the wreckage of their reforms. The book contributes to understanding of policy change, Thatcherism, and international neoliberalism by showing how major reforms to social security could reflect neoliberal thought and yet profoundly disappoint their architects.
