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      • Liminal Books

        Liminal Books is a new imprint set up by Whitbread award winning author Kate Thompson to publish her books, both new and backlist. The imprint is expanding to carry books with a similar sensibility written by other authors. ‘Liminal’ refers to thresholds, both interior and exterior, and the word has been chosen to define the themes in the publishing list. In some cases the liminal element is mystical or magical: in others it represents borders, whether they be geographical, social or political.

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      • Limonero

        Limonero is an independent Argentine imprint committed on publishing illustrated books. Founded in 2014, Limonero publishes works that are imaginative and innovative both visually and textually.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2025

        Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices

        Violent absences, haunting presences

        by Laura Huttunen

        This book examines human disappearances anthropologically in various contexts, ranging from enforced disappearances under oppressive governments and during armed conflicts to disappearing undocumented migrants and, finally, to people who go missing under more everyday circumstances. Two focuses run through the book: the relationship between the state and disappearances, and the consequences of disappearances for the families and communities of missing persons. The book analyses both the circumstances that make some people disappear and the variety of responses that disappearances give rise to; the latter include projects focused on searching for the missing and identifying human remains, as well as political projects that call for accountability for disappearances. While providing empirical examples from a variety of places, with Bosnia-Herzegovina as they key empirical site, the book develops an analytic grip on the slippery category of the 'disappeared'.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2026

        Bartered bridegrooms

        by Suriyah Bi

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2026

        Translating hell

        Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea

        by Stephen C. E. Hopkins

        In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much to the imaginations of early Christians, who used it to sort out who belonged within the faith. This book explores how hell became a place for literary experiments with local challenges in theology and identity. Following the reception and transformations of two popular hell apocrypha, it argues that they served as this role because of their liminal textual authority. As noncanonical scriptures, apocrypha afforded medieval writers space to revise their hells (since they were not actually scripture), while also encouraging readers to revere those experiments as valid (since they seemed like scripture). The book brings together adaptations from early medieval England, Iceland, Ireland, and Wales, placing the early vernacular theologies of the North Sea in comparative conversation.

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