Marshall Cavendish
Topical, authentic and high quality books under the Marshall Cavendish Editions imprint provide general interest content that informs, entertains and engages readers.
View Rights PortalTopical, authentic and high quality books under the Marshall Cavendish Editions imprint provide general interest content that informs, entertains and engages readers.
View Rights PortalZadie Smith's fiction reimagines subjectivity, relationality, and the conditions of contemporary life. This book offers a timely reassessment of her work, addressing identity, urban experience, and the category of the human. Moving beyond postcolonial and multiculturalist readings, it brings psychoanalytic, historical, symptomatic, and cultural materialist perspectives to bear across her novels, stories, essays, and plays. The collection explores how Smith's characters, shaped by diverse backgrounds and settings, challenge fixed ideas of Britishness and personhood. It argues that her writing opens up a new ontological space-defined by fluid identities, shifting subjectivities, and evolving forms of relationality. By reconsidering both the human and the spatial in Smith's work, the book makes a valuable contribution to contemporary literary criticism and to current thinking on narrative, identity, and urban life.
Dave Haslam presents conversations with creative trailblazers. Over forty years, DJ, writer and broadcaster Dave Haslam has interviewed some of the most fascinating figures in music, literature, film and art. Creative journeys gathers revelatory conversations with creative characters including Neneh Cherry, Maxine Peake, Lemn Sissay, Andrew Weatherall, Raymond Carver and Jeremy Deller. From politics and performance to art, fame and addiction, Haslam's interviewees speak with honesty about their creative journeys. Viv Albertine discusses 'Typical Girls' and Paddy Considine recalls Dead Man's Shoes. Jarvis Cocker goes deep into 'This is Hardcore'. Terry Hall and Miki Berenyi speak about childhood trauma. Bernard Sumner recalls the loss of Ian Curtis. Jonathan Franzen talks about torturing his characters. There's darkness but much humour too. The interviews provide fascinating stories of unorthodox, creative artists navigating negativity and personal setbacks to become celebrated cultural icons.
Vorlesen, singen, backen – Weihnachtsspaß für Groß und Klein Draußen vor dem Fenster rieseln die ersten Schneeflocken. Im Kamin zischt behaglich das Feuer. Zeit, es sich mit der Familie und dem großen Weihnachtshaus gemütlich zu machen. Darin stecken sieben Hefte voller weihnachtlicher Anregungen mit Liedern, Gedichten, Geschichten zum Vorlesen und Rezepten von unseren kleinen Berühmtheiten. Weihnachtshaus mit sieben Büchern unter einem Dach. Geschichten, Bastelanleitungen, Lieder und Rezepte zur Vorfreude auf Weihnachten. Die perfekte Ergänzung für eine schöne Adventszeit mit der Familie.
Bananen sind radioaktiv und wir trinken das gleiche Wasser wie schon die Dinosaurier. Noch mehr solcher witzigen, spannenden und irren Fakten gewünscht? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das richtige! Vollgepackt mit jeder Menge Wissen aus den Bereichen Weltall, Menschen, Tiere, unsere Erde, Naturwissenschaften und Mathe, können hier wirklich alle etwas lernen. Zum Staunen, Lachen und Weitererzählen.