Helen Binns Agency
Foreign Rights Agency specialising in picture books, board books, novelty, activity, craft and children's/ YA fiction titles from UK and North American Children's Publishers and Literary Agencies.
View Rights PortalForeign Rights Agency specialising in picture books, board books, novelty, activity, craft and children's/ YA fiction titles from UK and North American Children's Publishers and Literary Agencies.
View Rights PortalI launched my agency earlier this year on the back of over 25 years of experience selling international rights for Headline and Transworld Publishers (a division of Penguin Random House UK). I am delighted to be representing the following agencies in North America: Kate Barker Literary Agency, Bell Lomax Moreton, D.H.H. Literary Agency, Kate Hordern Literary Agency (please refer to my website for available titles www.helenedwardsrights.co.uk) and in all languages throughout the world: A for Authors, Barbican Press, Keane Kataria, Peony Agency and Storyline Agency (titles available for translation are listed on this portal too).
View Rights PortalMaking home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez and Toni Morrison. The orphan child is a continuous presence in US literature, not only in children's books and nineteenth-century texts, but also in a variety of genres of contemporary fiction for adults. Making home examines the meanings of this figure in the contexts of American literary history, social history and ideologies of family, race and nation. It argues that contemporary orphan characters function as links to literary history and national mythologies, even as they may also serve to critique the limits of literary history, as well as the limits of familial and national belonging.
Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez and Toni Morrison. The orphan child is a continuous presence in US literature, not only in children's books and nineteenth-century texts, but also in a variety of genres of contemporary fiction for adults. Making home examines the meanings of this figure in the contexts of American literary history, social history and ideologies of family, race and nation. It argues that contemporary orphan characters function as links to literary history and national mythologies, even as they may also serve to critique the limits of literary history, as well as the limits of familial and national belonging.
Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez and Toni Morrison. The orphan child is a continuous presence in US literature, not only in children's books and nineteenth-century texts, but also in a variety of genres of contemporary fiction for adults. Making home examines the meanings of this figure in the contexts of American literary history, social history and ideologies of family, race and nation. It argues that contemporary orphan characters function as links to literary history and national mythologies, even as they may also serve to critique the limits of literary history, as well as the limits of familial and national belonging.
This book explores the ways in which the two leading sensation authors of the 1860s, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, engaged with nineteenth-century ideas about personality formation and the extent to which it can be influenced either by the subject or by others. Innovative readings of seven sensation novels explore how they employ and challenge Victorian theories of heredity, degeneration, inherent constitution, education, upbringing and social circumstance. Far from presenting a reductive depiction of 'nature' versus 'nurture', Braddon and Collins show the creation of character to be a complex interplay of internal and external factors. Drawing on material ranging from medical textbooks, to sociological treatises, to popular periodicals, Creating character shows how sensation authors situated themselves at the intersections of established and developing, conservative and radical, learned and sensationalist thought about how identity could be made and modified.
Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It creates an understanding of this under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries, their welfare systems, identities and ideologies. Nordic Gothic examines how figures from Nordic folklore function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes and Nordic settings are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism. The book will be of interest to researchers and post- and- undergraduate students in various fields within the Humanities.
In diesem berühmten Reiseroman veröffentlichte Elizabeth von Arnim ihre hinreißenden Erlebnisse und bezaubernden Naturbeobachtungen auf der Insel Rügen. Mit ihrem unvergleichlichen Erzähltalent entwirft sie ein prächtiges Bild der »Perle der Ostsee« und lädt zu einer kurzweiligen Wanderung über die Insel ein. Stationen der Reise sind: Von Stralsund geht es über Miltzow und Lauterbach nach Göhren und Thiessow, von dort über Sellin nach Binz. Wir erkunden die Wälder um Granitz, das Jagdschloß und den Schwarzen See. Dann geht es weiter über Binz nach Stubbenkammer, Glowe und Wiek. Ein Abstecher nach Hiddensee beschließt die elftägige Wanderung.
In diesem berühmten Reiseroman veröffentlichte Elizabeth von Arnim ihre hinreißenden Erlebnisse und bezaubernden Naturbeobachtungen auf der Insel Rügen. Mit ihrem unvergleichlichen Erzähltalent entwirft sie ein prächtiges Bild der »Perle der Ostsee« und lädt zu einer kurzweiligen Wanderung über die Insel ein. Stationen der Reise sind: Von Stralsund geht es über Miltzow und Lauterbach nach Göhren und Thiessow, von dort über Sellin nach Binz. Wir erkunden die Wälder um Granitz, das Jagdschloß und den Schwarzen See. Dann geht es weiter über Binz nach Stubbenkammer, Glowe und Wiek. Ein Abstecher nach Hiddensee beschließt die elftägige Wanderung.
Ein preußischer Ehemann, nur der Grimmige genannt, eine beste Freundin, deren wochenlanger Aufenthalt die Freundesbande strapaziert, und eine naseweise Besucherin aus dem zivilisierten England. Sie alle bevölkern Elizabeths Garten, ihren liebsten Ort, ihre Oase der Ruhe. Meisterhaft erzählt Elizabeth von Arnim davon, wie sie den verwilderten Garten ihres preußischen Landguts in ein Paradies verwandelt und wie sie – trotz unerwünschter Eindringlinge und störender Nebendarsteller – dem wundersamen Zauber, den der Geruch feuchter Erde und die blühende Stille um sie herum verbreiten, immer wieder erliegt.