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Jill Marshall Books
Jill Marshall is the author of the popular middle-grade series about Sensational Spylet, Jane Blonde, and many other titles and series for tweens, teens, YA and adult. Jill’s books have been published by Macmillan Children’s Books, Penguin and Hachette, in 22 countries, 11 languages and paperback, ebook and audio formats. Jane Blonde has been optioned for film and TV, with significant film interest in other Jill Marshall titles. Jill has also been an editor and manuscript assessor for trade publishers and societies, a creative writing teacher for over 1000 clients, and works in corporate communications. During lockdown in 2020, and with all rights for all titles successfully re-acquired, Marshall fulfilled two long-term ambitions. The first – to create an independent publishing house of her own titles, rebranded and re-imagined for a digital world. The second – to pull together Jane Blonde and three other ‘superhero’ characters, all with their own origin series, into an ensemble series, S*W*A*G*G (swaggbooks.com). The third ambition was one that she couldn’t have foreseen: the wish to provide quality fiction for tween readers and upwards, in readily accessible digital formats and for free, in a world ravaged by a global pandemic. In May 2020, Jill Marshall Books was born, and all three ambitions met. JMB has gathered momentum and fandom during those months, and it’s now time to partner with like-minded book people – innovative, passionate, caring – to extend the reach of JMB titles across formats, locations and media. Welcome to Jill Marshall Books. We look forward to connecting at Frankfurt 2020.
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FictionOctober 2021Le regole degli infami
by Fulvio Luna Romero
A work of noir fiction that digs deep into the turbulent soil of north-eastern Italy, recounting from within the criminal infiltrations which infest it. Drawing inspiration from recent events, Fulvio Luna Romero has crafted a ruthless and passionate novel driven by adrenaline, suspense, and continuous plot twists. The Jesolo peninsula is a strange place. A splinter of land surrounded by the sea on one side and the Venetian lagoon on the other; during the summer, it is a bustling hotspot for partygoers and holidaymakers. But during the winter, the crowds disperse, reducing Jesolo to little more than a town which stands across from the world’s most beautiful city. This piece of land is controlled by the Company, a sprawling criminal organisation run by Andrea Salvi. From drugs to prostitution, from construction to arcades: on the Jesolo peninsula, nothing happens without his say-so. But Salvi is not a boss like any other. He shuns the ‘gangster’ label, preferring instead to keep a low profile. His dirty work is carried out by three men: Africa, a heavy-handed man from Campania; Black, a reserved and hardworking man from Lombardy; Striker, a crackhead and goal-scorer for the local football team. Alongside his girlfriend Valentina – who conceals her determination behind an icy, quick-witted exterior – these are the only people he trusts. One day, however, during a substantial marijuana delivery, something goes wrong, and someone is killed during a run-in with the police. Salvi feels cornered. And in a moment like that, one cannot practice caution; he has to make himself heard, and prove that no one can get away with challenging the Company. And so, as Jesolo goes up in flames, the boss and his right-hand men discover that the truth is much more complicated than it may seem; that the line between fighting crime and building your life around it is incredibly fine and easy to cross. You may suddenly find yourself on the other side.
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C’è un cadavere al Bioparco
by Walter Veltroni
A new investigation for Commissioner Buonvino, the third chapter of the series that has captivated over 100,000 readers. Set in one of the most beautiful and unique places in the world, this crime series takes place in Villa Borghese, the amazing park in the center of Rome famous worldwide for its many attractions: the lush and enchanting vegetation, the charming restaurants, the wonderful statues, the museums and the art galleries. And then the thousands of plants, the waterways and the many animal species. It’s a whole universe, fascinating and mysterious, where the unlikely police station guided by Giovanni Buonvino turns out to be more necessary than expected. After the happy resolution of the case of the missing child, Commissioner Buonvino enjoys the newfound quiet of the Villa Borghese park and the joys of love. But it’s a short-lived respite. The discovery of a corpse in the reptile house of the Bioparco, the capital’s zoological garden housed inside the Villa, represents a nasty problem for Buonvino, who happens to be herpetophobic, feeling an atavistic terror for any kind of reptile. How did a naked man’s body end up inside the anaconda’s case? And how did his head end up in the belly of the anaconda? These are just some of the unanswered questions among which the commissioner and his fearless and disheveled agents try to solve what appears to be a real puzzle. As if we were in the most classic of Agatha Christie’s detective stories, Buonvino will have to use all his acumen and deductive skills to unravel the threads of an investigation in which clues are scarce and suspects abound, and finally unmask the culprit.
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December 2022Philosophy in the Renaissance
An Anthology
by Paul Richard Blum, James G. Snyder
The Renaissance was a period of great intellectual change and innovation as philosophers rediscovered the philosophy of classical antiquity and passed it on to the modern age. Renaissance philosophy is distinct both from the medieval scholasticism, based on revelation and authority, and from philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who transformed it into new philosophical systems. Despite the importance of the Renaissance to the development of philosophy over time, it has remained largely understudied by historians of philosophy and professional philosophers. This anthology aims to correct this by providing scholars and students of philosophy with representative translations of the most important philosophers of the Renaissance. Its purpose is to help readers appreciate philosophy in the Renaissance and its importance in the history of philosophy. The anthology includes translations from philosophers from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, and it ranges from works on moral and political philosophy, to metaphysics, epistemology, and natural philosophy, thereby providing historians and students of philosophy with a sense for the nature, breadth, and complexity of philosophy in the Renaissance. Each translation is accompanied by an introduction by a historian of Renaissance philosophy, as well as select secondary sources, in order to encourage further study. This anthology is a companion to Philosophers of the Renaissance, edited by Paul Richard Blum and published by Catholic University of America Press in 2010, which included essays on the writings of the same group of philosophers of the Renaissance: Raymond Llull, Gemistos Plethon, George of Trebizond, Basil Bessarion, Lorenzo Valla, Nicholas of Cusa, Leon Battista Alberti, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Pomponazzi, Niccolò Machiavelli, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Juan Luis Vives, Philipp Melanchthon, Petrus Ramus, Bernardino Telesio, Jacopo Zabarella, Michel de Montaigne, Francesco Patrizi, Giordano Bruno, Francisco Suàrez, Tommaso Campanella.
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January 2019Latte e sangue (Milk and Blood)
by Carlo Silini
In the murky days of the 17th century, gory events unfold on the Alpine foothills, in the lands between the Duchy of Milan and the southern bailiwicks of Switzerland. Maddalena de Buziis is the only survivor of a beastly series of abductions, rapes, and murders. The culprit is the Wizard of the Canton, a mysterious practitioner of necromancy, who has fled Vimercate for the safety of Switzerland. The story of the Wizard is told in the previous novel (The Girl Snatcher). As a traumatised Maddalena struggles to recover from her misadventure, someone starts to hunt her down, determined to find her at all cost. Her pursuer belongs to the fiercest criminal gang that preys on the lands between Italy and Switzerland. The man behind it all, though, is a dark mystic devising his eerie schemes from his bleak abode on Monte Generoso, known as l’Uomo dei Trii Böc (“The Man of the Three Holes”).
