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      • Smith-Obolensky Media

        Smith-Obolensky Media is an international media boutique featuring the work by award-winning author Ivan Obolensky. His gothic mystery, Eye of the Moon, sold over ten thousand copies and the sequel is well underway for release next year. The Latin American Spanish literary translation has been accepted into the Librería Nacional chain, the largest in Colombia, for a thousand paperbacks to be sold in their stores (including those in three international airports).   We are magicmakers. How many of us have changed from a simple line we once read, or a film we saw at a crossroads moment? The art of storytelling, in all its facets, is something we celebrate.   In this spirit, we accept projects on a limited basis and focus on one author at a time, so we can fully present their works.

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      • Christine Heimannsberg

        Gelobtes Land, die dystopische Climate Fiction Trilogie: Mit CO2 verbindet man den Klimawandel, schmelzende Gletscher und Überflutungen. Mittlerweile ist der Klimawandel auch in der Literatur angekommen. „Climate Fiction“ oder „Cli-fi“ lautet das Stichwort, das zuletzt verstärkt in den Feuilletons auftauchte. Die deutsche Autorin Christine Heimannsberg präsentiert mit ihrer Debüt-Trilogie „Gelobtes Land“ eine ungewöhnliche, spannende Dystopie, die ökologische wie humanistische Themen geschickt im neuen Genre zusammenführt.

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        January 2023

        Die Affäre Agatha Christie

        Roman

        by Nina Gramont, Susanne Hornfeck, Sonja Hauser

        Agatha Christie ist bereits 1926 eine schillernde, weltbekannte Autorin. Mit ihrem Mann und der kleinen Tochter lebt sie in London, genießt ihren aufkommenden Ruhm, feiert Partys und verbringt die Wochenenden auf exklusiven Landgütern. Als Agatha aus dem Nichts für elf Tage verschwindet, entspannt sich eine Geschichte voller Irrungen, Wirrungen, Täuschungen und Überraschungen, die einzig die geheimnisvolle Nan O‘Dea auflösen kann. Die junge Nan kommt aus einer anderen Welt: Nach einer schmerzvollen Kindheit und Jugend im erzkatholischen Irland während des Ersten Weltkriegs lässt sie ihre Vergangenheit hinter sich und beginnt ein neues Leben in England – und sucht die Nähe zur Familie Christie. Denn Agatha hat etwas, das Nan zutiefst begehrt …

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        January 2023

        Die Affäre Agatha Christie

        Roman

        by Nina de Gramont, Susanne Hornfeck, Sonja Hauser

        Agatha Christie ist bereits 1926 eine schillernde, weltbekannte Autorin. Mit ihrem Mann und der kleinen Tochter lebt sie in London, genießt ihren aufkommenden Ruhm, feiert Partys und verbringt die Wochenenden auf exklusiven Landgütern. Als Agatha aus dem Nichts für elf Tage verschwindet, entspannt sich eine Geschichte voller Irrungen, Wirrungen, Täuschungen und Überraschungen, die einzig die geheimnisvolle Nan O‘Dea auflösen kann. Die junge Nan kommt aus einer anderen Welt: Nach einer schmerzvollen Kindheit und Jugend im erzkatholischen Irland während des Ersten Weltkriegs lässt sie ihre Vergangenheit hinter sich und beginnt ein neues Leben in England – und sucht die Nähe zur Familie Christie. Denn Agatha hat etwas, das Nan zutiefst begehrt …

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        September 2019

        Conga Line on the Amazon

        by David Myles Robinson

        David Myles Robinson was eight years old when he first got hooked on travel. Since then, he’s seen most of the world—all its continents plus, he laments, “far too many places where travel is now off-limits.”After a lifetime of visiting near and far, in heat and in cold, in comfort and in danger, Robinson has put it all together now in this unique collection of the varied travel adventures he’s found—and the lessons he’s learned from them. A Fellini-esque view of the Amazon, a Mercedes caravan to Istanbul, Jane Goodall's amazing chimps—just part of a travel trunk full of experiences guaranteed to keep you seesawing from “Boy, I'd love to do that" to “Sure glad it was him, not me.”In Conga Line on the Amazon, Robinson brings to his first travel book the same gift for intriguing narrative and sharp characterization that has won praise for his six highly successful novels. Some of his tales may be for the strong of heart, but they’re all for the reader with a yen to be entertained by one intrepid man’s adventures and misadventures exploring the strange and wonderful world we live in.

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        Teaching, Language & Reference
        October 2023

        Crafting crime fiction

        by Henry Sutton

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2024

        The Legacy of John Polidori

        The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny

        by Sam George, Bill Hughes

        John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori's Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori's vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. They emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        December 2023

        Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 99/2

        by Stephen Mossman, Cordelia Warr

        The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections. The editors invite the submission of articles in these fields and welcome discussion of in-progress projects.

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        The Arts
        February 2024

        John Ford's America

        by Jeffrey Richards

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914

        by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Rob David

        The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.

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        March 1996

        Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot

        Sein Leben und seine Abenteuer

        by Christie, Agatha; Hart, Anne

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        March 2006

        Das grosse Agatha Christie-Buch

        Ihr Leben und ihre Romane von A bis Z

        by Sova, Dawn B

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