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Thomas Docherty
Leila loves bright colours but finds the shadows a little scary. That's until she meets Moon Girl, whose paint pot full of moonlight brings the night time world to life.
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John Dougherty
The Bear-Shaped Hole is a moving and sensitive picture book that explores preparing for loss. Gerda the bear has to process that her best friend, Orlo won't be around forever.
Helen Docherty
Can a wolf really be a superhero? Luna, a little wolf, has one aim in life: to be a superhero. But there's a problem. All the other animals are terrified…
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The Hare-Shaped Hole is a poignant and touching picture book exploring death and grief, as Bertle the turtle learns to cope with the loss of his best friend Hertle the…
Thomas. Docherty
This reader provides a selection of articles and essays by leading figures in the postmodernism debate.
Two star-crossed dancers bring everyone together at the Driftwood Ball
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Thomas Docherty advances the invention and development of a new critical theory. This book offers a broad historical sweep, ranging from an exploration of wartime collaboration through to contemporary surveillance…
Setting off into the big, wide world, Little Boat runs into treacherous waters, turbulent tides, and seafaring friends. After all his nautical adventures, he finds out that he’s no longer…
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Aesthetic Democracy argues that art and the aesthetic in general are the founding condition of the possibility of establishing social and political democracy. It examines contemporary criticism and finds that…
To be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So arguing…
There is a war on for the future of the university worldwide. The stakes are high, and they reach deep into our social condition. This book analyses the position, and…
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Looking out his window on a rainy day, one little boy imagines his way to the beach, traveling on a bicycle, a truck, a boat, a plane, and even a…
This book proposes the necessity of a new critical attitude appropriate to a post-enlightenment social and political condition.
Drawing on Julian Benda’s famous Treason of the Intellectuals, this book exposes the damaging impact of market-driven ideology on the institution of the University, and calls for a reassertion of…
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A magical celebration of friendship - and the perfect bedtime story for every child who dreams of a horse of their own! Once there was a horse … that jumped…
Joe loves Wild things, but can't find any in the city he lives in. When the Wild invites him to explore the night-time city, he is going to learn that…
A comprehensive selection of articles, essays, and statements, by such leading figures in postmodernism as Lyotard, Habermas, Jameson, Eco and Rorty, that defines the end of modernism in philosophy, politics…
Look out! There’s a Snaffle about, and she’ll eat your screen as a snack! The Snaffle just wants to play, but everyone’s too busy staring at their screens. It’s only…
Leo isn’t like the other knights. He’d rather read a book than fight, which is tricky when his parents send him off to tame a dragon. But Leo knows that…
In every house, in every bed, A bedtime book was being read… But then, one night, all the animals’ bedtime story books start disappearing. Is there a book thief? And…
Screens away - it’s time to play! The Snaffle just wants to play, but everyone’s too busy staring at their screens. The Snaffle discovers that she likes screens, too -…
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From the acclaimed author/illustrator team behind The Snatchabook comes a book-filled adventure on the high seas!
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Originally published in 2016 by Alison Green Books as: The knight who wouldn’t fight.
It’s bedtime in the woods of Burrow Down, and all the animals are ready for their bedtime story. But books are mysteriously disappearing. Eliza Brown, a young rabbit, decides to…
Ordered by his parents to tame a dragon, a gentle mouse knight who prefers reading to fighting arms himself with a book.
Thomas Docherty (University of Warwick, UK)
In this title, first published in 1986, Docherty locates Donne’s poetry at the crux of the various scientific, legal, domestic and rhetorical discourses that surrounded and informed it. With a…
Will Buckingham
Snorghs don’t have visitors. Snorghs don’t share soup. And Snorghs most definitely DO NOT like adventures. But then a bedraggled sailor arrives telling exciting stories of exotic lands - and…
Julia Donaldson
A dramatic and touching illustrated play about ancient Rome, written by the bestselling creator of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson.
Claudio Murgia
This work explores how the characters in the works of David Foster Wallace, Cormac MacCarthy, J. G. Ballard, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Maurice G. Dantec…
Thomas Docherty,John Schad
Combining perspectives and concepts from literary studies, philosophy, musicology, artistic practice and psychology, this volume does the complexity and richness of mood-related phenomena justice and benefits from latent connections in…
A dramatic and touching illustrated play about ancient Rome, perfect for schools, written by the bestselling creator of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson.
Jenny Colgan
Debut children’s book from bestselling adult novelist, Jenny Colgan. With gorgeous two-colour illustrations throughout, Polly is perfect for reading aloud.
A dramatic and touching illustrated World War Two play, written by the bestselling creator of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson.
A dramatic and touching illustrated World War Two play, perfect for schools, written by the bestselling creator of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson.
A dramatic and touching illustrated World War II play, written by the bestselling creator of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson.
Prof. Thomas Docherty (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Warwick, UK)
This book explores what is at stake in the confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum…
From post-truth politics to no-platforming on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and wide-ranging…
