![]() ![]() I have read many sci-fi books over the years, all the greats and I can say without a doubt that I love this author. “Bought this 1st book after a recommendation from a friend. As soon as I finished book 1, I immediately bought book 2 and 3 now I can’t wait for book 4.” “Highly addictive and imaginative story and characters, in my opinion among the best sci-fi novels I have ever read. ![]() It’s kind of an interstellar whodunit and I still don’t know – what the dickens is in the package?!! I like the characters and their little idiosyncrasies and I love Skye, you can’t beat an AI and here they are recognised as being sentient and have rights, way to go! I have book 2 ready and waiting on my kindle now and I am sure the adventure will just keep going, perhaps poor old Hil won’t get quite as beat up in the next instalment!” Great book, well written and had me hooked. “There is a great depth to the Thieves’ Guild universe that grows with the series… You know there is more going on behind the scenes… feels like a whole universe the way good sci-fi should… the main plot moves along with a fast and frantic pace that pulls you along and makes the books hard to put down.” ![]() “This book rocks! I loved the way the story’s universe starts out lived in and established. ![]() Kept me entertained till the last page! Can’t wait to find out what LC has been up to and who Martha works for.” You genuinely feel for the characters and when certain characters get hurt or do something you weren’t expecting, you can’t help but carry on reading to find out what happens next. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now in its eagerly awaited second edition, this bestselling book has been substantially revised, with new case-studies and examples and important additions on new indigenous literature, the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice, which brings this essential volume urgently up-to-date."-Pub. The importance of clearer guidelines for conducting research among indigenous people cannot be over-emphasised. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. A decolonising research methodology is an approach that is used to challenge the Eurocentric research methods that undermine the local knowledge and experiences of the marginalised population groups 2. To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. From the vantage point of the colonized, the term research is inextricably linked with European colonialism the way in which scientific research has been. "This essential volume explores the ways in which imperils is embedded in the disciplines of knowledge, and argues that the decolonization of research methods will help reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being."-Excerpt from back cover of paperback, 2nd edition. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only cowards live by prisons and cold hangings. Somalis have got the right idea, you wrong someone and you're forced to look over your shoulder for the rest of your life unless you make amends. The Fortune Men is Nadifa Mohamed’s third novel, shortlisted for the 2021 Man Booker Prize. A seaman from British Somaliland residing in Cardiff, Mattan was. 'If only I could set fire to all your walls,' he says, inhaling deeply from the smouldering tobacco, 'I would burn this prison down and let everyone go free, whatever their crime, no one should steal their freedom. Mahmood Hussein Mattan was the last man to be executed by hanging in Cardiff, Wales, in 1952. ![]() despite everything, that it would come through, but now he pulls it out from the foil and clasps it between his lips. ![]() ![]() Their lies and evil end with me.' He had saved a cigarette to celebrate the reprieve, expecting. But I stand and claim my innocence so they have to finish me to protect themselves. If I had lost my mind and sat weeping in my own shit, maybe then they'd be happy to send me to a madhouse like they did with Khaireh. R ecently shortlisted for the 2021 Booker prize, Nadifa Mohamed’s third novel, The Fortune Men, is a fictionalised retelling. “They're doing this because they haven't broken me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our bodies are ourselves - but they are not entirely ourselves. I say problem because human bodies are a source of profound tension, both in Ascension and in fiction and philosophy and human existence more generally. Polyamory gets a bit more of the Very Special Episode treatment, but this aspect is presented as bridging a gap between two different planetary cultures, one more sexually conservative than the other.Īnd all the characters are compelling, and several scenes made me gasp out loud (Adul!), but what I can't wait to talk about is how this book treats the problem of humans having bodies. ![]() The characters' disability is a plot point, but it's not The Plot Point - the same goes for queerness and race: they're baked in, functions of character rather than Moving Moments. But like we saw with Her Love, Her Land, this book was written from deeply within the perspective of the identities it represents. She falls in love with a disabled starship captain who's in a polyamorous relationship with another queer woman: a medic who plans on having children with a man-slash-engineer-slash-sometime-wolf. ![]() ![]() It's easy to say that Jacqueline Koyanagi's luscious debut Ascensionticks just about every box on the anti- kyriarchy bingo card: our heroine is a queer disabled woman of color (in space!). ![]() ![]() ![]() We won't know which guest that is, of course, for quite some time. He has found the body of the missing guest. Heather, the manager of Loch Corrin, receives a breathless visit from Doug, the rough-hewn and scary/sexy gamekeeper. As we turn the first page of Foley's ( The Invitation, 2016, etc.) debut thriller after several historical novels, it is Jan. "They only let four parties stay there each year." She's had the place stocked with truffles, foie gras, and other delicacies, and Miranda and Julien have brought a case of Dom Pérignon. ![]() For that reason, she has gone all out to plan this year's New Year’s gathering at a remote Scottish hunting lodge. While Miranda and Katie are childhood friends and bonded with Julien, Mark, Samira, Giles, Nick, and Bo while they were at Oxford or soon after, Emma didn't become part of the group until she married Mark just a few years ago. This year, only eight of them will go home from their New Years' party. Ever since college, these nine friends have remained close. ![]() |