Kate Rigby

Meet Daryl, a survivor of the Thalidomide tragedy who calls himself Thalidomide Kid. Meet Celia, the new girl at Lewis Lane Primary School and daughter of the deputy headmaster of the local comprehensive school. Together they form an alliance and a special friendship is born. But who is Stephen Arundel and what does he want? A bittersweet story about young love and emerging sexuality. Set in 1970s Cirencester, the story deals with themes and issues that are timeless.

Thalidomide Kid

0 0 0 0 0 0 Previously published by Allison & Busby and Villard Books back in the day as well as being reviewed in The Times and The Face. Now awarded a place on the Awesome Indies list of quality independent fiction. Hard-hitting punk novel written in diary form beginning when MC Lauren is seven.

Fall Of The Flamingo Circus

Catherine E. Rigby

The result is a synthetic and philosophically inflected study that looks at the literary and ecological significance of place within a broad cultural context.

The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism

Topographies of the Sacred

The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the “romanticising” of nature has come to be viewed with suspicion. Written by one of the leading ecocritics writing today, Reclaiming Romanticism rediscovers the importance of the European Romantic tradition to the ways that writers and critics engage with the environment in the Anthropocene era. Exploring the work of such poets as Wordsworth, Shelley and Clare, the book discovers a rich vein of Romantic ecomaterialism and brings these canonical poets into dialogue with contemporary American and Australian poets and artists. Kate Rigby demonstrates the ways in which Romantic ecopoetics responds to postcolonial challenges and environmental peril to offer a collaborative artistic practice for an era of human-non-human cohabitation and kinship.

Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization

Reclaiming Romanticism

0 0 0 0 0 0 A gritty story, served up with Scouse dialect, and retro sweets and food aplenty. A life long and symbiotic friendship between two men begins in 1960s Liverpool when they are children: their early experiences in the nineteen-sixties and seventies having lasting effects on their adult lives and relationships.Previously published in paperback as Sucka!

Suckers n Scallies

0 0 0 Leila is the eight-year-old daughter of Hassan Nassiri, a wealthy Iranian property owner, and younger sister to the adored Fayruz, her father's favourite daughter. Then tragedy strikes in a holiday narrowboat accident having far-reaching consequences for the surviving family and so follows a tale of adventure, danger and romance - and further anguish for Leila's parents. Far Cry From The Turquoise Room is a coming-of-age, riches-to-rags tale of loss, resilience, and self-discovery. It is also about the passage of childhood into puberty. The family also appear in Seaview Terrace although both novels are self-contained. Also available in paperback: https://www.createspace.com/3634041

Far Cry From The Turquoise Room

Axel Goodbody

One of the more frequently lodged, serious, and justifiable complaints about ecocritical work is that it is insufficiently theorized. Ecocritical Theory puts such claims decisively to rest by offering readers a comprehensive collection of sophisticated but accessible essays that productively investigate the relationship between European theory and ecocritique. With its international roster of contributors and subjects, it also militates against the parochialism of ecocritics who work within the limited canon of the American West. Bringing together approaches and orientations based on the work of European philosophers and cultural theorists, this volume is designed to open new pathways for ecocritical theory and practice in the twenty-first century.

New European Approaches

Ecocritical Theory

Fate dealt to Daryl from the bottom of the deck. During pregnancy, his mother took a common prescription drug that doomed him to a life without arms. But streetwise Daryl's a fighter - self-styled Thalidomide Kid superhero at heart - and he's sworn to play his rogue cards against all the odds. Kate Rigby's gritty novel follows him through a bittersweet journey of fear and determination, failure and conquest, blind prejudice . and forbidden love. For the first time in a work of fiction, Rigby lifts a corner of the veil to reveal the cruel and uncomfortable face of the thalidomide horror that crippled a generation. Thalidomide produced suicides and heroes. Daryl is a special case. You'll never forget him. Kate Rigby bravely presents grim reality in a story that pitches full-bodied spirit against seemingly insurmountable physical inadequacy.

0 0 0 0 0 0 Psychology graduate, Heidi Harper is appointed to work with Professor Mala, pioneer of a new project to rehabilitate dog-reared feral child, Nicki. Heidi is soon asking questions and her mission takes on sinister overtones. As the truth outs, the lives of all concerned begin to unravel. Savage To Savvy is a psychological novel following the structure of an academic paper: Abstract, Introduction, Method & Results, Discussion, Conclusions. ABNA Quarter-Finalist 2012 Also available in paperback: https://www.createspace.com/4210694

Savage to Savvy

Set in the nineteen-seventies, 'Did You Whisper Back?' begins with Amanda Court's longing to be reunited with her estranged twin sister Jo. Following a false lead, Amanda leaves her Merseyside home and family and goes to Devon to work as a chambermaid where she believes Jo now lives. Gradually it emerges that Jo is, seemingly, just a figment of Amanda's imagination in this psychological novel about family secrets and a disturbing portrayal of the fragility of the mind. “For those who appreciate a good psychological chiller or two, Did You Whisper Back is one book that belongs in their libraries.” newandgoodreading.wordpress.com – 20/2/2012

Did You Whisper Back

Whilst the earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world, today the “romanticising” of nature has come to be viewed with suspicion. A rediscovery of the importance of the European Romantic tradition to the ways that writers and critics engage with the environment in the Anthropocene era, this book rereads the work of such poets as Wordsworth, Keats, Blake, and Clare in relation to postcolonial challenges and environmental peril to offer a collaborative artistic practice for an era of human-non-human cohabitation and kinship. Written by one of today's leading ecocritics, Reclaiming Romanticism exposes a rich vein of Romantic ecomaterialism that brings these canonical poets into dialogue with modern and contemporary American, Canadian and Australian poets and activists.

Kate Rigby

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