Sophie White

Where I End

'Ali is one of the best flawed heroines in Irish commercial fiction since Rachel Walsh in Marian Keyes' ground-breaking Rachel's Holiday...' Sunday Times 'Hyper current ... hugely relevant' Irish Independent 'Modern and witty' Emer McLysaght, co-author of the Aisling books 'So sweet, so funny -- I loved it' Marian Keyes The Glossie Influencer Awards are fast approaching and Ali Jones is hell-bent on a win and breaking through 10,000 followers on Instagram. But when Ali inadvertantly leads people to believe she's pregnant, she quickly realises that playing the 'Mummy-Influencer' card could be her ticket to Insta-success. And she's not going to let a small detail like a fake pregnancy get in her way. Even if the reappearance of Tinder Sam, who seems determined to take his role of 'baby' daddy seriously, makes things a little more complicated ... Elsewhere on Insta, Shelly Devine, Ireland's biggest influencer (and Ali's idol) is also guarding secrets from her followers, and her husband ... Both Ali and Shelly have decisions to make but as the night of the Glossies draws near, will they realise what's important before they lose what matters most? 'Fresh, current and thoroughly enjoyable' Eithne Shortall 'Written with heart and humour, Filter This peels back the social media mask so many wear as a disguise and reveals the real people beneath' Cecelia Ahern

The modern, witty debut everyone is talking about

Filter This

'I loved it!' Marian Keyes 'Laugh-out-loud funny, sharp as a tack and compulsively readable ... I loved it.' Louise O'Neill 'Astutely observed, whip-smart and very, very funny.' Sarah Breen If you could go back and follow the road not taken ... would you? For thirty-somethings Lindy, Ailbhe and Roe, the move to new, hyper-polished, luxury housing development Monteray Valley feels like slow death by Netflix, neighbourhood Whatsapp groups and Saturday nights in. The potential for exciting new possibilities seems to be withering faster than you can say 'postnatal dryness' as the women's lives are consumed by other halves and domestic obligations. Lindy's realising that her ambitions have been hijacked by her son's career. He's eleven. Meanwhile, despite years of self-sabotage, Ailbhe 'has it all': a successful business, a husband, a baby. If only having it all didn't also include having a fairly colossal secret. Then there's Roe who is busy trying for a baby -- a risky business when you're not sure you want one. Compiling a snag list to send to their builder sees the new friends contemplating their own personal snag lists -- their regrets and unfulfilled dreams - and inspires a business idea that's about to see life in Monteray Valley get a lot more interesting. Getting a second chance to carpe diem is irresistible, but can do-overs ever really work? And will revisiting past regrets threaten the lives they've made now?

The Snag List

My Body and Other Horror Shows

Corpsing

Ali and Shelly are back. But behind the filters, things are more chaotic than ever. After faking a pregnancy to gain more Instagram followers, Ali Jones figured she'd be an internet pariah. But while her mentions are a mess, it turns out that her following is bigger than ever. And now that she's pregnant for real, Ali quickly realises that she might have to wade once more into the Insta-world to fund the new baby bump. With Sam, her ex, still ignoring her and her mother having a mild grief-induced psychotic breakdown, what else has Ali to cling to but #sponcons and #ootds? Enter Amy Donoghue, social media manager extraordinaire, with a plan to rehabilitate Ali's image. Meanwhile, Queen of the Influencers, Shelly, is still being hounded by her mysterious Insta-stalker. And with @HolisticHazel busy creating W Y N D festival (her answer to the Goop Summit) and @PollysFewBits being as non-descript as ever, Shelly has to deal with this latest drama without the help of her Mumfluencer friends - before it gets out of control. The free swag may be good but will Ali and Shelly realise the Insta Life's not worth losing the people that matter most?

Unfiltered

'EXTREMELY funny and refreshingly honest about the unacknowledged complexity of female friendship' Marian Keyes 'Her best yet. It's astute, relatable, hilarious, insightful, and utterly impossible to put down' Louise O'Neill Lexi is on top of the world The podcast she co-hosts with her ride-or-die bestie is going stratospheric. But will all this fame and success cost them their friendship? Joanne's just had a baby But her pals keep forgetting that she's no longer available for tequila-fuelled nights out. She loves her son and her boyfriend but the loneliness is killing her. Claire is feeling left out The Whatsapp chat with her old school friends is ominously quiet these days, which can only mean one thing: a side group without her. Can she convince them to give her another chance, or is it time to move on and seek out new BFFs? Fate brings Claire, Joanne and Lexi together as they navigate the knotty, joyful and occasionally toxic swamp that is female friendship. But how will they each decide which friendships to fight for, and which to let go forever? Sharp, funny ... with characters you'll fall in love with' BETH O'LEARY 'Astutely observed, whip-smart and very, very funny' SARAH BREEN 'A modern, witty, razor-sharp page-turner' EMER MCLYSAGHT

A funny and heartfelt novel about friendship from the bestselling author

My Hot Friend

Sophie White has a recipe for every life event - from falling in love to recovering from mental illness and dealing with ageing parents. Her sharp, irreverent writing and tempting recipes mark a refreshing departure from the hordes of healthy eating cookbooks that have appeared in recent years.

Recipes for a Nervous Breakdown

Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, a modern gothic horror where a young woman falls into a dark obsession after a new artist and her baby arrive on her small Irish island. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her. Sometimes in the morning we find her in places. We never see her move. We just come upon her. Aoileann is cursed. She has no friends, never gone to school. She has never left this windswept craggy isle off the coast of Ireland. Her mother is cursed: a silent wreck Aoileann calls the “bed-thing.” Alongside her grandmother, Aoileann’s days are an endless monotony of feeding, changing, and caring for the bed-thing. Their island seems cursed, whispering secrets only Aoileann hears. Then Rachel, a vivacious artist from the mainland, arrives with her colicky newborn. Rachel arouses yearnings Aoileann cannot fully comprehend. Soon, the unfolding of her mother’s secret tragedy and Aoileann’s pursuit of her own dark desires are both destined to unleash a maelstrom upon all three of their lives. Described by New York Times–bestselling author John Connolly as “perhaps the finest Irish horror novel of the 21st century,” Where I End is a modern Irish gothic that will pull readers into its undertow of family resentments and relentless obsession.

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In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to demonstrate how enslaved people viewed and experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, Indigenous, and colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral and religious values; and they registered their responses to labor, to violence, and, above all, to the intimate romantic and familial bonds they sought to create and protect. Their words--punctuated by cadences of Creole and rich with metaphor--produced riveting autobiographical narratives as they veered from the questions posed by interrogators. Carefully assessing what we can discover, what we might guess, and what has been lost forever, Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive.

Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana

Voices of the Enslaved

She is alone. She hasn't seen a relative or another of her kind since her adolescence. Loneliness is her constant companion from sunrise to sunset, day in and day out, and year after year. Through the vast savannah, she rambles aimlessly-or she wanders in search of a mate. Whichever it is, time is running out. Now, she is about to pass her prime; will she find a mate? SHE IS DESPERATE FOR COMPANIONSHIP! In Zambia, Africa, only one lioness is left roaming Zambia's vast Liuwa Plain: her pride and other lions were wiped out by humans and lack of food stock. She has been alone for nearly eight years. Until one day while patrolling she catches sight of a vehicle parked on the grassland with a cameraman and his crew inside. Her curiosity prompts her to get close to watch these humans. Although the memory of how humans slaughtered her pride is vivid, a longing for companionship drives her to take a chance. Will she be harmed by these men, condemned to the same fate as her pride-or will her destiny be other, indulging her life with privileges and a new hope?

In Search of Love

Lady Liuwa

Welcome to the Serengeti and the Maasai Mara plains! In this area, the awesome spectacle of two millions of wildebeest, zebra and Tomson's gazelle stampeding their annual-migration route for two millions of years has made itself the seventh New Wonder of the World. This spectacular land animal movement is found nowhere else on earth but in the Serengeti. What prompts this massive exodus in the animal kingdom? How do they do it? What impacts have resulted from it? We will find out in this book about the Serengeti and Serengeti families. In the Maasai language the word Serengeti means an "extended plain." Indeed, the place covers 15,500 square miles of grassland, straddling two African countries, Kenya and Tanzania. It is an area teemed with wildlife. At its heart is the Serengeti National Park. It's one of the best-known wildlife sanctuaries in the world, and symbolizes the classic African safari.

Serengeti Families

Safari in Africa

Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race. At the heart of France's seventeenth-century plans for colonizing New France was a formal policy—Frenchification. Intended to turn Indians into Catholic subjects of the king, it also carried with it the belief that Indians could become French through religion, language, and culture. This fluid and mutable conception of identity carried a risk: while Indians had the potential to become French, the French could themselves be transformed into Indians. French officials had effectively admitted defeat of their policy by the time Louisiana became a province of New France in 1682. But it was here, in Upper Louisiana, that proponents of French-Indian intermarriage finally claimed some success with Frenchification. For supporters, proof of the policy's success lay in the appearance and material possessions of Indian wives and daughters of Frenchmen. Through a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to the material sources, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading of the contours and chronology of racialization in early America. While focused on Louisiana, the methodological model offered in this innovative book shows that dress can take center stage in the investigation of colonial societies—for the process of colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance.

Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana

Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians

Trevor Burnard

This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct minority of the population) in which testimony was permitted, and the meanings that can be attached to such narratives. The chapters in this book provide valuable information about the everyday lives—including the inner and spiritual lives—of enslaved African American and Native American individuals in the British and French Atlantic World, from Canada to the Caribbean. It explores slave testimony as a form of autobiographical narrative, and in ways that allow us to foreground enslaved persons’ lived experience as expressed in their own words.

African and Indian Slave Testimony in British and French America, 1700–1848

Hearing Enslaved Voices

This special issue of Fashion Theory seeks to re-visit the relationship between dress and gender in history. Topics to be addressed include: the sartorial performance and display of masculinity and femininity; the place of gender in consumerism and the feminization of fashion; the gendered framework of the clothing trades, including the participation of women as makers and suppliers. The contributions draw on a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and address a range of issues, revealing a scope and breadth that speaks to the rich appeal of this important topic.

The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

Fashion Theory: Volume 9, Issue 2

In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to understand how the enslaved viewed and experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, indigenous, and colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral and religious values; and they registered their responses to labor, to violence, and, above all, to the intimate romantic and familial bonds they sought to create and protect. Their words--punctuated by the cadences of Creole and rich with metaphor--produced riveting autobiographical narratives as they veered from the questions posed by interrogators. Carefully assessing what we can discover, what we might guess, and what has been lost forever, Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive.

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