This book is a fictional story with a hint of romance relaying the adventures of certain people of royalty in modern-day rural eastern Nigeria.

"A powerfully doomy debut" (The Guardian), Shaun Prescott’s The Town is a novel of a rural Australian community besieged by modern day anxieties and threatened by a supernatural force seeking to consume the dying town. This is Australia, an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of the outback—a desolate place of gas stations, fast-food franchises, and labyrinthine streets: flat and nearly abandoned. When a young writer arrives to research just such depressing middles-of-nowhere as they are choked into oblivion, he finds something more sinister than economic depression: the ghost towns of Australia appear to be literally disappearing. An epidemic of mysterious holes is threatening his new home’s very existence, and this discovery plunges the researcher into an abyss of weirdness from which he may never escape. Dark, slippery and unsettling, Shaun Prescott’s debut resurrects the existential novel for the age of sprawl and blight, excavates a nation’s buried history of colonial genocide, and tells a love story that asks if outsiders can ever truly belong anywhere. The result is a disquieting classic that vibrates with an occult power.

"Bobbie Brooks was living the life she'd always dreamed of until ... as her life twists and turns, Bobbie discovers that it reflects the blues songs that made her famous. Broken, abandoned, and penniless, she must find a way to pick up the pieces of her shattered world. But, is she strong enough to make a new start?"--Back cover

Stanley doesn't want to go to sleep-ever! He wants to play all night long. But when he and Dennis learn that even grizzly bears need their rest, Stanley realizes just how important it is to get your zzz's.

Love Huntress Ringo It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win Tsukasa’s heart when Ringo finally goes on a date with him. Can the genius scientist overcome her shyness to tell her longtime crush how she feels, though? Meanwhile, the war against Oslo el Gustav finally comes to a close, but Shinobu is still suspicious of Gustav’s supposed demise. As the Prodigies’ new nation grows, so too does the chance of retaliation from the wicked Freyjagard Empire. Are the high schoolers from Earth truly ready for such a powerful opponent?

Queer studies is increasingly popular and this is the first introductory guide to the work of this crucial thinker Has appeal across the arts, from literature and cultural studies to philosophy and sociology Written in a uniquely personal and direct style which is clear, engaging and well-suited to the subject. Contains useful features for students such as explanatory text boxes, glossary and further reading Part of the sucessful Routledge critical thinkers series