Peter Graham

Offers a detailed account of the shocking 1954 murder committed by two teenage girls in New Zealand, which led to headlines around the world and inspired the Academy Award-nominated film Heavenly Creatures.

Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century

The brutal, premeditated murder of Honorah Parker in 1954 in a lonely park by her 16-year-old daughter Pauline and Pauline's 15-year-old friend Juliet Hulme made shock headlines around the world. International media flocked to New Zealand to follow the trial. Still today, the murder remains one of the most interesting criminal cases of all time, and a source of intense public fascination throughout the world - especially since one of the murderers was revealed to be the murder-mystery writer Anne Perry, whose books sell in the millions. Lawyer and true crime writer Peter Graham writes of the secrets and lies that permeated the girls' families, the bizarre lead-up to the murder, the girls' conviction and imprisonment, and their lives following their release. He also examines Parker's and Hulme's actions in the light of modern psychology. In the 1950s the two girls were suspected of lesbianism, and judged and imprisoned as inherently evil. Would this happen today?

Parker, Hulme and the Murder That Shocked the World

So Brilliantly Clever

This award-winning guide to serving, pairing, and cooking with cheese includes more than 300 recipes—plus photos and an extensive cheese checklist! Critic and food writer Peter Graham’s Classic Cheese Cookery is the definitive book for satisfying the cravings of any cheese lover. With 18 chapters encompassing more than 300 recipes, you will find decadent inspirations for toasted and melted cheese, soups, pasta, pancakes, tarts, sauces, pastry, and much more. Alongside traditional recipes for soufflés, gratins, quiches, and cheesecakes, there are an enticing array of simple snacks and salads. Inspired combinations, such as pears with pecorino and prawns with feta will tempt the adventurous, while vegetarians will be delighted by the extensive variety that cheese cookery offers them. A detailed checklist of cheeses guides the intrepid and the uninitiated alike, so whether you are searching for a new pasta sauce, an alternative to Welsh rarebit, or a refreshing approach to entertaining, Classic Cheese Cookery, has something for every occasion.

Classic Cheese Cookery

Malcolm Kelsall

Mirka Horová

Byron wrote that he was “born for opposition”. This collection of essays takes Byron at his word and explores ways in which he challenged received opinion in his lifetime. The essays also challenge commonplace attitudes in criticism of Byron today. In this, the volume honours the remarkable range of work of the late Dr Peter Cochran. The matters covered here are Byron’s poetics, his ideology, and the principles and practice of editing his texts. Jerome J. McGann opens the poetics section by examining lyric writing in a Byronic perspective. In the lead essay on ideology, Bernard Beatty asks whether we should rethink Byron as a whole. A substantial addition to Byron’s correspondence is made by Andrew Stauffer beginning the editing section. In all, this book gathers original contributions from sixteen international scholars and friends of Peter Cochran. The accessible, engaging style makes their work suitable for all readers of Byron, as well as undergraduates and professional academics.

Breaking the Mould

Essays on Byron in Honour of Dr Peter Cochran

Julian Cassell

DIY provides everything you need to know about home maintenance, repair, and improvement, from fixing a dripping tap to putting up a wall to planning and replacing a bathroom. The book starts with home assessment, showing how to conduct routine maintenance checks inside and outside and how to plan projects, taking you through the tools and materials you'll need for each task. Each section provides an overview of a specific part of the house or area of improvement, while the core of the book consists of step-by-step spreads that lead you through a huge range of DIY tasks - from simple to advanced. Fully adapted for Australian homes and updated to include advice on how to make your home greener, this is your one-stop DIY bible.

Know-how with Show-how

Ginette Vincendeau

The French New Wave is an essential anthology of writings by and about the critics and film-makers of this revolutionary cinematic movement, which has had a radical impact on film practice and the way we think and write about film. The volume includes foundational writings such as Francois Truffaut's A Certain Tendency in French Cinema and Andre Bazin's La Politique des auteurs, as well writings by Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Alexandre Astruc. This new edition now represents writings by and about women critics and film-makers, including important articles by the critics Evelyne Sullerot, Michele Firk and Françoise Aude, addressing issues of gender and representation, as well as considering New Wave films in the context of contemporary political events, notably France's colonialist war on the Algerian independence movement. To accompany the case study of Godard's À bout de souffle, the new edition includes a case study of the critical reception of two films by Agnès Varda: La Pointe Courte and Cléo de 5 à 7 . The articles have been specially translated for the volume by Peter Graham, and some are published for the first time in English. These classic writings are accompanied by contextualising introductions by Ginette Vincendeau, updated for this new edition, to form a unique resource on this key cinematic movement and its practitioners.

Critical Landmarks

The French New Wave

An Autobiography

Peter Graham: Mountain Guide

Duncan Porter

A complete scientific biography of Darwin that takes into account the latest research findings, both published and unpublished, on the life of this remarkable man. Considered the first book to thoroughly emphasize Darwin s research in various fields of endeavor, what he did, why he did it, and its implications for his time and ours. Rather than following a strictly chronological approach – a narrative choice that characteristically offers an ascent to On the Origin of Species (1859) with a rapid decline in interest following its publication and reception – this book stresses the diversity and full extent of Darwin s career by providing a series of chapters centering on various intellectual topics and scientific specializations that interested Darwin throughout his life. Authored by academics with years of teaching and discussing Darwin, Darwin′s Sciences is suited to any biologist who is interested in the deeper inplications of Darwin′s research.

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