Do you despair of book blurbs that use words like 'tour de force', 'brilliant' and 'hilarious'? Well, despair no more! In their brilliantly hilarious tour de force, "Who Writes This Crap?", Joel Stickley and Luke Wright take all the rubbish you read in an average day and rewrite it in satirical and side-splitting new ways. From junk mail, packaging and advertising to magazines, emails and text messages, Stickley and Wright reinvent the run-of-the-mill like never before. Whether it's a smoothie label, a newspaper headline or an unsolicited email from a Nigerian prince, this book will change the way you read forever.

Who Writes This Crap

Humor & Entertainment

Stickley, Joel

Wright, Luke

Humor

Hamish Hamilton UK

"Wright's book establishes, persuasively, that Coleridge's radicalism, both political and theological, was indeed fleeting and that Coleridge made a very significant contribution to what has been called 'the gathering forces of Toryism.' Further, the book traces Coleridge's adaptation of Hooker as he confronted, theologically, the writings of Sacheverell and Warburton and, ultimately, traces his idea of a clerisy and influence on Gladstone and thus the Oxford Movement." --Richard S. Tomlinson, Richland College "This erudite analysis of Coleridge's theology will provide scholars and critics with valuable new perspectives on a difficult subject." --Duncan Wu, Georgetown University  This book is the first systematic historical examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's prose religious works. Coleridge (1772-1834), the son of a clergyman, "was born and died a communicating member of the Church of England." He was a prolific writer on the subject of the relationship between church and state. At age twenty-three, Coleridge published his first theological work, Lectures on Revealed Religion, which focused on the concept of reason facilitating virtue. Luke Wright maintains that this theme unites Coleridge's theological writings, including the posthumous Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1935). Although he was an advocate of radical politics in the 1790s, by the time Coleridge published The Friend (1809), he had become high Tory. His major contribution to Anglican religious discourse was the revival of the Tory position on church and state, which saw the two as an organic unity rather than separate entities forming an alliance. His writings were vigorously opposed to the Court Whig theory of church and state. After Coleridge's death in 1834, his arguments were taken up by William Gladstone and carried forward. Wright's careful reconstruction of Coleridge's dedication to church-state issues provides a new perspective on the writer himself and on the intellectual history of early nineteenth-century England. "This is an impressively focused work detailing Coleridge's biographical journey through radical politics and high Toryism with an initial and final commitment to Anglicanism, despite encounters and affiliations with other denominations. . . . [A]n original work of scholarship that contributes to an understanding of Coleridge's thought and to the study of church-state theory of the nineteenth century." --Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Anglican Church

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

University of Notre Dame Press

High Performance

Nasty Little Press

<p>Michael Sutton just wanted to know more about Breckinridge, the mysterious loner. Little did Michael know this would force him and Jordy Lewis into a fight for survival, a Christmas in springtime, and a boy left to his own demise. A thriller begins for those who open The Devouring, a riddle of courage and sharp poetic justice.......REVIEW: "You don't want to miss this one. Seriously!!! A great "young reader" book that grabs your attention from the beginning and promises an exciting ride through a small town where kids, doing life together, experience untold evil, loss of innocence and unlikely redemption. This left me wanting this author to finish his next novella." -- Julie Martin</p>

The Devouring: a story

Children's Books

Independently published

Explosive political satire and acerbic wit leap from stage to page in Mondeo Man - the hotly anticipated debut collection from Luke Wright. Yummy mummies and debauched Tory grandees mingle with drunk Essex commuters and leering tabloid paps; a small town chip-shop becomes the site of a heart-wrenching story of failed marriage; and a televised manhunt enthrals an entire nation. Wide-ranging, approachable and formally adept, Mondeo Man both celebrates and laments a country of disappearing pubs, celebrity anti-heroes and motorway service stations, perfectly capturing the English idiom at the turn of the twenty-first century. Whether in sonnet, ballad, ottava rima or univocalism, Wright's fast-paced rhythms and inventive rhyme always hit the spot and never pull their punches. This is poetry at its most contemporary, satirical, fun, and archetypally English. _ Reviews "If any contemporary collection is going to convince the unbeliever that poetry can be a riot of cheek, giggles, boobs, tears and Facebook - while keeping its artistic integrity firmly intact - Mondeo Man is it.' Huffington Post "Although Wright's sprightly verse drips with cynical disdain for Tories, outraged tabloidese and the weekend excesses of a feckless working-class, there's a rich strain of empathy coursing through his work. More Crappy Albion than Broken Britain." The List "Celebratory, mournful, critical and tender - Mondeo Man frames the stuttering start to the twenty-first century" Julia Bird, Poetry London"

Mondeo Man

Poetry

Penned in the Margins

An escaped lion roams the streets of Essex; a lonely pensioner holds a tower block fete; and a young woman dreams of leaving home. Travel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England -'where industry meets marsh'- with poet Luke Wright. In his stunning new collection, discover a country riven by inequality and corruption but sustained by a surreal, gallow's humour. The Toll combines the elegaic with the anarchic, placing uproarious satire cheek-by-jowl with wild experiments in form and touching poems of parenthood. In this mature follow-up to his best-selling debut, Mondeo Man, Wright captures the strain of austerity Britain, speaking truth to power and registering the toll it takes on us all.

The Toll

Frankie Vah

the broken god

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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