You see someone who is on a path, a journey, a moment when they walk on, approached by, and flanked by wolves. The story combines flashbacks giving the history of Pen and Cara's complex and tumultuous relationship with details of the various ways Pen feels and responds to grief, the reactions of people who do or don't know the nature of the relationship, Pen's feelings about lesbians in Ireland, and several decisions to come out to those close to her. I know why I created this piece and that moment when the impact of the image and its narrative just hits you right in-between the eyes. Kinney's book Hood, part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series, explores how one piece of clothing has the power to threaten, terrify, comfort, as well as cover pizza bloat.

From racism, navigating feelings of self-doubt, to confronting microaggression’s, Black women face an uphill battle as they earn advanced degrees in majority white institutions and departments. Just knowing that you’re not alone or crazy can be very grounding, and this book can be a source for that. By submitting a review you grant us the right to display and use it in any way; please read our General Legal Notices for full details. As well as working on her books, she creates art prints, greeting cards and other exciting products.Rebecca Lee Viser, 'In the N ame of the Mother: a Post-Colonial Reading of Portrayals of Gender in Irish F iction’, MA thesis (Georgetown, 2009). Rose petals from their cloak leave a trail of love and kindness reinforcing that the figure is good, wonderfully good yet who’s feet grow tired with the weight of the wolf on their back. The two had been together for thirteen years, after meeting as schoolgirls in a Catholic school in Dublin. It is Pen's winning sanity and avid eye for absurdity - in the Church and in the bedroom - that keeps this confident, touching novel afloat.

A beautifully illustrated, magical bath book about baby animals having a bath that comes to life when it gets wet, perfect for little water babes! She and her court were expecting to spend the warmer months lounging in great manor houses, feasting in the fields, tempting forbidden romance, and perhaps engaging in sport. Adam studied illustration and animation, and received a BA followed by an MA from the Edinburgh College of Art. Squeezable and lightweight, each black-and-white animal transforms into a colourful character when it gets wet, either by being painted (with a finger or a brush) or completely immersed in the bath.

Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall be intended as precluding the exercise of your statutory rights. Alison Kinney's Hood is short but ambitious, considering not just the hoodie as a marker of social exclusion both willed and unwilled, the preferred mufti of rappers and death-metallists, but also the wider cultural implications of covering or cowling the head .

If left unattended, what was once easily managed becomes so gnarled and claustrophobic that all hope can become lost and the brightest of sunlight is unable to penetrate through. The thin cardboard envelope the book was posted in had ripped and Royal Mail had to put it in one of their plastic envelopes. We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and anyone who's ever grabbed a hoodie on a chilly day.

Sometimes when you’re underrepresented, your experiences feel so isolated from everyone else’s and it’s easy to question if it’s just you, rather than something larger contributing to the disparity between how you experience things and how you perceive others to be experiencing things. She has already brought her signature illustration style to several books that have been ­published in France: Mes ­maisons du monde (My Houses in the World), Tout sur le ­printemps (All about Spring), and Tout sur l’été (All about Summer).