'Black Island' takes the reader to KorUcula - an island in the Adriatic. The author engages with the place and the people, describing landscapes, recalling joys and remembering sadnesses. Above all he speaks of the magic moments of shared hospitality and friendship which live in the memory of all those made welcome in KorUcula."

In recent years, Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) has been the subject of increasing interest. A woman, a member of the landholding elite, an educator, and a daughter who lived under the historical shadow of her father, Edgeworth's life is difficult to categorize. Ironically, these very aspects of Edgeworth's identity that once excluded her from literary and historical discussions now form the basis of current interest in her life and her writing. This collection of essays builds on existing scholarship to develop new perspectives about Edgeworth's place in English and Irish history, literary history, and women's history. These essays explore the ways in which Edgeworth's entire adult life was an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable, an attempt to justify and preserve her own privileged position even as she acknowledged the tenuousness of that position and as she sought to claim other privileges denied her. Christopher Fauske is the assistant dean in the School of Arts & Science at Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts. Heidi Kaufman is assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware.

Jeeva understands he is not ordinary. He is indeed born with an intense congenital drive to kill a bizarre wily black lord. The drive in fact is running him extremely mad that without killing him or possibly killed in his arms, he could be no normal. But, in order to kill the enemy ‘He must be dead still come out alive, he must marry a girl, mingle with her physically, still emerge out virgin.’ The prophecy demands even more. On one side were the crazy droves believing him as their saviour and on the other side was the troop of toxic demons wanting to ridicule him, to kill him. Whether Jeeva was able to accomplish the task or failed in the attempt...?

Tarquin the Free finds himself forced to risk everything in Jai Khalar, the otherworldly home of the Knowledge, when his homeland Everien is threatened by the Sekk - an army almost too large to comprehend.