Catherine Robinson – författare

What is it to feel homeless? How does it feel to be without the orienting geography of home? Going beyond homelessness as a housing issue, this book uniquely explores the embodied, emotional experiences of homelessness. In doing so, Robinson reveals much about existing gaps in service responses, in community perceptions, and in the ways in which homelessness most often becomes visible as a problem for policy makers. She argues that the emotional dimension of displacement must be central to contemporary practices of researching, understanding, writing, and responding to homelessness. She situates the issue of homelessness at the nexus of important, broader intellectual and methodological developments that take bodily and spatial experience as their starting point. Drawing on field research and interviews, Robinson details the lives of homeless individuals in Sydney, Australia. The moving narratives of these individuals bear witness to the key experiences of corporeal fragmentation, geographical detachment, and social alienation. At the book’s core lies a call to legitimize scholarly work that focuses on emotions, particularly trauma, facilitating researchers and policy makers to explore new avenues for evaluating service delivery. Beside One’s Self bridges the divide between research that has policy implications and research that makes theoretical contributions.

''Wonderfully warm and funny'' Cathy Woodman, bestselling author of Trust Me I''m A VetWill is a Yorkshire lad, through and through. He''s in his element when he''s outside in the country air, not stuck in a classroom wasting his youth and the beauty of Yorkshire. When he starts as an apprentice farrier, his first few days are a baptism of fire. His fellow apprentice is a wind-up merchant and his gruff boss, Stanley, ribs him mercilessly about his tea drinking habit. But in this chaotic environment, the three of them form a brotherhood, and soon, Will realises that the coming year is going to teach him a lot more than how to shoe a horse properly...A charming story full of dry Yorkshire humour and warmth - a must-read for fans of James Herriot, Clare Balding, Countryfile and The Shepherd''s Life.

Will Harker has always believed the best things in life are free: the great outdoors, a good laugh, a perfectly steeped brew. He''s earning his keep as an apprentice farrier at Stanley Lampitt''s workshop - although his gaffer would say he makes half the money and causes double the trouble.But business isn''t exactly booming. While Stanley''s trying to make ends meet Will is handed a wedge of family inheritance - and a problem as big as a horse to sort out...As every Yorkshireman knows, where there''s muck there''s brass. So just how dirty are Will''s hands going to get?A laugh-out-loud caper packed with Yorkshire humour, heart and charm, from the author of Forging On - longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2019.