Madeline Taylor – författare

INNEHÅLLER EXKLUSIV BONUSSCEN!

"Det är mörkt, det är spännande och det är spicy. [...] en romantasy ni inte får missa. Den har allt en bra sådan ska ha - inklusive en mörk, snygg snubbe med vingar.  Vad väntar ni på?"

- Linnea Siitari, Science Fiction Bokhandeln

"...underhåller [...] med sina fascinerande kungliga gudomar och alver. Läsare som gillar Rebecca Yarros Fourth wing, kommer sannolikt tycka om Heir of illusion."

- Helena Andréasson, BTJ

Iverson Pomeroy är begåvad med illusionens kraft och har många trick i rockärmen.

Men inget av dem kan mäta sig med det förtrollade halsbandet som håller henne bunden som lönnmördare och älskarinna till en hänsynslös kung.  Tvingad att spela rollen som hans lydiga husdjur planerar hon i hemlighet att förgöra honom och kräva den frihet hon alltid förnekats.

När en mystisk lieman, Thorne, anländer till staden med siktet inställt på samma vapen som Ivy behöver – den enda artefakten som kan ta bort hennes halsband – måste hon bestämma hur långt hon är villig att gå. Sammanbundna av en bräcklig allians inser Ivy att hennes motvillige följeslagare är mer än vad hon först trott ...  Han väcker hennes nyfikenhet och tänder farliga begär inom henne.

Men kommer deras innersta hemligheter att förstöra varandra? Och spelar det ens någon roll, när alla som som rör vid Thorne dör?

Heir of Illusion är första delen i serien Verran Isles.

Madeline Taylor är fantasyförfattare med en examen i engelsk litteratur och kreativt skrivande, bosatt i Arkansas.

"Otroligt imponerande... brutalt våldsamt, spänningsladdat och helt beroendeframkallande att läsa. Så här skriver man romantasy!" - Brigitte Knightley, New York Times-bästsäljande författare

ON THE ISLE OF ILLUSION, NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS.

They call Ivy Pomeroy the king''s pet. An obedient weapon. A collared assassin. A perfect consort. No one knows she dreams of the day she can finally drive a dagger through his heart.

Until him.

A beautiful stranger from Death''s isle, Thorne is every bit as dangerous as the shadows he commands, and the last man Ivy should trust. Yet when he blackmails her into stealing a legendary sword from beneath the palace, he offers the one thing she craves most: freedom.

Helping him is treason. Wanting him is a death sentence. But resisting him feels impossible - especially when he''s the only man who''s ever seen her as something more than a prized possession.

As their search for the sword uncovers ancient riddles and long-buried secrets, Ivy discovers that her entire life may have been built upon a lie. A deception capable of bringing even the gods to their knees.

They call Ivy Pomeroy the king''s pet. They are wrong.

She is not a pet to be tamed. She is the beast they let inside. And she will show no mercy.

The Verran Isles is a dark romantasy series packed with yearning, jaw-dropping twists and a slow burn that will consume you. Perfect for fans of Sarah J Maas, Callie Hart and Jennifer Armentrout.DISCOVER WHY READERS HAVE FALLEN FOR HEIR OF ILLUSION''Sizzling with tension and utterly addictive . . . This is how you do romantasy!''BRIGITTE KNIGHTLEY, bestselling author of The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

''God tier fantasy . . . every single page had me gagged in the best way''THE DEBUT DIGEST

''Tension, angst, a delicious slow burn - I devoured this book. My top read this year!"GENEVA LEE, bestselling author of Filthy Rich Vampires

''The twists? Absolutely unhinged (in the best way)''⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

''It''s the perfect mix of "I''m going to kill you" and "I would die for you."''⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

''BookTok was right-this one''s amazing!''⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

''This was like if Aelin and Rhysand had a book''⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

''The tension was palpable, the banter had ME BLUSHING''⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

''A beautifully crafted whirlwind of emotions.'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

''I insist, you read this book, it is gold standard'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

''Addictive, Intense, and Deliciously Dangerous'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Tropes:*Morally Grey shadow daddy *Reluctant alliance *"Who did this to you?"*He falls first *Touch her and die*Top-tier banter

Costumers at Work: The Collaborative Creativity, Emotional Labour, and Technical Skill of Costume Creation explores the various forms of work carried out in the costume workshop by the myriads of skilled professionals who transform ideas and sketches into the wearable costumes seen on stage.

Costume work, as collective, collaborative, and material labour produced by a predominantly female workforce, has been long overlooked by the performance industry and those who study it. This book exposes the inherent tensions between theatre’s strict hierarchies and collaborative ideology and how these inform the structures negotiated day to day by costumers as they carry out their work. Through close attention to their work, the book establishes costumers’ work as collaborative and complex, a creative and emotional labour that contributes to enhanced storytelling, actor performance, and audience experience. Using extensive ethnographic observation conducted over 14 months at three professional theatre costume workshops around Australia, combined with extant interviews and research from across the globe, Costumers at Work provides explicit theories and guidance about the behaviours, skills, and communication modes that make costume collaboration more effective and enjoyable.

This book is written for costume researchers, practitioners, and students of theatrical costume design and construction, along with theatre scholars broadly.

Costumers at Work: The Collaborative Creativity, Emotional Labour, and Technical Skill of Costume Creation explores the various forms of work carried out in the costume workshop by the myriads of skilled professionals who transform ideas and sketches into the wearable costumes seen on stage.

Costume work, as collective, collaborative, and material labour produced by a predominantly female workforce, has been long overlooked by the performance industry and those who study it. This book exposes the inherent tensions between theatre’s strict hierarchies and collaborative ideology and how these inform the structures negotiated day to day by costumers as they carry out their work. Through close attention to their work, the book establishes costumers’ work as collaborative and complex, a creative and emotional labour that contributes to enhanced storytelling, actor performance, and audience experience. Using extensive ethnographic observation conducted over 14 months at three professional theatre costume workshops around Australia, combined with extant interviews and research from across the globe, Costumers at Work provides explicit theories and guidance about the behaviours, skills, and communication modes that make costume collaboration more effective and enjoyable.

This book is written for costume researchers, practitioners, and students of theatrical costume design and construction, along with theatre scholars broadly.

Onshore unconventional gas operations, in most jurisdictions, operate on the legal principle that all activities during exploration and extraction are ‘temporary’ in nature. The concept that the onshore unconventional gas industry has a temporary effect on the land on which it operates creates a regulatory paradox. On one hand, unconventional gas activities create energy security, national wealth and a bourgeoning export industry. On the other, agricultural land and agriculturalists may be significantly disadvantaged by unconventional gas activities potentially producing permanent damage to non-renewable fertile soils and spoiling the underground water tables. Thus, threatening future food security and food sovereignty.

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Onshore unconventional gas operations, in most jurisdictions, operate on the legal principle that all activities during exploration and extraction are ‘temporary’ in nature. The concept that the onshore unconventional gas industry has a temporary effect on the land on which it operates creates a regulatory paradox. On one hand, unconventional gas activities create energy security, national wealth and a bourgeoning export industry. On the other, agricultural land and agriculturalists may be significantly disadvantaged by unconventional gas activities potentially producing permanent damage to non-renewable fertile soils and spoiling the underground water tables. Thus, threatening future food security and food sovereignty.

This book explores the socio-regulatory dimensions of coexistence between agricultural and onshore unconventional gas land uses in the jurisdictions with the highest concentration of proven unconventional gas reserves – Australia, Canada, the USA, the UK, France, Poland and China. In exploring the differing regulatory standpoints of unconventional gas land uses on productive farming land in the chosen jurisdictions, this book provides an original three-part categorisation of regulatory approaches addressing the coexistence of agricultural land and unconventional gas namely: adaptive management, precautionary and, finally, statism. It offers a timely and topical approach to socio-legal natural resource governance theory based on the participation, transparency and empowerment for agricultural landholders, examining how differing frameworks such as the collective bargaining framework can create equitable and sustainable contractual arrangements with unconventional gas companies.

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