Karen Brooks

Consuming Innocence: Popular Culture and Our Children is an engaging and thought-provoking look at the effects of popular culture on children, parenting, and family life. It is down-to-earth, confronting, and accessible without sacrificing intelligent argument, analysis, and discussion. Underneath the conversational tone and common-sense advice is serious and comprehensive research. This timely book explores the complex relationship kids—from tots and...

It had been Mother's secret and mine, one passed down through the de Winter women for generations. I would ensure it was kept that way, until I was ready to pass it on. When Anneke Sheldrake is forced to find a way to support her family after her father is lost at sea, she turns to the business by which...

A tale of cruelty, revenge, redemption, love and hope, and the sweet, sinister temptation of chocolate. Damnation has never been so sweet... When Rosamund Tomkins enters the world she is so different, with her darkling eyes and strange laughter, that the midwives are afraid, believing her a changeling. But Rosamund's life is set to be anything but enchanted. Born into...

The independent women of Scotland stand up to a witch hunt, male fury, and the power of the Church in a battle for survival in this compelling historical novel based on true events in early eighteenth-century Scotland. 1703: The wild east coast of Scotland. Returning to her hometown of Pittenweem, fishwife and widow Sorcha McIntyre knows she faces both censure...

From the author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this brilliant recreation of the vibrant, optimistic but politically treacherous world of London's Restoration theatre, where we are introduced to the remarkable playwright Aphra Behn. Now a feminist icon but then an anomaly, she gravitated to the stage—a place where artifice and disguise are second nature and accommodates those who...

A powerful and dramatic story of spies, secrets, and one man's quest to save Elizabethan England. The Locksmith's Daughter poses the question: What if the key to your heart lies in your enemy's hands? In a world where no one can be trusted and secrets are currency, one woman stands without fear. Mallory Bright is the only daughter of London's...

From the bestselling award-winning author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this rollicking historical adventure that celebrates the art of whisky distilling, the defiant spirit of the Scottish Highlanders, and a woman's fearless quest. 1780 Scottish HighlandsIn every glass of whisky lies a small act of rebellion... When Greer MacAlister's despised husband dies, she and her young daughter Fen...

In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Who would you believe? Brooks' mischievous retelling [of Chaucer's The Wife of Bath] dials up the feminist themes - and the fun - to 11. The...

From a bestselling, award-winning author comes a compellingly realised story of an enigmatic figure, the beautiful 19th-century muse and brilliant social powerhouse, Florence Stoker. Her life, in spite of her many gifts, was overshadowed by one of the most abiding and terrifying of contemporary culture's monsters, the vampire Dracula—her own husband's creation. Dublin, 1878. When the witty and beautiful Florence...

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this rollicking historical adventure that celebrates the art of whisky distilling, the defiant spirit of the Scottish Highlanders, and a woman's fearless quest. 1780 Scottish Highlands In every glass of whisky lies a small act of rebellion... When Greer MacAlister's despised husband dies, she and her young daughter...