Roz Hopkins Libri

A gritty but tender story about adolescence and racism set in the hills of western Virginia at the end of the Eisenhower years.

This collection of seventeen essays explores the dramatic changes in Western conceptions of the body, encompassing the cultural shifts that occurred across Empire, religion and science, from antiquity to the eighteenth century.

In this first collection of his Consent Factory essays, C. J. Hopkins irreverently covers the improbable rise of Donald Trump, the political dynamics that led to his presidency, and the media-generated mass hysteria that swept America during his first term in office. "Brave, original, enlightening, and hilarious" (Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone), the essays in this volume capture the insanity of 2016 and 2017. Trump's candidacy, the election, the Resistance, "Putin-Nazis," neo-McCarthyism, fake news, bots, Charlottesville ... the whole mad circus unleashed by America's "insane clown president."

In this satirically comic novella, three men and two women become increasingly entangled in a too-long weekend on the Scottish isle of Arran. The men are trying to find the fourth member of their golf fourball to decide their tied annual series. The women are on a secret and illegal mission involving local plant life. One of the women takes the chance to settle an old score against one of the unsuspecting men. Genuine hilarity and ersatz vulgarity ensue. Set in 1997 against the background of the Great Debate on Scottish Devolution, some readers might see the five main characters smack, in their own idiosyncratic ways, of the main influences in the (so-called) Great Debate. Other readers may just laugh out loud at the lunacies that inexorably mount. 'Probably the funniest novel I haven't read in 20 years' - John Lloyd (TV producer of Blackadder; Spitting Image; QI, et al).