Books by Mark Ellis

Book 5 in the DCI Frank Merlin series

The fourth book in Mark Ellis' critically acclaimed DCI Frank Merlin.

Founded by white males, the interracial cooperation movement flourished in the American South in the years before the New Deal. The movement sought local dialogue between the races, improvement of education, and reduction of interracial violence, tending the flame of white liberalism until the emergence of white activists in the 1930s and after. Thomas Jackson (Jack) Woofter Jr., a Georgia sociologist and an authority on American race relations, migration, rural development, population change, and social security, maintained an unshakable faith in the "e;effectiveness of cooperation rather than agitation."e; Race Harmony and Black Progress examines the movement and the tenacity of a man who epitomized its spirit and shortcomings. It probes the movement's connections with late 19th-century racial thought, Northern philanthropy, black education, state politics, the Du Bois-Washington controversy, the decline of lynching, the growth of the social sciences, and New Deal campaigns for social justice.

Wonderland is a script for a large immersive theatrical performance which includes both a full script and a script to facilitate improvised performances. It also includes twelve one to one pieces and engages with techniques relating to the development and presentation of the work. It will be of especial interest to academics and students interested in immersive theatre from both a performance perspective and a creative writing perspective. The narrative follows a group of young people on a night out that gradually collapses into a self-induced nightmarish world created through their collective personalities.

For centuries, the augmented sixth sonority has fascinated composers and intrigued music analysts. This work presents a series of musical examples illustrating the 'evolution' of the augmented sixth and the changing contexts in which it can be found.