Books published by Myriad Editions

The richest one percent in our society have wild and disproportionate political and cultural influence. Who are these people? What are their lives like? Darryl Cunningham delves into the world of the super-rich and shares their stories with an unbiased eye.

A collection of short stories capturing the friction between south and north, ambition and tradition and light and dark. The characters struggle to find contentment with themselves, their own pasts and each other.

When an overcrowded dinghy capsizes at sea, a doctor is among those refugees thrown overboard. In the ensuing panic, he saves one life and condemns another. The doctor and the boy he has saved - the only surviving witness to the crime - eventually reach a tiny Greek island where they are offered shelter by the owner of a small travelling circus, itself marooned in the off-season. Debt-ridden, the circus owner knows that his most valuable asset is an Asian elephant, far from her natural habitat but lovingly tended by the owner''s wife even as she mourns their 10-year old daughter. As the refugees await a long-deferred ferry to take them onto the next stage of their journey, the doctor is drawn to his host''s wife, all the while keeping his young companion, who loves him fervently, at arm''s length.

Short stories arrayed across the cities of the world. An emotionally resonant debut collection.

This graphic memoir of a lost homeland is a wordless narrative by an author homesick for a home she has never visited. It is illuminated by the words and portraits of her family, and a brief history of Badhdadi Jews.

Wole Soyinka Prizewinning author of Everything Good Will Come recasts the international espionage tale by bringing the intrigue and politics of family life to the fore.

Lisa Blower celebrates her characters with stories that they wouldn't want told. She makes the bleak funny, in a voice reminiscent of Alan Bennett, and strikes a new chord in regional and working-class fiction.

A reunion of friends and lovers; a conspiracy that begins as a joke; a secret to be kept for thirty years--this is a daring, ingenious and profoundly moving political thriller from an author whose career has put him at the very heart of international affairs.

The curtains of lesbian history from the 1950s to the present day are opened by celebrated cartoonist Kate Charlesworth, with a little help from Gilbert and Sullivan and a side of Nancy Spain. Sensible Footwear is a glorious political and personal history that gives Pride a run for its money; but, like Pride, it wears its heart at the centre, making the invisible visible, and celebrating lesbian lives from the domestic to the diva.

A groundbreaking book of infographics, this completely updated andredesigned new edition of Joni Seager's award-winning feminist atlasexamines the status of women worldwide - the advances they have madeand the distances still to be travelled.

This is a kick-ass, take-no-prisoners, literary, thoughtful, provocative andintelligent look at sexual assault and the global discourse on rape from theviewpoint of a survivor, writer, counsellor and activist.

Missing bible chapter 'The Book of Sarah' is considered by graphic memoirist Sarah Lightman in relation to her own life in North West London, and her transition from Jewish orthodoxy to a feminist understanding of her religion. Pieces together the intricate and character-rich pencil studies Lightman has been recording her life with since her early twenties.

A major anthology featuring over two-hundred contributors from international women of African descent. Features work in a range of genres including fiction, letters, poetry, essays and more.

With a trademark lightness of touch, Ian Williams provides another gentle look at the sufferings of humanity in this long-awaited follow-up to his much-acclaimed debut, The Bad Doctor.

This work of graphic non-fiction documents the experiences of Syrian refugees the author came to know in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Mediterranean and Western Europe, often while Kugler was on assignment with Medecins Sans Frontieres. Kugler's reportage drawings have appeared in "The Guardian", "Harpers" and "La Monde Diplomatique".

The Inking Woman is a groundbreaking picture-led celebration of the work of over 100 named British artists, and a few more anonymous ones, revealing a wealth of women¿s wit and insight spanning 250 years.

Voiced by Donna and her streetwise god-daughter Aurora, this thrillingly original crime novel unfolds at breakneck speed - at once furious, tender and heartbreaking. Lesbian gangster and street poet Donna runs the all-female Bronte Close Gang. Carla, single parent and part-time MC, is her closest friend and trusted second-in-command. Together they carve out an empire in the toughest streets of Manchester. Unlike the city's other gangs, run by men caught up in violent turf warfare, the women keep their heads down, doing business their way: partying on Canal Street, selling drugs in perfume atomisers in club toilets, and working as cleaners to account for their illegal income. But when Carla is gunned down everything changes.

Leading feminist analyst Cynthia Enloe asks why patriarchy is proving to be such a sustainable cultural, institutional and economic system.

Tony Peake's first novel for 20 years is an exquisitely realised story of revisiting a seminal boyhood moment as it plays out - with unexpected and sinister consequences - against the backdrop of political upheaval in South Africa.

Myriam is seeing things, and so can we, but her husband Fred is adamant it's all a lot of nonsense. In A Thousand Coloured Castles Brookes once again twitches the net curtains of the suburban south in this gloriously crayoned follow-up to the prize-winning The Black Project.