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Convinced that her cousin's death was not an accident Kate Berrisford travels to Rio de Janeiro, determined to uncover the truth.

In a world of squalor, masked by the glamour of the carnival capital, she discovers a world where guns and knives rule. Gangs roam, abandoned children are killed and the perpetrators are acquitted. Drugs, ritualistic murder and depravity are the norm.

Kate is abducted by sewer rats (abandoned children) who live in the storm drains. She finds herself in an environment where human life is of little value. Her chances are slim: her fate left in the...

'Unsettling, puckish, and brilliantly written, this novel is an absolute one-off. I loved it' CLAIRE FULLER'Magical, perplexing and funny in a wholly original way' RACHEL YODER'Bamford conjures, in vivid, amplified language, how children fluidly and unpredictably make sense of the world ? [Idle Grounds] is unsettling, sharply funny at times, with carefully built-up layers of dis-ease delivered in a comic deadpan' GUARDIAN'A masterclass in misdirection' FINANCIAL TIMES'Superb' THE TELEGRAPHAs always with these things it started with a birthday...

This original study offers a timely reconsiderationof the work of French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard in relation to art, performance and writing.

How can we write about art, whilstacknowledging the transformation that inevitably accompanies translations of both media and temporality?That is the question that persistently dogs Lyotard's own writings on art, andto which this book responds through reference to artists from therecently-formed canon of performance art history, including the myths ofseminal figures Marina Abramovicand Vito Acconci, and the...

This original study offers a timely reconsideration
of the work of French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard in relation to art,
performance and writing.
How can we write about art, whilst
acknowledging the transformation that inevitably accompanies
translations of both media and temporality?
That is the question that persistently dogs Lyotard's own writings on art, and
to which this book responds through reference to artists from the
recently-formed canon of performance art history, including the myths of
seminal figures Marina Abramovic
and Vito Acconci,...