Hi I'm Rosemarie and I like to write. I write short stories and longer fiction, poetry and occasionally articles. I'm working on quite a few things at the minute and wouldn't mind one day actually getting published in print.
Published by Monoray in February 2024 at £10.99 in Paperback.
Description
Error of Judgment lit a fire under the political and legal establishment when it was first published, shattering the prosecution case against six Irishmen wrongly convicted of with the Birmingham bombings and going on to change the course of British legal history. It also resulted in significant reforms to the legal system and the quashing of many other wrongful convictions.
Now 50 years on from the bombings and with a new preface and several new chapters covering the aftermath of the case, this new edition of Error of Judgement tells the complete story of one of Britain’s most significant miscarriages of justice.
On the evening of 21st November 1974, bombs planted by the IRA in two crowded Birmingham pubs exploded, killing 21 people and injuring at least 170. Within a day of the explosion, six men – Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, Billy Power, Johnny Walker and Hughie Callaghan – were arrested and charged. All were found guilty.
Methodically, with total clarity and a tone that is both gripping and impassioned, investigative journalist Mullin unpicked every detail of the case, revealing gaping holes in the prosecution case and an establishment determined to close ranks. Error of Judgement is a graphic illustration of what can go wrong when our police and criminal justice system is under pressure to get results and how difficult it is to persuade those responsible to own up once mistakes become obvious.
The Balagoun brothers’ ten-year plan for taking the citizens of New London to a new life on Mars following the apocalypse is about to become a reality with the approaching launch of the first test flight, but equipment, supplies and energy are going missing, conspiracy theories are rife, and it seems as if not everyone wants to leave the Earth anyway.
To take their places as leaders of the new civilisation, their granddaughters Freya and Reihna must put aside their divided loyalties to the family and keep a restless city supporting a questionable dream.
If the information that the local news reporter Hanna Finnegan discovers proves to be true, that dream might just turn out to be a nightmare…
Awoken in the middle of the night by an alarming phone call, Hannah and her mum, Caroline rush to the bedside of Eleanor, Hannah’s estranged Grandmother. One of them has been lying to Hannah and one has been keeping a magical, but dangerous secret.
With deadly forces aligning to destroy the Mother of All Nature’s bloodline, Hannah is rushed to the safety of the Hollow Tree. But will she make it in time. And can a mysterious silverback fox keep her alive long enough to save not just the world we know…
Publication Date: 28th January 2024 £12.99 ISBN: 9781805142256 Thema subject category: DNC – Memoirs paperback 216 x 138 mm 320 pp Portrait Author location: Hastings
Have you ever struggled with your mental health, your terrible relatives or a dysfunctional relationship? Or simply wondered what the hell is wrong with you? This story is for you.
Finley recounts their chaotic life with deadpan humour and honesty, wryly embracing their colourful lovers and a series of futile attempts to fix them. When a catastrophic encounter in France sends them into meltdown, they wind up receiving daily psychoanalysis on the NHS with a cast of unsettling characters – mainly the therapists.
On leaving hospital, Finley stitches their life back together, living for a short time with a Bristol theologian before finding domestic bliss with a transgender civil servant. A cutting-edge approach to mental illness eventually leads them to a key revelation about their past, and they finally understands themself through the lens of their history. Aware at last of what they had survived, they face an agonising decision about their future.
Publication date Thursday, January 18, 2024 Price £16.99 EAN\ISBN-13 9781804191354
Description
Every good hero needs a villain! Explore the hidden world of magnetic and mysterious villains, often cast aside and misunderstood in tales of mythology and folklore. Through the pages of Queer Villains of Myth and Legend, discover a diverse community of fascinating characters, ranging from seductive and cunning to powerful and awe-inspiring.
Experience the dark allure of Circe and Medusa through to David Bowie’s Jareth in Labyrinth and delve into their complex and multifaceted personalities and motivations. Take a deep dive into the intersection of queerness and villainy, re-examine some of our favourite characters, and discover why so many ‘bad’ characters are queer-coded.
From ancient mythology to contemporary pop culture, Queer Villains of Myth and Legend celebrates the fascinating stories of these often-overlooked characters. Join Dan Jones on a journey of discovery, as he explores the hidden depths of queer villainy and sheds light on the queer identities of these compelling figures. It’s a powerful celebration of queerness through the ages in all its legendary complexity.
Format: 208 pages, Paperback Published: September 20, 2023 by Pluto Press ISBN:9780745349015 (ISBN10: 0745349013)
Blurb
For decades, conservative evangelicals and Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) have worked hand-in-hand to oppose trans liberation. But how did this alliance come about? What makes it tick? And how can trans people and allies respond?
This book, written by a transfeminist who is also an evangelical Christian, is a history and genealogy of reactionary ideas. Gender Heretics traces how a shared belief in the essential unity of the mind and the body, together with a common fear of ‘dualist’ or ‘Gnostic’ philosophies, first brought these groups into contact in the 1970s.
Morgan explores how theological arguments snaked their way from anti-trans feminist tracts into the everyday practices of evangelical churches today. She offers a hopeful way forward, advocating for a full recalibration of evangelical thought on gender identity and trans activism.
My Review
I bought my copy of this book from Lighthouse Bookshop In Edinburgh in September and I’ve finally got around to reading it. I was intrigued by the title. Over the years I’ve had some run-ins with evangelicals and TER’F’s. Sorry, they ARE NOT FEMINISTS. There’s nothing feminist about hating people because they’re different from you and seeking to prevent people from living authentically, with bodily autonomy. Anyway, one of the things that really confused me was that evangelicals, especially the American ones, hate feminism, but they will align with people who are nominally feminists to spread trans fear, hate and misinformation, and to take away the bodily autonomy of others. They all seem to think the ‘born in the wrong body’ analogy is a universal trans experience and don’t realise it’s an analogy for those who can never understand what it means to have a gender that doesn’t match one’s assigned sex.
Quite often the answer to the puzzle is a simple: well they’re using each other. Possibly, but it’s deeper than that. The evangelicals are hung up on what they perceive as ‘gnostic’ tendencies, and the TERFs are struggling with what they perceive as a body/mind binary. These are essentially the same thing in different words and conceptual frameworks, if I’m reading this book correctly. The author is both an Evangelical Christian and a trans woman feminist academic. She has just the right background to explore the strange relationship between people who hate trans people for nominally feminist reasons, and people who hat trans people for nominally religious reasons. Her lived experience informs the academic exploration, and the quotes from other trans Christians that inform the text are often heart-breaking to read. I just want to hug them and turn into a dragon to breath fire at their attackers.
I’ve been asked if there’s some ‘gendered soul’ before, and been utterly confused, because I don’t believe in souls (I’m agnostic, mostly). So why would I think I have a differently gendered soul in a female body? Apart from anything else I’m genderfluid/agender. I don’t have a gender that I can discern, and what I can discern fluctuates regularly. My body is nominally female in that I have a vulva and uterus, but I’ve never had hormone levels checked, not my chromosomes. For all I know I might have an intersex condition, most people don’t know they’re intersex until they reach puberty or want children and find they have a fertility issue. I couldn’t get a clear answer from that person when I asked how they reached their conclusion about ‘gendered souls’ being a ‘belief of gender ideology’ (and honestly, I think they were repeating TERF talking points). I blocked them not long after because they constantly insulted and misgendered me. Should have barbecued Cassandra (yes, the delusional twit called herself Cassandra because she reckoned Autistic girls were being ‘transed’ and she was the only one warning about it *insert eye-roll here*).
Anyway.
I found this book really interesting and useful, even to those of us who are atheists or agnostics, or are deists of a different religion to the author, because it explains the complex interplay between the two groups leading the anti-trans campaigns that are infecting political, social and religious life in the UK and US at the moment. There is a certain level of knowledge of both evangelical and transphobe beliefs needed, but the author does her best to make things clear. The references to Biblical verses went over my head (I haven’t read the Bible for 25 years, at least) and while I have copies of the Bible floating around the library, I don’t have the energy to look up particular passages so I’m just taking Morgan’s word for it. This is quite niche specialism, but an important one, so I recommend this book to everyone interested in religion and transgender issues.
Everything Is Better With Dragons 