No Rhyme Nor Reason

"Like all complicated things, it began very simply" Sarah Martin goes to university in York to study English and be free to reinvent herself. Soon, however, she finds herself locked in a tempestuous lesbian affair with Jules, whilst secretly lusting after her best friend Suzanne's boyfriend, Dick. Things get more complicated when her break up with Jules causes total writer's block and her writing professor threatens her with ejection from university if she doesn't turn in her major poetry project. Sarah discovers a secret store of Suzanne's poems and submits one as her own. Then Suzanne dies suddenly. Sarah marries Dick. Shifting from present to past and back, the pieces of Sarah's story start to fit together. Why is she so guilty? Where are the rest of Suzanne's poems? What happened the night of Suzanne's death? Interwoven with the action, the scenery of Yorkshire, the Lake District, Cornwall, Greece and Petra provide a stunning backdrop to the revelations that could destroy Sarah's marriage.

Moving to Rhyme Island sounded like an escape for Rachel and Dean but their perfect escape quickly turns into a nightmare when Dean realises Rachel's new job offer is too good to be true. As Dean tries to unravel the mysteries of this gilded world created by Hunter he discovers nothing is as bright as it seems. But as the darkness comes creeping then screaming to the surface of Rhyme Island Dean learns his wife has already been swallowed up by materialism and is now entangled in a web of deception trapped by psychological manipulation. Will Dean unravel the web created by Hunter? Will they become prisoners of their own needs and wants? Or will their daughter, Fiona, provide an alternative solution? Get ready for a heart-pounding ride in this psychological thriller that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew.

On 29 April 1841, a week after his thirty-fourth birthday, Louis (Aloysius) Bertrand died of tuberculosis. This malady, his destitute poverty, and his errant existence qualify him as a quintessential poete maudit, whose one great work, Gaspard de la Nuit: Fantasies a la maniere de Rembrandt et de Callot, was not published until 1842. Now widely considered as the first collection of prose poems to appear in France, Gaspard inspired writers like Baudelaire, Mallarme, Huysmans, and Andre Breton. This study offers a rereading of Bertrand's book grounded in modern critical theory, including the work of Derrida, Bakhtin, Barbara Johnson, Genette, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy. It elaborates a new perspective on a work that contains all the paradoxes of the genre, with which theorists still struggle.

All the fruits gather together and enjoy a rhyming party, but poor Orange feels left out because he does not rhyme with anything--until Apple invents a new word.

No Rhyme Or Reason by Dawn Stewardson released on Mar 25, 1988 is available now for purchase.