Check out some of our reviews from August! We’re so proud to share our titles and receive such positive feedback from respected academics across the world. Congratulations to all our authors. You can find the full reviews linked below, as well as purchase the titles on our website.
Review Highlights
Title: Atlantic Bound: Writing Afro-Conscious Diasporic Consciousness in the Works of Leonora Miano and Fatou Diome by Charlotte G. Mackay
Review by: Antonia Wimbush, University of Melbourne
“the book is a novel, convincing and well-argued study of two important Afro-descendant female authors writing in French. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of Francophone African literature, gender studies, and diasporic identity”
Featured in: Australian Journal of French Studies, Volume 62, Number 3-4, pp. 379-80
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2025.31
Title: Games, Greek and Pluck: Classicism, Masculinity, Elite Education and British Sport, 1850–1914 by Andy Carter
Review by: Malcolm Tozer
Featured in: History of Education Journal of the History of Education Society, pp. 1-3
“The book’s thesis is convincingly argued, thus making it a most valuable addition to the library on the histories of sport, education and culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The text is well written and attractively presented; there is a host of new facts and anecdotes to please future researchers”
Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2025.2538020
Title: Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives edited by Jatinder Mann and Iain Johnston-White
Review by: Steven Loveridge
Featured in: Journal of New Zealand Studies, Issue NS39, pp. 121-22
“A concluding chapter by Jatinder Mann and Iain Johnston-White reviews the chapters’ themes and findings to advance an argument of why the British World should be revisited. This reasserts the position that British World scholarship remains a source of valuable insight for an array of historical topics and continues to be relevant in facilitating understanding of our present world and concerns.”
Link: https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.iNS39.9903
Title: Gender Defenders of the Sport Binary: Mediating Discourses of Difference Against Intersex and Transgender Female Athletes by Travis R. Bell and Anne C. Osborne
Review by: Kaja Poteko, University of Ljubljana
Featured in: International Journal of Sport Communication, Volume 18, Issue 3, pp. 400-01
“Gender Defenders of the Sport Binary is a compelling and insightful contribution situated within ongoing sociological, cultural, communication, and other related debates on policing gender in sport […] while also stimulating further reflection on how to transform and reimagine it.”
