Don’t miss our reviews from July! We’re so pleased to have received such amazing feedback on our titles. Congratulations to all our authors and thank you to those who took the time to review them. You can read the pieces through the links below, as well as find copies available to purchase or download through the links to our website.
Review Highlights
Title: Trade Unions in the European Union: Picking Up the Pieces of the Neoliberal Challenge edited by Jeremy Waddington, Torsten Müller, and Kurt Vandaele
Review by: Stefano Gasparri, UWE Bristol Business School
“no other books about this topic can match its scope and, plausibly, size and length. A key strength of the book is its structure, which allows a deeper understanding of national cases by making comparison between chapters easier.”
Featured in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Cornell University, Volume 78, Issue 4 (2025), pp. 740–742
Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939241304318
Title: More Than Alive: The Dead, Orthodoxy, and Remembrance in Post-Soviet Russia by Zuzanna Bogumił & Tatiana Voronina
Review by: Ela Rossmiller, Wilson College
“Overall, the book is compelling. The authors’ encyclopaedic knowledge, thick descriptions, in-depth analysis and vivid photographs transport the reader through an imaginary walking tour of each site.”
Featured in: Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis, Volume 77, Issue 4 (2025), pp. 664-66
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668136.2025.2489318
Title: The Scandinavian Invasion: Nordic Noir and Beyond edited by Richard McCulloch and William Proctor
Review by: Anne Marit Risum Waade, Aarhus University, Denmark
Featured in: Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies, Volume 20, Issue 2 (2025), pp. 276–278
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17496020251325377
Title: Picturing the Reader: Reading and Representation in the Long Nineteenth Century edited by Beth Palmer and Amelia Yeates
Review by: Julia Thomas, Cardiff University
“Picturing the Reader taps into a fascination with representing readers and reading that pervaded literature and the visual arts in the nineteenth century and has been recovered in recent criticism. Where this collection makes its mark is in its focus on analysing these representations through the lens of a dialogue between word and image that crossed textual and visual arenas. […] It is laudable that the publisher Peter Lang has reproduced over 30 images, some of which are in colour.”
Featured in: Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 30, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 132–34
Link: https://academic.oup.com/jvc/article-abstract/30/1/132/8116944?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Title: Histories of Children’s Television Around the World edited by Yuval Gozansky
Review by: Emma Horsley-Heather, SOAS University of London
“Histories of Children’s Television Around the World succeeds in bringing together differing global perspectives and television developments and is an important addition to the field of children’s television and media research. The nature of each standalone chapter allows the reader just to hone in on material relevant to their interest or to contrast and compare the developments of particular countries side by side.”
Featured in: Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies, Volume 20, Issue 2 (2025), pp. 269-71
