On June 22,1986, Stan Howard was stabbed in his bed, his ten-year-old daughter Rachel sleeping in the next room. Unable to fully process the tragedy, Rachel coped the only way she knew how by trying to pretend the murder never happened. More then fifteen years later, Rachel became engaged, and the need to confront the night of her father’s death before entering the next phase of her life grew strong. Her father’s murder remained unsolved, and many questions unanswered and unasked. In The Lost Night, Rachel shares her father’s story, and her keen investigation of memory, truth, and how a family moves on from a tragedy for which they may never find the answers.

The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder

Biographies & Memoirs

Howard, Rachel

True Crime

Plume

An account of a journalist's investigation into the unsolved murder of her father describes the events surrounding his death when the author was ten years old, her adulthood reconnection with her father's family, and her struggles to come to terms with his loss. 20,000 first printing.

Community & Culture

Dutton

Can't Breathe Without You

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Other Criteria

Nearly half a million children are in foster care. Most placements fail. Will seven-year-old Maresa's? "It starts with a face in a binder. CHILDREN AVAILABLE, reads the cover." So begins Rachel Howard's intimate and heartbreaking novel about a couple hoping to adopt a child from foster care, then struggling to make it as a family. Seven-year-old Maresa arrives with an indomitable spirit, a history of five failed foster care "placements," and a susceptibility to angry panic attacks fueled by memories of abuse. Maresa's new foster mother, whose name the reader never learns, brings good intentions but also her own history of trauma, while her husband's heart condition threatens to explode. These three flawed but deeply human characters want more than anything to love each other--but how does a person get to unconditional love? Over the course of a year, as Maresa approaches the age at which children become nearly impossible to place, all three must discover if they can move from being three separate people to a true family—or whether, almost unthinkably, the adoption will fail.
Written in a spare and thought-provoking style evoking aspects of Jenny Offill and Rachel Cusk, The Risk of Us deftly explores the inevitable tests children bring to a marriage, the uncertainties of family life, and the ways true empathy obliterates our defenses.

The Risk Of Us

Literature & Fiction

United States

Ecco

This limited edition artist’s book features reproductions of Rachel Howard’s pure abstract canvases and figurative works. The abstract works elicit an immediate visceral emotional response, whilst the more figurative pieces make a play for the mind. By layering and interweaving these elements to create a whole, Howard pulls together the corporeal and the cerebral. Exploring our ever present need to make sense of our existence Can’t Breathe Without You is a search for answers and a search for reassurance in the absence of answers, be it through religion of the mundane. It includes reproductions of the sin painting series from the exhibition Guilty at the Bohen Foundation New York (2003/4) and a short introductory text by the artist entitled So Who Made God? There is also a longer essay by Deborah Orr, award-winning columnist for The Independent newspaper.

Can't Breathe Without You (Signed Edition)

British artist Rachel Howard's first exhibition with Haunch of Venison (11 January - 23 February 2008) explores the notion of a beauty that is born out of everyday tragedy. In a series of figurative and abstract paintings, and accompanying ink-on-paper studies, Howard conducts an ongoing investigation into the meaning of death, as experienced both through personal experience and through mediated representation. The departure point for these works is the disturbing images of suicide that Howard finds by trawling newspapers and the internet, a process she calls 'prodding the inevitable'. In the resulting paintings, the artist depicts a naked human form in a variety of different postures; in many cases the figures are suspended as though pulled by the same gravitational force that has determined the overall appearance of the painting.

Rachel Howard

Haunch of Venison

Risk Of Us

Bennett, Susan

(narrator)

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Secret London - Unusual Bars and Restaurants: Eating And Drinking Off The Beaten Track

Travel

Europe

Jonglez Publishing

Where can you find monsters in Trafalgar Square? Whatever happened to Bedlam? Where can you praise God, buy meatballs and have a sauna? What's in the House of Dreams? To which secret society does Prince Charles belong? What's the trick to instant weight loss? Secret London, An Unusual Guide is the original and still the best of all the many alternative London guides: accept no imitation.
Authors Rachel Howard and Bill Nash have prowled the city streets, seeking out the hidden, eccentric and overlooked.
Now the definitive insider's guide to London has been fully updated, with over 40 new entries and a brand new look. Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, London still reserves any number of hidden treasures for those who know how to wander off the beaten track.
“The best guide to alternative London ever. An essential purchase.” (The Londonist.com)
“A fascinating London guidebook. Simply brilliant.” (The travel editor.com)
“The most interesting guidebook I have had the chance to pick up in years.” (Globalista)
“An insider's look at some of London's best-kept little secrets.” (MSN Travel)
“A wonderful book.” (Glen Baxter)

Secret London - An Unusual Guide ('Secret' guides)

Nash, Bill

Have lunch with the inmates of a high security prison, stroll through a sex shop into a Mexican restaurant, sing your heart out in a clandestine Korean karaoke club, tap your toes in a gypsy swing club, get pickled in a marooned Irish pub, join the sixties club that's still swinging, drink cappuccinos made by murderous bikers, play petanque in a central London cellar, tap an oak-tree trunk for whisky ... Discover over 140 places with eye-popping decor, eccentric owners, and unusual menus. This guide to London's most peculiar and under-the-radar bars and restaurants is for serious foodies, intrepid drinkers, urban explorers -- and anyone curious to discover the infinite possibilities to have fun in London. "The perfect gift for that friend who thinks Caf Rouge is a bit exotic." (The Londonist)"I put the guide to the test around Covent Garden and Soho -- two of the most touristy parts of the capital -- and uncovered a host of gems I'd never encountered before, despite living there for seven years." (Rob McFarland, Australian Traveller)

Secret London - Unusual Bars & Restaurants: Eating and Drinking Off the Beaten Track ('Secret' guides)

Robinson, Hannah

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