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      • Fiction
        April 2017

        Cody, The Medicine Man and Me

        by Alan Wilkinson

        Cody, The Medicine Man and Me is a rites of passage story about a middle-aged man who takes a trip across the USA that transforms into the ultimate voyage of personal discovery. Attempting to establish the truth of his baffling ancestry, and struggling to prepare himself for a reunion with his estranged twin brother – old rivalries quickly resurface. A showdown brews - but ultimately only one of the brothers can ride off into the sunset.

      • Fiction
        January 2016

        Bonds of Love and Blood

        by Marylee Macdonald

        Whether far from home or longing to escape, the people in these stories find themselves displaced from their normal routines. They misread the signals and wind up stranded on lonely beaches or seizing the moment before happiness flits away. "MacDonald applies insight, power, and delicacy to create characters between whom the psychic space virtually sizzles." —FOREWORD REVIEWS "engrossing"—MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW "With elegant prose enlivened by shards of mean humor, MacDonald captures how hard it is to love and/or trust abroad or at home."—KIRKUS REVIEWS "Author Marylee MacDonald has done an absolutely masterful job of presenting her readers with short stories so beautifully written that the characters will stay in your mind long after the story, and indeed the book, is done."—READERS’ FAVORITE "In her collection of twelve brilliantly-written short stories, MacDonald explores the pain and beauty of human relationships. MacDonald’s writing is raw and visceral, creating a strong emotional connection between her characters and the reader."—US REVIEW OF BOOKS "Bonds of Love and Blood is brilliantly written and nothing less than emotive."—HOLLYWOOD BOOK REVIEWS "Poignant, honest,and compelling... Highly recommended."—PACIFIC BOOK REVIEW "MacDonald dares to question which is the greater, more unsettling risk: the alluring intimacy of foreign terrains, or the intimate dangers of domesticity?" —Tara Ison, author of Reeling Through Life and Child out of Alcatraz "Her characters remind us of our universal and contradictory longing for solitude and for connection. Savor this book. Enjoy being in the hands of a generous and visionary writer." —Eileen Favorite, author of The Heroines "These elegantly crafted stories brim with emotional wisdom and eloquence. Bearing you around the world, they will imprint themselves, deeply, indelibly, upon your heart." —Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino

      • Fiction
        September 2020

        Asparagus in Africa

        by Corinna Antelmann

        Asparagus in Africa is a quiet, personal narrative between melancholy and irony, a monologue disguised as a dialogue, a wordy and at the same time speechless confrontation between a caring son and his life-weary, 90-year-old father who is in hospital and is about to die. The son senses that he too is getting older and will take his father's place in the succession of generations. During what may well be their last encounter, both touch on the theme of nourishment and being nourished as a universal human need. Memories of eating together help them to find agreement where it seems to have become impossible to express their own feelings and needs in words.

      • Fiction

        A Floating Forest

        by Jorge F. Hernández

        The narrator dives into the childhood he lived in Mantua, a forest near to Washington D.C. Chronicle of memories that ignited the low recovery of his mother’s memory; May begins to remember some words that are names, the order of things, the disorder, things left to chance … the trees of a forest. The narrator’s childhood is the passage to recover his mother’s past and the novel weaves these fragments like someone spins syllables over the snow of blank pages. Jorge F. Hernandez recreates the first fifteen years of his bilingual biography amid a forest that has remained intact in a shared memory and where the reader is suspended in the presence of the terrible enigma of Evil, of the worst side of North American utopia, which is only alleviated by the affections that last forever … and that do not deserve to be forgotten.

      • Fiction

        Pieces of a Puzzle

        by Jenny Gill

        Baby Boomer fiction - No 1 in the Southhill Sagas, set in leafy Surrey, to the south of London, though each book stands alone.   Happily married Alison and Mark are chatting about their coming holiday. She goes to the kitchen to finish supper preparations. When she comes out he has disappeared without a trace, taking nothing with him. She never sees him again. Then 17 years later a solicitor's letter starts her on a search for answers. She needs to piece together the whole puzzle in order to put it behind her and get on with her life. The story is told in two main interleaving threads, one from when Mark vanishes, the other from when Alison receives the letter from the solicitor, interspersed with flashbacks to her life with Mark and earlier happier times. A family saga of love, loss, despair, betrayal, and above all hope.

      • Fiction

        Tightrope

        by Jenny Gill

        Baby Boomer Fiction - No 2 in the Southhill Sagas, set in leafy Surrey to the south of London, although each book stands alone. Lizzie is not what one might think of as a typical vicar’s wife.  She doesn’t sing in the choir, help with cake sales or the Sunday School.  She doesn’t get involved in the parish life at all, but holds down a senior position at a major bank.  Jacob and Lizzie have a good marriage, not exciting, but then few marriages are after twenty seven years.  When Lizzie is selected to represent her branch at a banking conference up north she expects it to be interesting at best.   What she doesn’t expect is to fall in love.  She describes her life as having been lived in black and white thus far, and now she can see colour.  But how can she grab her own happiness at the expense of others?  How can she destroy her family for her own pleasure?   But, if she throws away this opportunity, it will almost certainly never come again.   A story of love, but above all the story of one woman’s moral dilemma

      • Fiction

        A Season, and A Time

        by Jenny Gill

        The 6th book in the Southhill Sagas, set in Surrey, to the South of London – each book stands alone When Rhona’s family throws a surprise party for her sixtieth birthday, you might think she is the woman who has it all – she has her health, a lovely home, a good marriage, and a loving daughter, even a part time job which she enjoys.    But ever present is the tragedy from seventeen years before – the tragedy that has driven a wedge between Rhona and her husband John.   Now John seems to be playing a lot more bridge, more evenings and even playing at the weekends, ever since he has found a new partner, a woman called Grace, who even joins him on a bridge club holiday.  Then suddenly her world falls apart Not only is Rhona is ousted from her part time job, but only one day later her husband leaves her.  He doesn’t spell it out but it is obvious to Rhona that he is leaving her for Grace, that Grace has become more than just his bridge partner.  Rhona has to take stock of her life and decide what it is she wants to do, and how she is going to move forward.  Meanwhile her daughter Jo has a different agenda – she wants to get her parents back together.  A family story of heartache, love, despair but above all hope

      • Fiction

        Rock-A-Bye Baby

        by Jenny Gill

        Baby Boomer fiction – No 5 in the Southhill Sagas, set in leafy Surrey, England – each book stands alone Joy and Michael are initially horrified when their beautiful but irresponsible daughter, Rachael, announces that she is pregnant and refuses to say who the father is.   She can barely look after herself; how will she be able to care for a child?  Michael is convinced it will all fall on Joy’s shoulders, but Joy hopes that having a baby will make Rachael grow up, fast. Custody battle Neither of them actually anticipates that a time might come when they will be consulting a solicitor and battling over custody of little Kelly.  Although they love Rachael the welfare of their granddaughter has to be priority number one. A story of three generations, of love, of joy, of pain, of distress and also of hope

      • Fiction

        Fisherman's Dream

        by Jenny Gill

        Baby Boomer Fiction – No 4 in The Southhill Sagas, set in leafy Surrey to the south of London.  Each book in the series stands alone.  Martin loves fishing.  His dream in life is to run his own business, passing on his love of fishing.  His wife Cilla is behind him all the way and they open a full service fishing tackle shop which they call Fisherman’s Dream.  Then an out of control lorry on the motorway puts an end to Martin’s life and his dream.    But Cilla has to go on, Cilla and the business Martin so loved.    But something about the accident is troubling her.  Was there perhaps a side of Martin she didn’t know?  Does she need to find answers, when she doesn’t even know the questions?  A family saga of love, grief, despair and one woman’s struggle to make sense of it all.

      • Biography & True Stories
        October 2013

        I Guess We Missed the Boat

        by Barry Finlay

        When eight intrepid travelers, brought together by marriage and with retirement in common, sit reminiscing about their travel experiences, the memory banks open and humorous events start to spill out. Cowboy Ron, Ed the Negotiator, Joke-a-Minute Jim, and Practical Carol are part of the motley crew that experiences skiing mishaps, malfunctioning airplanes, a near fistfight on a cruise ship on the azure seas of the Caribbean and trying to explain ice hockey to some African children. The author balances many more challenges of travel with vivid descriptions of visits to exotic locales and philanthropic activities to help the less fortunate around the world. This is a great vacation read or of interest to anyone interested in a light, entertaining book. Readers have enjoyed the descriptions of the various locales and the characters who appear throughout the book.

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