The President is dead.Cal Drummond is hiding out deep in the woods of the American South when he hears the news. Once a famous talk show host, he is now a disgraced man living a solitary existence in a cabin, drinking Jack Daniels, enjoying the cover of the trees, and getting on with life as Hank MacPhearson.But this news—and the journalist who delivers it—will have consequences that reach far back into Cal's past. They threaten his new life and identity, b...

A story of love and war with echoes of William Boyd’s Any Human HeartAn exploration of guilt, power, conflict and grief both personal and politicalCaptures the drama and tension of postwar recovery and recriminationFor fans of Sebastian Faulks, Graham Greene, and Charles Frazier

The personal collides with the political in this literary tour-de-force. In the 1950s, an eminent British writer pens a novel questioning the ethics of the nuclear destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki—but soon he’s trying to outrun his own past.Hakone, Japan, 2003. An eminent British writer in his 70s, Sir Edward Strathairn, returns to a resort in the Japanese mountains where, in his youth, he spent a beautiful, snowed-in winter.It was there he wrote his best-selling novel...

A Short Walk Home is a heartfelt and inspirational memoir of a father raising and ultimately losing a child to the neurological disorder adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). Exploring the full extent to which a disease like ALD can shape and affect a life, as both David Cry and his family try to come to grips with the inevitable conclusion to their struggles, A Short Walk Home captures the helplessness and anger that every parent feels at being unable to save their children.

Chivalry lay at the heart of elite society in the Middle Ages, but it is a nebulous concept which defies an easy definition. More than just a code of ethical behaviour, it shaped literary tastes, art and manners, as well as socialhierarchies, political events and religious practices; its impact is everywhere.This work aims to provide an accessible and holistic survey of the subject. Its chapters, by leading experts in the field, cover a wide range of areas: the tournament, arms and ...

In this debut crime-horror story collection, David Simmons drags you into a phantasmagoric Baltimore where the dead refuse to stay dead and the living claw for meaning.Hallucinatory and darkly comic love stories are set against the gritty backdrop of the city, where guns and drugs collide with tales of paranoia, pursuit, and revenge. Here, a middle school biology class spirals into a surreal vivisection. A man returns home each night to chew the freshly grown finge...

A childs guide to overcome the sad fact that we cant choose our parents. But, with guidance, we can make the ones we're given behave the way we'd like

A series of six sexy and hilarious short stories that feature the ridiculous tangles we all get ourselves in around that universal subject of sex.

In this book, Simmons argues that class, as much as race and gender, played a significant role in the development of Gothic and Horror fiction in a national context. From the classic texts of Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne right through to contemporary examples, such as the novels of Stephen King and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series, class remains an ever present though understudied element. This study will appeal to scholars of American Studies, English literature, Medi...

Tom Perkins has a life. One that's safe, straight forward and predictable - until he decides to attend a school reunion in a London pub. Soon Tom's pleasant but dull bachelor universe is turned upside down as he becomes embroiled in a world of intrigue, globetrotting and exploding chickens. Drawn to the vivacious yet unfathomable Jo Richards, and forced to rub shoulders with arms-dealing diamond traders, murderous double agents and the higher echelons of the Civil Service, Tom is out of hi...

After witnessing two execution-style murders in the Utah desert, Hamilton Cole Davis finds himself hunted by a massive money laundering operation linked to the commodities market. Cole's path collides with that of computer hacker, Kevin McKuel, who makes a game of ruining corrupt politicians through cyber-assassination. They face monumental odds with law enforcement, artificial intelligence, and brutal criminal contingents all in pursuit.

Synopsis: It's dedicated to Artificial Intelligence. Jay, a retired boxer, is on a mission to find the man who wasted 5 million dollars. The backdrop is the production of a fashion show. The interesting thing about all the characters is no one is who they really are.Autobiography: A native of High Point, North Carolina, a USAF Veteran, and the author of five novels.