Throughout history, the ideas of magic, sorcery, and witchcraft have never been as fixed or universal as many assume. Instead, they are fluid concepts—shaped, reshaped, and continually reinterpreted by the societies that use them. This book explores how these terms have evolved across time and culture, arguing that our understanding of magical practices is inseparable from the social environments in which we live. Folklore, religion, politics, and collective memory all play a role in deter...

Before the first story, before the first shadow moved across the Void, there was a question.Not how the world began—but whether beginnings are ever truly ours to claim.In this prequel to the Skinwalker Saga, D. James invites readers into a realm where Creation is not a fixed moment but a living, shifting mystery. Through vivid narrative verse, this work explores the ancient struggle between destiny and choice, and the fragile, luminous force we call free will.Here, ...

The Absurdist’s Field Guide to Everything and Nothing is a book that promises everything, explains nothing, and delivers precisely what it intends: a gloriously useless, wildly entertaining poetic atlas of the absurd. This is not a guide in any conventional sense. It is a compass that spins without direction, pointing toward sock rebellions, spoon elopements, and the sacred ambiguity of lint. It offers a taxonomy of nonsense for the existentially curious, a survival manual for those who su...

This book is a wound that laughs. It is a collection of poems that grin through broken teeth, raise a chipped glass to the apocalypse, and sip a bitter vintage with unnerving delight. Here, satire is not a polite smirk or a knowing wink—it is a scalpel. Sharp. Precise. Unflinching. These verses do not soothe, nor do they seek to. They are not balm, nor the opposite of balm. They are the smoke that lingers after the blaze, the ash that sketches the outline of what once stood, the echo of a ...

A Spoonful of Nonsense Helps the Ennui Go Down is a poetic tonic for the beautifully bored, the philosophically exhausted, and anyone who has ever stared into the void and wished it would wink back. This collection offers lyrical absurdity as an antidote to existential heaviness—each poem a playful jab at meaninglessness, a mischievous grin aimed directly at the grey fog of modern malaise. Here, socks elope with spoons, drawers unfold into metaphysical labyrinths, and melancholy is treated...

The Emperor’s New Metaphors is a book for readers who have peered through the shimmering veil of poetic pretence and discovered satire smirking beneath the silk. This is a collection that parades its pageantry with nothing on—each poem a cheeky twist on vanity, illusion, and the irresistible human urge to sound profound even when we’re secretly dressed in nonsense. These verses strut, preen, and occasionally trip over their own enjambment, daring you to applaud the invisible cloak of metap...

The Laughing Lobotomist is a book for readers who have misplaced their seriousness—and discovered something far stranger in the lost‑and‑found. This collection of darkly satirical, surreal poems giggles in the face of logic, pirouettes through pathology, and stitches absurdity directly into the folds of the cerebral cortex. Here, nonsense is medicinal, humour is a scalpel, and the mind is both patient and punchline.Your journey begins in the Clinic of Cognitive Whimsy, a sterile ha...

Poems That Shouldn’t Exist is a book for readers who suspect that reality has been taking itself far too seriously. This is a collection of poetic misbehaviour—verses that slipped past the editors of existence, dodged the censors of common sense, and now gather here in gleeful defiance. Inside these pages you’ll find sock sonnets, spoon elegies, existential laundry chants, and other lyrical anomalies that refuse to obey genre, logic, or good taste. These poems were never invited, never exp...

**Named one of Amazon’s Best Short Story Collections of 2014One of Atlanta Journal Constitution’s 9 Best Books of 2014Best Short Story Collection of the Year, Tweed's MagazineWinner of GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction2014 LA Times Book Prize FinalistWinner of the Florida Book Awards Silver Medal for FictionNominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction“A debut collection of unsparing yet warmly empatheti...

Friday, 12th February, 1993. Two outwardly unremarkable ten-year-old boys began the day by playing truant and ended it running an errand for the local video shop. In between they abducted and killed a two-year-old boy, James Bulger. In search of an explanation, award-winning journalist David James Smith looks behind the misinformation, misunderstanding and sensational reporting to an exact account of the events of that day. A sensitive and definitive account, The Sleep of Reason a...

A British naval officer details life as a prisoner of war and his courageous and suspenseful escape attempts during World War II.David James was in Motor Gunboats (with Robert Hichens of Gunboat Command). Captured in February 1943 after abandoning ship due to fierce engagement with three German armed trawlers in the North Sea, he was imprisoned in Dulag Marlag.His first tunnel was discovered before completion. In December 1943 he succeeded in escapin...

Step beyond the veil and into a world where myth breathes, spirits walk, and every choice reshapes the fabric of existence.In this luminous cycle of narrative verse, D. James continues the Skinwalker Saga, guiding readers deeper into a parallel realm where the boundaries between the seen and unseen dissolve.Here dwell the Skinwalkers—beings forged in sacred paradox, born between worlds, and hunted not for their shifting forms but for the truths their existence refuses to hi...