First published on the fiftieth anniversary of his directorial debut, this book was the first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio system after the Second World War. Before being recruited by Hollywood, J. Lee Thompson made a string of classic films including: Yield to the Night (1956), Ice Cold in Alex (1958), Tiger Bay (1959), North West Frontier (1959) and The Guns of Navarone (1961). He worked in the Hollywood industry into...

When Alfred Milner was knighted, he took as his motto Communis Patria, 'patriotism for our common country'. This is the study of Milner, which takes his politics, or 'constructive' imperialism as its primary theme. It also discovers a group of young female supporters of his vision.

The time is the mid-1880s, when Florida south of St. Augustine is a virtual wilderness and Daytona, Miami, and Tampa are little more than dots on the maritime charts. Addie is a “beanery queen” who ekes out a living from her canteen at the convergence of two primitive railroads. She is popular with the train crews but is disdained by most of the townspeople because she lives, unmarried, with a war veteran whose mental disorder is considered to be of demonic origin.Thanks to her pre...

What lengths are you willing to go to for truth and vengeance? In a world where vampires, mages and werewolves live hidden in plain sight among the human population, three people are swept into the machinations of Omaha’s most powerful vampires. Lilith is a bodyguard for a formidable vampire who has given her everything she needs, but her heart thirsts for vengeance against the man who took advantage of her as a teenage runaway. The vampire Jeremy is dragged against his will into the dark...

Fright, Blood, Love, and Carnage…After her mother is murdered, young Dorothy Good travels west with her aunt to escape persecution. She experiences magic in the desert; an ancient and powerful gift that her maturing body and fragile mind cannot control until her aunt teaches her the secret arts.After they construct a mystical town named Gossamer—a secret, hidden place where everyone can live forever—she finds love. But it is fleeting, replaced first by betrayal and then a t...

Vampires and humans coexist in the world. The vampires live in secret. Humans have proven they are capable of destroying vampires, no matter how powerful they become.Lilith becomes the bodyguard of a vampire, though she only suspects the true nature of her employer.Natalie falls in love with a vampire before she knows what he really is.Something or someone is kidnapping vampires, werewolves, mages, and humans. Something that threatens to draw the different societies in...

If you had the chance to make amends with someone from your past, would you? If you didn’t have a choice, could you? Michelle goes to sleep one night in her bed only to wake up to waves crashing on the shore. Where is she? How did she get here? How is she going to get home? She soon realizes she isn’t the only one on this Island, but did it have to be him? Frank, the one person from her past she could have done without seeing again. Can they work together to get off the Island?

In the first Division Mythos book, Before Leonora Wakes, Red Piccirilli is a runt, a dreamer, a naive boy with an imaginary friend and little else. But right before summer vacation starts he finds an albino girl trapped in a shed behind a local house. After Red frees her, the world he knew quickly unravels into something more mysterious—an unsteady reality where a man with silver teeth and buzz saw voice points him toward the true meaning of sacrifice. With his friendship tested, he fights...

On a snowy Detroit night Elijah Irons, now an old man, tells a black nurse a haunting story from the darkest summer of his childhood in Forksville, Mississippi. He shares his experience with the rising racial tensions in their community and the discord within their own home since Eli, like his father Hank, think of Negroes as ordinary people, while the rest of their community think of them as The Lesser People.He shares how his father arrests Uncle Tommy for stealing Army rifles an...

In THE DEVIL GAVE THEM BLACK WINGS a cursed angel battling a paternal complex shadows an abducted child with a vengeful father who will do anything to get her back… He mourns the loss of innocence in the young neighbor girl who is determined to find the kidnapped child… And he seeks to offer peace to a despondent husband returning to his wife's childhood home after her death on 9/11…Through triumphs and setbacks, unlikely friends forge an unbreakable bond, and find a way to always ...

She's a little crazy. He's about to join her. Together they'll create new music by drawing notes from an old score.

An introductory part of the Division Mythos, "Beneath the Weeping Willow" is a surreal yet touching glimpse into the life of young David, an autistic boy of considerable power who possesses a gift of insight those around him are oblivious to.(Other layers of David's story are interwoven in the novel The Dampness of Mourning.)