A powerful and deeply personal exploration of mental health, and an indelible account of the legacy of familial illness and living with a fracturing mindLike many people, Tom Lee remembers the presence - somewhere out of sight, on the outskirts of town - of the local psychiatric hospital. It was a place that inspired jokes, rumours and dread, a place where the strange and deranged were kept away. But among those people were, at different times, Tom's own parents.

Tom Lee is one of Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists 2019One of the strangestand most appealing novels you will read this year!Tom Lee's first novel is about a young jogger who is in a relationshipwith an older woman. She is both his coach and his mentor. Coach Fitz, as hecalls her, seeks to instil a philosophy of running which combines 'controlledintensity' with a curiosity about places and their histories. A ...

Tom Lee’s journey through life is probably similar to that experienced by many other folks, filled with the ups and downs that come with living in our world today. Looking back at this journey, there are a number of instances where God was helping him along and guiding his voyage. It’s a good thing that God was there or his faith may not have survived. That is the miraculous thing about our God. His grace extends to everyone, and He will help overcome many of life’s obstacles, often withou...

James Orr - husband, father, reliable employee and all round model citizen - wakes one morning to find himself quite transformed.There's no way he can go into the office, and the doctors aren't able to help. Waiting for the affliction to pass, he wanders the idyllic estate where he lives, with its pretty woodland, uniform streets and perfectly manicured lawns. But there are cracks in the veneer. And as his orderly existence begins to unravel, it appears that James ...

Claustrophobic, intense, troubled, these twelve astonishing stories hold a flare to the strange, elusive corners of our world, past and present; from the United States of the Gold Rush era to the Berlin of today, from Victorian England to the dusty border towns and high cities of modern South America.A young couple's passionate affair unravels as they wait anxiously in their hotel room for news of a recklessly conceived drug deal.An academic inherits a set of diaries detail...

Alexander Patterson, head of Project Z, a US government organization hidden from the world under a lonely stretch of Texan desert, discovers a secret is not safe -- a dark and dirty secret. Only two people in the world know that the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy was no accident. But on a computer disk drive, long ago relegated to the dusty corner of a forgotten scrap heap, a dead man's tale lies buried in the bits and bytes. Roger Howard, a newly appointed UCLA professor, buys a pile of...

A Kafkaesque and darkly humorous “suburban gothic” that tracks the unraveling of man’s body, mind, and life.James Orr—husband, father, reliable employee and all-around model citizen—awakes one morning to find half his face paralyzed.Waiting for the affliction to pass, he stops going to work and wanders his idyllic estate, with its woodland, uniform streets and perfectly manicured lawns. But there are cracks in the veneer. And as his orderly existence begins...

Another day in Manhattan Beach, just another day in paradise. But paradise is horribly lost for K.J. Robard when he comes back from the beach to the grisly scene of his roommate's murder. The shock of the crime is quickly crowded out by fear when K.J. learns he was, and still is, the killers' intended target. He has always been an athlete, but now pitted against an unknown opponent for unknown reasons, he must win the game of his life. – The Biggest Game.

They teased him for being smart, but now they need a hero.Bryan Matthews, tall, gangly, and shy teamed up with Jimmy Garcia, the short class comedian, to start a computer club at their middle school. They named themselves The Brain Trust Computer Club, but the kids at school just call then the Brainiacs.Brainiacs. Bryan hates the nickname because he knows the cool kids – like Jake, his neighbor and ex-best friend – are mocking him for being smart. But then the cutest girl i...

GUNNY (a retired Marine, now working for the CIA) is tasked by his bosses, to find out who and why covert operations are being leaked to The Washington Post. He needs someone outside the CIA, he needs a ghost – a person no one knows about, with the required skill set. His choice, his old boss, RYAN, from his Marine Corps days.Ryan starts down the path of discovery, and learns that FATION GJONI is the key. Fation is a ruthless crime boss from Tirana, Albania who deals with terrorist...

Jim Icarus is a handsome twenty-two year old who is invited to trek to the base camp of Mount Everest by his Dad, Alex. His adventures start by saving a boy from a burning helicopter. He falls in love with Charley, a pretty emergency physician. She helps resuscitate his Dad who succumbs to high altitude mountain sickness in Dingboche, Nepal. By luck a working group who has spent the summer and fall cleaning the trash from the base camp of Mount Everest is camped a few hundred yards from Ji...

Doctor Jimmy Capri was anxious. Doctor Maureen Mo Lally had coerced him into presenting their paper at a military medical meeting in Hanoi. He feared that returning to Vietnam would unmask the post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD that he suffered from his first tour at First Marines First Medical Battalion in Da Nang and that he had managed to submerge for over thirty-five years. The memories that had lain dormant did surface, including being shot and the details of his love affair with Ma...