Stylish historical fiction in the tradition of True Grit and Carter Beats the Devil, A Hanging at Cinder Bottom is an epic novel of exile and retribution, a heist tale and a love story both.
The year is 1910. Halley’s Comet has just signaled...
In a small New England town, a divorced college professor named Alex Bauer finds an abandoned pup, takes it into his home and grows to love it — unaware that at an experimental canine development installation a hundred miles away a very specially...
For the first time in years, life seems settled for Tiger and Del. They run
a school for sword-dancers in the South. They’re raising a two-year-old
daughter. They collect income from their interest in a thriving cantina.
Occasionally Tiger must...
Set at the dawn of the great age of exploration, the era of Shackleton and Perry and Scott, the book presents the adventures of two intrepid teams, both vying to reach the AFP, or Agreed Furthest Point-a worthy, even ennobling cause. The competition...
As the wet Lakeland fells grow misty and the holiday season draws to a close; as the tourists trickle away from the campsite, along with the sunshine, and the hot water, and the last of the good beer — a man accidentally spills a tin of green...
Far away, in the ancient empire of Greater Fallowfields, things are falling apart. The imperial orchestra is presided over by a conductor who has never played a note, the clocks are changed constantly to ensure that the sun always sets at five o'...