Category: Literature & Fiction

The Memory of Music

  The Bestselling Award-Winning Irish historical novel, The Memory of Music One Irish family – 100 turbulent years. 1916: Betty O’Fogarty is proud and clever. Spurred on by her belief in her husband Seamus’s talent as a violin-maker and her desire to escape rural life, they elope to Dublin. She expects life there to fulfil all her dreams. To her horror, she discovers that they can only afford to live in the notorious poverty-stricken tenements. Seamus becomes obsessed with republ... [Read More...]

Sweet Jane

After a broken childhood, Jane runs away at sixteen; returning for Mama’s funeral seventeen years later catapults Jane back to the events that made her the woman she is. She faces down her past and the ghosts that shaped her family. A stunning discovery helps Jane see her problems through a new lens. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

The Candyman’s Tale

The story of the birth of the drug trade in New York City, in two small communities in the Borough of Queens: the very white Cambria Heights, and the very black Saint Albans. Four your men, steeped in poverty, have big dreams, sell weed across the big avenue in Cambria Heights. Their plans skyrocket, the weed is sold, kids are hooked, and this leads to severe unintended consequences….an outraged group of citizens, corrupt cops, and organized crime. In the middle of all this, a black famil... [Read More...]

Chase of the Rising Sun

Immersive, fascinating and with an ending that will quite simply…blow your socks off! Who ever really knows themselves? And if you don’t know yourself, can you ever be truly happy? Mark Rasper is a thirty-year old, man who has always had a fascination with Japan. It started when he played Metal Gear Solid with school buddy Paul, becoming thoroughly captivated not only by everything Japanese, but by the character Solid Snake. When a transfer opportunity turns up at the company he works for, ... [Read More...]

Oja and the Parrot’s Curse

In the modest but peace-loving village of Umuzura, everyone enjoys the fruits of their colorful culture and ample agriculture. Who would start worrying about any prophecy that their happy lives and freedom is doomed to some disaster – even if it wasn’t the village parrot that said so? As for Obinna, the apple of his eye is Adaure, the lead singer and dancer in Umuzura’s latest festival. With his flute, he hopes to make his suit and earn some money, seeing nothing sinister in the old begga... [Read More...]

Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin

It’s the summer of 1953. Calvin Jefferson Coolidge is thirteen years old when the ghost of Joseph Stalin appears to him in his Aunt Evelyn’s cluttered Cleveland attic and wants to dictate his memoirs to him. “I want to tell my side of the story,” Uncle Joe tells him. “They’re giving me one year to set the record straight, so we need to get started right away.” Calvin’s life is falling apart at the seams. He’s a misfit and loner whose only friends are famous dead people. He lov... [Read More...]