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| ANDREW LOW & THE SIGN OF THE BUCK : Trade, Triumph, Tragedy at the House of Low [Jennifer G Ryan & Hugh S Golson] { 480pp, January 2009; HB, £23.50, 1929490364:9781929490363 , Frederic C Beil } |
| BALLOONIST : The Story of T S C Lowe -- Inventor, Scientist, Magician, & Father of the US Air Force [Stephen Poleskie] Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt Lowe (1823-1913) was called by Carl Sandburg 'the most shot-at man of the Civil War'. A flamboyant showman, dedicated scientist, and starry-eyed dreamer, Lowe, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, went to the federal government with a view to convincing the authorities in the use of balloons for observation purposes. He eventually was made chief of the aeronautic department and rendered valuable service to the Army of the Potomac during the war. Hovering over the battlefield, observing the action from his hot-air balloon, Lowe is considered by many to be the founder of the US Air Force. Besides aeronautics, Lowe also made contributions in the fields of meteorology, cartography, military science, aerial photography, metallurgy, and railroading. This historical novel is the story of Lowe's struggle, trials and tribulations, and sheer perseverance in promoting the interest of science. With a fast-paced plot, crisp dialogue, and strongly developed characters, Stephen Poleskie has aptly captured Lowe's life and achievements in this highly readable book. { 338pp, 170x240mm, May 2007; HB, £16.99, 1929490275:9781929490271 , Frederic C Beil } |
| BELIEF : A Memoir [N John Hall] This is the story of a young man who became enthralled with Catholicism around 1950, went on to become a priest, served in three northern New Jersey parishes, and left the priesthood in 1967. What makes his story different is the phenomenon of the will to believe. As the author writes: "In my first year of divinity school, in 1951, at Seton Hall, I felt my faith come crashing down. But such was the allure, the pull, the command that the 'triumphant' Catholic Church at the time had upon the mind of an impressionable youth, that I soldiered on, trying my best to recover my faith. I exercised what John Keats called Negative Capability, the art of remaining in doubt and mystery, of being content with half-belief while suppressing the reasoning side of one's mind." Hall's memoir is an insider's picture of Catholic life and Catholic education in the 1950s and 1960s. Although his work is not a frontal attack on or exposé of the Church, it touches on problems in the Church, and he elucidates the issues confronting American Catholics and indeed other Americans today. This book is a voice for scepticism, presented not in the form of a treatise or argument, but through a personal story, a story by turns sad and funny, but also compelling. The overall effect is not one of gloom, but of the delight and exhilaration that comes with intellectual freedom. { 241pp, 155x215mm, May 2007; HB, £16.99, 1929490348:9781929490349 , Frederic C Beil } |
| BROKEN THING [Marlin Barton] Author-editor Dabnet Stuart best summarises this debut novel "as relentless as Euripides, or Faulkner, whose "As I Lay Dying" is its formal model. Its central preoccupation is the sins (or in more secular terms, 'behaviour patterns') of fathers and mothers passing into the lives of their offspring. It also reminds us how many people, living and dead, ghost our daily experience, complicating and enriching our choices. Barton includes the dimension of mercy too -- the mutual forgiveness of failures by family members who, finally, find ways to realise they can't live without each other. An impressive, uncompromising book. { 258pp, 155x230mm, December 2003; HB, £16.99, 1929490208:9781929490202 , Frederic C Beil } |
| CHARLESTON DOGS [Lucy Spector] This book includes about a hundred tales about dogs in Charleston, South Carolina. Each story is told from the perspective of the dog or written by a member of the dog's 'pack', and is accompanied by a photo of the featured dog. The book is dedicated to the veterinarians and humane agencies of Charleston, South Carolina. The agencies receive the royalties from the sale of the book. { 224pp, 140x215mm, December 2006; PB, £10.99, 1929490178:9781929490172 , Frederic C Beil } |
| DRY WELL [Marlin Barton] This collection brings together the author's twelve best stories, all set in the same small Southern community in Alabama. The world of these stories covers five generations of one particular family named Anderson, and the range in time is from 1865 to the present. These stories are about grace in the lives of ordinary men and women. The plot lines are infinitely various, but so delicate that they have eluded some of the subtlest writers. As was once said about the writing of Peter Taylor, a master of the short story, Marlin Barton's writing is as clear as a fine pane of glass. Correctly described as unobtrusive, this style is so simple and powerful that he seems scarcely to be exercising his craft. This is the perfect definition of a virtuoso. As readers will find, there is virtuosity aplenty in "The Dry Well". { 219pp, 150x210mm, September 2002; HB, £16.99, 1929490070:9781929490073 , Frederic C Beil } |
| GETTING AHEAD : Without Losing Heart [Andy Fleming] This is an insightful exploration of the career and life-style decisions of seven distinctive young adults, who chronicle in their own voices important educational and career choices. Readers meet, among others a successful Wall Street trader who dreams of becoming a doctor, a Dartmouth graduate who happily works as a hotel desk clerk, and a former automobile shop secretary who makes it into investment banking and must choose between the position she earned and the man she loves. These intimate and insightful accounts are woven together by the author's own journey on and off the fast track during the period of these interviews. Each story includes questions for reflection and discussion; and Fleming has added an appendix of books and films that he has found to be catalytic for those who wish to further explore life-work themes. { 174pp, 155x235mm, October 1999; PB, £13.50, 091372064X:9780913720646 , Frederic C Beil } |
| GOYA, ARE YOU WITH ME NOW? [H E Francis] This is a masterful achievement in literature. By way of a revelation while studying Goya's Black Paintings, a well-known photographer (Brand) searches for the world of true art -- the understanding and realisation of immortality. Through the eyes of his dearest friend, Ferris, we see the emerging secrets of Brand's life and his struggle against the barely known Nazi past of his father, whose unconscious shadow becomes blacker and denser when condoned by Brand's mother. In search of illusive answers, the journeys of Ferris and Brand take them to Providence and Bristol, Rhode Island; Huntsville, Alabama; and Madrid. In one of the most compelling dramas of our time, this work makes one feel the despair of having an abyss between one's self and one's aspirations to a calling. { 164pp, 160x240mm, December 1999; HB, £16.99, 1929490011:9781929490011 , Frederic C Beil } |
| HABIT [William James] The habits to which there is an innate tendency are called instincts; some of those due to education would, by most persons, be called acts of reason. It appears that habit covers a very large part of life, and that one engaged in studying the objective manifestations of mind is bound at the very outset to define clearly just what its limits are. This volume illustrates the principles surrounding habit and its structure. { 192pp, July 2008; PB, £10.99, 1929490283:9781929490288 , Frederic C Beil } |
| HONOR BRIGHT : Honor in Western Literature [George F Jones] Beginning with Alfred North Whitehead's premise that it is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression, Jones describes the Germanic code of honour and chronologically traces the gradual development of the concept of honour in the West. The author explores the Christian code of honour -- "or rather code of ethics, since honour as originally understood was incompatible with Christian humility". Then he examines the theories of the Greeks and Romans. The honour code of the age of chivalry -- one of the most romanticised in all of Western literature -- is juxtaposed to the Christian Stoic values of the period. Jones also captures the eighteenth-century concept of honour, and, lastly, how all these codes appeared in the literature of the nineteenth century, by which time the concept of honour had changed. Subjects included in the work are shame culture, guilt culture, the courtly romances, honour dramas, woman's honour, the ridicule of false honour, Southern honour, military and national honour, the field of honour, deviant honour codes, and honour today. Jones reappraises the whole concept of honour, with the aim of restoring our belief that honour is one of our deepest virtues. { 214pp, 135x210mm, September 2002; HB, £16.99, 192949002X:9781929490028 , Frederic C Beil } |
| INVISIBLE COUNTRY [H E Francis] A master at weaving his stories around fully developed characters, H. E. Francis turns his talents to the intriguing drama of the Moorehead family as seen through the eyes of four principal characters. As the family metamorphoses through the Great Depression and the Great War, its story is played out in the landscapes of the university city of Madison, Wisconsin; Bristol and Providence, Rhode Island; Long Island and Plum Island, New York. When the two Moorehead brothers, Rod and Cory, fall in love with the same woman, Savannah Goshen becomes the unintentional, even accidental, cause of unfurling the history of the Moorehead family. One by one, veils that have protected the characters are peeled away. With each lifting of the veil, the reader is introduced to a variety of characters who are involved in the lives of the Mooreheads and who draw the reader into the pain of their tragedies and the joys of their meagre but meaningful success. You will become attached to the Mooreheads and their world, which carries somewhere in its legacy a piece of our own story. It is this literary achievement that makes this novel a compelling experience. { 534pp, 160x240mm, September 2002; HB, £19.99, 1929490062:9781929490066 , Frederic C Beil } |
| JOSEPH JEFFERSON : Dean of the American Theatre [Arthur Bloom] This is the first in-depth biography of Joseph Jefferson, one of the foremost of an old and distinguished family of English and American actors. Born in 1829, Jefferson became one of the most beloved actors in America and probably the most successful. His career spans the growth of the theatre from resident stock companies featuring touring stars to "combination" companies (what we would call road shows). Jefferson played in virtually every American city; and although he proved himself a skilled actor in more than a hundred roles, he was particularly famous for his characterisation of Rip Van Winkle. A painter of merit and member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he succeeded Edwin Booth as president of The Players in New York City and hence was the acknowledged head of American actors. Having been on the stage for seventy-one years, Jefferson died on Shakespeare's birthday in 1905. Drawing on a stunning amount of research, Arthur Bloom reassesses a life packed with bravura and romance. The result is an extraordinary, vibrant biography of a fascinating and celebrated actor. { 506pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; HB, £23.50, 0913720550:9780913720554 , Frederic C Beil } |
| KAMALLAH'S BRACELET : A Novel [Derek Smith] Earnest, naive, and shy with women, the Reverend Denson Roswell is the newly appointed pastor of the Mt Absalom Baptist Church in the south Georgia town of Levidgville during the early 1960's. Instead of being a brimstone-spouting preacher who stirs his flock with sermons laced with hellfire and damnation, he becomes deeply embroiled himself with a temptress who answers his personals ad in an Atlanta newspaper, and then with a deranged, sexually aggressive church member. Tortured by the entrapments in which he unwittingly is immersed, Denson becomes convinced that all is hopeless and is consumed by guilt. Although deficient in worldly wisdom and good judgement, he eventually is saved, his redemption, in the end, coming from the most ungodly and surprising quarter. Derek Smith is a masterly storyteller, and here he weaves a fascinating tale full of colourful characters, set against a backdrop of life in the 1960's South. { 288pp, 155x230mm, June 2008; HB, £16.99, 1929490232:9781929490233 , Frederic C Beil } |
| MASTER OF THE CENTURY PAST [Robert S Metzger] In this, his first novel, Robert Metzger has achieved an intriguing work -- an 'autobiography' of a celebrated society portraitist who, incidentally, happens to be the most celebrated art forger of the twentieth century. Set in New York City, and spanning the period from the mid-fifties to the eighties, the story centres around the forgery and marketing of a series of paintings by an Impressionist 'master', Jean-Jacques Caillou (1839-1870), unknown before his discovery by the forger. The forger, Jack Birnbaum, is driven by his resentment at not being recognised in his own right as a painter of significant stature, and by his belief that he is fulfilling, in a manner of speaking, the promise of the painter Caillou, who died too young. As Birnbaum reflects on his own life, a recurrent theme is the mythology of 'calling' or 'lifework'. An intelligent and acute observer of others, and not without significant self-knowledge, Birnbaum realises how the Caillou forgeries fit into his own life as a substitute fulfillment. { 245pp, 160x235mm, January 1996; HB, £13.50, 0913720879:9780913720875 , Frederic C Beil } |
| MISSING PERSONS : A Novel [D K Smith] This is the story of Harry Bailey and his attempts to restart a life that has come to an emotional standstill. He has been living with his father since his mother walked out on them both six years before, and together they have sunk into a lonely routine. But their dead-end life is suddenly disrupted when the elder Bailey begins dating a woman young enough to be his daughter. Harry blames his father for driving his mother away, and he is hurt and angry that his father seems to be getting on with his life and leaving Harry behind. He becomes increasingly aware of his father's obvious happiness, and of Mona, the woman responsible. She is, he discovers, a private detective who specialises in finding missing persons, and as Harry is inadvertently drawn into one of her cases, he is forced to confront all that is missing from his own life. Despite himself, he falls in love with her, and the ensuing complications reach a fevered pitch when, after all the years away, his mother finally returns. A moving exploration of the joys and contradictions of love, this work is beautifully written with a quirky humour that invites both laughter and contemplation. { 320pp, 140x215mm, September 2008; HB, £16.99, 1929490313:9781929490318 , Frederic C Beil } |
| MOZART & ME [Joyce T Stafford] Grace, a psychotherapist, is sent back in time to meet her idol, Mozart, who provides her with revelations, both about him and about herself. The author uses the stages of immediacy as discussed by Kierkegaard in "Either/Or". Each of these stages is relevant to Grace's search for the real Mozart, and ultimately to her renewed enthusiasm for life. { 714pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; HB, £16.99, 1929490054:9781929490059 , Frederic C Beil } |
| NOR THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG : A Novel of the American Revolution in the South [Charles F Price] A sweeping narrative covering a little known but crucial period of the Revolutionary War, "Nor the Battle to the Strong" tells the separate but ultimately intertwined stories of two compelling characters. Major General Nathanael Greene, Rhode Island-born, Quaker-bred commander of the Southern Continental Army, conducts an arduous campaign to reduce a series of British posts in South Carolina during the fateful summer of 1781, while, in Virginia, Private James Johnson, Scottish immigrant and runaway indentured servant, serves as a Continental infantryman in the manoeuvring of Lafayette's army against Cornwallis. Recruited into the dragoon service, Johnson travels South and joins Greene's army in time for the battle of Eutaw Springs, one of the bloodiest actions of the war. The contrasting perspectives of Greene and Johnson give the reader a vivid understanding of the American Revolution, both from the command level and through the eyes of the ordinary soldier. The novel probes our nation's earliest history with a post-911 sensibility. What values animated those who founded the United States? Are we the unworthy inheritors of their noble legacy? Or are we -- and were they - merely human; and is it the purpose of history to put our humanity constantly to the test? { 480pp, 155x235mm, May 2008; HB, £17.50, 192949033X:9781929490332 , Frederic C Beil } |
| NOTHING DISAPPEARS [D K Smith] At the age of fifteen, shattered by the sudden death of his girlfriend Grace, Charles Bentchley flees his Connecticut home and finds refuge with the Magnificent Rudy, a magician who for the next seven years teaches Charles his tricks -- and his tricks of the trade. Eventually Charles returns home to confront his loss of Grace and his brother's role in it. In his pursuit of revenge Charles must come to grips not only with his brother's betrayal, but with his own mistakes and guilt. Through imagination and magic he finds his way beyond loss and anger toward new love and redemption. In this lucid, concise, and beautiful penetration of character, D. K. Smith has written a synthesis of narrative and idea that never ceases to be a superior entertainment as well. { 404pp, 155x230mm, November 2003; HB, £16.99, 1929490259:9781929490257 , Frederic C Beil } |
| PAINTER'S DAUGHTER : The Story of Sandro Botticelli & Alessandra Lippi [Carolyn Street LaFond] In 1537 the eighteen-year-old Cosimo Medici inherits the dukedom of Tuscany and with it the many riches of his Medici ancestors. In one of his villas a magical painting, hidden in storage for more than forty years, is discovered and arouses Cosimo's curiosity. The painting depicts the goddess Venus, "who hath no mortal face", rising from the sea and floating to shore on a giant shell. The young duke yearns to know more about the painter, Sandro Botticelli, who created this masterpiece for Cosimo's great uncle. Cosimo seeks out the ageing Alessandra Lippi, the woman purported to be the model for the Venus and for Botticelli's many spectacular Madonnas. He finds her on a small estate outside of Florence and, after speaking to him of her colourful youth as the goddaughter of Botticelli, she bequeaths to Cosimo the memoirs she kept secret along with her unrequitted love for the master painter. This novel brings to life the artistic and political turmoil of fifteenth-century Florence through the stories of Alessandra Lippi. At the centre of her narration, Alessandra follows Botticelli's career and reveals the mystery and controversy surrounding the celebrated "Birth of Venus". Alessandra speaks of a time of artistic glory that Cosimo hopes to return to Florence. But it is also a time of scandal and violence offset only by the definitive image of love and beauty that Botticelli unknowingly created for the next five centuries to come. { 308pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; HB, £23.50, 091372078X:9780913720783 , Frederic C Beil } |
| PRESCRIPTION FOR GREED [Philip W Hurst & J Willis Hurst] At last here is a book of fiction that allows us to peer into the inner sanctum of academic medicine with a clear view of the men and women who shape the future of medicine by the strength of weakness of their character. Dr Vance Connelly, leader in medicine and cardiology, guides the reader through the lives of three of his protégés -- all of whom are seduced to take dramatically different paths in their medical professions. Through their eyes we see the deterioration of medicine and medical research by the interests of big business, the disintegration of the regulatory power of the Federal Drug Administration by hungry politicians, the conflicted judgement of health policymakers, the misguided attacks on the practice of medicine by lawyers, and the ethically bold struggle to reveal the truth of it all. This is a compelling work that takes the reader to the front line of corruption in American medicine in a manner that will force the close examination of clinical trials for drugs and medical devices, and of the role and cost of bringing these new biotechnologies to the marketplace too soon. This is a 'must-read' for every consumer of health care services in the United States. { 277pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; HB, £16.99, 1929490046:9781929490042 , Frederic C Beil } |
| PRICELESS SOULS [Desmond Tarrant] This is the story, from childhood on, of three academics, an Englishman, Dominic, an American, Nathan Whittier, and another Englishman, Eric Maitland. Dominic is from a poor family with the odds all against him in his fight to find a place in society worthy of him; Eric has similar ambitions but starts from a much stronger position with influence to help him to beat the great competition. While still at school they clash before going their separate ways, Dominic into the RAF becoming aircrew in 1945. A chief source of appeal is Dominic's battle to achieve his objective in education while not selling his soul, while keeping his integrity, in the interest of our cultural health and well-being, in a world in which standards are falling everywhere in everything. We deal with these vital matters on both sides of the Atlantic as Nathan (himself subject to big business) comes to wield power over both in English and American universities. There is drama and suspense, colour and humour, as we see what happens to both these Englishmen in their fight to find the Holy Grail of fulfilment and understanding. The novel builds to a dramatic climax as Dominic and Eric meet again to do battle in their quests in a test of everyone's morals and honesty. This fine novel, genuine and lasting literature, is essential reading, a real page-turner. { 203pp, 160x235mm, November 1998; HB, £16.99, 0913720852:9780913720851 , Frederic C Beil } |
| SAILING SAVANNAH 1996 [John Rumsey] For the layman as well as for the experienced sailor and yachtsman, this book has everything that you need to know about the Olympic sailing events that took place in Savannah, Georgia, in l996. Topics included are the history of sailing in and around Savannah; sailing clubs, marinas, and shipyards; the history of Olympic sailing; what it takes to get to the Olympics; profiles of and talks with US and foreign medalists; descriptions and histories of the Olympic classes of sailboats; a guide to the courses and venues; Olympic ideals and sportsmanship; the Olympic sailing committees and other sailing organisations; the rules of Olympic racing; and a glossary of sailing terms. An avid sailor his whole life, John Rumsey was associated with North Sails for twenty-five years and was skipper of the HMS Bounty for six years. He is a member of the San Francisco and San Diego yacht clubs, and of US Sailing, for which he is a judge. His racing experience has included the Sydney-Hobart Race, the Transatlantic Race, the Bermuda Race (four times), the Transpac (nine times), and fifteen SORC's. { 180pp, 120x240mm, January 1996; PB, £9.99, 0913720968:9780913720967 , Frederic C Beil } |
| SENTINELS : A Novel [Derek Smith] In 1864 the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley made naval history -- it became the first underwater vessel ever to blow up an enemy ship. But there probably wasn’t much time to celebrate. The Hunley sank with its crew of eight before it returned to port. For the next 130 years few people other than Civil War buffs gave the Hunley much thought. Then, in 1994, attacks on opulent yachts and unsolved murders in Charleston, South Carolina, involve U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant Eric Ashby in a search for answers to clues that increasingly point to a ghostly Confederate submarine still fighting more than a century after the Civil War. Thwarted by the Charleston police, who logically conclude that the search for murderers who died in the 1860’s is quite nonsensical and not worth the time, Ashby -- with the intuitive help of his mystical girlfriend -- follows the leads that solve the murders and hence undergoes a transformation of his personal attitude to the passing of time. And in the process he comes to a vision of his own -- that his salvation in a despairing world lies, to a great extent, within his own power; and if he exerts that power, external help will be granted to him. "The Sentinels" is a witty and glitteringly intelligent first novel from a distinguished author who now proves that he is an irresistibly erudite practitioner of the art of fiction. { 234pp, 155x230mm, December 2003; HB, £16.99, 1929490135:9781929490134 , Frederic C Beil } |
| SUDDEN TREES : And Other Stories [H E Francis] This is new collection of ten short stories from a writer whose proven style of unusual power holds the reader's attention with the authority of an experienced master storyteller. These stories are about people trapped in dying bodies, in asylums, in prisons of lost but remembered love and about the escape of the spirit that occurs only through grace. These are disturbing stories that leave the reader, in the end, full of hope. { 323pp, 150x215mm, May 1999; HB, £16.99, 0913720763:9780913720769 , Frederic C Beil } |
| TOM COFFEY'S SAVANNAH [Tom Coffey] { 288pp, June 2008; PB, £13.50, 1929490097:9781929490097 , Frederic C Beil } |
| TOUR OF HOMES [Micheal Elliott] At last, Elliott combines his keen sense of observation and unmatched knowledge of the politics of securing services for the homeless and weaves them into a tale of intrigue set in Savannah, Georgia. This page-turner marks the first novel by this prolific author of essays and inspirational non-fiction. It takes the reader on a fascinating, disturbing, and yet often hilarious journey across the political landscape of a town trying to deal with the economic reality of too many sick people, too few services for them, and healthcare struggling for survival while trying to meet the community's health needs. Based on his own experience as a non-profit executive, Elliott exposes the administrative travails of healthcare management. This book is clever, witty, and insightful, and is fun reading; but once you have finished reading it, you will never look at healthcare the same way. This book is Elliott's most provocative. { 368pp, 155x230mm, August 2004; HB, £19.99, 1929490216:9781929490219 , Frederic C Beil } |
| TRANSCENDENTAL SAUNTERER : Thoreau & the Search for Self [David C Smith] Avid readers of Thoreau have long been aware of his saunterings and of their relative import in terms of his excursion pieces. Now for the first time, a Thoreau scholar takes on the question of Thoreau's walking experience. Why did Thoreau devote more time to walking than to any other activity? What influence did his walks have on his daily life? What does his sauntering experience reveal about Thoreau as a person and about his unique brand of Transcendentalism? This book probes every aspect of Thoreau' walks and answers those questions. This is a book about exploration, of nature and self, and is skillfully crafted to reveal Thoreau's personality and beliefs, and in so doing beckons the reader on a saunter through one's own mind and spirit. { 210pp, 140x210mm, November 1997; HB, £16.99, 0913720747:9780913720745 , Frederic C Beil } |
| WORLDLY WISDOM : Great Books & the Meanings of Life [James Sloan Allen] The author engagingly explores some fifty classic works of philosophy, social thought, and literature (mainly but not exclusively from the West) to elucidate their contents and draw out ideas valuable for understanding human life in this world and for living that life well. This book has a distinctly humanistic slant, with a suggestion of a thinker's self-help book. As Allen writes: "You don't have to be a philosopher to think about the meaning of life. Everyone does it. Sometimes we think about the meaning of life itself -- where it came from, where it is going, what is its purpose, and so on. But more often we think about the many smaller meanings of our lives as we live from day to day... These ideas may not be altogether conscious. And most probably go unstated. But we cannot live without them... There would not be any classic writings, or Great Books, of world civilisation without these ideas either... In one way or another, these writings all deal with how we find meaning in our lives -- or how we give meanings to our lives. Classic authors just differ from other people by having more elaborate ideas on this subject, and by articulating their ideas more memorably. This is how classic writings give us what I will call 'good ideas', and 'useful humanism', and 'worldly wisdom'. { 416pp, 155x235mm, October 2008; HB, £19.99, 1929490356:9781929490356 , Frederic C Beil } |