Literary Fiction
The Spy’s Little Zonbi, by Cole Alpaugh
The Spy’s Little Zonbi (272 pages) is a work of espionage fiction by Cole Alpaugh about an idealistic secret agent who tries to protect his daughter from the evil his work has wrought. Click here to read the article in the Wayne Independent Newspaper online. The Spy’s Little Zonbi is Alpaugh’s third novel. His second…
Read MoreThe Book of Changes, by Jack Remick
The Book of Changes (306 pages) by Jack Remick, is a work of literary fiction that covers a tumultuous year in the life of an idealistic first-year male student enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1971. It is Book Three of The California Quartet, a series of standalone novels about young men coming of age in…
Read MoreBetter You Go Home, by Scott Driscoll
Better You Go Home (236 pages), is the first novel by Seattle writer and writing instructor Scott Driscoll. While visiting the Czech Republic in search of his half-sister, a critically ill American man unearths long-buried family secrets. WINNER of the Foreword Firsts Award for Debut Fiction: 5 Stars: “Driscoll ably threads an adulterous romance with…
Read MoreLucia and the Diplomatic Incident, by Tom Holt
The short story, “Lucia and the Diplomatic Incident,” by British novelist Tom Holt, is a fresh new adventure in the Lucia and Mapp series based on the novels of E.F. Benson. It is currently only available as a Kindle Single, priced at $.99. Until now it has appeared in print only once, in the Benson Society…
Read MoreBaxter’s Friends, by Ned Randle
Baxter’s Friends (218 pages), by Ned Randle, is a work of literary fiction about three middle-aged male friends whose lives are spinning out of control. Baxter’s Friends is a finalist in the ForeWord Firsts Contest, sponsored by ForeWord Magazine. “We want our writers, our poets, our storytellers to make rainbows, not black or white or…
Read MoreCivil to Strangers and Other Writings, An Academic Question, and Crampton Hodnet, by Barbara Pym
When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left behind several complete but unpublished novels, half-finished works, short stories and many other papers. These were only available in the Bodleian Library in Oxford to scholars. Thanks to Pym’s friend, biographer, and colleague Hazel Holt–author of the much-loved Mrs. Malory Mysteries–three of these complete novels and assorted…
Read MoreGabriela and the Widow, by Jack Remick
Gabriela and The Widow (280 pages), a work of literary fiction by Seattle author Jack Remick, tells the story of a dying aristocrat and the Mixteca caregiver who helps her assemble the jumbled pieces of her past, a process that gives them both love, closure, and the courage to move on. Gabriela and The Widow…
Read MoreValley Boy, by Jack Remick
Valley Boy (254 pages), by Jack Remick, covers a year in the life of a third-generation Okie teenager who is struggling with the stigma of his heritage. “Valley Boy is the story of every kid who wandered out of the Valley into Baghdad by the Bay with dreams, imagination, curiosity and a mind that admitted…
Read MoreThe Deification, by Jack Remick
The Deification (358 pages) is a picaresque novel by Seattle author Jack Remick that pays homage to the legendary San Francisco beat poets. Some of Remick’s influences include Kerouac’s On the Road and The Dharma Bums and Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. “The novel is a masculine got-you-by-the-throat wild ride, a coming of age and a coming…
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