Van ongenooi na ingenooi is werklikheidsfiksie gebaseer op die ware verhaal van trauma en verlies en uiteindelike aanvaarding in die lewe van ’n jong vrou en haar gesin. Dit is ook die verhaal van ware vriendskap. Ná ’n besoek aan ’n chirurg word ulseratiewe kolitis by Tanja gediagnoseer en sy moet hoor dat dit reeds haar rektum en kolon aangetas het. Die dokter hanteer egter nie die saak as spoedeisend nie, verseker haar dat sy maar kan gaan vakansie hou. Die uiteinde is katastrofies. Tanja se kolon perforeer en sy sterf byna aan inwendige bloeding. Tientalle besoeke aan die hospitaal volg en sy moet vir die res van haar lewe met ’n stomasak saamleef. Ná haar ontslag besef en ondervind sy watter letsels die ongenooide siekte, trauma en aanhegsel aan haar liggaam en emosies laat. Van ongenooi na ingenooi is ’n boek vir:

• Vroue op die eensame reis wat in Noodgevalle of ’n onkologiekliniek begin het, waarna jy met jouself, God en jou medemens moet gaan saamleef
• Dié wat al deur groot trauma moes gaan, asook hul gesin en veral vir hul lewensmaat.
• Lesers wat hulle in ’n “nuwe normaal”bevind – in ’n liggaam wat waarskynlik nooit weer soos vroeër sal lyk of wees nie
• Die lewensmaats van vroue soos Tanja, asook die familie en vriende van ernstig siek mense

"In an age of increasing international insecurity, the concept of home becomes of still greater importance, as does our relationship with other races and cultures. This account of an American-born woman of Ukrainian extraction, married for 50 years to a Devon farmer, offers a small but entrancing vision of what unlikely meetings of culture, blood and tradition can produce. This wise and spirited account of one woman's life suggests how old traditions, transplanted, can become renewed and how brave life choices can generate creative outcomes. I read Karen's story with the kind of quiet pleasure that only the truly authentic can deliver." - Salley Vickers

In the wake of Texas enacting a bill to deny abortions after 6 weeks, Loved and Wanted shines a light on motherhood and the right to choose. 'Haunting, wild, and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood, in all gothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading.' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice in Trump's America. For readers of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy. In 2017, Christa Parravani had recently moved her family from California to West Virginia. Surviving on a teacher's salary, she was already raising two young children with her husband, screenwriter Anthony Swofford. Another pregnancy, a year after giving birth to her second child, came as a shock. Christa had a history of ectopic pregnancies and was worried that she wouldn't be able to find adequate medical care. She immediately requested a termination - but her doctor refused to help. The only doctor who would perform an abortion made it clear that this would be illicit, not condoned by her colleagues or their community. In exploring her own choice, or rather in discovering her lack of it, Christa reveals the desperate state of female healthcare in contemporary America.

An often overlooked aspect of the Cold War was the extent of diplomatic espionage that went on in the countries behind the Iron Curtain. Every Western Diplomat stationed in Soviet-bloc countries was targeted as a spy by the security apparatus in the respective countries. With the opening of archives in Eastern Europe, the extent of this diplomatic espionage can be revealed for the first time. Ernest H. Latham, Jr. was a career foreign service officer who served the United States in various posts around the world. From 1983 to 1987, he served as cultural attache at the American Embassy in Bucharest. During his time in Romania, Dr. Latham was targeted as a spy by the brutal Communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu and subjected to constant surveillance by the dreaded Securitate, Ceausescu's secret police. This book is a collection of the surveillance reports that Dr. Latham was able to obtain from the Romanian archives following the collapse of the Communist regime. They reveal the extent of the surveillance to which Western diplomats were subjected and, more importantly, they reveal a great deal about the system and society that produced these materials. With an introduction by Ernest Latham, this book should be essential reading for students of the Cold War and for anyone interested in the mindset and functioning of totalitarian regimes in general.

Killing at its Very Extreme takes the reader to the heart of Dublin from October 1917 to November 1920, effectively the first phase of Dublin's War of Independence. It details pivotal aspects at the outset, then the ramping up of the intelligence war, the upsurge in raids and assassinations. Vividly depicting mass hunger-strikes, general strikes, prison escapes, and ruthless executions by the full-time IRA 'Squad', amid curfews and the functioning of an audacious alternative government. Intensity builds as the reader is embedded into Commandant Dick McKee's Dublin Brigade to witness relentless actions and ambushes. The authors' unprecedented access lays bare many myths about key players from both sides. The tempo escalates with deployment of the notorious Black and Tans and Auxiliaries, as well as a host of cunning political and propaganda ploys. Desperate plights and horrific reprisals are portrayed, the effects of mass sectarian pogroms and killings. Tthe sacking of Balbriggan, the killing of Sean Treacy, the death of Terence MacSwiney, and the capture and execution of teenager Kevin Barry. As in the authors' previous works the pulsating tension, elation, fear, desperation, hunger, the mercy and the enmity leap from the pages. The harrowing circumstances suffered by those whose sacrifices laid the bedrock for modern Ireland, and whose own words form the book's primary sources, are recounted in unflinching detail.