A wounded soldier comes home from the Boer War to find the girl he left behind engaged to the local mine-owner's son. He becomes involved in a bitter dispute between the wealthy boss and the miners, leading to his brutal arrest and trial for murder. Can he avoid the hangman's noose and win back his lost love, or does fickle fate have other plans for him?

This is the brutal but ultimately uplifting true story of SHAK: the only charity in the UK which rescues condemned dogs from death-row and guarantees them a comfortable, happy life.

A young man struggling to find the lasting love and happiness he yearns for after a disastrous start to life, defends his daughter against sexual abuse and is soon on the run from a murder charge. He flees across Europe and takes refuge in North Africa, right at the start of the brutal Arab Spring uprising of 2010/11. This tense, fast-paced thriller pulls no punches in describing how a sidelined social misfit steps up to the mark and tries to prevail over his past; to overcome the obstacles in his future, and at last succeed in any way he can. It chronicles the people he meets along the way, some of whom will stay in his heart forever, and an unlikely love affair which persists against all odds. This book also includes some of the animals that they and any of us could meet on our journeys through life, and how they can so often enrich that journey. The backdrop is the author's move to a new life in Spain and his experiences there.

This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.

"I was deeply moved. It is a brilliant meditation on life and death. Elegantly written and utterly original, this book will surely endure." ROBERT OLEN BUTLER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain' Robert McGowan's 'A Long and Indeterminate Perambulation' is not a conventional piece of storytelling. Told from the viewpoint of a 75-year-old "philosopher artist," this novella is driven far more by character and idea than by narrative. This book presents her diary entries following a more or less daily walk around her neighborhood. These entries provide consistently insightful views on the deepest of subjects...Life, war, death and art. Poignant, thought-provoking and not infrequently controversial, 'A Long and Indeterminate Perambulation' is always stirring. "Heartfelt and utterly beautiful, yet grounded in strength, integrity, and conviction. McGowan at his very best." CHRISTINE COTE, Founder, Shanti Arts

These stories are derived of the author's ten-year struggle (1982-1991) on behalf of the endangered South Main Street Historic District in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. The photographs are from a 1986 series of gelatin silver photos taken by McGowan in and near the district. The stories focus in large measure on confrontations with inept and visionless city agencies and arts funding groups and the frustrations inherent in seeking to work with such entities toward district revitalization. Memphis' South Main Street Historic District, once neglected and deteriorating, much of it on the verge of demotion, is now, two or three decades later, a thriving, energetic mixed commercial/residential neighborhood with a distinctive arts vitality. SOUTH MAIN STORIES conveys to the reader what it can be like for a neighborhood to make that transition and will therefore be of relevance to any adventurous and determined individuals involved in such an effort. SOUTH MAIN STORIES is designed by the artist Terri J. Jones.

Derived of the author's Vietnam War experience, the thirty-seven stories in this sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious collection look back at the Vietnam War from a distance of forty or more years, nearly a half-century, and via the perspectives of not only the soldiers themselves, but also their children, spouses, siblings, parents, friends. Nothing comparable to this collection exists within the literature growing out of the Vietnam War. NAM is hardly just another batch of macho war stories. These short fictions, most of them memoir-based, neither glorify nor even excuse war but come forward instead as eloquent testament to the tragic lunacy of it.

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This fascinating autobiography traces the life of a boy from a northern council estate, the second son of a builder's labourer, who challenges all accepted conventions and pre-conceptions about his genre. Condemned to the building-sites, back-streets and criminal courts of England he eventually fights back to avoid the prison cell that awaits him and pursue his surprisingly diverse talents. Traumatic childhood years lead to a violent life but his caring, creative inner spirit is never crushed. After a brutal beginning and early manhood there emerges at last a self-taught professional artist, architect, poet, author and legal-advocate, who must reach deep within himself to cope with the successive personal tragedies which threaten to destroy him. This no-holds-barred book 'names names' and delves deeply into every imaginable human emotion as it races through time from the 1950s to the present, and includes several visits to earlier history. It will make you cry, and laugh, and question your own values in life, and is certain to be controversial.

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