A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WITH A FOREWORD BY ROBERT SMITH The definitive collection of renowned photographer Tom Sheehan's images of The Cure - with photographs seen here for the very first time. Spanning three decades, more than 20 sessions and hundreds of images, Tom Sheehan's photographs of The Cure are a breathtaking visual chronicle of the most important alternative rock band in the world. Encompassing early portraits, epic live shows, studio sessions and snatched moments on tour around the world, Sheehan's photographs capture the band's journey from cult heroes to global rock stars. Many of the images published in this brand new book have never been seen anywhere before now. Beautifully presented in a cloth-bound hardback and featuring a new, original four-part biography by acclaimed author Simon Goddard, this is the ultimate collection of Sheehan's work, indispensable to any fan of The Cure.

Walk a ways with me, here by the Saugus River and the Old Iron Works, where I played as a boy, where Arethusa bulbosa (dragon's mouth orchid or swamp pride) waits for spring and new reeds to hide the young of red-winged blackbirds, where indentured Scot servants worked off their passage, where Captain Kidd brought his treasure to bury on Vinegar Hill (not found yet by boy or man), all leading me to say: The Hour Falling Light Touches Rings of Iron (at the First Iron Works of America, Saugus, MA): You must remember, Pittsburgh is not like this, would never have been found without the rod bending right here, sucked down by the earth. This is not the thick push of the three rivers? water hard as name-calling?. Slag makes a bucket bottom feed iron rings unto water, ferric oxides, clouds of rust.

Short Stories of Our Time Tantra Bensko - "california, usa" White Arms Papa's Song Mama Carly Berg - "texas, usa" Bringing Back Beulah Fat Pat The Last Supper Shattered Risen The Horse Head Earrings Turquoise Dreams Ute Carson - "texas, usa" The Old Should Be Explorers Tony Concannon - massachusetts, usa The Book Rudy Ch. Garcia - "colorado, usa" Class Epiphany Margaret Karmazin - "pennsylvania, usa" He'll Do James D. Reed - "ohio, usa" Just One More Thing (To Go Wrong) W. Jack Savage - "california, usa" Veterans at the Post Office Tom Sheehan - "massachusetts, usa" Lover, not Yet Lover The Storekeeper The Rig Runner Bhadauria Manish Singh - "gujarat, india" The Lunatic Hollis Whitlock - "british columbia, canada" The Search for Eternal Life Samuel K. Wilkes - "alabama, usa" Leaving the Nest Abigail Wyatt - "england, uk" The Long March Home Al Claro de Luna

The stories in Brief Cases, Short Spans cover a range of time and places, from the fields of France in World War II to mid-century small town New England life. Their common link is the human element, for Tom Sheehan is a master at creating compelling and real characters. Above all else, the stories in Brief Cases, Short Spans are stories of love: young love, mature love, the love between families, and the love between comrades in arms. Sheehan s characters leap off the page until it feels as if you ve known them forever, and you ll want to come back and visit them time and time again.

Epic Cures brings together twenty-two short stories by award-winning master storyteller Tom Sheehan. Alan Lupo, of the Boston Globe, says, "Tom Sheehan dissects the life of everyman, for in peace and war and all the trauma and joy in between, he has known everyman. He masters the details of memory, in sight, sound, smell and feel, so that memory becomes memorable. Sheehan has the soul of John Dos Passos, of Carl Sandburg." Sheehan offers the cure for those readers who believe that only the novel can deliver the epic tale.