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Brightfire: A Tale of Sutton Hoo
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Born in Zambia, I lived in Cape Town, before leaving on a transport ship in 1944 to return ‘home’ to England. My parents wanted to be with their families, even though World War 2 had not ended.
We lived in Kent, Surrey, Yorkshire and Norfolk before I went to Royal Holloway College, University of London, to read English (including Old English and Modern Drama). I have lived and taught in Suffolk since my marriage in 1964, and eventually became Head of English and Drama at Woodbridge School.
What is important to me? My family; literature, both reading and writing; theatre, on both sides of the curtain and travel. I am very fortunate to have travelled almost worldwide, from Iceland to Australia.
I am a National Trust volunteer at Sutton Hoo (site of the famous ship burial and treasure) and a Sutton Hoo Society Guide. I thoroughly enjoy sharing the history of Sutton Hoo with thousands of visitors each year. Renewing my acquaintance with the Anglo-Saxons re-awakened my interest in their language, culture and customs, and lead me to write two Anglo-Saxon historical novels based in the land of the Wuffings in the 7th century AD.
Apart from this writing, among the most exciting things I have done are swimming with dolphins on the Florida Keys, scuba-diving on the Great Barrier Reef and acting in the National Drama Festivals, where I was lucky enough to get a nomination in the Final.
Writing is something of a fourth career, as I have also worked as a TV film extra and run a local bookshop. As our forebears knew, life is for living and knowledge is for sharing: I enjoy giving talks to local societies and book clubs as well as doing book-signings.
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Little Spiders Big Web
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99When Bill Robinson agreed to help the beautiful Stephanie to find who had ordered the kill shot on her father twenty-five years ago, he knew it was much more than a cold case. What he didn’t know, was how hot it would get deeper he dug into the past, or the danger that awaits him and everyone he talked to.
Jill Benoit was retired from law enforcement and had every intention of staying that way. She had put in her twenty-five years and was more than ready to become a contented Vermont recluse, if only her neighbor would let her be. And then there were those annoying calls from that guy Robinson – and soon Jill was drawn into the same web of treachery and conspiracy that would lead her and Bill to the brink of death.
Will the quiet Vermont landscape and mountains of Washington State hide their secrets for another half century? Will the truth of a decade old crime come to light – and will anyone have proof? Can anyone really break the web of fear and hate and destroy the spiders that weave it?
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The Case of Two Left Shoes
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This is the story of Daniel Jorgensen, a lieutenant colonel and Chief of Investigations of the Army Criminal Investigations Element (CIE) in the Virginia area command. Dan has been working in the CIE since before the end of World War Two. His success at finding criminals and eliminating them has made the friends and family, of those he has sent to prison, very angry with him. Their attempts on his life and his family have been to kill him or stop his investigations.
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What Happens Now
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Major General Daniel Jorgensen and his family are back in Knoxville, Colorado where Dan is ROTC instructor at Knoxville College. Dan is hoping that the attacks on himself and his family are over. But having put over 200 in prison, and some on death row, for murder and a variety of other serious crimes, plus 10 dead, do you suppose that their might be a number of people after my head? Dan and his wife Grace are prepared for most attacks on their family. You would think that with the death rate of attackers during their attacks on Dan and family, that the attacks would drop off. Time will tell.
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Selectively Lawless
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This is the story of the son of a sharecropping lay minister who, at age 14, walks off the Texas cotton field his family is working on and tells his brother he is never picking cotton again. For the next 18 months he travels halfway across the country and up the Pacific Coast honing his skills as a gambler. At the end of that time he returns to his family driving a new Buick Roadster with $18,000 in his pocket. The money bank rolls his bootlegging enterprise.
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A Diamond Bomb Threat
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Three future centuries from now, John Luck decides to enter a pool tournament instead of joining his father’s law firm. He is unaware of a proposed diamond bomb threat from an ex-employer of a space program that purchases diamond batteries. Further potential is that carbon atoms uniquely bond with themselves to be fertilizer, bombs, diamonds or whatever, and that solar energy along with atomic nuclear waste from power plants are being used. John further becomes intertwined with Nelly Nelson, who is there attempting to rescue her father.
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The Spanish Teacher
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award
“…De la Cuesta’s novel maintains an accumulating power which holds onto a reader’s attention not only through the forceful figure of Ordóñez, but by demonstrating acutely how ordinary lives are impacted by the underlying social and political landscape. Compelling reading.”
-Tom Tolnay, publisher,
Birch Brook Press and author of Selling America and This Is the Forest Primeval
“Barbara de la Cuesta’s The Spanish Teacher has everything to thrill you-pace, a great balance of description, gesture and action, charmed, perfectly-tuned dialogue, and most notably, a character we follow as closely and sympathetically as if we were living right there inside the story with him… So many books show us a character who seems to capably hang and move like marionettes from the strings of a fairly competent puppeteer, but rarely do we see a full drama like this, where every bit of the writing extends from, grows out of, is part and parcel with the author’s complete realization of and connection to her character…”
-Don Berger, judge for the Gival Press Novel Award
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Boys of Babylon
Price range: $3.99 through $10.30There is a small tourist trap in the Northern Midwest. A trap may be exactly what it is. People go for the fudge, but is it good enough to risk their lives for? In Midwestern fashion, dark secrets are covered up and disguised as quaint diners, candy shops, and beautiful vacation homes. During the summer of 2004, like every year, tourists make their way into town. However, this year, six pubescent boys take advantage of several unsuspecting vacationers, sending them to a watery grave on a popular recreational river. This rite of passage turns on the town when tragedy strikes one of their own. The children’s parents are forced to come face to face with the sadistic games of their once “sweet angels.” But how does one handle a child without coming to terms with such a twisted reality in a place where no one wants to confront their demons?
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Ancient of Days: (Author of All You Survey)
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Born in Indiana, Grover “Grumpy” Pitman grew up the second youngest of six siblings. He and his lovely bride, Deborah, have been married for over 40 years, and they have one son, one daughter-in-law, and five beloved grandchildren. In his free time, Fagan enjoys golfing, fishing, and praying. His alter-ego and penname, Grover “Grumpy” Pitman, was created by his grandchildren.
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To Catch A Breath
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This is a story of two young bored men visiting an uncle who has recently become a widower. They have no idea that their visit is about to take them into a whirlwind of twists and turns that they could have never imagined. They become intricate participants in a strange and dangerous twist that takes the reader back and forth before the truth slowly creeps out of the dark (literally). This is a complex whodunit that only unravels at the very end.
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The Case of the Missing Girl
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99A little girl mysteriously disappears from an elementary school playground in Colorado Springs. Sixteen-year-old twins, Shelby and Daniel Anderson, work with the police to try to find the little girl. Will Shelby and Daniel help find the girl before it is too late?
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Scheldestroom: A Century of Sailing Adventure in Resilience, Courage, Fun and Determination
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Keith Paulusse, is a Dutch-born Australian writer with a background in social psychology. Paulusse’s passion lies in social justice and helping
disadvantaged people. For the past ten years, he has operated a tuition-free School of Languages, an English language course for migrant learners, refugees and Australians with literacy handicaps.
In 2015 he published his first book Vertrek a journey of his and other Dutch families in Postwar Australia. Followed by ‘ Big Bunches At the
Jamfactory’ a vibrant chronicle of activism, spirit and perseverance during the heady days of HIV/AIDS. His best selling book India Through
Virgin Eyes, was published in 2020.
Keith Paulusse, een in Nederland geboren Australische schrijver met een achtergrond in sociale psychologie. Paulusse’s passie ligt in sociale rechtvaardigheid en het helpen van kansarme mensen. De afgelopen tien jaar heeft hij een collegegeldvrije School of Languages beheerd, een Engelse taalcursus voor migrantenleerlingen, vluchtelingen en Australiërs met alfabetiseringsproblemen.
In 2015 publiceerde hij zijn eerste boek Vertrek een odyssee van zijn en andere Nederlandse gezinnen in het naoorlogse Australië. Het werd gevolgd door ‘Big Bunches At the Jamfactory’, een levendige kroniek over activisme, geest en doorzettingsvermogen tijdens de onstuimige dagen van hiv / aids. Zijn bestverkopende boek India Through Virgin Eyes verscheen in 2020. -
Shadow of Danger
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Author, Betty Clark, lived in a very secluded, quite town in the northeastern panhandle of The United States. A little town call Cameron. She has two daughters who support her. She loves both of them, and she dedicates this book to them, Cheryl Murray and Ronda Enyeart.
This book is about the dangers in our lives today. It tells a story about unthinkable things that we never fear until it happens to you.
