Posts Categorized: Literary Fiction

Tell Me About Women By

Tell Me About Women Newsman Harry Reasoner's first and only novel, published in 1946.

Joe Wilson is a tough, cynical reporter whose life is all bourbon, beer and easy blondes. But then Maris Nordeen, warm-hearted, self-assured and golden blonde, blows into his life and changes everything, leading to a rollercoaster courtship, a whirlwind marriage  and then a slow, tortuous awakening to the harrowing reality of their young lives.

Wine of Life By

Wine of Life The monumental and unparalleled fictionalized biography of Honoré de Balzac – a volcanic talent, a savage libertine and one of the greatest literary figures of all time. This is Balzac’s incredible life story, from cradle-to-grave, from obscurity to fame, set against the dramatic, vividly-portrayed backdrop of 19th century France, shared from the point of view of the people closest to him.

“This book is big in every way and readers of romance, history and biography will all find this a heady literary drink, truly a wine of life.” Pensacola News-Journal

Carlotta McBride By

Carlotta McBride Charles Gorham's acclaimed, controversial and banned novel, lost for over sixty years, is finally back in print.

Who is Carlotta McBride? In the swank nightclubs of New York, Hollywood and Paris, she is the beautiful and brilliant star of stage and screen... but in the dark, lurid dive bars and dark alleys of those same cities, she is promiscuous and self-destructive, slowly killing herself with alcohol, drugs, and risky sex. She is a woman seared and haunted by trauma in her past that she can't escape, whether it's in the fantasy world of acting, or at the bottom of a whisky bottle, or in the arms of a brutal man. The only person who can save her is herself...but to do it, she will have to confront a shocking truth.

Trial by Darkness By

Trial by Darkness “This is a brilliant book written by a brilliant man who has no fear expressing his ideas.” Birmingham News

This is the driving, compassionate story of a young man's coming of age, a well-born rebel who defies his family’s two hundred years of aristocratic tradition…and flees the horrors that churn beneath its tranquil surface.

The Future Mr. Dolan By

The Future Mr. Dolan "Charles Gorham has written a masterpiece. It is a remarkable tour-de-force in character study that will stick in one's mind for a long time. But it is not for the squeamish." Chicago Tribune

Mattie Dolan is a clever and ambitious, 19-year-old sociopath, back from WWII and striving in the backstreets, tenements and dark alleys of New York to rise above the squalor that shaped him... and conquer the city.

Baby, Come on Inside By

Baby, Come on Inside “Three-fingers of fun if your reading has been of the lemonade variety lately.” Fresno Bee

Popsy Meadows is a Sinatra-esque superstar singer with a massive following who is entering his fifties. His voice is cracking, he’s gaining weight, and he might just be drinking himself into madness. Out of desperation, he goes back to his midwestern home town to try and find himself again…or at least to see where he went wrong. He does it by throwing a massive party that could end up being his wake.