Through short cameos from his own life and others – all accompanied by stunning photos – Sheridan Voysey stimulates you to reflect on yourself, your relationships and your Creator, who loves you.
How is it that a story, in which hardly anything happens except for Harold nursing his blisters, can be so captivating, so thought-provoking, so moving? Rachel Joyce has an unusual knack for interweaving past incidents and memories into the current narrative, while cunningly maintaining our suspense by concealing what really happened twenty years earlier until…
Before The Storm 1685 by Paul C. R. Monk – an object lesson in creative historical fiction writing This free novella covers the same dramatic events as my work-in-progress, GédéGreet Suzon for me. In my opinion, Paul C. R. Monk has not only written a captivating prequel to his trilogy, The Huguenot Chronicles but presents a…
A yearning for a happy and meaningful life, as well as struggles with fear, guilt, and unfulfilled wishes, are common to mankind of all ages. My books combine historical and fictional characters to address such timeless spiritual issues from a Christian perspective. During a hiking tour of the Isle of Elba, I discovered the cave…
Robert Harris paints a vivid picture of life around the bay of Naples just before Vesuvius erupts. The engineer Attilius battles powerful, arrogant, carefree, unscrupulous men in his successful attempt to repair the aqueduct which is the lifeline for all the towns around the bay. Then, anticipating the eruption of Vesuvius, he does what he…
Als Legende, ist diese Geschichte lehrreich. Es ist eine harte Entscheidung des Häuptlings, die zwei alten Frauen, die ja für nichts anderes gut scheinen als ständig zu jammern, um das Überlebenswillen des ganzen Volkes zu hinterlassen. Bei der Tochter und dem Enkel der einen bilden sich besonders schwere Gewissensbisse.
Ein krasses Buch, schockierend sowohl wegen der seelischen Korruption der Haupttäter, wie auch wegen der masslosen Gewalt. Kann es das geben: ein Junge so innerlich verbittert, durch Kindheitserlebnisse so verletzt, sein Gewissen so abgestumpft, wie Darky – selbstsüchtig, prahlerisch, der seine helle Freude daran hat, unschuldige Menschen zu terrorisieren, durch seine ‘Leibwächter’ zusammenschlagen oder deren…