The 5K Zone by Gary R. Hall is a misleadingly arid but keenly knowledgeable and subtly gripping account of provocative, breathtaking events occurring in the Sudetenland – later known as Czechoslovakia. In 1944, Peter (11) and Trudi (12) two ethnic Germans living in the town...

Edward A Dreyfus’ The Midnight Shrink is a work of fiction but, given the author’s experience and background, might just be a touch autobiographical. The concept is certainly original. Dr David Edminson is a psychologist with a conscience. He treats ordinary folk at his regular...

Tim on Broadway is a new adult fiction novel written by Rick Bettencourt. Tim’s been in a sort of limbo lately. He was fired from his job at the Good Barn and is coasting on unemployment, and he’s not gotten over feeling bereft and guilty...

Growing up, Victoria Woodhull — the sixth of ten children — knew nothing but abuse at the hands of her father, poverty, and all sorts of dysfunctional family ties. Her first marriage proves even worse than the family she was born into. In spite of...

The Setup by Denise Montgomery is a beautiful and fast-paced inspirational story of a woman’s struggle to reconcile with an abusive relationship and to find freedom in her spiritual path, an engaging story of friendship, love, and hope in a most trying of times for...

Diana Paul’s novel, Things Unsaid, examines the dynamics of the family. It’s tough getting old — for you and those around you. As an elderly parent, how much do you have the right to expect from your children? As a child of an elderly parent,...

The Road To London by Adriano Bulla is the story of a troubled soul trapped in a life he could not wait to escape, but somehow just could not. From very young at grade school, all through the teenage years and beyond, the narrator struggled...

Tainted Love by Erin Cawood is a story that touches on domestic violence shared by the protagonist — Faith McKenzie — through letters to her younger brother. In her letters, Faith describes the slow decay of her marriage as her beloved psychiatrist husband, Calvin, ten...

The Life of Abe by J. Scaddon is a drama set in Britain that opens in Liverpool, an English city on the river Mersey dominated by the docks. The majority of the story centres on the seaside town of Rhyl in Wales. Abe begins with...

Geza Tatrallyay’s Twisted Reasons is not an easy read. While it is a work of fiction, it is fable interwoven with reality, a harsh, perhaps even prophetic reality at that. Greg Martens is an author of what was once called ‘penny dreadfuls’: crime novels devoid...