In When the Haboob Sings by Nejoud Al-Yagout, Dunya Khair had always noticed the cultural injustices around her but never dared to question them. When her conscience can take it no longer, she dares to speak out for the rights of women and others in...

Though it’s classified as suspense, Where Light Cannot Reach by William Mark borders on a thriller, and what a thriller it is! The “faceless monster” in this excellently written story is someone no victim would want to meet, not in reality or possibly even in...

Five stories. Five amazing and enlightening stories about various means of suppression of women. These stories are told in the first person by women who have been forced into marriage as children, raped, or had their bodies mutilated by procedures that are customary in some...

“These short stories touch upon human virtues and vices, identity, alternative universes, space travel, philosophy, death and afterlife, and much more.” In Money Tree, a man dealing with financial hardship discovers a surprising source of wealth that will influence him to make both good and...

WhaleSpirit by Daniel Thomas is a spellbinding tale of adventure with a setting that is fascinating, plunging readers into life below the surface of the sea. A reporter who once took down one of the most influential men on Wall Street sets out for another...

When Forever's Over is a coming of age tale by author J. Alan Johnson. Set during the 1960s in East Tennessee, USA, two mountain town boys make the journey through high school, becoming young men during one of the most turbulent periods of modern American...

In his novel Where Summer Strives, Thomas Thornburg takes us on a journey to a working class neighbourhood of a Midwestern city, towards the end of the Second World War, where social and racial divides are very much still the norm. When a wealthy, educated,...

Although Mutch Katsonga, author of Where Wildfires Glow, classifies his book as a Young Adult/Coming of Age story, I’d be more inclined to describe it as a psychological thriller: the plot and one of the principle characters, Carol, are positively chilling! Furthermore, given the information...

Patt Fero's www.queenmotorhome.com is a spellbinding, hilarious story that blends adventure with women's fiction to offer great entertainment. Meet Leslie and Liz, two intelligent and successful women who have everything they ever wanted. They live a life that most women their age would want to...

If, like me, you’re of Polish descent, with parents or grandparents who immigrated to the US, Canada or Australia after World War 2, you will most likely relate to James Sniechowski’s family in Worship of Hollow Gods. The author’s family settled in Detroit and brought...