Jamie: 1874 books

Author Jamie Blackett arrives home from the Army to take over a small family estate on the Solway Firth in Dumfries and Galloway, and finds a rapidly changing countryside. In a humorous and occasionally moving tale, he describes the return of the native to grapple with the intricacies of farming,...

A middle-aged woman, left with an empty nest and a dog, Trip, she never wanted, despairs in her new role as his sole caretaker. But when they walk their deserted neighborhood on a windy, autumn day, she must confront a violent group of dogs and her feelings of worthlessness to keep them both alive.

Making Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess*: Textuality and Reception* is the first comprehensive book-length study of Chaucer’s earliest major narrative poem and its reception. It provides a rigorous and critically balanced assimilation of the Book of the Duchess, the story of its reception and dissemination,...

Is America in the midst of an electoral transformation? What were the sources of Trump’s victory in 2016, and how do they differ from Republican coalitions of the past? Does his victory signal a long-term positive trajectory for Republicans’ chances in presidential elections? Change and...

Assigned to St. Clement’s Church in an inner-city borough just outside Hackney in London, Reverend Annabelle Dixon brings an enthusiasm and drive to her clerical position that baffles her mentor, Father John, but which soon gains her fans and admiration. Annabelle is not your typical vicar, but...

"Poetic, honest, intense, and brilliantly written. The reader will feel the pain." - Readers' Favorite "Desplaces has talent and an unrelenting narrative thrust that makes the beauty and ugliness of what follows intensely engaging" - IndieReader "Bleakness battles...

In 1942, following experiments with Anthrax off the west coast of Scotland, a number of people on the mainland are infected and die. The bodies are taken away under cover of darkness. Present day. In the small town of Lancaster the site of a former mental asylum, Moorcastle, is being redeveloped....

Courtney dreams of being a professional actress one day, but her parents have always been against it. Their disapproval and disinterest in what she loves most has always been a source of resentment, but she refuses to give up on her dream despite their feelings about it.When she’s given the...

Why do the states of the Arab world seem so unstable? Why do alliances between them and with outside powers change so suddenly? Jamie Allinson argues that the answer lies in the expansion of global capitalism in the Middle East. Drawing out the unexpected way in which Jordan's Bedouin tribes became...

"The 1 AM Astronaut and Other Poems" launched as the result of two years of literary growth and discovery. Featuring work from when the poet was eleven to thirteen years old, her bittersweet verse and experimental forms are, as she puts it in her award-winning poem, '1 am astronaut': 'enough...

Where did I come from? Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why are the fingerprints of identical twins not identical? How did my brain learn to learn? Why must I die? Questions like these remain biology's deepest and most ancient challenges....

A New York Times Best Wine Book of 2018 Flawless is the first book of its kind dedicated to exploring the main causes of faults in wine. From cork taint, to volatile acidity, to off-putting aromas and flavors, all wine connoisseurs have encountered unappealing qualities in a disappointing...

A Wall Street Journal Top Pick of 2010 A well-known and internationally recognized surgical oncologist, Dr. Marc Wallack kept fit by training as an avid marathoner. He was the rock of his family, at the top of his career, and an expert on health who practiced what he preached-until he suffered...

The story of correctional officers is one seldom told.  Even more overlooked are the devastating effects life in prison can have on not only inmates, but also the men and women who risk everything to keep the system running from inside the gates. Jamie Campbell was once such an officer,...