Patrick: 6740 books

'A storyteller who knows the humour, the fear and the frenzy of men in battle.' - Bernard Cornwall The year is 1854. A brutal war is being fought in the Crimea war, and the stench of despair hangs heavy in the air. Anthony Morgan is a young officer in the 95th Regiment. His...

Following in the tradition of Auntie Mame, bestselling author Patrick Dennis turns his wicked satirical pen on the insane world of fictional film director Leander Starr. Fleeing the IRS, creditors, and jilted lovers, Starr holes up in a Mexico City apartment—Casa Ximenez—with his faithful valet,...

From a writer and producer of HBO's hit apocalyptic drama series The Leftovers, comes a remarkable tale of devotion, marriage, and parenthood. Early one summer morning, Matthew Bishop kisses his still-sleeping wife Marissa, gets dressed and eases his truck through Milwaukee, bound for the highway....

“Lords of Charm City” takes place in Baltimore, Maryland and is told from the perspective of the key character, Samuel Quinn. Samuel or “Sammy” as he’s better known, is orphaned at a young age and sent to live in a group home. Growing up in an inner city group home and bouncing around from...

Max Rust: Fifth Grade baseball star. Boy Scout. Altar boy. Private Eye. It's that last part Melanie Olive is interested in when she hires Max to track down her missing report on Saint Jude the Apostle. Max finds himself up against the Catholic parochial education system. It's certainly not the first...

This issue of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of three sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories and one intimate poem - from four of todays top speculative fiction writers. S. Elliot Brandis opens with a visit to airport security (what could be more chilling). Award...

Four exceptional novels together in one box set! The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe For five women, their monthly meeting is a place of sanctuary and community. These women from different walks of life are each embracing the challenge of change in their own circumstances. And as they...

Love doesn’t always follow the sheet music . . . This Christmas, Portia Jackson needs a miracle to save her family’s generations-old florist shop. What she gets instead is a car that breaks down during a blizzard. Help arrives unexpectedly when the infamous Aubry Riley pulls over. She only...

I, Daphne Fox, have a few things to confess: I hate Nick Brady. Loathe. Abhor. Can’t stand him 95% of the time. That other 5%? I’m not talking about that at all. People think I’m lucky for surviving the car crash. I disagree. Nick is the only guy who makes my nightmares go away. I won’t...

Bestselling British author Patrick Gale chronicles the misadventures of a misfit tree surgeon in this “modern-day myth of self-discovery” (The Guardian).   It was in the ancient cathedral city of Barrowcester that eight-year-old Lawrence Frost began his love affair with the trees that had “sprung...

Bestselling British author Patrick Gale casts an empathetic and ferocious eye on the domestic wounds inflicted by families and lovers in this dark comedy.   One minute Deborah Curtis’s husband, Julian, is alive, a handsome figure leaving their rented house in an African principality, kissing his...

A riotous dark comedy set in the backstreets of London about an unconventional love triangle, a lonely teacher, and a lost baby. Hilary Metcalfe is an English teacher who loathes his work so thoroughly that he requires a half bottle of scotch in order to grade a stack of homework. His only...

A young man returns to London from a monastery to become a godfather—and gets a second chance at love—in this “blithe, original, engaging satire” (The New York Times). Robin has not gone outside for five years. When he first arrived at the remote island monastery, he had attacks so...

Two deeply empathetic novels about families in crisis from an international bestselling British writer “with heart, soul, and a dark and a naughty wit” (The Observer).   Armistead Maupin says of Patrick Gale: “Few writers have grasped the twisted dynamics of family the way Gale has. There’s...