Black Apollo Press: 11 books

Set in the political turmoil of McCarthy's America, a young man searches for his father gone into hiding to escape the witch-hunts. Red Dreams is a coming-of-age adventure that leads from the straight-laced provinces of the American Midwest to the anarchy of 50's Hollywood. A compelling story - warm and humorous.

Gurgen Marharis controversial novel, Burning Orchards, is set in the Ottoman city of Van, Eastern Anatolia, during the period leading up to the Armenian rebellion of 1915 and relates the epic story of the events which culminated in the catastrophe of the following years, wonderfully told by one of the...

The first in a series of books exploring cities of the new Europe through an interconnected mystery. Sacha Dumont, the author and protagonist, is a British journalist of French and German extraction assigned to cover the emerging Europe of the 21st century by comparing stories of past and present. This...

When Anna came to England with her mother and father, she hadn't quite expected to end up with the Queen's jewels sewn into the lining of her coat. Nor did she think she'd be helping an inept gang of would-be robbers dispose of the loot in Paris. A whimsical tale that grows funnier as each page turns. For children nine to ninety!

Book 4 of the Joseph Radkin Investigations Series: Investigative journalist Joseph Radkin is sent to Oregon to look into a bitter dispute between the logging industry and environmentalists. When a famed ecologist is killed, coupled with the disappearance of a lumber boss' daughter, Radkin finds himself...

From the Beatnik cafes of San Francisco, hanging out with the likes of Ginsberg, to an Army boot camp in Georgia, this novel explores America's entry into Vietnam seen through the eyes of a young man caught up in the madness.Other wars have inspired not only best selling tales of heroic but also biting...

The first book of the Joseph Radkin Investigations series begins with a carton of letters and a stack of hundred dollar bills - an inheritance Radkin has received from his recently deceased dad. As Radkin's father was a life-long union activist who died disillusioned and broke, where did all this money...

Book 5 of the Joseph Radkin Investigations series. A young Mixtec Indian from Guatemala follows the trail of tears through Mexico to a migrant camp in the strawberry fields of California. There, instead of refuge, he finds himself accused of murder. Is he the killer or a patsy set up to distract attention...

Who is Koba? For Morris Kaplan, Koba was a fellow student protester. Left-wing attorney, Rocky Calhoon believes he was a freedom fighter killed in Bolivia. Others think he is still alive and running drugs from South America. A taut, witty atmospheric thriller set in 80's San Francisco and peopled with survivors of May '68. First published by Victor Gollancz, London, 1988

On the 12th of April, 1955 Raymond Chandler boarded the Mauritania in New York setting sail for the England of his youth. Four years later, he died, a lonely alcoholic, in a small town on the South Californian coast. A Knight at Sea is a fictional account of this story. Woven like a film noir this is...

A strange disease is killing off the residents of Cambridge. Could it have to do with an agricultural research station experimenting in bio-genetics? Or does it involve something equally sinister - the distribution of tainted cooking oil that caused hundreds of deaths in Spain. The clock is ticking as...