If You See Him, Let Me Know

Heralded by Publisher's Weekly as "a writer to watch" with a "magnificent sense of character and ear for dialogue", Todd London returns with If You See Him, Let Me Know, a stunning novel set at the crossroads of two generations--one marked by what it witnessed, the other by what it missed. It's August 1974, the eve of Nixon's resignation. Jerry Rosen is facing prison for a messy, white-collar crime. Before sentencing, he has to tell his son Philip, a teenager at a theatre camp in the Midwest. To the suburban kids at Friedkin camp, history is a game of dress-up. Tragic world events get retold as stage musicals--World War II as South Pacific, the Holocaust as Fiddler on the Roof. Anne Frank is a role to play--Philip's friend Kathy Klein plays it to the hilt. For Jerry, who served as an army medic in Germany, and for the camp's compassionate matriarch Lila Sahlins, the past can't be sung away. Jerry's confession unearths secrets that will change the course of Philip's life and trigger a pair of haunting disappearances. "This is a killer coming-of-age story: gripping and compassionate. I haven't stopped thinking about it." - Lisa Kron, Fun Home, the musical "…An engrossing journey, culminating in a denouement that is surprising, gratifying, and eminently moving." - Kia Corthron, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter "Todd London is a master conjurer of the lost--of lost youth, lost promise, lost Chicago, lost America." - Adam Langer, Crossing California "A novel that harrows the heart." - Octavio Solis, Retablos

Hundred Shades of Green

A medical doctor, hiding from his past in the Amazon Rainforest where he becomes a valued member of an Indigenous village.

The son of his estranged son living a carefree life in Rio de Janeiro, studying law when he isn't partying.

The daughter of an Indigenous Village Chief bringing great change to their lives.

Jason and Bellann become a force for change, fighting corruption and greed in their quest for justice for the Indigenous tribes of Brazil and the survival of the human race.

How to Escape from Hell

How to Escape from Hell: Studies & Interpretations of the Afterlife explores one of humanities most important questions, “What happens when we die, what is Hell, and am I going there?”

A near-death experience (NDE) is a profound personal experience associated with death or impending death. It is estimated between 4 to 15% of our entire global population experience an NDE. This equates to around 20 million people in the US, 50 million in Europe and 100 million in China. Only a small fraction of these experiences are ever reported. Of these reports, a small but notable number report the horrifying and graphic realm of Hell and demons.

Are you destined for Hell? If you are, what can you do about it? If you find yourself in Hell, how do you escape? Through extensive research of thousands of witness accounts, we will find the answer together.

Hook, Line and Scammer

Having been dealt a bad hand as she enters the autumn of her life, Elizabeth suddenly finds a spark with Joseph through the power of the internet, but is everyone who they say they are?

Thousands of miles away, Eb is going the other way – although he has done well at school, the pressure of being the man of the house at a young age and a series of misfortunes place him in a compromising position with a local criminal gang.

Unwittingly and unknowingly joined together through DCI Jane Porter’s ambitious police crackdown on Cybercrime, Eb and Elizabeth find they have a common interest in rescuing each other.

A variety of interesting characters in this Venn-diagram of relationships; crime; and justice, bring joy, pain, murder, friendship, identity fraud, family and love together, but when you are not sure who is holding the rod, anyone can get hooked!

Hold the Ladder Steady

Growing up in Australia in the early fifties, Robin is intrigued by the folklore of the pink boto told by her father. A childhood fantasy confirms her belief that like all fairy tales, there will always be a boto somewhere waiting just for her. Robin observes the conflicts of Roman Catholicism and the social changes of the sixties that swept like a tide into her adolescence. It was the age of the pill, the Vietnam War and good girls who still wore their hats to mass on Sundays. When she launches herself into life in the city with a man having a cowlick, she leaves the sea behind. New and old friends bring an awareness of the issues that confront Australia in a new age, when the complexities of feminism and sexuality were a thorn in the side of a country that prided itself on fair play.

Held

A love story spanning decades as two men not only fight the world for their love and its changes surrounding them but also one another while they battle the one thing that tears them apart.

At the tender age of fifteen, Matt and Justin instantly fall in love. While time grows and matures, so do they and their relationship. Years pass and are torn from one another as their lives take them in separate directions. The political and social constructs start to define their lives and the people who they become.

Can what we believe holds us, end up being our own destructive force, potentially being the one thing that destroys us, crumbling our lives?

Eventually, we all have to let go.

Hearts of Cotton

When a famous writer steals a manuscript from his daughter and tragically dies after the book is released, Dasha, a young show business reporter from Vilnius, must make a decision that will define her future: to tell the truth about what the author did or hide it to protect his memory. Plagiarism scandal, the war for attention, drug abuse, love, greed, and ambition fuel the hunt for sensations of the young journalist and guide her in finding her own inner compass to navigate the uncertainty and find the way to happiness.

If the books of Frederic Beigbeder and Michel Houellebecq were hard liquors, Hearts of Cotton would be a cocktail, where Gossip Girl meets The Ideal and Atomised, leaving you wondering whether all the challenges and struggles are there to remind the characters of their true calling, or perhaps all of us should sometimes recalibrate our inner compasses to reflect on our goals and dreams.

Heart to Let

Amy Spencer, the novel’s heroine, is a 20^th-century Jane Eyre. Not born into a family of status or wealth, she nonetheless had a good education at a single-sex Grammar School near Elephant and Castle in London and an upbringing which enabled her to mix in the various strata of society she encounters in the changing and challenging world she lives in. Amy considers herself the equal, both socially and intellectually, of the men she meets and she succeeds in a profession steeped in tradition and precedent which is male-dominated when she enters it aged 23. But dear reader, does she marry her Mr Rochester? You will have to read the book to find out.

Happy Never After

Is it fear? Is he trapped? Or is it now just habitual behaviour? Robbie ponders these questions as he chooses to continue to turn a blind eye to the extra-curricular activities of his long-time lover and sugar daddy, Max. When Max finally returns home from another all-night ‘work’ event, Robbie storms out, unable to face the string of deceitful lies that have consumed their relationship.

Happy Never After tells the story of one man’s transformation from weak, unemployed and dependent upon a cheating lover into a strong, confident man who is no longer afraid. The setting of Bali provides a beautiful backdrop for his journey with an alluring blend of culture, love and lust that brings hope to the reader.

Gwennie's Girl

This is a visceral, engaging and demanding debut novel by a well-travelled author with first-hand experience in a variety of war zones. It is the story of Lizzie who is no hero. She is a coward who has fled Australia, an abusive and loveless existence and the sorrow of being abandoned by her loving mother, Gwennie, and her redoubtable nanna. She lands a job in Geneva, travelling to war zones and refugee camps, and gradually comes to relish her new independence. Physically, Lizzie survives. Emotionally, she shuts down, closing her mind to memories, nursing anger and feeling of guilt, and determined never to let herself be vulnerable again. She has what she thinks is a one-night stand with a war photographer. But eventually she has to choose whether to stay safe in emotional isolation or take another risk--trust someone else. After all, she is Gwennie's and Nanna's girl. The decision is made.

Granduncle Bertie

Sarah, a free-spirited artist in her late twenties, accepts an assignment from her granduncle, Albert Smithson, to write his memoir. ‘Bertie’ has a crippling terror of death brought about by the agonising death of his father, who was an atheist. He learns that there are three conditions one must attain to die in a peaceful state. At age fifty-four, he has none of them and is determined to achieve them all.

Gracie Browne

Gracie Browne lives an idyllic life, or so it seems. On the surface she and her husband Aiden are a successful couple: childhood sweethearts, with a marriage that others could only aspire to. Deborah, one of the golf club wives and an admirer of Aiden has a burning passion to take him for herself. It’s during one of the dinner parties that Gracie hosts for the men and wives of the golf club, that Gracie finally finds her voice. A voice she thought so long ago was lost. Gracie would be silenced no more. That night she leaves Aiden and starts on a path of not only self-discovery, but of friendship with an unexpected person. Will Aiden persuade Gracie to come back home and to give their marriage another chance? Or will what Gracie discovers be the final straw?