Patrick Dillon

In the tumultuous aftermath of the Trojan War, a young man battles to save his home and his inheritance. Setting out to find his father, he ends up discovering himself. Telemachus’s father, Odysseus, went off to war before he was born … and never came back. Aged sixteen, Telemachus finds himself abandoned, his father’s house overrun with men pursuing his beautiful mother, Penelope, and devouring the family’s wealth. He determines to leave Ithaca, his island home, and find the truth. What really happened to his father? Was Odysseus killed on his journey home from the war? Or might he, one day, return to take his revenge? Telemachus's journey takes him across the landscape of bronze-age Greece in the aftermath of the great Trojan war. Veterans hide out in the hills. Chieftains, scarred by war, hoard their treasure in luxurious palaces. Ithaca re-tells Homer’s famous poem, The Odyssey, from the point of view of Odysseus’ resourceful and troubled son, describing Odysseus’s extraordinary voyage from Troy to the gates of hell, and Telemachus’s own journey from boyhood to the desperate struggle that wins back his home … and his father.

Ithaca

1688 and the Creation of the Modern World

The Last Revolution

The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva

history, non-fiction
The 18thC. craze for gin in London and its prohibition.

The Eighteenth-century Gin Craze

The much-lamented death of Madam Geneva

Martha Dillon

The Story of Britain

'A profoundly moving and impassioned account of a 28-year romance.' The Observer ‘A Moment of Grace is one of the more beautiful books I’ve read: raw, gracious, candid and true. It is about the last 13 months of Nicola’s life; from the ordinary London day she was diagnosed to the time she took her last breath. It manages to be an uplifting book about tragedy – because there is such romance in the mundanity of survival and such ferocity in the way this one little family love one another.’ British Vogue How do you learn to live in the wake of death? Patrick Dillon and Nicola Thorold were together for twenty-eight years. Patrick was an award-winning architect and writer and Nicola a leading figure in theatre, awarded an OBE for her contribution to the arts at London’s Roundhouse. Their two children were almost grown-up. Life was good. And then, in May 2015, Nicola was diagnosed with leukaemia. After several rounds of treatment, a bone marrow transplant and many waves of recovery and decline, she died thirteen months after her diagnosis. Six months later, at Christmas, Patrick started to write. A Moment of Grace is the searing, tender account of Patrick’s life with Nicola and her illness, and his life after her loss. But it is more than a story of illness and unbearable grief: it is a book of memory, of home, of family. It is a tale of the transfiguring power of love. Heartbreaking, life-affirming and truly unforgettable, A Moment of Grace is one man’s journey to find life after his wife’s death.

A Moment of Grace

Carl Cannon

Circle of Greed is the epic story of the rise and fall of Bill Lerach, once the leading class action lawyer in America and now a convicted felon. For more than two decades, Lerach threatened, shook down and sued top Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, Apple, Time Warner, and—most famously—Enron. Now, the man who brought corporate moguls to their knees has fallen prey to the same corrupt impulses of his enemies, and is paying the price by serving time in federal prison. If there was ever a modern Greek tragedy about a man and his times, about corporate arrogance and illusions and the scorched-earth tactics to not only counteract corporate America but to beat it at its own game, Bill Lerach's story is it.

The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees

Circle of Greed

Recounts the worst commercial fishing disaster in American history, in which fourteen men drowned in 1983 in the Bering Sea, tracing the investigation into the disaster and its far-reaching consequences

An American Tragedy

Lost at Sea

'The Last Revolution' presents an account of the last successful invasion of England and one of the most dramatic episodes in British history.

The last successful invasion of England; mobs burning Catholic chapels; one king, James, driven from his palace by night while another, William, rode in at the head of a foreign army; the events of winter 1688 were among the most dramatic in our history. The settlement which followed would place England decisively on the path to freedom, toleration, parliamentary democracy and empire. Few moments have done so much to shape this country as the Glorious Revolution. But 1688 would change England in other ways as well. This was the time of Isaac Newton's scientific breakthroughs and John Locke's philosophy; the emergence of free market ideas and the end of press censorship. Closely researched, teeming with dramatic incident and vivid character and weaving political drama with the lives of scientists and revolutionaries, stockjobbers and refugees, The Last Revolution paints a vivid canvas of England's last great political struggle and brings to life the revolutionary world of the late seventeenth century.

From straw huts to skyscrapers, palaces to arts centres, this book features sixteen of the most iconic buildings from around the world including the Parthenon, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Taj Mahal, the Forbidden City, the Bauhaus, Crystal Palace, the Sydney Opera House and the Pompidou Centre, and tells the human story behind each of them. Explains how and why famous buildings in history came to be built. Features detailed illustrations.

The Story of Buildings

Carl M. Cannon

A pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists document the career and downfall of infamous class-action lawyer Bill Lerach, placing his story against the nation's economic boom while recounting his sensational boardroom and courtroom battles and the activities that led to his conviction.

The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees

Jake Tilson

Denys Lasdun and the National Theatre

Concrete Reality

Malcolm Jones

And Its Historical, Topographical and Natural Science Contexts

Dialect in Wiltshire

A comprehensive history of Britain that delves into some edgy and less well-known events, this book covers everything from William the Conqueror's arrival in 1066 to the Battle of Britain.

"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me." (Psalm 51:10)The Best Books Award Winner, Steadfast Christian, is now available in digital format. This is a must read for any Christian who desires to strengthen their faith. It is filled with true life family stories and world-wide adventures backed by relevant Scriptures which are sure to captivate the reader's attention.Topics such as marriage, youth, Evolution, abortion, voting, peer pressure, the Gold Rush, the Great Depression, baseball, Israel, the present "great recession" and many more subjects are passionately written in entertaining true-story format.The author's friendly candid style evokes an array of emotions. He challenges himself and his readers to truly commit to God, a God who deeply loves us and desires our very best. It is Patrick's sincere aspiration that those who read this will have a renewed sense of true hope that only God can give.

A Higher Call to Faith, Family, and Hope

Steadfast Christian

Ithaca: A Novel of Homer's Odyssey

A classic tale greed deception nadn mayhem in Sillicon VAlley.

A Classic Tale of Greed, Deception, and Mayhem in Silicon Valley

The Last Best Thing

Presents a full account of the history of Great Britain, from the Norman conquest through nearly one thousand years of history to the end of the twentieth century.

Jonathan Crisman

About

Books

Join the club