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  The Great Slave

  Zane Grey

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  Pearl Zane Grey was born on 31st January 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. From an early age, he was intrigued by history, fishing, baseball, and writing. Grey was an avid reader of adventure stories, consuming dime store novels by the dozen.  By age fifteen he had written his first story; ‘Jim of the Cave’.  His father, a difficult man, tore it to shreds and then beat him. 
   
  A keen fisherman and with dreams of playing in the major leagues Grey was spotted by a baseball scout and received offers from colleges. 
   
  He enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania to study dentistry. Naturally arriving on a scholarship really meant you had to be able to play.  And he could, though in the end as a practical career move he resolved that dentistry was the way forward.  
   
  Grey set up his dental practice in New York as Dr. Zane Grey in 1896. But with ambitions to be a writer in a city with so many publishers evenings were set aside for writing. 
   
  His first magazine article, about one of his fishing expeditions was published in 1902. It was not until 1910 that he wrote his first Western, ‘The Heritage of the Desert’. It was a breakthrough title and quickly became a bestseller. His themes of Manifest Destiny, the conquest of the Old West, and men wrestling with elemental conditions were the hallmarks of his career.  
   
  Two years later Grey produced his all-time best-seller ‘The Riders of the Purple Sage’, with its publication he became a household name.   
   
  During the crash and subsequent depression of the 1930s, the publishing industry was hard. Sales fell.  But Grey was astute. He had avoided the Stock Market, he was still writing and popular and continued to earn royalty income.  In all he wrote over 90 books including some on fishing and baseball. He was also selling stories to film companies as Hollywood was eager to exploit popular culture. 
   
  On 23rd October 1939 Zane Grey died of heart failure at his home in Altadena, California. He was 67.

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  The Stranger from the Sea

  Paul Binding

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  After a ferocious early-springtime storm, young Norwegian sailor Hans Lyngstrand is shipwrecked in the English Channel near the coastal Kent town of Dengate—he is one of few survivors. Soon after, aspiring journalist Martin Bridges takes a job as a reporter at the local newspaper. A loner by nature, he’s a curiosity to the nosy townspeople, the gregarious editor of the paper, and his melodramatic landlady, whose own private life is fraught by the unexplained absence of her son and suspicious disappearance of her husband. But when Hans moves into the Mercy Room of Martin’s boardinghouse to convalesce and Martin’s editor assigns him the task of interviewing the young sailor, it upends his otherwise uneventful world. Hans tells him of his travels at sea, how he survived the shipwreck?and of his encounter with a ferocious sailor vowing to seek revenge, who Hans believes may still be alive. So begins a complex friendship between the two young men that will cause Martin to re-examine his past and future ambitions and his relationships with everyone around him.

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  Apples and Pears - And Other...

  Guy Davenport

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  Guy Davenport links the essential ideas of our cultural landscape in stories that nod to the philosophers, artists, and writers who came before him Reality, fiction, history, and art all converge in this collection as Guy Davenport explores complex ideas within narratives that are full of emotional depth. Fearless and inventive in style, these stories take many forms, such as the imagined World War I journals of sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska in “The Bowmen of Shu” and the parallel tales of poets Matsuo Basho and Ezra Pound hiking the same mountain trail centuries apart in “Fifty-Seven Views of Fujiyama.”   In the title story, which also features illustrations by the author, a group of philosophers tries to establish a utopia in Amsterdam, harkening back to a prelapsarian world of uncomplicated sexuality and nature untarnished by human influence. The idea that the past perpetually influences the present is at the heart of Apples and Pears as Davenport relocates his references from all eras to contemporary times—and as he uses measured, poetic language to uncover the cyclical nature of culture.

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  Some New Ambush

  Carys Davies

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  From the award-winning author of West and The Mission House
  
  
  Some New Ambush is the first collection of short stories from award-winning writer Carys Davies. Love, loss, birth, death, betrayal, madness – they all lie in wait for Davies's characters in their startlingly different worlds: a dry cleaner's shop in contemporary Chicago, a mining town in South Wales in the sixties, a lunatic asylum in nineteenth century northern England.
  
  
  Shot through with wit and aching emotional poignancy, these stories tell of how we attempt to confront the things life throws in our path – often when we least expect them, and in places where we never thought to look. They tell of the mistakes we make along the way, and of how we try to deal with the whole difficult, unpredictable business.
  
  
  There is the boy who steps into his best friend's clothes in a desperate bid to fulfil his dreams, the man who comes up with an amazing new invention to win the heart of the woman he loves, the bored young wife doomed to live on an island where everything is red, the middle-aged woman who finds a baby in the sand and passes it off as her own.

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  Ghost Ship

  Christopher Cartwright

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  In the dead of night, a decrepit, unmarked motor yacht drifts into the medieval port of Vernazza, Italy. 
  The run-down vessel forms a jarring contrast to the pastel colored tower homes and terraced vineyards surrounding the natural harbor along the coast of Cinque Terre. 
  Less than fifty yards away, a man wakes up on board a small rowboat, covered in blood. 
  Lying next to him is a woman with two – execution style – bullet holes to her forehead. 
  In his right hand he holds a small suitcase. Tucked into his pocket is a Russian built Makarov semiautomatic handgun – with two rounds missing. 
  The man asks himself one question: Who am I?

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  The Persons Of The Tale

  R. L. Stevenson

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  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet and writer. The most famous of his works was Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stevenson is one of the most translated authors in the world. In the story of “The Persons of the Tail”, two characters of the “Treasure Island” novel after another chapter written by the author are trying to decide if the author really exists and if so – whom does he love more: captain Alexander Smolett or Silver? But they are so different: Silver is a rude bandit, cap is a man of duty.  The story is written with such exciting language, transferring you into the pirate atmosphere of “Treasure Island”. Read the whole story to know how the argue ends.A SmartTouch Media production.

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