Tom Williams: 46 books

Set in the suburbs and cities of the Midwest, Mid-South, and Texas, these stories explore the lives of characters biracial, black, white, and all sorts of in-between. The intersections and collisions of contemporary life are in full effect here, where the distinctions between fast food and fine art,...

What we know of Raymond Chandler is shrouded in secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his magisterial novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, literary gumshoe Tom Williams casts light on this most...

Five full length novels from best-selling historical fiction authors Jodi Taylor, James Green, Tom Williams, Jane Jackson, and George Rees in one boxset! Including: Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor Another Small Kingdom by James Green Burke in the Land...

A collection of flash fiction (Tanzer), bookend short stories (Williams), a novella (Housley), and poetry written from father to daughter (Pawelek), Four Fathers is a hard-hitting definitive work that seeks to uncover what it takes to be a parent. These subjects are not easy, and through these introspective...

Tom Williams is the author of 'A Mysterious Something in the Light', the biography of Raymond Chandler, the man who defined modern crime fiction. Taking inspiration from novels such as The Big Sleep, The High Window and The Lady in the Lake Tom presents an introduction to Chandler's novels...

Chinese medicine is growing ever more popular in the West. Increasing numbers of us know that acupuncture and herbal remedies can help us - yet we do not understand how they work or why. Tom Williams’ timely introduction shows how Chinese medicine interprets the human body, and how Qi, Jing and...

A secret brotherhood uses technology to influence a national election. Bill Ockham is seeking purpose. His wife is dead as a result of a tragic accident. His influential best friend advises him that he is too old to work in Silicon Valley. Now, his best friend Wayne Tran is dead. A...

This book is a guide for both novice and expert fishermen. It highlights lakes, rivers, and reservoirs in Colorado and Wyoming, as well as a collection of fishing stories from more than six decades of trout fishing. I focus on the section of the North Platte River in Wyoming called the Miracle...

Drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives, this biography casts a new light on Raymond Chandler, one of the most mysterious of writers. The man revealed was troubled by loneliness and desertion from an early age—experiences that informed his writing as much as they...

'At last, the definitive guide to football phraseology across the world... Sparky and very funny.' Paul Hayward, Daily Telegraph **''Amusing and informative in equal measure.' Oliver Kay, The Times An expertly compiled and utterly fascinating compendium of the weird and wonderful words...

When Darrell Loan graduates from University of Iowa in 1957 with an aeronautical engineering degree, he has no idea his first job at the Sperry Corporation will land him a top job at NASA in the next five years. After the successful launch of Americas first satellite, NASA is formed. Darrell works side...

Hidden in deep grass, beyond the line of the distant ridge, half-remembered hopes fall prey to savage chance and lie broken or, finding fresh earth, rise again with tender growth. The stories of Wheelbarrow Ridge are each a landscape, populated by searchers who yearn for the horizon that they have...

Distraught by tumultuous events in Borneo and separated from his lover, John Williamson comes to India to make his way with the East India Company in the frontier city of Cawnpore. Here, he struggles to fit in; a gay man in a straight society; a farm labourer's son in a world of gentleman's clubs...

The US natural gas pipeline infrastructure is under attack. That’s what Bob McKenna, a veteran accident investigator concluded in his analysis of 20 accidents. Unconvinced, the federal authorities and natural gas pipeline management companies believed the accidents were unforeseen catastrophes....