Smart House Books: 3 books

When people writer, Alan Scarfe, wrote why he wrote this novel he generally sidesteps the question and begins by saying what the book is not. It is NOT yet another in a long line of attempts to prove the identity of Jack the Ripper once and for all. That said, the great polymath...

Mary Wollstonecraft once wrote:        “The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.”   That became Barbara March's experience.   ‘Stranieri’ is a word one hears often in Italy, simply because there are as many tourists...

Set in the 1980's, They Don't Run Red Trains Anymore explores the nature of love, sexuality and the importance of art in our day to day life. Alex Hoff is a young artist who witnesses a suicide at a subway station. That same day an exotic young woman comes to pose in her life drawing class...