The Wessex Collective: 25 books

Cover of I Am?
by John Wheatcroft
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013

In this intriguing book John Wheatcroft, contemplating a long and brilliant career as a poet, both discusses and demonstrates the many mysteries, experiences and depth of humanity that go into making a poem.
Cover of Exploring Cassy
by Margaret Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012

What exists after death? Cassy is finding out. She has consciousness, and a form. It’s light and easily moved around. But she is shocked to find other light forms that she knew on Earth and one in particular that had stalked her and then died in a motorcycle accident. The Counselor for new entrants...
Cover of A Mile in These Shoes
by Sandra Shwayder Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012

These nine stories describe people who live on the margins of society, people who are often oppressed and always ignored. These stories give them voice and let the reader into their worlds on the edge.
Cover of Stillbird
by Sandra Shwayder Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012

From the strangling of a midwife perceived to be a witch in Scotland in the 1880s to thwarted love and the tragedy of incest in West Virginia during the depression thence to Denver on the eve of the sixties, accurate history is enhanced by elements of magical realism in this tale of five generations that is as ancient as the Greek tragedies and as modern as the daily news.
Cover of The Gift
by Ita Willen
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012

The close of the Nazi death camps was a beginning rather than an end for  those who  survived.  Told through the eyes of a child of Holocaust survivors, The Gift  lets us  feel the pain and the courage that reaches into the decades beyond the war. Compelling and insightful. A memorable read. –Barb Lundy, poet
Cover of The Return
by Margaret Guthrie
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012

In The Return, two orphaned sisters return to their childhood home, thirty years after their parents murder hoping to find out what really happened. The perpetrator is dead, but will those who were with them talk? Lydia, a yoga teacher, feels her mother's spirit asking "Why?" Margie, a recent...
Cover of Triple Vision
by Ita Willen
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012

Triple Vision is the perfect title for this collection. The author sees life through the eyes of a philosopher, a painter, a poet. As a widely read student of philosophy she knows that, before finding answers to life's mysteries, the seeker must figure out the right questions. As a painter she...
Cover of The Trial of Pythagoras & Other Poems
by William Davey
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

A formidable sequence of poems in a variety of poetic styles, which cast an ironic and penetrating eye upon the vision that science, and particularly mathematics, can explain all of the great mysteries of the universe.
Cover of Little Bluestem: Stories from Rural America
by Brian Backstrand
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012

A former hospice and hospital chaplain and pastor or rural congregations, Brian Backstrand has witnessed first hand some of the slow unraveling of the social and economic fabric of small town and rural America. He and his wife, Marilee, spent the first year of their married life in rural eastern Kansas...
Cover of Brother of Cloud in the Water
by William Davey
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012

Do you think you are smarter than a headhunter?  Do you think you could win a battle against cannibals as well as overcome doubts from your ungrateful fellow warriors about your leadership?  Do you believe in emerald winds, ruby-eyed bees, silver birds of ghosts and love without end? Brother of...
Cover of Night Voices
by Helen Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2012

A seemingly peaceful village at the edge of Oxford seethes with the unspoken tensions and frustrations of a group of neighbors. A disparate group of women including a visiting American professor's wife, a school headmistress, a young recluse, a hairdresser and a fanatic churchgoer, react in wildly...
Cover of A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
by R.P. Burnham
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012

As he does with his earlier novels, Burnham takes his time in skillfully creating his characters so that by the end, the readers know them inside out, down to their raw hearts. Some characters suffer a transformation; others don’t; but each word and action count and stay true to them, making them...
Cover of Splendor from Darkness
by William Davey
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012

When Allied Forces were engaging Rommel in North Africa during World War Two, as usual the frontline troops had the heaviest casualties. So when Act. Sgt. Michael Santini is successful in almost single-handedly guiding his depleted and miss-matched international Special Forces squad through a rear-guard...
Cover of On a Darkling Plain
by R.P. Burnham
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012

The literary fiction novel opens with a shocking scene: In the small town of Waska, Maine, retired professor Samuel Jellerson, while walking in the woods one day, witnesses an despicable act--a priest sexually abusing a young boy. Jellerson thinks he recognizes the priest, but instead of notifying...
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