Thomas Ellis: 44 books

"A work of astonishing illumination and delight...so edgy, bright and subversive about women's inner lives and experience."—Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review A New York Times Notable Book In The Summer House trilogy, three very different women, with three very distinct...

In the early days of the American Civil War, the want of adequate combat medicine was a constant complaint by officers in the field. Englishman Thomas Ellis already had experience serving the British Army in South Africa when he was appointed Post Surgeon and later Medical Director. Ellis' account...

Grief is a crazy-making, complicated process, a struggle to acknowledge the life-changing impact of loss. It affects every dimension of the self; it is despairing, isolating, and overwhelming. It is depriving, mischievous, and keeps you unbalanced. Grief is so personally unique and ever changing that...

When a body is discovered in the Regents Canal, the local residents vaguely wonder if it might belong to their missing neighbour Barbs, but none of them quite get round to doing anything about it. While Scarlett is preoccupied with her uptight husband Brian and her adolescent daughter Camille, Connie...

Annabelle is the leader of a criminal crew that targets unfaithful men. A “Candy Donna” is the bait girl they use to lure their targets. On this night, on this job, an unfaithful man will test Annabelle’s conscience. What happens when a cheating husband turns killer to cover his secrets? Can Annabelle change her evil ways in time to stop the evil of others?

Could you survive a week without sugar? Goodson is the captain of Jetpax, the defending dance champions at school. On the week of the finals tournament, their school bans junk food. Goodson’s squad, notoriously fueled by sugar as a performance enhancer, deals with their sugar withdrawal like it...

Brenda’s got a baby. And now that custody of her son has been restored after years of self-abuse, Brenda faces her next challenge on the road to recovery – progress. Her softball team, The Southside Ladyjacks, are a band of losers at life yet winners at the game. Can Brenda rally The Ladyjacks to one more win? Can she rally herself and her son to one more chance at life?

Comedy in the hour of chaos. Meet Benji, an aspiring comic book writer. He jeopardizes his last week before college by injuring the town bully, a popular football player. Further threatening escape from his impoverished neighborhood is Benji's train wreck of a mother. Enters a mysterious girl,...

Little Ruthie is an impoverished southern grandmother. Her recently deceased grandson, Curtis, was a very bad man, a very bad man who wanted to do his grandmother a very good deed. If love is an act, can present actions of love undo the evil that men have done in the past? Ride with Little Ruthie...

Marquis and Rahlo are two knuckleheads up to no good on the hottest day of the year. A chance to be heroes presents itself when they come upon a baby trapped in a sweltering car. Can a good deed in the present forgive bad behavior from the past?

Old school throwback to the Hip Hop days of hanging out at the neighborhood car wash. Comedic short story (3,505 words).

2013 Hugo Award nominee... In Chicks Dig Comics, editors Lynne M. Thomas (Hugo-Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords) and Sigrid Ellis bring together essays by award-winning writers and artists who celebrate the comics medium and its creators, and who examine the characters and series that they love....

In Queers Dig Time Lords, editors Sigrid Ellis (Chicks Dig Comics) and Michael Damian Thomas (Apex Magazine) bring together essays by award-winning writers to celebrate the phenomenon that is Doctor Who, in the tradition of the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords. Tanya Huff (Blood Ties)...

CONTENTS: A.A. MILNE 1. A Hint for Next Christmas ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER 2. The Ghost in the Picture Room ALGERNON BLACKWOOD 3. The Kit-Bag ALICE HALE BURNETT 4. Christmas Holidays at Merryvale ANDY ADAMS 5. A Winter Round-Up ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 6. The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle CECIL FRANCES...