Literary

Inheritance

by Victoria Wilcox

The name Doc Holliday conjures images of the Wild West and the shootout at the OK Corral, but before he was a Western legend he was a Southern son, born in the last days of the Old South with family links to...

Clapham Lights

by Tom Canty

Craig Tennant hates his job as an estate agent, loves a girl who has a boyfriend and lives in a London flat he can't afford with a university friend he wishes he'd never met. That friend is Mark Hunter, an inept...

The Ecco Summer 2013 Fiction Sampler

by None

The Ecco/Amistad Summer 2013 Fiction Sampler features excerpts from our upcoming novels and story collections:

• Southern Cross the Dog by Bill Cheng
• Peripatetic Coffin by Ethan Rutherford
• Together Tea by Marjan...

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes began to write this literary classic after serving in the Spanish militia, surviving a gunshot wound, being captured by Barbary pirates, forced into slavery, and being ransomed by his parents....

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert is arguably one of the greatest novelists of all time. His first novel, Madame Bovary, was published in 1856 and is considered a literary masterpiece by critics and scholars. His skillful wordsmithing...

The Kelly affair

by Paul D. Brazill

The third chapter of Luke’s wondering around Europe reveals part of his secrets. What is he hiding behind drinks and cigarettes, pubs and women?

The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow

by Rita Leganski

Conceived in love and possibility, Bonaventure Arrow didn't make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. No one knows that Bonaventure's silence is filled with resonance—a miraculous...

A Lovely Leave & Over the Rainbow

by Victor J. Banis

Two great flash pieces from Victor J. Banis in one volume! A Lovely Leave: If love is ever-enduring, can it matter much if the face changes? The heart sees differently from the eyes. Over the Rainbow: Youthful...

Come From Nowhere

by Ellen Greenfield & Keana Texeira

In the early hours of July 13, 1977, seven female characters – ranging from a nine-year-old girl and her Greek immigrant mother, to a young chef who is losing her vision, to a brown rat – share the same...

The Wooden Chair

by Rayne E. Golay

Winner of the Royal Palm Award! As a child, Leini stands ready to do anything to win her mother Mira's love. This effort costs her the sight in one eye and as a result, causes her to endure bullying from kids...

Dangerous Liaisons in The Kitchen, Charmel Roses's menu

by Charmel Roses

6 courses, 6 recipes developed through 6 short stories. (from: THE MAN I LOVE, First Course) Summer was over; it had run away on tiptoe. Autumn’s fresh and sometimes chilly breeze swept the lonely roads at...

Dangerous Liaisons in the Kitchen, Nora Noir's menu

by Nora Noir

6 courses, 6 recipes developed through 6 chapters of a medieval story marked by the perversions of an insane aristocrat, Lord Irwin Blaxtone, who will vent his impulses and his harassment on the new, young and...

The Sky Is Falling with Bonus Material

by Sidney Sheldon

For a limited time, and at a special price, discover Sidney Sheldon's The Sky is Falling with Bonus Material. Plus, receive an excerpt from Sheldon's new book Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory, available...

Mother of the Groom

by Augusta Trobaugh

"A son is a son until he takes him a wife," the old adage says, and Winifred, unwilling to give up her precious son at all, goes to outrageous means for preventing his wedding. A new short story from the acclaimed...

The Average American Marriage

by Chad Kultgen

In the beginning, there was The Average American Male.

Maxim called it "pure filth."

Even Penthouse called it "appalling."

The New York Times called it "the literary love child of Neil LaBute, Judy Blume, and Eminem."...

Everything on the Line

by Bob Mitchell

The year is 2043. God and Satan are dining at a cute little Italian trattoria in Purgatory, when Satan challenges God to a wager: At stake is whether Good or Evil will prevail in the world. Both antagonists...

Melchior A La Carte

by Ib Melchior

New short stories from the master._x000D_ _x000D_ "Melchior Á La Carte is a delight. These engaging stories are filled with wonderful, original characters and unexpected turns of events. In each one of them...

Getting Rid of Mama

by Liz Dolan

What happens when a Jewish mother from Brooklyn moves in with her lesbian daughter and partner in small town, Delaware? Of course, Mother never acknowledges their relationship and the partner decides either...

Mother's Gay

by Brendan Jones

A cardigan of a different colour, a cup of tea and a card game prompt Polly to confront problems in one of her most important relationships. She has to consider the feelings of her mother, her girlfriend and...

Candy and Catharsis

by Anne Brooke

Love is possible even in the most surprising of settings. When dictionary-dweller and word-about-town Catharsis falls madly in love with good-time-gal Candy, it changes everything he ever thought he knew about...