Fiction Books
A Different Kind of Madness
Colombo, September 1964. As the newly independent island nation of Ceylon struggles with racial divides, Greta van Buuren faces both the upheaval of her future and the re-emergence of her past. Greta... (more)
Twilight's Last Gleaming: Updated Edition
A chilling high-concept geo-political thriller where a declining United States and a resurgent China come to the brink of all out nuclear war.
The year is 2028. Oil is the black gold that... (more)
The Hands of Gravity and Chance
The Hands of Gravity and Chance is a spell-binding story in which parents find themselves promising and then rescinding what they do not have to give. The story opens with the fall of a... (more)
Reveries: An Unfettered Mind
Reverie is a form of dreaming intended as a continuous process that takes place in sleep as well as in waking life. In analysis, the patient's communications can evoke images that will then be useful... (more)
The Other Side of Silence
A gripping, emotionally charged drama unfolding over a tumultuous week for Anna Mason, a Melbourne doctor: her newborn nephew’s life hangs in the balance, her parents meet after years of rage and... (more)
The Parts Left Out
“The road out to the Bromfman farm in late August is no different from thousands of other roads to grain farms in Kansas—hard-baked dirt dusted with a fine powder of yellow clay that shifts almost... (more)
Vitellius' Feast: The Four Emperors Series: Book IV
AD 69. As this most dramatic year draws to a close, now is the time to choose a definitive side. Whilst Vitellius enjoys the trappings of power around him, machinations are afoot. In the East,... (more)
Camille and the Raising of Eros
Spain, 1920s. The lives of three Carmelite nuns intersect and develop through a period of intense experience. In their personal histories there is great contrast, from the artistic exuberance of... (more)
Confessions of a Medical Student
Confessions of a Medical Student charts 20-year-old Ben Adler’s tragic-comic journey from home to med-school and the world beyond. Callow and impressionable, Ben leaves his over-anxious... (more)
An Obituary to Die For
Governor Jim Melville looks like a sure thing for his party’s presidential nomination. Psychiatrist Ben Jordan, his college friend, never suspects Melville’s ties to a sinister group operating behind... (more)
Pieces of Molly: An Ordinary Life
Molly’s journey starts as everyone’s does, in the womb. In most memoirs the ten years after conception and birth are swiftly passed over, but here we see life from the beginning through the eyes of... (more)
The Stolen Girl and Other Stories: Seven Psychoanalytical Tales
The Stolen Girl is a collection of seven tales written in the genre of short stories. The narratives are fictionalised accounts based on the author’s work as an analyst. They carefully open the door... (more)
The Strange Case of Madeleine Seguin
It is Paris in the 1880s and the century is in its final decadent throes as it moves towards the fin de siecle. New scientific ideas are countered by a resurgent interest in the practice of magic,... (more)
Telling Time
Everyone has secrets. Lisa Harden has spent years polishing her image as a successful psychotherapist, highly respected and well known in her field. When a new patient appears in her office asking... (more)
Rensal the Redbit: A Psychoanalytic Fairytale
‘Many years ago in Mytherranea, before the stars had names, when daisies were still called days’ eyes, and the moon stayed up all night to keep the darkness company, there lived a race called... (more)
Right of Passage
Set in the heyday of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War era, Right of Passage explores the social change and conflict involved in that period. The emotional development of Chris, a... (more)
The Analyst Who Laughed to Death
The Analyst Who Laughed to Death recounts Dr Reuben Moses’ last days as a therapist for suicidal, psychopathic, and depressed patients. Despite his geniality, Moses is tortured. His wife has an... (more)
Scenes from a Clinical Life: A Novel
How does psychotherapy work?
What is the role of a therapist?
And what do therapists do when their wish for professional advancement is blocked?
This ground-breaking novel looks at these... (more)
Anomalous Affections: A Novel
In middle age, Lin is diagnosed with a chronic disease. Yearning for change and solitude, she finds affirmation in the life of the eighteenth-century French writer Isabelle de Charrière. Seeking an... (more)
Freud and the Melancholy Rabbi
‘One day they will say that Sigmund Freud read the Law with a rabbi, and no one will believe it.’
Vienna, 1903, and two unlikely figures meet: Rashab, the fifth Rabbi of Lubavitch, and Sigmund... (more)
Honor's Shadow
Honor’s Shadow is a story of betrayal and revenge. Dr Honor Sinclair, a psychiatrist and therapist, is forced to confront a long buried betrayal, when several small events converge to awaken... (more)
At Midnight in a Flaming Town
It is 1914 and life has changed dramatically for the people of Belgium. The advancing German military, delayed by a valiant Belgian Army, take out their frustrations on innocent civilians. Shockwaves... (more)
Night Journey
Set in South Africa during the 60's and 70's, Night Journey is a novel about a young soldier who deserts the army and, when he is recaptured by the military, refuses to return to military service on... (more)
Otho's Regret: The Four Emperors Series: Book III
Duplicity. Degeneracy. Destruction. One Empire. Two Emperors. Only one can survive.
Rome, AD 69. Having spectacularly grabbed the imperial throne by way of a very bloody coup, new emperor Otho... (more)
Galba's Men: The Four Emperors Series: Book II
Rome 68 AD. Slaughtering hundreds of civilians at the gates of Rome is hardly the best introduction for new Emperor Galba to his city. However the aged ruler is determined to get on with clearing up... (more)
Palatine: The Four Emperors Series: Book I
Debauchery. Depravity. Decadence.
Just everyday life at the imperial palace.
Whilst Emperor Nero plays with his new water organ and a cross-dressing eunuch, his wily secretary Epaphroditus... (more)
The Adventures of Inspector Canal
Psychoanalysts make the best detectives! When it comes to divining motives, deciphering ambiguous pronouncements, detecting delusions, and foiling the tricks memory plays, famed French analyst... (more)