Ghosts In Sunlight

Cheated by life itself, Marian Barnard is dead, and her body lies awaiting identification. The killer's name is etched on Phil's mind. Stamped beside it is the word Revenge. In this world of passion and pain, Phil's ambition is to shape his own life and to secure the fulfilment denied his parents

Into the gripping plot of Ghosts in Sunlight the author has woven the eternal themes of love and loss, cruelty and revenge, wealth and power. No ordinary story, this modern tale is germinated in the fertile soils of the past. Above all, it is the compelling story of tender youth, and tender love, which takes a startling change of direction, from the Kennedy era of the 1960s, racing into the publishing world of the 1990s. A seductive blend of love story and thriller, Ghosts in Sunlight mingles suspense, drama romance, taking the reader on a fast-paced international tour, stopping off at Paris, Boston, Cambridge, New York, Stockholm and Rome. A brilliant storyteller, Gretta Curran Browne weaves an intricate multicoloured fabric, both subtle and vibrant, which defies the reader to close the book before all of its truths have finally been revealed.

"Ghost Behind The Sun", Tav Falco's sprawling study of Memphis, begins with the Civil War massacre at Fort Pillow, the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878 and the grisly murders of the Harp Brothers. Falco traces these legends of Reconstruction-era Memphis to an equally brutal twentieth century underworld – Beale Street kingpin Jim Canaan, Edward Crump's political machine, the Dixie Mafia, and others. Also included are revelatory dialogues concerning the city’s many music legends, from rockabilly icons Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Charlie Feathers to more underground figures such as Jim Dickinson and country blues wailer Jessie Mae Hemphill. Interwoven with these accounts is an autobiographical history of Falco’s own time in Memphis, including his involvement with performance art ensemble Insect Trust, working with pop/rock maverick Alex Chilton, and the formation of his seminal rock and roll band, Panther Burns. Illustrated throughout.

This is a real page turner' IRISH NEWS Part thriller, part love story, it's hard to resist turning the pages'. BELFAST TELEGRAPH An excellent book'. IE BOOK REVIEW The author's themes in this fabulous book range from young and tender love to old and bitter hatreds. From the misery of bedsit poverty of London in the 1960s to the power of immense wealth in the 1990s. In a time when the world was excitedly influenced by the cultured intellectualism of the new America president John F. Kennedy, MARIAN BARNARD is a young woman who falls hopelessly in love with MARC GAINES, a young American tourists who walks into the London restaurant where she works as a waitress. She discovers that he is a lieutenant in the US Army and totally devoted to the civil rights policies of JFK and his brother Robert. Marian also becomes the true love of Marc's life but both are unaware of the obsessive adoration of Marc's mother for her only son. JACQUELINE GAINES ? French and proudly Parisian, who had formerly been a young sabotage commando and vengeful killer in the French Resistance when the Nazis invaded her beloved Paris ? and now Jacqueline was determined to sabotage her son's relationship with the English girl. Through JIMMY OVERMAN, Marc's best friend, we get a deep insight into the personal and American tragedy that was the Vietnam War and the soldiers who returned from it, still seeing the ghosts of their friends left behind.

(6 X 9 Soft Cover)The author's themes in this fabulous book range from young and tender love to old and bitter hatreds. From the misery of bedsit poverty of London in the 1960s to the power of immense wealth in the 1990s.In a time when the world was excitedly influenced by the cultured intellectualism of the new America president John F. Kennedy, MARIAN BARNARD is a young woman who falls hopelessly in love with MARC GAINES, a young American tourists who walks into the London restaurant where she works as a waitress. She discovers that he is a lieutenant in the US Army and totally devoted to the civil rights policies of JFK and his brother Robert.Marian also becomes the true love of Marc?s life but both are unaware of the obsessive adoration of Marc's mother for her only son. JACQUELINE GAINES ? French and proudly Parisian, who had formerly been a young sabotage commando and vengeful killer in the French Resistance when the Nazis invaded her beloved Paris ? and now Jacqueline was determined to sabotage her son?s relationship with the English girl.Through JIMMY OVERMAN, Marc?s best friend, we get a deep insight into the personal and American tragedy that was the Vietnam War and the soldiers who returned from it, still seeing the ghosts of their friends left behind.`This is a real page turner' IRISH NEWS`Part thriller, part love story, it?s hard to resist turning the pages'. BELFAST TELEGRAPH`An excellent book'. IE BOOK REVIEW

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and environmental collapse in “a darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality” (Time) LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Vulture, Thrillist, Literary Hub “An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure.”—Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies Novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Los Angeles to oversee the film adaptation of one of his books and try to impress his wife and daughter back home with this last-ditch attempt at professional success. But California is not as he imagined. Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are everywhere, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick finds an unlikely partner in Cassidy Carter—the cynical starlet of his film—and the two investigate the sun-scorched city, where they discover the darker side of all that glitters in Hollywood. Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present moment—a bold exploration of environmental catastrophe in the age of alternative facts, and “a ghost story not of the past but of the near future” (The New York Times).