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The Concord Diary by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,160. Language: English. Published: July 24, 2023 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Student Marcus Fyer is at odds with both family and campus life, and is about to quit university and just take off. His father arranges a course of therapy to see him through his crisis, though Marcus finds himself at odds with that arrangement too.
New King Palmers by
Price: Free! Words: 84,370. Language: English. Published: July 20, 2023 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Fiction » Urban, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Winner of the 2018 Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction. New King Palmers is narrated by its principal character Humfrey Joel, a close friend of Earl Eliot d’Oc, whose ancestry is bound up with the Habsburgs and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. D’Oc is a member of the British Privy Council and is a close friend of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, and bears secrets in the months leading up to her death.
A Forgotten Poet by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 24,320. Language: English. Published: July 3, 2023 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
A Forgotten Poet follows the fortunes of diffident and reluctant man of letters, Harold Humber, from his early life in the English Midlands, through his post-war career as economist, jazz aficionado, expert in industrial architecture, and, in the final reckoning, author of four slim volumes of popular verse.
The Emperor's Favourite Elephant by
Price: $1.27 USD. Words: 680. Language: English. Published: June 20, 2023 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Animals » Jungle animals (general)
A children's story aimed at eight-year-olds plus. Set in the East, it features the cunning exploits of a hungry jackal. The jackal seeks to hoodwink the Emperor's favourite ritual elephant into taking him the long distance into fertile pastures. There he knows a meal will be waiting for him. But the jackal doesn't account for just how astute the elephant is.
Perspectives on Eichmann: Explaining Perpetrator Behaviour by
Price: $6.49 USD. Words: 58,610. Language: English. Published: January 20, 2023 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Essay » Political
The purpose of this book is to assess the existing explanations of Adolf Eichmann’s perpetrator behaviour. These include Eichmann as a monster of abnormal personality, Arendt’s influential and controversial claim that Eichmann was entirely normal but devoid of capacity for moral reasoning, and Stangneth’s and Cesarani’s characterisation of Eichmann as an eliminationist antisemite.
L'altra donna by
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 25,810. Language: Italian. Published: January 16, 2023 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
Il primo amore, che sia davvero green (adolescenziale) o che si viva più avanti negli anni, è da sempre il tema centrale di storie, miti, romanzi, tragedie, film, canzoni. E l’adagio è più che noto: il primo amore non si scorda mai. E può diventare un’ossessione, se no te ne liberi, come acacde al protagonista del romanzo.
Early Novels and Short Fiction by
Price: $9.70 USD. Words: 350,420. Language: English. Published: August 15, 2022 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
*Early Novels and Short Fiction* is the first of three volumes covering Peter Cowlam’s adventures into fiction, dating from the mid-1970s and into the twenty-first century. *Early Novels and Short Fiction* covers the period from 1974 to 1998 (approximately).
I Forget How Nelson Died by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 18,420. Language: English. Published: March 13, 2022 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Plays » European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
I Forget How Nelson Died, under the title Different Circumstances, was first staged in Oxford in 1974. The play is centred on a reimagined Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, relocated in place and time to a remote island paradise mid-twentieth century.
Heroes and Lovers by
Price: $4.15 USD. Words: 71,880. Language: English. Published: August 11, 2021 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Music » Opera
What is a tenor? What makes some tenors great? Why are tenors so rare? Heroes and Lovers suggests answers to these questions and offers critical essays on twenty-six tenors and shorter assessments of thirty-four others.
Seeing is Believing by
Price: $6.49 USD. Words: 59,330. Language: English. Published: December 30, 2020 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Essay » Literature, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Catholicism
*Seeing is Believing* develops themes touched on in an earlier book by the same author, *Coming Home* (also published by CentreHouse Press), but with greater focus on the relations between faith and culture, in the broadest sense. It’s a crucially important issue for our time, addressed by several American apologists, though very few on the UK side of the Atlantic have shown much interest in it.
The Darlings of Downing Street by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 118,120. Language: English. Published: September 10, 2020 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Political biography
Garry O’Connor, better known for his probing researches into the lives, loves and professional craft of figures large on stage and screen, is eminently well placed to deconstruct theatrical trends in modern political life. His insights into the duality and mimetic display of Tony and Cherie Blair encapsulate at a stroke the tasteless descent of public debate.
The Butcher of Poland by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 15,440. Language: English. Published: August 23, 2020 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Plays » European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Condemned to death and hanged in 1947, Hans Frank’s public repentance was unique among the leading Nazi criminals tried at Nuremberg. One psychiatrist pointed out Frank’s ‘beatific tranquillity merely hid his own tensions’. But what of such carefully acted out piety? Didn’t this hastily cultivated yet forceful and theatrical piety have something about it which was so patently flimsy..?
Alec Guinness: A Life by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 161,900. Language: English. Published: February 14, 2020 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Celebrity biography
A definitive, revealing biography of actor Alec Guinness, whose career spanned much of the twentieth century. Biographer Garry O’Connor gives us the full story, including revelations on Guinness’s childhood, his secret relationships and the fears that haunted him throughout his life.
The Vagabond Lover by
Price: $5.32 USD. Words: 94,220. Language: English. Published: December 18, 2019 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir
A racy, opinionated and highly entertaining account of life, loves and gossip in the English theatre since the 1960s, centred on and contrasted with a moving account of the writer’s famous and very much more strait-laced father, the Variety singer Cavan O’Connor.
Letters to Kafka by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 11,360. Language: English. Published: September 2, 2017 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
The funny, tragic, sometimes hilarious letters to a latterday Franz Kafka, whose insights into the existential dilemmas of contemporary being continue to be misunderstood, and sometimes dangerously so.
The Curious Ones by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 9,020. Language: English. Published: July 8, 2017 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
For more than fifteen years, Isabelle has been tormented by guilt over the disappearance of her youngest daughter. If only she’d been at the school gate to meet her. If only she hadn’t been so engrossed in her painting. If only …
Reassessing the Chesterbelloc by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 15,120. Language: English. Published: January 31, 2016 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Essay » Author profile
Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton were two of the biggest names on the Georgian literary scene. They were what today would be called 'public intellectuals'. Each wrote nearly a hundred books in a variety of genres and on a huge range of subjects. But they are now almost entirely unread.
Marisa by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 26,270. Language: English. Published: January 17, 2014 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
A tale of love, lust, marriage and money, and first love as it comes to an end. But does it really end?
The Patient's Diary by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,150. Language: English. Published: January 5, 2014 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » Diaries & Journals
Marcus Fyer, on the brink of dropping out of university, is sent for therapy, and sets his therapist a puzzle.
Manifesto by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 2,540. Language: English. Published: June 29, 2011 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Poetry » U.K. Poetry
Manifesto is a sequence of haikuesque poems aimed as a counter-blast at political and financial institutions.
Meakin by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 4,830. Language: English. Published: September 6, 2010 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
A jaded academic and musicologist embarks on a new career as an insurance salesman, though he can't shake off his past as easily as that...
Opus Thirty Three Bagatelles by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,970. Language: English. Published: June 20, 2010 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Poetry » U.K. Poetry, Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
'Opus Thirty Three Bagatelles' is a collection of finely crafted miniatures, marked out for their candour and observational precision. ‘Eloquent and alembic.’

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