Bøger af Anne Britting Oleson

In 2010, The Beauty of It was the first runner-up in the Sheltering Pines Press poetry chapbook contest. With the demise of the press, the chapbook went out of print. Now it's back, in a second edition, containing the same award-winning poems of finding the beauty despite the heartbreak.

Aventurine Morrow is alone in Lincoln, England, attempting to overcome writer's block while researching a new subject, Katherine Swynford. Here she befriends a cathedral tour guide, Henry Hallsey, whose daughter Nicola has gone missing. When a woman is found dead on the grounds of the Old Bishop's Palace, and the Swynford Jewel is stolen, Aventurine falls under suspicion. With police dogging her every step, Avi must seek the help of wily former spy, Genevieve Smithson. In the midst of all this, Gio Constantine reappears-but Gio might not merely be the sensitive singer-songwriter he appears to be.

With haunting verse, the poet takes us into spooky places beset by fog and night shadows. We hear whispering ghosts of loves long lost, and their inevitable, sometimes uneasy, connection to nature. A book that might disturb your dreams with its beauty and its relationship to worlds unseen just on the other side of the Veil, yet very much alive.

Larry Ahearne's death in Afghanistan has had a traumatic effect on his friends and family back in Painter's Springs. His best friend Alaric Morgan-who witnessed Larry's last moments-suffers from PTSD-induced mutism, which has forced him to leave the army; only his young niece Isabella seems to understand the depths of his distress.Larry's sister Marty, an artist who is stalled in her tracks, bears the brunt of their mother's grief and fury, only supported by her friend and housemate Caro and Caro's daughter Sophie. The one thing they all have in common, though, is Larry's 1971 Bronco, in storage since his enlistment. Now, restoring that truck is the one thing that might hold them all together.

After Emily Harris'' recent divorce, she returns to her hometown, where she renews her relationship with her exotic grandmother Eleanor, against the wishes of her mother Elaine, with whom she has her own fraught relationship. Eleanor, arch and secretive, has a passion she wishes to imbue in Emily — but Eleanor dies before the mystery is revealed in full. She leaves Emily an important clue: a small hand-loomed tapestry, possibly made by an ancestor. In an act of abandon that shocks even herself, Emily seduces her childhood neighbor and nemesis, Carwyn. Fleeing to the Welsh Marches to sort out her motivations, she discovers a branch of the family kept secret by her grandmother. With the aid of her newfound relatives, she searches for the keys to solving the mystery of the tapestry.