Bøger af Barbara Black

A spinster in love with a tobacco-smoking ghost. A lonely one-eyed monster who wanders the desert. A Medieval saint who delights in her " miraculous ruine." In Little Fortified Stories, award-winning writer Barbara Black conjures a microcosm of characters that defy convention. In these very short stories, curious worlds are encapsulated like a series of snow globes, swirling with deep emotion and teeming with strangeness. Inspired by art, music, alcoholic spirits, and what Black calls " authentic fabrications" from her own ancestry, these eclectic tales are told with an eye to the absurd. Buzzing with hypnotic intensity, Little Fortified Stories presents a world in which everything is theatre and the regular rules don't apply.

In God Heals the Broken, Barbara Black, Doctor of Divinity, recounts the story of the murder of her sister. Black was 18 when domestic violence stole her sister's life and forever changed the family the two had grown up in. The good news is Black's story doesn't end with the tragedy. This story offers hope and healing. Drawing on her faith, Black remembers her sister and shows how forgiveness makes all the difference in living a fruitful life. Through God Heals the Broken, readers can learn to overcome the role tragedy plays in their lives and learn to move forward with confidence and love.

In nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform, the Athenaeum, the Travellers, the Carlton, the United Service are just a few of the gentlemen's clubs that formed the exclusive preserve known as "clubland" in Victorian London-the City of Clubs that arose during the Golden Age of Clubs.