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We know that life fades into death but, in what degree, does life re-live itself as it dreams of dying? The Ghost of memory is a novel about life and death or rather - to put it somewhat differently - about the close, almost indefinable cross-cultarlities between moments of life and death.

He ascended, eyes riveted, nailed to the steps leading up to the top of the pyramid of the sun. How many human hearts he wondered had been plucked from bodies there to feed the dying light of the sun and create an obsession with royal sculptures, echoing stone? It was time to take stock of others as hollow bodies and shelters into which one fell.

Doctor Black Marsden', tramp, shaman, and conjurer, is an ambivalent Merlin-figure representing both the hero's personal (and archetypal) shadow, and the creative, magus - like activity of the author himself.' Michael Gilkes, Journal of "Commonwealth Literature '...

Mary suffered from a physical and nervous malaise. This title analysis and interpretation of the 'automatic writing' of 'Mary Stella Holiday': an assumed name for the secretary and patient of the late Father Joseph Marsden.

A fictional re-imagining of the real-life ritual mass suicide orchestrated by Reverend Jim Jones in the remote Guyana forest in 1978.

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Excerpt from The Peace in the Making: With Maps Y aim in writing this book has been to M present something that is a little more than a personal impression, and a good deal less than a considered his'tory, Of the Peace Conference. The latter task will be taken in hand in due time by more competent hands than mine, and it will make its appeal to its own special public. What I have endeavoured to produce is an account, checked by such Official ...

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Fundraising has always been an essential element of the Christian life: churches, schools, and many other organizations rely on it to function. But it is a risky enterprise, fraught with questions and challenges. How can Christians raise funds with integrity? In this book Peter Harris and Rod Wilson, experienced fundraisers themselves, bring fundraising within the scope of normal Christian life and work. They consider fundraising in light of t...

Excerpt from Lichens and Mosses of Montana: A List Based on Material Collected During the Summer of 1901, With AdditionsThe Mission and Swan ranges of mountains, in northwestern Mon tana, lie parallel with each other, extending north and south in general direction. The Mission range is about seventy-five miles long, ending as a range at the Biological Station. The Swan range extends twenty five or thirty miles farther north. Both ranges were m...

Excerpt from President Wilson, His Problems and His Policy: An English ViewI am greatly indebted to Mr. G. V. Seldes, late of Harvard, who has read my proofs and made a number of valuable suggestions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digit...

Excerpt from Geneva, 1921: An Account of the Second Assembly of the League of NationsThe League did something to modify its own constitution by amending the Covenant, developing fresh activities, adding new members. This will be discussed under the heading, The Fabric of the League. Such issues as disarmament, the use of the economic weapon of the League and the Court of Inter national Justice fall under the title, Barriers against War. The ti...

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J. A. SPENDER by WILSON HARRIS CONTENTS FOREWORD FOUNDATIONS FIRST EDITORSHIP THE WESTMINSTER A JOURNALISTS STANDARDS THE MAN RELIGION AND LIFE POLITICS AND PERSONS REASONINGS WITH ROSEBERY ESHER AND FISHER ASPECTS OF NORTHCLIFFE FOREIGN AFFAIRS AUTHORSHIP COMMISSIONS AND MISSION IN JOURNEYINGS OFTEN LIBERAL TWILIGHT THE LAST CHAPTER APPENDIX INDEX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS J.A. SPENDER UNDERGRADUATE JERUSALEM, 1939 BROADCASTING, 1940 Keywords: Sp...

In 1970 and 1971, Wilson Harris published two short story collections that explored the myths, fables and fragments of history of the Amerindian peoples of Guyana and the Caribbean. These are brought together in the current volume.

This visionary novel follows the inner journey of Zechariah Stevenson, the son of a wealthy Georgetown businessman, while he works as the watchman at a timber depot deep within the interior. Isolated in the forest and having endured the suspicion of a fraud scandal, the mysterious death of his father, and the disappearance of his mistress, Zechariah begins a journey of self-discovery as he deconstructs previously held certainties about life by...

Focusing on the traumatising effects of slavery on West Indian society, this novel depicts how the new-found freedoms and perceived social progress experienced by former peasants mask the fact that the old master-slave structure is reasserting itself among the descendants of an exploited people.