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SEE ALSO Classic Literature and Fiction Fiction Fiction | City Life Fiction | Cultural Heritage Fiction | Fantasy Fiction | Humorous | General Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Private Investigators Fiction | Psychological Fiction | Small Town & Rural Fiction | Thriller | Political Fiction | Westerns Fiction | World Literature | Africa | Nigeria Fiction, Biographical Fiction, Native American Historical Fiction Legends, Myths, and Folk Tales Mystery Short Stories (multiple authors) Short Stories (single author) Thriller Fine Boys A Novel By Eghosa Imasuen Set in Nigeria during the pro-democracy movement and told from the perspective of an eighteen-year-old Gen-Xer, Ewaen, this coming-of-age novel examines the violent university confraternities during the mid-1990s. The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga By Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Larry Siems This stirring, poetic tale features a Bedouin man whose irrepressible love for his family, his camels, and his way of life fuels his harrowing journey into the Sahara Desert to find a lost camel and his struggle to preserve a culture on the brink of profound change. The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories By Billy Kahora Billy Kahora’s long-awaited debut collection includes stories that have appeared in Granta and McSweeney’s, and have been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing. Good-bye, Son and Other Stories By Janet Lewis Lewis’ only collection of short fiction was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Set in small communities of the upper Midwest and northern California in the ’30s and ’40s, these midcentury gems focus on the quiet cycles connecting youth and age, despair and hope, life and death. Good-bye, Son and Other Stories By Janet Lewis Lewis’ only collection of short fiction was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Set in small communities of the upper Midwest and northern California in the ’30s and ’40s, these midcentury gems focus on the quiet cycles connecting youth and age, despair and hope, life and death. Waste of Timelessness and Other Early Stories By Anaïs Nin Introduction by Allison Pease Foreword by Gunther Stuhlmann Written when Anaïs Nin was in her twenties and living in France, the stories collected in Waste of Timelessness contain many elements familiar to those who know her later work as well as revelatory, early clues to themes developed in those more mature stories and novels. Seeded with details remembered from childhood and from life in Paris, the wistful tales portray artists, writers, strangers who meet in the night, and above all, women and their desires.These Winter of Artifice Three Novelettes By Anaïs Nin Introduction by Laura Frost Swallow Press’s reissue of Winter of Artifice, with a new introduction by Laura Frost, presents an important opportunity to consider anew the work of Anaïs Nin who laid the groundwork for later writers, but whom critics frequently dismiss as solipsistic or overblown. Ladders to Fire By Anaïs Nin Introduction by Benjamin Franklin V Foreword by Gunther Stuhlmann Anaïs Nin’s Ladders to Fire interweaves the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their inner struggles to overcome these barriers to happiness and wholeness. The author’s own experiences, as recorded in her famous diaries, supplied the raw material for her fiction. It was her intuitive, experimental, and always original style that transformed one into the other. A Spy in the House of Love By Anaïs Nin Introduction by Anita Jarczok Although Anaïs Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could not reveal this intimate record of her own experiences during her lifetime. Instead, she turned to fiction, where her stories and novels became artistic “distillations” of her secret diaries. Cases of Circumstantial Evidence By Janet Lewis Introduction by Kevin Haworth This is the first digital version of Cases of Circumstantial Evidence, a collection of three historical novels by noted American writer Janet Lewis. The Trial of Sören Qvist By Janet Lewis Introduction by Kevin Haworth Originally published in 1947, The Trial of Sören Qvist has been praised by a number of critics for its intriguing plot and Janet Lewis’s powerful writing. And in the introduction to this new edition, Swallow Press executive editor and author Kevin Haworth calls attention to the contemporary feeling of the story—despite its having been written more than fifty years ago and set several hundred years in the past. The Wife of Martin Guerre By Janet Lewis Introduction by Kevin Haworth Afterword by Larry McMurtry The Wife of Martin Guerre—based on a notorious trial in sixteenth-century France—is “one of the most significant short novels in English” (Atlantic Monthly). Originally published in 1941, it still raises questions about identity, belonging, and about an individual’s capacity to act within an inflexible system. The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron By Janet Lewis Introduction by Kevin Haworth This historical novel is the third and final book in American poet and fiction writer Janet Lewis’s Cases of Circumstantial Evidence series, based on legal case studies compiled in the nineteenth century. In The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron, Lewis returns to her beloved France, the setting of The Wife of Martin Guerre, her best-known novel and the first in the series. Good-bye, Son and Other Stories By Janet Lewis Lewis’ only collection of short fiction was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Set in small communities of the upper Midwest and northern California in the ’30s and ’40s, these midcentury gems focus on the quiet cycles connecting youth and age, despair and hope, life and death. Against a Darkening Sky By Janet Lewis Against a Darkening Sky was original published in 1943. Set in a semi-rural community south of San Francisco, it is the story of an American mother of the mid-1930s and the sustaining influence she brings, through her own profound strength and faith, to the lives of her four growing children.Scottish by birth, but long a resident of America, Mary Perrault is married to a Swiss-French gardener. Their life in South Encina, though anything but lavish, is gay, serene, and friendly. BROWSE… New Titles Series Subjects Catalogs HOW TO… Contact Us Order a Book Request an Exam or Desk Copy Request Permission to Reprint Submit a Manuscript About the Press Support the Press Poetry Prize Privacy Policy Shopping Cart Follow us on Twitter Find us on Facebook Ohio University Press · Swallow Press Alden Library, Suite 101 30 Park Place Athens, OH 45701-2909 +1 740 593 1154