Brooks E Hansen

Perlman's Ordeal

An enthralling novel about spiritualism, the symphony, and the lost city of Atlantis. London, 1906. Dr. August Perlman-music lover, opium addict, and pioneer of "clinical suggestion"-is on his way to the symphony when a teenage girl is brought to his office. Sylvie Blum is catatonic, unwashed, and d...

John the Baptizer: A Novel

A vivid, moving, and unprecedented biographical saga of John the Baptist.Traditionally, John the Baptist is seen as little more than an opening act—“the voice crying in the wilderness”—in the great Christian drama. In presenting the epic of John’s life, novelist Brooks Hansen draws on an extraordina...

Chess Garden

An exotic, spiritual tale combines elements of memoir and parable, in a collection of twelve letters sent with chess pieces to his wife Sonja by Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven while serving as a doctor in the Boer War concentration camps in South Africa. 25,000 first printing.

Caesar's Antlers

By a master of "surreal storytelling in the tradition of Carroll, Lewis, and Tolkien." --Library JournalAs he travels on his own mission to the Northlands of Norway, a reindeer named Caesar is joined by unlikely companions; a mother sparrow searching with her two chicks for her lost mate. With Caesa...

The Monsters of St. Helena

A notorious episode in Napoleon's career, brilliantly illuminated in fictionBrooks Hansen's new novel is the story of Napoleon Bonaparte's last exile, in 1815, on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic, "the place on earth farthest from any other place." The island is populated by English expatria...

The Brotherhood of Joseph: A Father's Memoir of Infertility and Adoption in the 21st Century

While miracles in reproductive technology have brought joy to millions, those very advances have plunged many couples into an unrelenting cycle of hope and heartbreak. One failed attempt may lead to another and another—but how do you give up when there is always another doctor, another procedure hol...

Boone

This is a fictionalized biography of Eton Arthur Boone, a man who is so realistically imagined that it reads as fact.

Perlman's Ordeal : A Novel

The Monsters of St. Helena

The Chess Garden or the Twilight Letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven

The Chess Garden or the Twilight Letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven

Perlman's Ordeal

The Monsters of St. Helena

Caesar's Antlers

Caesar's Antlers