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Springtime in Lawrence Park - Arnold Logan
The Barnacle family has a storied history in Ontario, Canada, living in comfort in Lawrence Park. Canada’s premier postcode.
“Great addition to our Book Club. We all agreed that this 'dark satire' (cringe worthy) makes one appreciate their own life. A collective 5 Star rating” Book Club
“Don't let this picture perfect home book cover fool you! This is an intense read cover to cover! You will feel a plethora of emotions as you read each chapter wondering what will happen next, and how this all will end!” Leslie
“A roller coaster ride that will cause feelings of intense anticipation.” Marshall
“Dark. Satire. 80's Wild Child. Toronto. Happy reading!” Happy Reader
“Vivid language and rich characters” Evan
Marie’s charmed life is haunted by a dark family secret. After the tragic death of a young daughter, their other daughter, Marie Dorée, becomes something of a family treasure. Nonetheless, she and her brothers live in fear of their rage-filled father, Raul, who cracks the whip at the slightest opportunity. Their mother, Tabitha, is an old-school, frugal woman who dispenses intense rationalisations for her controlling ways. Marie finally escapes to college, but her adult life is disaster after disaster, both personally and, later, professionally. Marie’s adventures take her from one awful relationship to another, including a turn in India and an odd friendship with a neurotic Scotsman. In order to save their tarnished pedigree, the Barnacles will protect their darling—even if it means destroying her.
Logan`s vivid descriptions of bizarre and perverse desires in his first novel are absorbing and frightening. The satirical narrator readily skewers “the lower upper-class” of Toronto; in a voice at once, intellectual, literate, weirdly funny, and unsettling. A hilarious , dark humour pervades the varied and colourful scenes from beginning to end.
About the Author
Arnold Logan was born in North Toronto. He went from boarding school in England to working on Southern Ontario dairy farms, from fiberglass factories to horseback riding with the King of Nepal. He studied at Innis College, University of Toronto, and lived abroad for many years. Springtime in Lawrence Park is his first novel.
Prefaces - Joseph Conrad
A bibliophile's joy
“This volume of Conrad’s collected prefaces and author’s notes, beautifully bound and printed by Fire & Ash Publishers of Toronto, is a republication of an edition that first came out in 1937 and includes, besides a foreword by Owen Knowles, a rare essay on “Conrad’s Place in Literature” by Edward Garnett. The appendices also contain the original prefaces to A Personal Record and Victory”.
Bringing together the prefaces that Conrad penned for his various novels and stories, complete with Edward Garnett’s original introductory essay for the 1937 edition and a new foreword by eminent Conrad scholar Dr Owen Knowles, this publication restores the lustre of a lost treasure of Conradiana.
About the Author
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language; though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable and amoral world.
Selected Crimes, The Marquise de Brinvilliers - Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes, first published in 1839, are stories based upon historical records of violent events and their notable authors. From the Borgias to Mary Queen of Scots, across countries and centuries, Dumas’ masterful prose made these stories of human depravity captivating reading.
Fire and Ash will be reissuing this scintillating collection, starting by the poisonous and shocking story of the Marquise de Brinvilliers.
About the Author
Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, the 24 July 1802, also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. Since the early 20th century, his novels have been adapted into nearly 200 films. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totalled 100,000 pages. In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris.
Hymns - Including an hymn in honor of love and an hymn to heavenly beauty plus selected verse an a rare letter - Edmund Spenser
This new exclusive selection of poems by the renowned author of The The Faerie Queene, include Spenser’s Complaints, Mother Hubberd's Tale, The Ruines of Time, among others.
About the Author
Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and he is considered one of the great poets in the English language.
ABOUT FIRE & ASH
Specializing in fiction and poetry
Fire and Ash is an independent book publisher, based in Toronto and Paris, specializing in fiction and poetry.
We have a taste for the eccentric and the playful, the entertaining and the speculative. Our first novel, Springtime in Lawrence Park, by Arnold Logan, was published in Spring 2016 and well as an edition of Joseph Conrad’s Prefaces.
Forthcoming titles will include a selection of the poems of Edmund Spenser and a new collection of Alexandre Dumas' Celebrated Crimes.