Michael Knight has assembled a range of fiction shorts, flash fiction, and fantasy stories to satisfy any reader. If you appreciate small, full, and developed stories you'll love this.

A Los Angeles Times Notable Book: Short fiction by the author of Eveningland, "a writer of the first rank" ( Esquire)."These 10 distinctive and intensely affecting stories confirm Knight as a writer of significant gifts. In short narratives that invariably entice the reader with an arresting opening sentence, he establishes a solid sense of place, using the local color of his native Alabama, and transforms ordinary people into nearly mythic figure...

The award-winning author of Eveningland "combines a coming-of-age tale, a ghost story and a meditation on history in his engrossing latest novel" ( Minneapolis Star Tribune).It's 1994 and Lenore Littlefield is a junior at Briarwood School for Girls. She plays basketball. She hates her roommate. History is her favorite subject. She has told no one that she's pregnant. Everything, in other words, is under control.Meanwhile,...

The historian and author of The Sowreys details the history of the British fighter plane and what life was like for its crews flying missions around the world.Twenty-four aircrew who flew the iconic aircraft with the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Air Force, and the South African Air Force (SAAF) relate their experiences and affection for the Blackburn Buccaneer. Buccaneer Boys traces the history of the aircraft and the tasks it fulfilled. It also explor...

The Hodeida campaign is a story of military victories that could not be fully realized because of the global opposition to the completion of the Red Sea liberation battle. Today, with the Houthis threatening global shipping with advanced Iran-provided missiles, the original wisdom of the Hodeida campaign is recognized by growing numbers of analysts, including many who opposed the operations at the time.Focusing on the battle itself, the diplomatic clashes, and the struggle to tell ...

A New York Times Editors' Choice short story collection hailed as "a fresh masterpiece of Southern fiction . . . touching, haunting and brilliant" ( Dallas News).Long considered a master of the form and an essential voice in American fiction, Michael Knight delivers a "deft and wonderful, wholly original" collection of interlinked stories set among the members of a Mobile, Alabama family in the years preceding a devastating hurricane ( The New...

"Truman Capote, Charles Dickens, Dylan Thomas all used Christmas . . . The Holiday Season joins this crowded table and . . . makes itself at home" ( The New York Times Book Review).Hilarious and heartbreaking, The Holiday Season and its companion piece, Love at the End of the Year, are tender ruminations on the nature of family, the power of love, and a particularly complicated time of year.In The Holiday Season,...

From "the lineage of . . . Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty" comes a prize-winning novel about crimes of passion in Alabama ( San Francisco Chronicle).After the deaths of his parents, Simon Bell returns to his sleepy hometown of Sherwood, Alabama, hoping for a simple, quiet existence. But when he meets Delia Holladay one hot, unmoving summer day, latent needs and desires are suddenly awakened. Delia is young, beautiful, impulsive, and married. As their e...

An American soldier works in post-surrender Japan in a novel "reminiscent of The English Patient . . . sad, wistful and romantic" ( Los Angeles Times).When Francis Vancleave joins the army in 1944, he expects his term of service to pass uneventfully. His singular talent—typing ninety-five words a minute—keeps him off the battlefield and in General MacArthur's busy Tokyo headquarters, where his days are filled with paperwork in triplicate and lette...

Death was only the beginning of Macy Vance-Lowry's problems.When a freak library accident ends her life, meticulous librarian Macy awakens to a world of Ecto-Static energy and strict spectral rules. Navigating the 'Density Rule' and 'Static-Lag' is hard enough, but finding herself anchored to the very building that killed her is even worse. That is, until she meets Julian Vane-Sterling.A charismatic ghost from the Roaring Twenties, Julian teaches Macy the art of the 'Ghost ...

In an era of increasing moral uncertainty and social fragmentation, where can we find a firm foundation for our families and our future?Michael Knight presents a powerful call to return to the ancient paths in The Patriarch's Code: The Laws That Defined a People. This comprehensive theological guide bridges the gap between the ancient Sinai Covenant and the challenges of modern living, revealing that God's statutes were never meant to be discarded, but lived as a roadmap for spirit...

When every screen on Earth flickers to life with a message from an extra-dimensional Architect named Silas, humanity's reality shatters. Silas hasn't come to conquer; he's come to find a surrogate.Evelyn Sterling is the last person who wants to be a god. As a cynical hospice nurse in Lansing, Michigan, she's spent years watching life fade away, leaving her hollowed by grief and nihilism. But when Silas chooses her to carry his 'light'—a fragment of creative power that can rewrite t...