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A Wartime Log by Thomas Roscoe
In the mid to late 1930s at just over 14 years of age, my father applied for a job at sea to fulfill a childhood dream to see the world. His employer, the Harrison Line Ltd., offered him work on the Passenger Cargo steamer, S.S. Davisian. Little did he know that his dream was going to be cut short by WWII and the sinking of the merchant ship he was working on. This book is a combination of his thoughts during that time, together with illustrations and photos of the time when his Merchant ship was attacked and sunk approx 410 miles north of Barbados and sunk in position 18,00N 54,30W on the voyage, London to the West Indies with general cargo, to his time in a German Prisoner of War Camp and ...
The Tourist in Spain
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The Tourist in Switzerland and Italy
Excerpt from The Tourist in Switzerland and Italy: By Thomas Roscoe, Illustrated From Drawings by S. Prout In offering to the public a work at once novel and attractive, and so widely differing in point of design and execution from any of a similar class hitherto announced, few observations will, it is hoped, be deemed necessary. Its character and pretensions will best be explained by simply referring to the names of the artists, its conductors - to the style of the embellishments themselves - and, as regards its literary illustrations, to the judgment of the general reader. On this last point only it may be proper to state, that the author has been deeply indebted to the valuable suggestion...
The Tourist in Spain
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The Clarity
For fans of Black Mirror and True Detective, a visceral, high-concept thriller about a psychologist who must protect the life of an eleven-year-old girl whose ability to remember past lives makes them both targets of a ruthless assassin. Dr. Matilda Deacon is a psychologist researching how memories are made and stored when she meets a strange eleven-year-old girl named Ashanique. The girl claims to harbor the memories of the last soldier killed in World War I and Matilda is skeptical. But when Ashanique starts talking about being chased by the Night Doctors—a term also used by an unstable patient who was later found dead—Matilda can’t deny that the girl might be telling the truth. Mati...
