David Stacton

• Dec-2020
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A long-lost noir classic from an unknown master of the craft...a tragic, 1960s literary star hiding behind a pseudonymThe judge bangs his gavel. The murder trial is about to begin. The defendant, Charles Adams is so scared, his knees are shaking..but...

• Dec-2020
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The characters are boldly drawn and interesting, and Boyd writes with real style. One of the best westerns of the year. Daily OklahomanIn the mid-1800s, banditos swarmed into Arizona and Texas from Mexico, driven by the poverty and despair of a divi...

• Apr-2015
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The last of the three trilogies authored by David Stacton (1923-68) was described by the author as 'an intermezzo designed to deal with sexual relations'. After Old Acquaintance (1962) and Sir William (1963) came Kaliyuga (1965), described by Stacton...

• Nov-2014
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With Old Acquaintance (1962) David Stacton embarked upon his third literary triptych, this one on the theme of 'The Sexes'. 'Even in these one-worldly days of cultural colonies and jet-setters, most US authors trying to depict European sophisticat...

• Nov-2014
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Sir William (1963) was the second entry in David Stacton's triptych of novels on the theme of 'The Sexes', for which he chose to fictionalise one of history's great love affairs. 'David Stacton's novel of the notorious ménage à trois between the...

• Sep-2014
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'Yes, it was a crusade. But just what was it the people out there feared and hated so much? Not surely the candidate. He was a decent man. Or was that it?' With Tom Fool (1962) David Stacton concluded a triptych of novels drawn from the history o...

• Aug-2014
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First published in 1960, A Signal Victory was David Stacton's eighth novel, and the first in what he envisaged as an 'American Triptych.' In this opening panel Stacton paints a vivid picture of the impact of two great civilisations upon each other. ...

• Mar-2013
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'King Ludwig has fascinated me ever since I was a child, yet fascination is not quite the right word. Fellow-feeling would be the proper phrase...' David Stacton, 1957 With his fourth published novel - and his first on historical themes and person...

• Jan-2013
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'People of the Book is set in the Thirty Years' War, which began and still shapes our present system of world order. David Stacton's incomparable prose reveals how the treatises of scholars and the tactics of commanders so rarely comprehend the vagar...

• Nov-2012
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"'Dancer in Darkness" is a unique three-way collaboration - the tragic tale of the murdered Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi, as told in Renaissance Italian sources, then in "The Duchess of Malfi, "John Webster's mast...

• Jul-2012
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'Segaki is the story of two men, a woman, a dog, and a handful of snails. It is a very simple story. But like most simple stories, it is also a parable... It is the third volume of three novels concerned with various aspects of the religious experien...

• Jun-2012
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'On A Balcony is devoted to the 14th century [B.C.] and the Pharaoh Ikhnaton, his sister-wife Nefertiti, the sculptor Tutmose, and the rivalry his religion of Aton brought to Egypt and its then current cult of Amon... presenting Ikhnaton's imposition...

• Apr-2012
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On a cold Northern Californian evening, high on a cliff in the lagoon township of Bolinas, a woman is running, barefoot, toward her open convertible. Behind her in the dark is the forbidding summer house where her reclusive husband now lies dead. She...

• Apr-2012
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'Christopher's house stood out on its cliff like stages of lunar madness. It was the night of the first storm, not of winter, but of that week before winter which is the last warning to all creatures to dig themselves in...' Christopher Barocco i...

• Jun-2011
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This compelling historical fiction of the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination is an "exploration by a brilliant and thoughtful writer of the labyrinthine ways of good and evil"(Los Angeles Times)"The Judges of the Secret Court isn't just a novel ab...