Fr. Augustine Wetta

By the Rivers of Babylon

Fiction

“Of the many characters in the Old Testament, the prophet Ezekiel is often regarded (and disregarded) as the most bizarre. Yet Michael O’Brien reimagines his life with enormous sympathy. Beautifully crafted and thoroughly researched, this novel tells the fascinating story of a very fascinating man.”

Death of a Scholar

Fiction

“It's hard to believe that a story which is this much fun could be this good for the soul! So good that I've been using this novel as lectio divina. There's real theology here. And Fiorella De Maria gets the English Benedictines exactly right.”

Diary of a Country Priest

Fiction

“Your time spent with this book will be richly rewarded. It has all the bloodshed, tragedy, heroic sacrifice, and emotional drama of an Iliad or a Don Quixote—confined to the space of a most gentle heart. This book makes me cry just for the beauty of it. And Michael Tobin manages, like any great artist, to disappear into the beauty of his work.”

Exogenesis

Fiction

“Gaskovski’s dystopian vision is so clear and his characters so richly fashioned that the story takes over, and one is drawn into a disturbingly Orwellian world of sterile bureaucracy and newspeak.”

Seeing Red

Fiction

“Doran's novel is darkly—and consistently—funny. A sort of Orwellian fiction noir set in Detroit. The ideas at the heart of this page-turner are dead serious; and I mean that literally.”