Books published by Cogito Publishing Limited

Moving between Florence and Chicago, this intriguing novel chronicles the fortunes and misfortunes, loyalties and tensions, of three generations of an Italian family, beginning in the 1950s. Each new generation brings with it new and passionate challenges, culminating in a sin so great it is hard to see how the family will ever recover.

When a painting of a beautiful woman disappears from a wall at Balmoral Castle, the consequences are far-reaching: a tragic death, a search for truth and motive, a fraught reconciliation between father and son. Who is responsible? The rare and elusive fish that inhabit the river? Or is the toss of the King's coin the ultimate arbiter?

Set principally in the mountains of Mallorca, this absorbing, moving literary fiction novel is interlaced with poetry, philosophy, wit and love. It takes a man of understanding to rebuild a shattered soul. That enigmatic man is Horatio Hennessy. His grandson Blue is that shattered soul.