Novels
Captain Saturday
One of our finest chroniclers of southern life returns with a contemporary story of a man whose seemingly perfect life is turned upside down -- and who may discover that it's the best thing that ever happened to him. Will Baggett, TV weatherman, is Raleigh, North Carolina's biggest celebrity. With adoring fans, a nice house, a son in medical school, and a beautiful wife who is one of the town's top real-estate brokers, Will's life is pretty much exactly the way he wants it. More >
Dairy Queen Days
In the grand tradition of Southern storytelling, Robert Inman weaves a rich and evocative tale of a teenage boy's struggle to forge his own identity beneath the searing Georgia summer sun. The year is 1979, and the stable moorings of sixteen-year-old Trout Moseley's life have been torn loose. His mother is in an Atlanta psychiatric for reasons he cannot fathom, while his father, a three-hundred-pound Methodist minister who rides a motorcycle, has begun delivering scandalous sermons comparing Jesus to Elvis and the Holy Ghost to his college football coach. More >
Home Fires Burning
In this remarkable debut, Robert Inman has written a deeply felt novel that evokes the nostalgia and lost innocence of a vanished world. Set in a small southern town during World War II, this is the story of one community poised on the precipice of change that will alter the lives of its inhabitants forever. Jake Tibbetts, editor of the town newspaper like his father and grandfather before him, reflects the newspaper's role as the voice and conscience of the community with a code of conduct based on honor, duty, and the responsibility to take hold of one's life and "shake it for all it's worth." More >
Old Dogs and Children
In the best tradition of Southern storytellling, Robert Inman has written a novel of warmth and spirit that rivals Home Fires Burning, his highly acclaimed first novel.
Old Dogs and Children introduces readers to the memorable Bright Birdsong, a strong-willed, compassionate Southern matriarch, and to the four generations of her family, a family that has been at the forefront of local social and political change for most of the twentieth century. More >
