Lansdowne Press is owned and operated by Allegro Marketing, whose President, E.B. Lande, recently won the Boston Globe's “Not Dave Barry” humor contest. Her winning column, “Self-Possessed” appeared in place of Dave Barry's column in the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine of January 16, 2005. The column is reprinted here with permission of The Boston Globe.

Founded in 1992, Lansdowne publishes unique fiction, monthly columns, and travel experiences. For example, we publish The Curmudgeon's-eye view of the "sub"-urban world in a twice-monthly column by Crystal Curmingham. Follow the link to Curmudgeon for the current or archived columns.

Every few months we publish a new novel, serialized by chapter. This season we're happy to offer Bedtime Stories for Grown-Up Girls, by Ethel Gordon, "...in which two estranged friends and former business partners come together over the funeral of a mutual enemy to pick up the threads of an unsolved mystery, old family secrets, a lost inheritance, and a powerful love affair, in an unexpected race against time. "
Follow the link to New Novels for a look at the first chapters.

Click on Travel and More to find eyewitness travel tales from unusual places.

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