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Bergamot Books for Life Learners
Bergamot Books aims to publish books that penetrate the human soul—the realm of feelings, families, and personal experiences through fiction, poetry, family memoirs, and spiritual learning. Our books share deeply felt journeys into other places, other lives, and other cultures for readers who are not only curious but also consider themselves world citizens and seekers.
COMING SOON
Bergamot opens 2026 with the Spring release of D. H. Lawrence’s last poems, written as he faced death from tuberculosis in 1930. Lawrence’s biographer, Frances Wilson, writes in her Foreword to the book: “These sixty-seven poems, a song-cycle celebrating his love of being alive and philosophy of renewal, were his preparation for the ‘sweet dark oblivion’ he had long refused to acknowledge.”
Readers will be encouraged to rethink death not as a tragic ending to be feared but a profound, mystical experience in the human journey ushering in ultimate peace and connection to the cosmos.
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On the fun side, Fall 2026 brings animal lovers Cats of Istanbul, a delightful photography gift book capturing Istanbul’s cats in all their perambulations through the city. Unlike other cats around the world, Istanbul’s cats integrate with everyday life, showing that they are regular residents dwelling in their natural habitat.
Bergamot Books supports animal rights, and Cats of Istanbul will help support the city’s cat-caring initiatives.
LATEST RELEASES
Unforgettable characters work their way through life’s unpredictable journey of love, family, and relationships—as well as social and gender inequalities—and ultimately find peace and lasting connection to others and their world.
Currently available in Italian translation
ISBN 9791281116306
In Rome, two dynamic European interpreters with differing generational view of men, love, and relationships agree on one thing—upholding their freedom and equality as women. All is torn asunder when they meet soulmates, opening the possibility that love can transcend traditional gender roles.
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Also available in Italian translation.
These stories, set during the 1970’s social revolution, share truths about our collective lives. The protagonists are coming-of-age women, excited to impact the new paradigm of equal rights, freedom from sexual harassment, and dismantlement of the patriarchy that has held them back. Each story creates a living stage of families, lovers, and society mired in timeworn conflicts, yet the young women in their struggles for selfhood demonstrate human resiliency and the ability to gain wisdom and a path toward wholeness in life’s mysterious journey.
WacÅ‚aw Kubacki’s play, The Roman Spring (1955), captures the friendship between Poland’s great poet, Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), and America’s first feminist and foreign war correspondent, Margaret Fuller (1810–1850). The setting is Rome, Italy, in the period of Europe’s widespread revolutions known as the Spring of Nations. Kubacki’s play, translated for the first time into English, celebrates two prominent intellectuals of the 19th century who became intimate friends. It offers a new and rare addition to these writers’ archives.
Written and read by G.D. Spilsbury.​​
​Learn about the remarkable life of America’s Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), muse to Ralph Waldo Emerson and inspiration to generations of women through her writing, speaking, and infinite wisdom. Listen here for her story.
EXPLORE THE COLLECTION
Heidi Lloyd’s memoir of her German family in China during the decades of the country’s 20th-century transformation shares a unique story and family secret discovered by the author. Many period photographs. Press release here.
A fascinating memoir by Gisela Selo. Gisela was born on Valentine’s Day, 1924, in Krefeld, Germany. Shortly before the Second World War, she and her Jewish father, a doctor, immigrated to the United States and settled in Findlay, Ohio. Gisela’s memoir, The Crack in the Wall, records the adventurous life of a talented woman with dreams of becoming an opera diva. After studying at the Juilliard School and embarking on her stage career, Gisela developed a throat condition that put an end to her dreams. Several marriages, a second career in the jewelry business, and a passion for writing and painting mark the dynamic and gifted life of the woman whose stories fill the pages of this book.
Tiger’s audio and ebook editions are also available on Amazon. You won’t find it easy to resist his droll voice as he tells the story of his early childhood adventures in Rome, Italy, with his American-Costa Rican family.
“What a sweet read! With swell illustrations! Tiger is a cat who thinks he’s a person, and whose people think he must have been a dog in a prior life. He lives with an American family in Rome. As he learns, we learn— about fleas, manners, secrets, holidays, surviving the vet, the vagaries of air travel, besting a fox… and cross-species love, of course.”
—Judy Palumbaum, journalist
“Use your kids, grandkids, neighbors’ kids, or the kid in you, as an excuse to read this wonderful book aloud. You’ll never look at cats the same way again! Enjoy!”
—Diane MacEachern, author
“Cat lovers will delight in meandering through Tiger’s ‘autobiography” as he recounts the adventures of his youth as the mischievous, much-indulged, and much-adored pet of a multigenerational and multicultural family residing in Rome.”
—Amazon Customer
Do you love Winslow Homer? In 2019, Charles Fine Arts of Gloucester, MA, commissioned a show of contemporary artists in the style of Winslow Homer. It was such a stunning exhibition that we collected it in a beautiful, souvenir volume. This small treasure includes essays by art historian Judith A. Curtis and impressionist painter Geoffrey Teale Chalmers. Available from Amazon or Charles Fine Arts: ISBN 978-0-578-60290.
“It is a special joy to see the many ways in which Winslow Homer’s oil paintings and watercolors continue to inspire artists today. Charles Fine Arts has assembled a varied collection of recently completed paintings that reflect the wide spectrum of light and color, and quintessential subjects set in bold compositions, seen in Homer’s work. These artists and their farsighted gallery are contributing to the cultural life of Gloucester today, and I share with many in wishing them congratulations and thanks.”
—William R. Cross, guest curator and author, Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter’s Journey, 1869–1880, Cape Ann Museum