Christopher Tilghman is the author of two short-story collections, In a Father’s Place and The Way People Run, and two novels, Mason’s Retreat and Roads of the Heart.Currently the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia, he lives with his wife, the writer Caroline Preston, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Books by Christopher Tilghman

Mason's Retreat

by Christopher Tilghman

The year is 1936, and the world is on the brink of war. American expatriot Edward Mason, owner of a failing machine factory, is fighting more private battles. In the face of defeat, he abandons his adopted home in England in order to reclaim his inheritance on Maryland’s Eastern Shore---a ruinous, thousand-acre estate known ominously as Mason’s Retreat.

The Right-Hand Shore

by Christopher Tilghman - Fiction