Mark Raphael Baker

What right did I possess, as a child of survivors, to recreate an account of the Holocaust as if I was there? In writing The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Baker describes a journey from despair and death towards hope and life; it is the story of a son who enters his parents' memories and, inside the darkness, finds light. In his...

One minute my wife was there. In a flash she was gone. In the ten months of Kerryn's dying, I prepared myself for everything except for her death. Now that she is gone, I am desperate to know her as I never knew her. Thirty Days is a portrait of grief, of a marriage and of a family. It is...

Mark Raphael Baker was no stranger to death. Over seven years, he became a mourner three times over: for his first wife, for his brother, and for his father. When diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he began to reflect on their deaths, his probable death, and on Death as, in the words of Ecclesiastes, a 'season' that produced a large and...