Fiction & Nonfiction

George
Bickerstaff

Stories about family, trust, and what holds across generations.

Explore the books Join the newsletter
The Still Point Trilogy

A literary saga of inheritance, justice & care

An immigrant mother and the daughter who knows how to do everything except sit still. A craftsman building what will outlast him. A family, an illness, and a reckoning years in the making.

Book One
The Still Point
George Bickerstaff

The Still Point

Book One

Rebecca Li knows how to act. When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, she does what she always does — she arrives. She is there. She is just not, quite, in the room. A novel about the distance between competence and presence.

Book Two
What Holds
George Bickerstaff

What Holds

Book Two

At sixty-five, Frank Mitchell builds things meant to stand in a room long after he is gone. As a long-buried case moves toward a courtroom, the work of holding a family together falls to the people who do it quietly.

Book Three
What Endures
George Bickerstaff

What Endures

Book Three · The Finale

She was one of two people who knew. Now the other is gone, and her time is short — so she writes it down for her daughter, and folds a single seed into the pages. What we owe the dead, and what we hand to the young.

Nonfiction
The Trust Machine
George Bickerstaff
Governance & Leadership

The Trust Machine

Every major governance failure follows the same pattern. The board was informed. The committees met. The reports were filed. The system worked exactly as designed — and produced catastrophe anyway.

Drawing on forty years inside complex institutions, The Trust Machine names the structural flaw behind the era's great collapses — governance built to reward standing over impact — and lays out a complete architecture for building differently.

George William Bickerstaff III
About the Author

George William Bickerstaff III

George William Bickerstaff III writes from inside the rooms most authors only describe. Over a forty-year career he served as chief financial officer of a global pharmaceutical company, co-founded a healthcare and technology investment bank, and held more than forty corporate and nonprofit board seats, including as Chair of the International Vaccine Institute.

That vantage point runs through everything he writes. His nonfiction, including The Trust Machine, argues that governance fails when systems reward standing over impact, and lays out a tested architecture for building differently. His fiction turns the same attention to ordinary lives — the Still Point Trilogy follows an immigrant mother and her grown daughter, a craftsman building what will outlast him, and a family tested by illness and a long-delayed reckoning, tracing how people hold one another across generations and what finally endures.

He holds degrees in engineering and business from Rutgers and is completing a Master of Public Health at Brown University. He is the founder of the Global Leaders Network and the author of more than forty books. He lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Stay in touch

New writing, occasional and worth your time. Join the list for first word on each new book — no noise, easy unsubscribe.

Connect a newsletter provider (Beehiiv / Substack) to capture sign-ups.
Contact

Get in touch

For media, rights, foreign translation, film & TV, or speaking inquiries.

george@georgebickerstaff.com