The J M Barrie Ladies' Swimming Society
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About the Author
Barbara J. Zitwer is an international literary agent. She graduated from Columbia Film School and, prior to working in publishing, she produced films including Vampire’s Kiss with Nicolas Cage. Zitwer co-wrote the play Paper Doll about Jacqueline Susann. She lives in New York City with her husband and their two dogs. This is her first novel.
Crimson China
Betsy Tobin
ISBN 9781907595226
Paperback £7.99
“Unforgettable” - Sue Gee
“Gripping” - Financial Times
“Unbearably tense” - Guardian
February 2004, Morecambe Bay.
Angie, an English woman haunted by her past.
Wen, a Chinese cockle picker fighting for a future.
One freezing night Angie wades into the sea in a drunken bid to commit suicide; instead she finds herself saving Wen’s life.
They share neither language nor experience but Angie offers him sanctuary, soon finding in this enigmatic stranger a refuge of her own.
What she doesn’t know is that Wen is a wanted man, on the run from a criminal gang who pose just as great a threat as the icy waters of Morecambe Bay…
“This fine novel grows in pace and power, propelled by a vividly drawn cast and a gradually building sense of jeopardy as the snakeheads close in” - Daily Mail
The House on Paradise Street
Zofka Zinovieff
ISBN 9781907595691
Paperback £12.99
“I can’t remember when I was so totally absorbed by a book… Enthralling, moving and wise.”
Cressida Connolly
Athens, 1942:
Two sisters divided by politics and tragedy…
In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens after 60 years in exile. She has come to attend the funeral of her only son, Nikitas, who was born in prison, and whom she has not seen since she left him as a baby.
Nikitas had been distressed in the days before his death and, curious to find out why, his English widow Maud starts to investigate his complicated past. In so doing, she finds herself reigniting a bitter family feud, discovering a heartbreaking story of a young mother caught up in the political tides of the Greek Civil War and forced to make a terrible decision that would blight not only her life but that of future generations…
The House on Paradise Street is an epic tale of love and loss, which takes readers from the war-torn streets of Nazi-occupied Athens through the military junta years and on into the troubled city of recent times – and shows what happens when ideology threatens to subsume our sense of humanity.
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First published in 2012
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