| Death in Kovalam Subprime & Contagion
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The
story is set in an Indian beach resort, popular
amongst British tourists, over the Christmas
vacation. Tom Barton, a City mortgage broker, arrives
in Kovalam after abandoning his business in
the wake of the subprime crisis. In his luxury hotel he meets Emma, the wife
of Stephen Parkly, the CEO of a London bank,
West Mercian Finance. Stephen Parkly falls gravely ill with a
mysterious infection and is hospitalized in
a local clinic.
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His situation rapidly
declines and he is put into intensive care. At
the very same time his bank is caught in a
Northern Rock style run. Dr. Ryan
Kavanagh, a specialist in internal medicine, on
holiday with his mother and sister Sarah,
discovers an attempted cover-up by the Indian
authorities. The disease is diagnosed as cholera, panic sets
in when tourists start to fall ill with the
deadly infection, just as the tourist season is
getting into full swing. Thousands of British
tourists enjoying the sun on the beaches are
unaware of the pending epidemic. Many of the
same tourists, ignorant of the crisis facing
West Mercian Finance, are about to see their
life savings wiped out in the collapse. For all
details please contact:
sumpinein@gmail.com
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| BOOKS |
| The Legacy of
Solomon is the latest novel from John
Francis Kinsella. The story takes place in
Israel where a writer investigates the
archaeological story behind the work to
discover the site of the Jewish Temple, the
biblical legend, against
a background of conflicting evidence and the
conflict between Israel and Palestine. Visit
http://herod.tk |
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It is necessary to remind all
budding writers that publishing if of course a
business, the days when books
were printed for the love of
literature are long gone and so
are the philanthropists, as the
cost of printing, publishing and
distributing a book are
considerable. |
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| There
has been a spate of
announcements from people as
varied as Amazon and Apple on
their new electronic books. Have
we heard this before, yes! These
marvels have been around for
some time and no doubt they are
here to stay. The price range
from 300 to 600 dollars, quite a
lot of money for a read, though
we have heard that as many as
fifty different books can be
held in the memory as well as
newspapers and other reading
matter. The question is would
you invest this money real books
or in virtual books? |
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The Paris Book Fair |
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Once again the Paris book fair the
Salon du Livre has opened its doors.
This year Israel is the honoured guest
to the chagrin of the Muslim world. As a
book fair this event is generally
speaking directed at the public, which
is to say promoting and selling books to
the generally public rather than a
professional book fair. There is no
space for writers, agents and
publishers, and regretfully is not the
kind of place where a future writer can
be discovered. It is of course
francophone and therefore limited to a
relatively smaller market compared to
for example the leading book fair in
Frankfort, which has a much broader
appeal. On the subject of Israel - a
question too complicated - for most
people, The Legacy of Solomon by John
Francis Kinsella has this question as
its backdrop, a story of intrigue,
archaeology, religion and the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
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| Our field of interest |
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Mario Vergas Llosa
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Travesuras de la niņa mala
is magnificent nove, itl was
reviewed in its original
language by Sumpinein who found
it an extraordinarily unusual
and beautiful book. It has
appeared in English and French
and is a highly recommendable
read by this brilliant writer. |
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| News Letter |
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Our news letter mostly concerns
literature and writing, but there are
other books that interest us, travel
books, books on history and archaeology,
science and exploration, biographies of
recent and historical figures.
Regretfully poetry and art are not part
of our speciality though the lives of
great artists interests us, painters
such as Francis Bacon or historical
composers such as Jean Sibelius. We are
equally interested in books in French,
German and spanish |
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