An announcement from BYKER BOOKS:
Hello again,
How's life? You may recall I mentioned some time ago that we were thinking of offering some kind of service for people who wished to go it alone with their books? No? Well we did so there! Anyway, a young man by the name of Steven Porter approached us, we got his concept and the result is on our newly created 'Assisted Authors' page. His book 'Countries Of The World' (see below for details) is available via all the usual online retailers and, given that summer's virtually here and the football season's finished for another ten minutes, we think you might just like it.
"This is not the story of a Tartan Army foot soldier. Instead, I became a globetrotter, taking in all I could about Scotland, and their opponents, from afar."
How's life? You may recall I mentioned some time ago that we were thinking of offering some kind of service for people who wished to go it alone with their books? No? Well we did so there! Anyway, a young man by the name of Steven Porter approached us, we got his concept and the result is on our newly created 'Assisted Authors' page. His book 'Countries Of The World' (see below for details) is available via all the usual online retailers and, given that summer's virtually here and the football season's finished for another ten minutes, we think you might just like it.
"This is not the story of a Tartan Army foot soldier. Instead, I became a globetrotter, taking in all I could about Scotland, and their opponents, from afar."
The protagonist, an unnamed translator, completes an assignment about the 1973 coup in Chile before returning to the fictional Scottish town of Breogan to write a book about football.
Countries of the World is part-fiction and part-memoir, reflecting upon a time when the protagonist was a boy obsessed by sport and distant events.
Written from local and global, childhood and adult perspectives, the narrator looks back on his small-town life and some of the major events of the era concerning Britain and South America: Thatcherism, The Falklands War, World Cups, military coups, dictatorships and disappearances.
This short novel is liberally sprinkled with journalistic essays and musings on the beautiful game - scars and all - which continues to shine, despite its shadows.
It's available at all the usual online outlets (Book Depository, Play.com, Waterstones.com, Amazon (of course!) and many more - here's a link to Amazon though to get you started :-
Also, you might wish to check out the authors blog or even contact him and that can be done here:-
Steven Porter lives in Spain. He was born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1969, and grew up in the nearby town of Forres. He is the author of three other published books: The Iberian Horseshoe - A Journey (e-book, Badosa, Barcelona, Spain, 2007), Shellfish and Umbrellas (poetry, Koo Press, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2008) and Blurred Girl and Other Suggestive Stories
(Thunderclap Press, NJ, USA, 2010).
Right then, I'm off for a cup of tea - happy reading.
Cheers,
Ed
1 comments:
Hi! Paul D.Brazill...
Thanks, [I plan to follow the links...]for the information.
DeeDee ;-)
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