Jack Messenger

Farewell Olympus (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Howard has it all - love, Paris, prospects - until an unexpected guest plunges his life into mystery and farce.

When a patron of the arts named Serge loans him a luxurious penthouse apartment in central Paris, Howard can't believe his luck. Now he can live cheaply while he translates articles for shortlived websites and doomed art journals nobody reads. And he'll have more time to devote to his inscrutable French girlfriend, Delphine, a trainee lawyer.

Then, disaster strikes, in the shape of Eugene, Howard's half-brother and personal nemesis, who sows chaos and discord wherever he goes. Abruptly, Howard's uneventful life is plunged into mystery and farce. People are suddenly not what they seemed, and danger lurks in every restaurant. Serge himself is implicated in wrongdoing, while Giles, an Englishman abroad and seldom sober, knows more than he's prepared to tell.

Can Howard and Eugene overcome their mutual antagonism long enough to survive? Should Howard forgive Eugene for being better looking? Will Eugene ever help him with the housework? Above all, will they ever agree about anything, particularly women?

Farewell Olympus is about love and rivalry, ambition and morality, Armageddon and the quest for the perfect croissant. Witty, intelligent and entertaining, it will make you feel you are too, even if you have no experience of volleyball.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greyhound Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386411000
• Artikelnr.: 52412512

Autorenporträt

I've spent my entire life surrounded by books: I became an avid reader as a child and have never stopped since! It was a natural step to a career in publishing, where I've worked full time for major publishers as an editor and project manager. However, for most of my working life I've been an independent editor and writer. My editing skills have brought me into close working relationships with literally thousands of authors across many genres and subjects - from children's picture books to cutting-edge academic scholarship and most points in between.

I've written non-fiction for mainstream publishers, as well as for organizations in the not-for-profit sector. Putting my skills to work for good causes has been a particular satisfaction for me.

For some years, I've been involved in exciting new projects: writing contemporary fiction. I am a founder member of my fiction critique group and currently a submissions reader for an online literary magazine. I've been privileged to review some fine work and, sadly, noted the common errors that independent authors make time and again.

Why do I write?

Do you know that feeling when you are too busy with life really just to talk to your loved ones, to connect? Have you ever made a big mistake and had to deal with the consequences, not just for you, but for the people you care about as well? Do you sometimes look at your life and wonder where it's going and what have you really accomplished?

These are the things I write about. My fiction is about people: the mistakes they make; the things they do to live with themselves; how the world changes them. Sometimes I like to write about people on the wrong side of the law; sometimes I write about safe, respectable people who encounter life unexpectedly; sometimes my fiction is set in the United States or England or elsewhere; a lot of the time I like to write from a woman's perspective.

I try to write interesting stories in which things happen and people change. My first collection of short stories - Four American Tales - is out now.

I also have some novels that will be published after Four American Tales: look out for news updates on Take the Late Train and The Long Voyage Home.