| Christopher Farman | | Contact | Mr Christopher Farman |
| Position | Writer/Editor |
| Address | Priory Dene |
| Hudson Street |
| Deddington |
| Banbury |
| OX15 0SW |
| Tel No | 01869 336190 |
| Email | thefarmans@waitrose.com |
| | Experienced wordsmith with a successful track record in newspapers, magazines and book publishing. Special interest in modern history, but all commissions considered. |
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| Sylvie Nickels | | Contact | Sylvie Nickels |
| Address | 26 The Daedings |
| Deddington |
| Banbury |
| OX15 0RT |
| Tel No | 01869 338995 |
| Email | sylvie.nickels1@googlemail.com |
| Web | Sylvie Nickels |
| |  Oxfordshire is the setting for much of Sylvie’s trilogy on what war does to people, and especially succeeding generations. Western Australia also features, but above all war-torn Bosnia. In the earlier books (Another Kind of Loving and Beyond the Broken Gate), waif-like Jasminka from besieged Sarajevo is fostered by Mike and Sara Hennessey in a village in north Oxfordshire. She grows into an English schoolgirl and teenager, falls in love with a young American, returns to Sarajevo with him at the time of 9/11. She also becomes the daughter Mike has always wanted and cannot have. In this third book, Long Shadows (publication date 6th March 2010), he has to face his true feelings for his foster daughter, now an attractive young woman and single mum, as dark shadows from his youth in the Sixties began to threaten. And Jasminka must face her true feelings for Mike as she is drawn back to Sarajevo to try and build reconciliation in the wounded city of her birth.
The books are available from the author (£7 each or £18 for all three), who will deliver within Deddington parish. Also available on smashwords.com/books/view/40124; Book One, "Another Kind of Loving". This review from Sue Magee on thebookbag.co.uk "....this hooked me, reeled me in and wouldn't let go until.....the last page". Book Two: "Beyond the Broken Gate": Winner of self-published fiction award 2008. "........powerful, far-reaching....." Four Shires magazine. Book Three: Again the bookbag.co.uk was reviewing another of the author's books, "Long Shadows". |
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