M.C.V. EGAN ❧Defining Ways❧

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Amusing, engaging and moving – just some of what readers say

People are already asking for the next slice of English village life

It is New Year and a father and son visit a disused aerodrome, where they find a mysterious link to their past. In Spring a young boy becomes entranced by nature, he is growing up as he chases a hare. A marriage enters its death throes, with a terrifying drive. May-time sees a gardening competition re-kindle an old rivalry amid mourning and bereavement. There are dastardly deeds at the Summer Fete. Real violence erupts with an influx of transient newcomers at harvest time. Later, in the rain, a new arrival to the village learns the importance of first impressions.

Twelve inter-linked stories portray a year in the life of the village and its wide cast of characters, as four generations of the Marshall family negotiate their own family saga, while, around them babies are born, plots are hatched, romance blooms and marriages founder and death, both anticipated and unlooked for, pays a call.

 

Readers say

• ‘The prose is clear and crisp, and the build towards the last story is subtly done, with many threads coming together for an exciting climax.’ Stuart Wakefield, Kindle best-seling author
• ‘Anderson cleverly interlinks all the characters and …you end up becoming extremely attached to the village and the people who reside in it. I look forward to many more titles.’ A Cheeky Booklover (Goodreads book reviewer)
• ‘This is a tour de force….. I shall look out for the next publication from this talented writer.’ JPG (Amazon.co.uk review)
• ‘This book is good – really good.’ Amazon.co.uk review
• ‘A gem of interwoven tales – I was totally absorbed in this book from page one. I hope very much that there will be further publications telling more about the people I felt I was getting to know so well.’ Amazon.co.uk review
• ‘Totally absorbing, this book will delight anyone who is interested in people and their emotions, motivations and relationships.’ Amazon.co.uk review
• ‘I would recommend this captivating account as a companion for a winter’s evening or on a Mediterranean beach.’ Amazon.co.uk review.

After a fulfilling and successful career in the British Civil Service, Julie Anderson took early retirement and, deciding that the fun mustn’t end, became a writer and publisher, writing under the name J.J.Anderson.
Julie was born in the English midlands, spending much of her childhood in a semi-rural village and has close links with the south west of England. Yet she has lived in South London with her husband and cats for most of her adult life. There they enjoy the cultural life of the city and eating out with their friends. Occasionally they visit their Andalucian retreat.
Julie blogs under the name ‘JulieJ’, at http://www.thestorybazaar.com . She reports on current cultural events and exhibitions in London, places and people of historical interest, life and events in southern Spain and writing and publishing.
Julie set up The Story Bazaar publishing imprint, in January 2015, so as to publish her own writing and take advantage of the freedom offered by digital technology, print on demand and the access to market via numerous online retailers and booksellers. But she found lots of other people, just waiting for the opportunity to share their writing, be it fiction, memoir or other forms, with a wider audience. So the Bazaar has grown in conception and will grow in actuality as others books appear under the imprint. Its first publication is ‘The Village; A Year in Twelve Tales’ which is J.J.Anderson’s first collection of short stories.
J.J.Anderson’s next book is ‘On the Frontier’, an adventure story for children of all ages and the first in the Al Andalus series.

An Unexpected Adventure – Book 1

In the 17th century, 68 men enter the Amazon jungle to search for a lost gold mine. Ten years later a lone survivor emerges from the jungle and tells a fantastic tale about strange city built of stone they stumbled upon. Before his death, he records it all in a manuscript now known as Manuscript 512.

Many years later, Colonel Fawcett reads Manuscript 512. To him, it is evidence a Lost City exists in the remote areas of the Amazon Jungle. He means to find it.

The date is 1925 – The location is the Amazon Jungle. Colonel Percy Fawcett, his son Jack and close friend Raleigh Rimmell, are looking for a lost City rumoured to be hidden in the unexplored regions of the cannibal inhabited jungle.

Dead Horse Camp is situated at the boundary of unexplored territory. Ahead lay the unknown, danger, and perhaps a Lost Civilization. The three explorers enter the jungle never to be seen or heard from again.

In the following years, over 100 explorers lost their lives searching for the missing Fawcett expedition; those that did return found no trace of Fawcett. It was as if he had disappeared.

Present day – New information that reveals what befell the Fawcett expedition reaches the civilized world. A team is put together to travel to the Amazon jungle. Their task is to unravel the mystery and find the Lost City of Z. But the journey to the Lost City is just the beginning. Inside lurks danger and a secret those guarding it will kill to protect. Survival will not be easy: escape almost impossible.

An Unexpected Adventure Book 1 & 2 will take you inside the Lost City to learn of its many secrets and dangers. A thrilling story of adventure and discovery that weaves together an exciting blend of fact and fiction linked to the legends surrounding the lost Fawcett expedition and the mysterious Amazonian Jungle.

By following the map found in Fawcett’s retrieved journal, after a thrilling danger packed journey through the Amazon Jungle, the expedition team arrive at Colonel Fawcett’s Lost City of Z.

They enter the trap filled city to realize the dangers they had faced so far on the journey, were just a taster for those they were about to encounter. Inside the city lurks danger and a secret those guarding it will kill to protect. Survival will not be easy: escape almost impossible. Not all will survive.
An Unexpected Adventure – Book 2

An Unexpected Adventure Book 2 takes you inside the Lost City to learn of its many secrets and dangers. A thrilling story of adventure and discovery that weaves together an exciting blend of fact and fiction linked to the legends surrounding the lost Fawcett expedition and the mysterious Amazonian Jungle.

 

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Symbiosis is the story of a mentally unstable individual living in a totalitarian regime, in the future, where a single company has taken control of the world. He is secluded to his personal life, and stays away from people, partly by design, and partly because he is socially unfit to have friends–due to his condition.

The story talks about how companies in today’s world are constantly growing into multi-million (billion) dollar enterprises, and how the middle class has entirely diminished. It talks about the new extreme heights of wealth, and ever increasing amounts of poverty. It is unstable–the system–and this novella is a political dystopian, which plays on that fact.

It is often when individuals are consumed with their daily lives, that they miss the camouflaged world beneath their feet. Ohm, a mentally unstable lower-class worker, has always considered himself ‘normal’, yet he always feels as if he lacks a purpose in life. Unlike the others, Ohm is unsatisfied with his life, and sees himself as a small cog in the totalitarian machine overseeing his life. His curious nature leads him to The Brotherhood, a secret organization dedicated to changing the regime. Ohm is caught in the middle of a war he was previously unaware of, and his life now depends on his ability to keep a secret. Symbiosis’ pages practically turn themselves, leaving the readers questioning their own sanity.

Tevis Shkodra was born on July, 6th 1994 in the small town of Elbasan, in the Eastern-European mediterranean country of Albania. He currently lives in Oakville, ON with his family, and is currently undertaking his Undergraduate Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Business Administration. The inspiration for his first novella Symbiosis arose from his humanitarian travels in Costa Rica, where he worked at an orphanage, and as an English teacher. Other inspirations were his love of dystopian stories, and his family’s past, under a communist regime.

 

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