For a Lost Soldier

Noel Currer-Briggs YOUNG MEN AT WAR

Anthony Arthur Kildwick, born in 1919 to a well-to-do Yorkshire family, finds the love of his life in a German exchange student at his boarding school. Both boys are passionate to avoid another war between their countries, but when Manfred returns to Germany he is seduced by Hitler’s nationalist rhetoric, while Tony meets the outbreak of war as a conscientious objector. Yet as the Nazi regime shows itself ever more demonic, Tony reluctantly decides he must fight, is recruited into the Intelligence Corps, and is eventually parachuted into southern France, to work with the Resistance. There he discovers Manfred is now an officer with the occupying forces, and their paths cross again in dramatic circumstances.

Noel Currer-Briggs, well known as a writer on history and genealogy, has based this novel in part on his own experience. As well as a fascinating story, it conveys a vivid sense of the conflicts of the 1930s, and the interplay between friendship and internationalism, homosexuality and pacifism, patriotism and democracy, that was characteristic of those years.

ISBN 0 85449 236 4

UK £9.95/US $14.95/AUS $19.95

Richard Zimler UNHOLY GHOSTS

A classical guitar teacher from New York seeks a new life in Portugal after the death of so many friends. But the viral eclipse over sexuality pursues him even there, when Antonio, his talented and beloved student, tests HIV-positive and threatens to give up on life. Desperate to show the young man that he still has a future, ‘the Professor’ arranges a car trip to Paris, hoping to be able to convince a leading virtuoso there to begin preparing his protege for a concert career. Antonio’s father Miguel, a stonemason by trade, insists in coming along with them, and en route the three fall into a triangle of adventure, personal disclosure, violence, and at last a strange redemption.

Wittily funny and deeply moving, Unholy Ghosts was written with the support of the US National Endowment for the Arts. Richard Zimler won the 1994 Panurge prize for his short fiction, which has been widely published in Britain and America. He has lived in Portugal since 1990, where his historical novel The Last Kabbalist of Lisbonhas been a number-one bestseller.

ISBN 0 85449 233 X

UK £9.95/US $14.95/AUS $19.95

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