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About the Author
Justin Kerr-Smiley was born in 1965 and brought up in Scotland. He was educated at Ampleforth and Newcastle University. Awarded a BBC bursary for post graduate studies in journalism, he worked as a radio reporter in Sydney and London. He then spent 15 years with Associated Press Television News (APTN) and reported from Northern Ireland, the Balkans and South America. His first novel 'Under The Sun' is published by Arcadia. The Sunday Telegraph described it as: 'a small masterpiece; the best novel that I have read about war since Captain Corelli's Mandolin'. In 2011 he received a travel scholarship from the Society of Authors in order to research 'Goodbye To The President', a novel about the 1973 coup in Chile. 'Goodbye To The President' was published by Merman Books in December 2014. He has also had poetry and short fiction published in the London Magazine.
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This accomplished literary war novel, Scottish journalist Kerr-Smiley's debut, is set in the South Pacific's Caroline Islands during the waning months of WWII. A Japanese submarine shoots down a Spitfire piloted by Edward Strickland, a young but decorated RAF flight lieutenant, while he's on a routine patrol. Capt. Tadashi Hayama, the commander of a nearby island listening post, observes Strickland's forced landing and rescues him from the shark-infested Pacific. Strickland is brutally interrogated by Hayama and the captain's underlings, but refuses to talk. A failed escape attempt marks him for death, but then Hayama makes an unexpected decision that paves the way for captor and captive to become close friends on the tropical island. Hayama, a descendant of samurai warriors, has a creative bent that extends to playing the violin, collecting butterflies, and reading the poet Basho. It's just a matter of time, however, before the outside conflict touches the island again. The protagonists' friendship may initially strain credibility, but Kerr-Smiley's passionate tale should convince readers that remarkable, as well as horrific, things can happen in the midst of war. (Nov.)
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- PublisherReportage Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0955830281
- ISBN 13 9780955830280
- BindingPaperback
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