A part of Ned Baldwin has always known this day would come. That he would, at last, tell the truth to the people who mattered most to him. It is only when he moves to London, to figure out what, precisely, he wants to do with his life, that he manages to blurt it out in the immediate aftermath of a minor car crash. There is relief in the fact that it is done, even if badly done.\nBorn and bred on the inside, Ned finds himself, for the first time, on the outside, alone, with many questions and few answers. When he looks back, he does so with a mix of anger and affection. And when he looks forward? He isn’t so sure. In the books he's read, there are rarely happy endings for people like him.\nSet in London’s gritty gay scene at the end of the Thatcher era, Alec Scott’s debut novel Until It Shimmers confronts faith, honour, and the pursuit of love.\n“A rich and satisfying debut”—Christopher Castellani, bestselling author of Leading Men\n“London at the height of the AIDS crisis, the dynamics and history of an Ontario family, and the nuances of a loving mother-son relationship – all are rendered in evocative, gorgeous detail. An atmospheric and immersive debut.”\n– Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Store\n“Wry, diamond-hard, vigorously alert, Until It Shimmers is a moving coming-of-age story, at once heartbreaking and wickedly sly. … Alec Scott’s writing is so precisely observed, it’s easy to fall into its rhythms, to submit to the book as if it’s a lost memory, one you want desperately to hold onto, protect and live by.”\n– Heidi Sopinka, The Dictionary of Animal Languages\n“Until it Shimmers holds the reader right to the end with grace and quiet empathy.”\n– Eibhear Walshe, The Last Day at Bowen’s Court\nAlec Scott is a journalist, writer, and editor. He has written for such publications as: 
San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco magazine, Sierra, Sunset, Reader’s Digest, SFGate, Wine Enthusiast, Report on Business, enRoute, Toronto Life, Via, Globe & Mail, Walrus, and the Daily Beast. For more information, visit his website www.alecscott.com\nUntil it Shimmers is Alec Scott's first novel, and is published by AOS Publishing out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. All rights reserved. 
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Until It Shimmers

Literature & Fiction

Scott, Alec

Literary

AOS Publishing

Alec Scott

The continental shift is reforming Pangea, so that islands once scattered across the Caribbean have become locked in a collision course that will blur allegiances, and the lines between nations. War plagues the West Caribbean Union, but one draft dodger will brave rebels, bounty hunters, and zealots to get across the border, with the hope of rediscovering liberty... and the woman he loves.This epic misadventure is told by three vastly different islanders navigating the grey area between good and evil: General Lament, a former officer in the Union military looking to make amends for her war crimes by leading the exodus to the coast, Ezra Atun, a captive awaiting draft in a labour camp manufacturing weapons for the Union, and Strickland River, the bounty hunter set to track Ezra down and deliver him to the armed forces.Borders in the Sand explores the boundaries we draw between each other, our longing to cross them, and the forces that keep us within the lines. Through thick jungle and urban squalor, Andrew Calderone takes the reader on a journey through servitude to the light of escape.

Borders in the Sand

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Calderone, Andrew

Science Fiction

Ain't Nothin' But a Stranger in This World

Sudds, Bruce

Genre Fiction

The Current Between

Mills-Milde, Valerie

The year is 1993. Christina Perretti, working as an investigator with Interpol's new art crimes unit out of Rome, discovers, through the recovery of a lost Egon Schiele painting in Moscow, a cache of notes from a notorious Berlin art dealer for the Nazis, Harry Maes. The notes are addressed to his son Nikolaus, but they concern the provenance of a number of paintings believed to have been in Maes's possession at the time of his death. As Perretti seeks to recover these works, all presumed to be stolen from Jewish families during the Second World War, she discovers a decades-old plot to save some of the Vatican's greatest treasures from the Nazis and a web of intrigue and murder involving those seeking to profit from the burgeoning grey and black markets in the former Eastern Bloc. Provenance pieces together one family's legacy, what was lost and recovered at the moment once thought to mark the end of history. "Provenance is a novel that reads like the best trade non-fiction. It is thoroughly researched, entirely plausible and feels like it could be a true story. There are treasures stolen by, and hidden from, the Nazis still out there, waiting to be found. Here's an intelligent classic-in-the-making on just that theme." -Dr Noah Charney, Best-selling author of The 12-Hour Art Expert

Provenance

Delacourt, John

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