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1 2 y separately published work icon Not with a Kiss : "A Novel" Kosti Simons , Sydney : Kosti Simons , 1962 Z266517 1962 single work novel

'Set in inner suburban Sydney in the 50s, we meet Ava King at the climax of his life. On the verge of a mental breakdown, he must face events that isolate him from his fellows. Yet through him is expressed a universal theme—that man's spirit remains forever indomitable no matter the adversity.

'Gradually we see the threads of his life drawn up and woven together. We meet his cold, estranged wife: his son, whose involvement in a tragic killing is both the result and manifestation of a secret guilt gnawing at the father's mind. And we meet the two women who help to resolve the guilt of father and son—the lover with whom both seek physical escape, and the gentle deaconess who is the embodiment of Christian love.

'Sydney in the 50s is lovingly described, and “Mr Eternity” plays a small part in the plot, but essentially it is the story of a man who journeys from being a Rat in Tobruk to being a new man in Newtown.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Him and Me : The Extraordinary Adventures of an Ordinary Man Kosti Simons , Moogerah : Vine and Olive Publishers , 2019 18655731 2019 single work autobiography

'This memoir is sub-titled “the extraordinary memoirs of an ordinary man”. Born in Holland, the author has lived in six countries on three continents. The Simons family were caught in the tumult of the last century and emigrated no less than four times: in many ways they embody the 20th century migrant experience.

'Kosti Simons is a novelist, playwright, marine journalist and now biographer. He pioneered a coffee plantation in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, pioneered the Highlands Highway in P.N.G., pioneered the art of ferro-cement boat-building in Australia with a 38-foot yacht, pioneered the revival of a thousand year old pilgrimage road in the north of Spain (in 2010 it carried 250,000 pilgrims), and in 1993 founded a successful Passion Play in South-East Queensland, unique in this country as it has a purpose-built venue. It is still current.

'Appointed as the master of a coastal vessel in the islands at age nineteen, he has sailed in numerous Sydney-Hobart Races, cruised the Pacific islands, cruised extensively through the Mediterranean in his second yacht built in England, lived on his boat with his family in Barcelona Harbour for twelve years, sailed the Barrier Reef, managed Arts Council tours, and built a stone cottage with his wife. That is where he is now.

'The mainspring of this autobiography, and its justification, has been a lifelong search for the spiritual dimension to life. While always at least a nominal Protestant, at age fifty he underwent an epiphany at Lourdes in France. This sets the tone for Part 2 of this memoir, with visits to Vietnam and Russia and particularly Israel providing a fitting climax to his story. The writer has taken advantage of his playwrighting experience to write dialogue emanating from the Lord Jesus Christ. '

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon The Kunai Country Kosti Simons , Moogerah : Vine and Olive Publishers , 2018 15464331 2018 single work novel
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