Julie Athanasiou Julie Athanasiou i(8551007 works by)
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1 1 y separately published work icon You're Different, Jemima! Jedidah Morley , Julie Athanasiou (editor), Karen Erasmus (illustrator), Mount Eliza : Empowering Resources , 2016 8874312 2016 single work picture book children's

'Jemima likes to sing loud, dance her own moves and use her imagination, but her teacher and the other kids think she's too 'different'. When Mrs Chuckles takes over the class, Jemima discovers that being different is WONDERFUL!' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon The Coffee Lovers Ilinda Markova , Julie Athanasiou (editor), Docklands : JoJo Publishing , 2015 8822215 2015 single work novel romance

'The men in uniform approached him. "Dimm, don't go!" I cried, grabbing the iron bars. Slipping from my hand, a small coffee bean rolled between the bars, ending on the floor next to Dimm. He looked down at it, then up at me and I knew that finally there was no one to compete with for his heart. It was all mine, beating for me and me only. With a vicious leer on his face, one of the guards crushed the tiny bean under his heavy boot. Over the years, I have this scene as a repetitive dream. I live this scene over and over again. Arnya Stefan is a woman haunted by her childhood trauma in communist Bulgaria. Now a writer of 'coffee portraits', she travels to Switzerland in the hope of completing her coffee pilgrimage. Instead she meets another 'coffee animal', Bruno Stein who is possibly the one person who can teach her to "walk in the present, savouring life like a superb, delicious coffee". The Coffee Lovers is a poignant and beautiful examination of freedom, jealousy and guilt, and of finding that one like-minded soul who can heal your past.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon The Last Suitor A.J. McMahon , Docklands : JoJo Publishing , 2015 8551024 2015 single work novel fantasy

'The time is a far distant future, one and a half millennia after the collapse of our own civilisation. Nicholas Raspero, the descendant of the Barons of Raspero and the possessor of wandlore secrets, has arrived in New Landern, the capital of Anglashia. Almost immediately he is drawn into the underworld when he defeats a group of thugs who attempt to rob him, thus making him an enemy of Jolly, the most powerful gangster in the city. Jolly therefore recruits Angela Ashton, the lovely actress, to act as bait for a trap he has set for Nicholas Raspero. Meanwhile, Nicholas has set his heart on Isabel Grangeshield of Grangeshield House - the wealthiest, most beautiful heiress in New Landern and the most obstinate.

“Isabel looked wide-eyed and open-mouthed through her window, admiring and friendly, pleased with the propriety of the enormous storm, which had everything in the right place; Nicholas stood under the shelter of a marble war monument, his hand on the hilt of his wand, exulting in the drama of the moment; Angela plied her trade with her current client, half-naked by a roaring fire, while pretending to laugh before the background of the thunder. Captain Abner Nevsky was a stone, insensate from an overload of intoxication; Ben paid no attention to the storm, aware of it only as a distraction from the important legal work he was crafting as cleverly as only a lawyer knew how, and the freshly dug earth of Jolly’s grave shone fat and wet and dark with pregnant secrets as the rain splashed over the abyss into which he had fallen. Nothing is ever over, the rain said as it fell, but nothing is ever definite, it also said, more softly.”

'For lovers of steampunk and fantasy, The Last Suitor, will have you cheering for Nicholas Raspero, the wand-fighting hero and wishing that you too, could transport to the world of New Landern, where everyone who has a wand is not afraid to use it in a duel to maintain one’s honour.' (Publication summary)

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