The Polski Affair
by Leon Gildin
Price: $3.99 USD. 52440 words.
Published by Chris Banner on March 18, 2010. .
Award-Winning Finalist in the Historical Fiction category of the 2010 International Book Awards!
This is a fictionalised account of the role played by the Hotel Polski during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Rosa Feurmann, a Jewish partisan, infiltrates the hotel. She is detected and comes under the personal control of the Hotel’s Nazi Commandant. The experience haunts her later life.
Location: Canada
Member Since: Feb. 24, 2010
Chris Banner
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Chris Banner was raised on the edge of the Cotswold Hills in the west of England.
Years later as the publisher and editor of a rural newspaper in Eastern Ontario, he recorded the decay of an established rural society. Inspired by Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie, these circumstances became the background for his love story, `The Mercedes Variation’.
Chris Banner has an extensive career as a journalist and writer. He was a regular contributor to the Ottawa Citizen, a regular free lance writer for several Maclean Hunter magazines, including ` Driver Owner’ and `Bus and Truck’ and Publisher and Editor of The Lanark Era, one of Canada’s oldest weekly newspapers. He also co-owned and founded `Anthos’, an eastern Ontario Arts journal.
He moved to Canada’s west coast in the 1980’s and became a reporter and columnist for the Victoria Star and a freelance writer for Monday Magazine. He edited and photographed for `On The Waterfront’ a monthly maritime journal, later edited `Coastal Echoes’, an environmental journal and regularly contributed to `Cosmic Debris’ a Vancouver Island Music magazine. He has also contributed political commentary to the Victoria Times Colonist and `Impact’ magazine in Florida.
He was a finalist in the British Columbia Writer’s Festival Competition and his short story `Flight’ was published by Laughing Willow Books in `The Air Between Us’ – ISBN 0-9698975-0-2.
Years later as the publisher and editor of a rural newspaper in Eastern Ontario, he recorded the decay of an established rural society. Inspired by Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie, these circumstances became the background for his love story, `The Mercedes Variation’.
Chris Banner has an extensive career as a journalist and writer. He was a regular contributor to the Ottawa Citizen, a regular free lance writer for several Maclean Hunter magazines, including ` Driver Owner’ and `Bus and Truck’ and Publisher and Editor of The Lanark Era, one of Canada’s oldest weekly newspapers. He also co-owned and founded `Anthos’, an eastern Ontario Arts journal.
He moved to Canada’s west coast in the 1980’s and became a reporter and columnist for the Victoria Star and a freelance writer for Monday Magazine. He edited and photographed for `On The Waterfront’ a monthly maritime journal, later edited `Coastal Echoes’, an environmental journal and regularly contributed to `Cosmic Debris’ a Vancouver Island Music magazine. He has also contributed political commentary to the Victoria Times Colonist and `Impact’ magazine in Florida.
He was a finalist in the British Columbia Writer’s Festival Competition and his short story `Flight’ was published by Laughing Willow Books in `The Air Between Us’ – ISBN 0-9698975-0-2.
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The Coffin Ship Legacy
by Shirley Skidmore
Price: $3.99 USD. 86640 words. Published by Chris Banner on October 25, 2011. .
Drawing on the life of her great-grandfather author Shirley Skidmore recreates a gripping story of the 'coffin' ships that brought Irish famine survivors to Canada. Most did not survive the harrowing voyage but those who did were further challenged by the harsh life meted out in the New World.
Price: $3.99 USD. 86640 words. Published by Chris Banner on October 25, 2011. .
Drawing on the life of her great-grandfather author Shirley Skidmore recreates a gripping story of the 'coffin' ships that brought Irish famine survivors to Canada. Most did not survive the harrowing voyage but those who did were further challenged by the harsh life meted out in the New World.
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The Mercedes Variation
by Chris Banner
Price: $3.99 USD. 81390 words. Published on February 24, 2010. Fiction.
The Mercedes Variation is a love story set against the backdrop of people who went `back to the land" in the 1960s, with 'flower power' values. Mercedes and her friends reject consumerism and corporate hierarchies and live the traditional rural lifestyle. Mercedes gets help building her tepee from her farmer neighbor who is seduced by her earthy nature.
Price: $3.99 USD. 81390 words. Published on February 24, 2010. Fiction.
The Mercedes Variation is a love story set against the backdrop of people who went `back to the land" in the 1960s, with 'flower power' values. Mercedes and her friends reject consumerism and corporate hierarchies and live the traditional rural lifestyle. Mercedes gets help building her tepee from her farmer neighbor who is seduced by her earthy nature.